After a heroic 22-point victory at the MCGCollingwood’s dynamic brothers Josh and Nick Daicos took a unprecedented second to pay tribute to their late grandfather.
Unknown to many, the AFL stars had performed the sport with their grandfather’s ashes of their boots.
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In an extremely emotional evening that was marred by a serious broken arm to high-flying defender Jeremy HoweJosh and Nick left the post-game celebrations and wandered to the middle of the MCG.
Nick took off his boot, grabbed the ashes that have been in it, kissed his hand, after which touched the hallowed turf of the MCG.
Moments later, his older brother, Josh, did the identical factor, additionally eradicating his boot and shaking out the ashes.
“Simply taking a look on the Daicos boys …. It is clearly private,” Channel 7 commentator James Brayshaw stated.
“Simply listening to that it might need been (their) grandfather’s ashes.”
The Daicos boys are the sons of one of many AFL’s immortals in Peter Daicos.
Peter was a legend of Collingwood and the sport, and wrote himself into AFL historical past books along with his superb abilities, together with his pioneering potential to dribble kick objectives from the boundary line.
“Particular (evening) for the Daicos household,” Brayshaw stated.
Later, within the change-rooms, Seven’s Brian Taylor spoke to an emotional and excited Peter Daicos, who is clearly a proud and passionate Collingwood supporter.
Taylor additionally performed with Collingwood within the 80s and the pair have been teammates.
“Inform us what you are pondering,” Taylor inquired.
Peter’s first response was in regards to the sport.
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“Oh mate, what an awesome win. What an awesome win. We gave them three, 4 objectives to start out. They stored going ahead of the ball. However we received them ultimately,” Daicos stated.
“We made them work laborious off the ball. Hold them sincere.”
Taylor then inquired about Peter’s sons’ second in the course of the MCG.
“That was for my father. That was for my dad, mate,” Peter stated as he touched his coronary heart.
He later embraced his sons but additionally received round the entire Collingwood workforce.
Followers have been additionally impressed with the Daicos boys act.
“I could not love this extra if I attempted,” one fan wrote on Twitter.
And one other stated: “The easiest way to pay their respects to their grandfather was to play the video games of their lives in opposition to the prevailing premiers they usually did this.”
“They made him proud. Couple of gems there, Pies followers,” one other wrote.
Whereas one other merely stated: “Lovely.”
