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Michael Bourn Braves Jersey .It is one of sports most well-worn cliches but rang true in the AFL grand final.Coaches John Longmire and Luke Beveridge both agonised over who should be in the respective 22 before showing their hand on Thursday night.Beveridge was desperate to get Matt Suckling back into his team, knowing the former Hawthorn defender was the only player at his disposal to have experienced an AFL grand final.Suckling is ordinarily one of the first picked at the Western Bulldogs but missed their preliminary final and had been on restricted duties for the better part of two months.Matty has had a sore Achilles for a fair period of time now and weve had to manage his workloads and training quite differently to the rest of the group, Beveridge explained pre-match, suggesting it was too risky to change the side.Longmire was likewise conflicted but decided not to err on the side of caution.The 2012 premiership coach was forced to make at least one change to the Sydney outfit that so clinically touched up Geelong the previous week because of Aliir Aliirs knee injury.But Longmire, unable to resist the case for recalling both co-captain Jarrad McVeigh and Rising Star winner Callum Mills, eventually settled on two.Youve got to go in with a fit squad ... its quite easy to get caught up in grand final week and go yeah, Ill get through, Swans 2005 premiership skipper Barry Hall said last week.Horse (Longmire) is pretty measured so he wont take a risk if theres any doubt.Longmire insisted before and after the match there wasnt any doubt.They got through fine. As we expected them to, Longmire said.The duo passed fitness tests but their output at the MCG on Saturday suggested they werent necessarily match fit.McVeigh had been sidelined since limping off the SCG with a calf strain during the Swans semi-final win over Adelaide, while Mills was returning from a hamstring injury and without a full game of football under his belt since August 20.Both lacked their usual rebounding run and largely failed to influence the contest.The issue was compounded by injuries to Lance Franklin and Dan Hannebery, with the Swans failing to show the sort of quick and precise ball movement that underpinned their march to the minor premiership.Hindsight is of course 20/20 and the irony is Beveridge gambled on Dale Morris, who played the grand final with a broken back, and rolled the dice in week one of the finals.Beveridge made five changes for the Bulldogs elimination final against West Coast in Perth, where four players returned from injury including Tom Liberatore and Jack Macrae.Liberatore and Macrae had missed the final four rounds of the regular season through injury.I can honestly say I wouldnt have had the courage to pick all four. 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Veteran forward Michal Handzus was the first player to emerge from the aircraft shortly after 4 a.m., hoisting the 35-pound cup above his head with both hands and shaking it several times. Guests, police officers and firemen cheered at the bottom of the stairs. Players, coaches and team officials mingled with the crowd for about 10 minutes before heading for the city to continue the party that began in Chicago shortly after the team stunned Boston by scoring twice in a 17-second span during the final 1:16 of the game. There was a stop at a Harry Carays restaurant in Rosemont -- the same first stop the Blackhawks made after winning the championship in 2010. There were more than 1,000 fans waiting, and players took turns hoisting the cup over their heads to screams of excitement. The Scout bar in the South Loop area of downtown was the next stop, as team members greeted cheering fans outside with high-fives before filing into the bar. "My (5-year-old) son stayed up to watch the game but I told him he could go over there if it was packed and we looked outside and it was packed so we went," said Ekta Joshi after she and her son, Kabir, went over to cheer the players. Because she and her husband know people who work there, she was one of the lucky few to be allowed inside, where they met some players and the coach. "He got a few autographs on his hat and Im sure hes showing it off at school now," Joshi said. After that stop, the cup made it out to the United Center. There were rumours that it was on the move and, in fact, McDonoughs driver at the steakhouse said earlier in the day when he drove off -- without the cup -- he saw in his rearview mirror TV news trucks that obviously thought he had it. ------ Freelance writer Matt Carlson contributed to this report. 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