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  • bloodboy
    Mmmmm...Donuts
    • Jul 2003
    • 352
    #1

    London has no footy

    Hi all...Bloodboy is back for season 2004 but it is going to be crappy like season 2003! Not due to the bloods on-field performance, no, because I was absolutely stoked at how far we got last year! But because I am in cold, droopy, diesel fuel filled London.

    I just wanted to know, firstly, if there are any other fellow RWOers in London. Secondly, I want a serious assessment of how we are going at this stage (I could ask my mother, but she tends to have a little bit of bias in her opinions). And thirdly, how is the hype for the season ahead coming along? Is everbody excited? Nervous? Tense? Worried?

    Well, in case you didn't already guess - I am missing my footy! I did, however, get to the London game at the Oval last year between Freo and Collingwood. It was pretty boring and it wasn't my beloved bloodboys, but at least it was real footy! All I can say now is, go Blooders in 2004 and everybody barrack hard and enjoy your footy!
    Go you mighty BLOODBOYS!
    Tags: footy, london, Swans, sydney
    • lizz
      Veteran
      Site Admin
      • Jan 2003
      • 16844
      #2
      I feel for you Bloodboy. I left Australia - supposedly for good - a couple of weeks after the 1996 GF. I was miserable back in London - and then the footy season started. It was physically painful knowing the Swans were playing and I wasn't there. To make it worse, I couldn't even find the results in the UK papers some weekends (and of course this was before the internet was anything like as widespread as it is now).

      Made it back to Australia by about round 12 of the 1997 season (a day before we played a Friday night game against the Tigers at the SCG - mid June and it was t-shirt and shorts weather, even for an evening game) and haven't left since!

      As for how we are placed this year, I'm going to withhold judgement until about round 5. I reckon it takes until then for sides to settle into their season and to tell who the good teams are and who are merely pretenders. Until then it's quiet optimism.

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        • Rod_
          Senior Player
          • Jan 2003
          • 1179
          #3
          Having worked overseas also I can understand these feelings. Waiting on the occasional video to turn up - whether you look at the results or not in the 3 - 5 day old papers... just in case the game that is on cable Australian TV delayed telecast is a Swans game or not because the TV week was delivered after the event...

          You loose track on the day to day comings and goings.... (when I was overseas we didn't have internet and that made it hard also...)

          Can you get the video streaming to get the games delayed telecast or not??

          Rod_

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            • j s
              Think positive!
              • Jan 2003
              • 3303
              #4
              Get in touch with BARFL ( http://www.barfl.co.uk/ )

              Even you don't want to play that will be the place to make contact with local Swannies.

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