For the first time a non-Victorian team lined up in the season-decider determined to end the reign of one of the greatest sides in history. Too old? Too slow? The flag-festooned Hawks were out to prove the old dog still had enough bite to silence the young upstart Eagles from the west. Mick Malthouse, Alan Joyce, Jason Dunstall, Dermott Brereton, John Worsfold, Guy McKenna, Gary Ayres, Peter Sumich, Glen Jakovich and others from this historic game recount the enormous pressure on a side burdened by the hopes of a whole state to win its first flag against an opposition playing in its eighth Grand Final in nine years for whom losing simply wasnt an option.