SEWN UP

KELLY Herbert jokes that she had a back-up plan if her beloved Tigers didn’t win the flag at the weekend after she got a “Premiers” tattoo three days before the game.

The Drysdale mum won tickets to the AFL Grand Final through radio station bay 93.9, but on the condition she got a Tigers tattoo beforehand with the words “Premiers 2017”.

“I did have a back-up plan, though,” Kelly said.

“I was going to get ‘almost’ tattooed next to ‘Premiers’ if we lost.

“I was hopeful we would win, but I was still pretty nervous!”

Kelly was happy to answer the call when bay 93.9 began its search for Geelong’s biggest footy fanatic.

But Kelly had to put her money where her mouth was – or in this case, her ankle – in a bid to win the most coveted of prizes, a double pass to the Richmond-Adelaide Grand Final.

Kelly said on Monday that she was still in disbelief about winning the tickets and watching her team defeat the Crows on Saturday.

She took her dad John to the game and said her whole family was in tears after the win.

“Just to hear the roar of the crowd and the song being sung over and over again, it was one of the best days of my life!”

The lifelong Tigers fan is the great grand-daughter of Richmond’s Barney Herbert, a dual premiership player at Richmond and past president of the club.

Born with Tigers passion in her blood, Kelly took to the table at Geelong tattoo shop Wise Monkey last week, who coincidentally were also Richmond tragics.

After a little hesitation, some ums and ahs and a horrified “it’s bigger than I thought it would be,” Kelly gritted her teeth and allowed the Wise Monkey team to get to work.

“I was just super excited to be there and for the Tigers to win,” she said.

“We’ve been celebrating since Saturday.”

Meanwhile, K Rock listener Tom from the Bellarine last week called up to complain that he lived too far from McDonalds and that he’d need a Macca’s fix for his post-grand final celebrations.

After hearing this, Tom and Buckle thought they would bring the Macca’s to him, via the most epic way they could think of – a helicopter.

On Sunday morning following the Tigers win, Tom, Buckle and pilot Chad from Geelong Helicopters took off from the Geelong foreshore and landed on Tom’s property for a chow down of hash browns and McMuffins.