Telstra Stadium

[Reggi]

Originally posted by robbieando
and your just a ****ing trouble maker who loves nothing but to snipe at people who have differing opinions to yourself. I wasn't surprised to see you had posted the above, because it seems more and more you only post to have a go at people. You don't like what goes on in the CS well fine, the fact of the matter is some of us do. To say that to sit behind the goals at ground level leaves you no chance to have an idea of whats going on is wrong. I have watched football for over 15 years and in that time I have gained a better understand from sitting behind the goals than anywhere else on the ground. I believe that your using this post as a chance to personally attack Julian knowing full well that if you set him off, you'll more than likely come out of it looking the better. You my friend have problems. If you dislike what Julian or anyone else for that matter has to say, keep it to yourself or bring it up in private, because I'm beginning to tire of your sniping to posts of certain people on this site.

There is no way you can get a better understanding, of footy from sitting behind the goals.

Where are the coaches?
Where is most of the commentary?
Where is the most popular place to sit?

On the wing especiually elevated. Sitting behind the goals really sucks actually

[Captain]

Originally posted by Reggi
There is no way you can get a better understanding, of footy from sitting behind the goals.

Where are the coaches?
Where is most of the commentary?
Where is the most popular place to sit?

On the wing especiually elevated. Sitting behind the goals really sucks actually

Right, because you say so it must be correct oh wise one.

Robbie merely stated that he has learnt more by sitting behind the goals. You are just posting YOUR opinion when you say that sitting behind the goals is ordinary. Please don't make it sound like some sort of written proof has been done on this matter.

At round grounds like the SCG it doesn't really matter when you sit as the distance to the centre is almost the same from every point. I'm a fan of being elevated, behind the goals as I find I get a better perspective.

[Sanecow]

The ground was in awful condition. Maybe it wasn't obvious from the stands, but anyone watching the game on TV would have seen chunks of grass flying like so many toupees in a cyclone. The players sometimes looked like they were running along the beach. I don't blame it for the loss, but I blame it for injuries and clangers (I think Goodes stubbed his toe because he was standing in a pothole).

[liz]

They mentioned on the commentary that it didn't help that two games had already been played on the ground before the senior game started. If they can't lay a decent surface on the ground maybe they need to at least think about protecting it a bit before the senior game.

Agree that it can't be blamed for the loss but may have attributed to some of the ordinary kicking - by both teams.

Anyone heard how bad McDonald has hurt his knee? Would be a huge shame for the Dees if it's as bad as it looked.

[Old Royboy]

Originally posted by Sanecow
The ground was in awful condition. Maybe it wasn't obvious from the stands, but anyone watching the game on TV would have seen chunks of grass flying like so many toupees in a cyclone. The players sometimes looked like they were running along the beach. I don't blame it for the loss, but I blame it for injuries and clangers (I think Goodes stubbed his toe because he was standing in a pothole).

I walked across the ground after the game - surface was loose, grass thin and cut too long for Aussi Rules. Whether this was for league/union (who prefer it long) or to disguise the thin cover who knows. But not up to standard for a showpiece arena.

[SETH]

Originally posted by Reggi
There is no way you can get a better understanding, of footy from sitting behind the goals.

Where are the coaches?
Where is most of the commentary?
Where is the most popular place to sit?

On the wing especiually elevated. Sitting behind the goals really sucks actually

Who cares about where the coaches sit or where the commentary is? As long as the goals keep going through the posts, that's all that matters. Behind the goals is the home to the most passionate supporters in football. And that includes league, union and soccer. And you can give the opposing fowards an absolute gobful. Jeff Farmer knows about that.

On another subject, chanting or singing soccer-style songs at the game is the most effective way to get behind your team. It sure beats the hell out of sitting on your hands and being quiet as a mouse. It gives the players a massive boost when the chips are down. And it allows you to yell out your frustrations that have been building up during the working week.

[Rob-bloods]

Too much vitriol chaps, methinks, but on a considered note, have to agree elevated view is the only way to see the flow of the game. Behind the goals at Waverley for instance you could barely see the other end!

SCG easier, but always thought Dally Messenger front row as a great spot, middle of Bill O'Reilly half way back (on bounce line) ideal.

[Bron]

We had new seats this year at Telstra. Up on level 4. We much prefer where we were sitting before. It feels too far away from the game and too far away from the main crowd and hence atmosphere is missing. My voice is hoarse still and I fear that I had no contribution to the main crowd chant.

On top of the lousy play of the team, I am next to the most negative swans fan I've ever met! Half way through the last quarter I had to move to an empty spot or else I would have hit him!

I agree that we don't seem to play so well at Telstra. THe ground doesn't seem to be in good condition when we're there. Players slip (admittedly not so much this time) and teher seems to be a lot of sand.

I used to be a big supporter of playing at Telstra. But I'm changing my view. Unless there's a big crowd, it's hard to get the atmosphere. There is nowhere reasonable to go before or after the game - that pub under the Novotel is overpriced, underserviced and just poor. And we seem to have a problem with it!

