Just regarding the crowd and atmosphere, if there was one thing that was on show last night, it was that Waltzing Matilda doesn't gee up the crowd, nor is as spontaneously drummed out to the effect the simple "NEW. SOUTH. WALES" drum like chant was in the GF.
There was a simple and almost 'drums of war' like feel to the NSW chant, whilst both the Wallabies chant and singing of WM felt decidedly pedestrian feel by comparison.
Something needs to change there... At one point people started chanting wallabies in split syllables as "wall- ah - bies" and that seemed the loudest the crowd got. So maybe that's the way to go - or something just as simple.