Our first non sydney finals victory!!

[Damien]

Correct me if I am wrong - but since our move to the Harbour City - we have only won finals (3) in Sydney?? (Hawks, Bombers 96, and Saints 98). What an achievment today was!!!

I am proud of all you guys that were so positive during the week, I SO wasn't!! I put this down as a loss, and was so confident of it, i watched Friday's night game because I KNEW the winner was this weeks opponent!.

GO SWANNIEs!!

(OH and we have never lost a preliminary final as the Sydney Swans hehe)

[j s]

Re: Our first non sydney finals victory!!

Originally posted by Damien
(OH and we have never lost a preliminary final as the Sydney Swans hehe)

Aren't statistics wonderful!

We have also never lost a final in Adelaide (including when we were South Melbourne).

This year we will break our finals duck in Melbourne!!

[gossipcom]

I love the statistics for this episode.

These are the firsts (or something that contains 1) ffor Swans anyway:

• 1 player left on the bench
• For some of the younger players it was their first AFL final
• Fourth placed team (at the end of the regular season) beats the First ranked team (at the end of the regular season)
• First Preliminary Final ever to be held at Telstra Stadium (presuming this will happen since the Pies will host the other one)
• First Final Win in South Australia
• First Final Win away from home
• First Final Win under Paul Roos' coaching

Last but not least and my personal favourite.

Willo's first ever win in the finals

ETA: fixed the Pies/Power thing up by putting for Swans and adding to the list that people have stated below

[swans_premiers]

Fourth beat first last year. collingwood finished 4th port 1st.

[Charlie]

We've got that monkey off our backs now. We can win anywhere, against anyone, at anytime, with just about any injury.

[anniswan]

and with only one player on the bench, we are the champs

[barry]

Originally posted by Charlie
We've got that monkey off our backs now. We can win anywhere, against anyone, at anytime, with just about any injury.

A very significant monkey IMO. And also Roos has a 1/1 finals record.
This win will be very significant in our history IMO. It is one further step in coming of age of this club.

[sharpie]

Originally posted by anniswan
and with only one player on the bench, we are the champs

That's all we need, that's all we had in 1933!