Footy finals fatigue as Melbourne papers use same old headlines

Everyone’s been very excited about Richmond. Pia Akerman inThe Australian’s Strewth, September 25:

Melbourne has turned black and yellow in support of Richmond’s Tigers (is Strewth the only one who has a problem with the fact tigers are actually orange? What happened to Richmond’s 19th-century nickname, the Wasps?).

So excited, in fact … The Herald Sun’s front page, September 23:

Tiger Time

The Victorian capital’s rival metro newspapers almost melded into one. The Age’s front page, September 23:

Tiger Time

Surely the next day they had different headlines? The Sunday Herald Sun’s page one, September 24:

Fighting fury

Yeah, nah. The Sunday Age’s page one, September 24:

Fighting fury

Maybe both papers need to think before they headline. The Australian’s Strewth, September 25:

Guys, a little dialogue might be necessary …

A message that did not get through on Saturday … The Age’s front page:

Eat ’em alive

Oh dear. Herald Sun, Saturday:

Eat ’em alive

At least their barracking for Richmond paid off. The Australian online, yesterday:

Thousands of Tigers fans descended on Swan Street in Melbourne and partied into the early hours of Sunday morning in celebration of breaking their 37-year premiership drought.

OK, OK … The Sunday Age’s grand final front page, yesterday:

Roarsome

We’ll just put these last headlines down to a few post-match beers. Page one of the Sunday Herald Sun, yesterday:

Roarsome

Over at the NRL grand final in Sydney ... The Australian online, yesterday:

Sydney’s ANZ Stadium has dismissed reports fans will be banned from flying rainbow flags at Sunday night’s NRL grand final.

Good to see the somewhat smaller crowd got to fly their rainbow flags. The Australian, Friday:

The league has been forced to fend off claims that it would hand out up to 20,000 free tickets to fill ANZ Stadium for Sunday night’s clash between Melbourne Storm and the North Queensland Cowboys, whose fairytale matchup is fast becoming a logistical nightmare.

Over in the arts world, Peter FitzSimons sings the praises of a new musical. The Sun-Herald online, yesterday:

TFF (Fitzsimons’ column) has already raved ... about how fabulous the Carole King musical Brilliant was ...

It’s not called Brilliant, mate. The production’s official Twitter page bio:

Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of Carole King’s remarkable rise ...

Didn’t you pick up a program on the way out? FitzSimons on the Herald website, yesterday:

On Saturday evening ... I went to the premiere of (the) Australian version ...

Don’t even try to change it online. Carole King, February 10, 1971:

It’s too late, baby now, it’s too late / Though we really did try to make it.