another smh article

[timthefish]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/afl/twinwin-situation-for-sydney-and-critic/2005/09/21/1126982124286.html

mostly a rehash of the same old guff but this bit i hadn't heard before

[sydney] the club the sport's governing body sent north 24 years ago in the hope - no, the expectation - of ... giving Victorians something to watch on Sunday afternoons because in those days the VFL was not allowed to schedule games in Melbourne on Sunday.

[Xie Shan]

Liked the ending:

So, strangely, as the Swans will attempt to win the premiership despite the AFL, they will deliver the league its dream result, if they succeed. In that case, perhaps it is Demetriou who should grab the microphone and proclaim: "I was wrong ? thank goodness."

and this:

the way they played this year - free-flowing or otherwise - was a measure of their fitness, form and confidence (my emphasis added) rather than any change in style.