Never mind, off to Harry's pub for next week, then back to the SCG. Hopefully, our boys will be back on fire.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Rob-bloods
Too much vitriol chaps, methinks, but on a considered note, have to agree elevated view is the only way to see the flow of the game. Behind the goals at Waverley for instance you could barely see the other end!

IIRC Waverley had a sort of an inverted bowl shape, so making it next to impossible to see to the other side of the ground from ground level.

I also far prefer to sit in the stands on the wing as I like to get an overall feel for how the game is going and see all parts of the ground roughly the same (except on the far wing).

However, I can understand the enjoyment of sitting down on the fence. I used to do this a lot with my dad when I was much younger and I also did at TS against Carlton last year. It's fantastic to see the contest up close and really hear the thud of boot on leather or body on body.

Likewise, behind the goals you get quite a close feel for the game and there is nothing like watching the ball sail towards goal and knowing what it will score just after it leaves the boot. You also get a different view of the game, and a number of coaches use a camera behind the goals in conjunction with the normal one when reviewing the tapes later.

As for cheering and yelling, I think it depends where you are sitting. Down on the fence you expect it constantly and loudly during the game. In the stands then I think some is good (and necessary to an extent) but not over-the-top. I like the chants, although don't often participate, and don't mind the singing (but don't really care if it is there or not - love it in the soccer though). However, it's probably less suited to AFL than to soccer because of less 'dead time.' Still, AFL is becoming more like soccer with the control of possession and kicking sideways and backwards, so maybe there could be more opportunities for singing...

[BAM_BAM]

although I enjoyed sitting with the C/S at the gabba. I hated the seats, by the time I got my neck around the posts the FF & FB and at times the goal umpire and boundary umpires the ball had moved on. I much prefer our seats. I can see Julian's point where it is frustrating when you're trying to what you see is the best to help lift the team, but I acknowledge it's not everybodies cup of tea.

There's been much said in this thread that I disagree with and the tone in which a lot of it has been said. But healthy debate is what makes the world go around. So I'm not going to comment about where the most passionaite people sit etc!!

Bron, maybe you can come down and sit behind us (we're just to the right of where you did sit) and the other most negative woman at the ground can move to your new seats. I was very, very close to jamming my flag pole up her nose towards the end.

The ground itself was in bad shape. In the first quarter of the reserves game there were plenty of divets coming out.

maybe it's a Feng Shui thing. Our Ying and Yang is all over the place out there compared to the SGC

[Bron]

Bam Bam, we're Bay 29 at the SCG, just noticed you are there too. At least it's fun there!

And maybe it is the Feng Shui. Although we won for Dunks and Kel and Roosy there. But IIRC, we haven't won since they've put the new stuff at each end. Maybe that's what's put the feng shui off?

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Diego
[B]Dude just relax and do your own thing. It wont happen man, it's not part of our culture and never will be.

B]

Disagree mate. That Brisbane final showed what the people of Sydney are capable in terms of creating an intimidating atmosphere. I recall you saying about how frighteningly loud it was when Williams and Noggie kicked those goals in the 3rd quarter.

I know people show their emotions differently at the footy. And I know full well that sitting behind the goals is not everyone's cup of tea either. I often have to watch the replay to make sense of the coaching moves and strategy that goes on during a game, because from my vantage point you simply cannot get any sense of that.

I just want our ground to return to what it was in 1997-a manically loud mass of red and white that had the players run through the proverbial brick wall for them.

But as many of you say, each to their own. We all follow the club differently.

JF

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by peterh_oz
Telstra is good ... Its our play there that sucks! Its a good ground - not too wide so you CAN see across. By the way, Shell Stadium is both longer AND wider!

But is there a way of getting the team some more experience at playing there? Maybe a few more practise matches there?

Why is it we can play like rockets one week, but appear to be proverbial dears in the headlights the next.

Still Melbourne are an exciting team. Other sides will be losing to them this season, that's for sure.

Neitz is up there with the best FFs in the game I feel.

JF

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Charlie
JF - you can't expect people to enjoy the game the way YOU do. I know you'd like Aussie rules footy to have a soccer culture, but quite simply, we don't. And we shouldn't. We have an Aussie rules culture.

But what is Aussie Rules culture anyway? And is it relevant 100%necessarily to Sydney.

We are a unique club of highly unique ideosyncratic people. Many people who attend Swans match in Sydney are brought up on soccer and prefer our game to either of the rugby codes. Purely and simply, we view the sport through somewhat different eyes. At what other ground would they have gotten a "Syyyyyyydnnneyyy" style chant or "One Tony Lockett" going. We are highly unique in the AFL and do things differently. Just personally I'm darn proud of that. We can merge traditional Victorian footy culture with aspects of the upbringing for many of us. We wave the big flags because many of us used to follow rugby league. We use a drum and sing not just the same old tawdry chants of "TEAM NAME CLAP CLAP CLAP" because the majority of us in the CS follow soccer and like to be creative with our songs chants and calls. Many many not deem this to be THEIR culture, but it is something that WE are creating, and are finally succeeding in cultivating.

At recent matches we have had English and Irish people come up to us saying how much they loved our singing, as it was so more interesting than just "team name CLAP CLAP CLAP". At the North match in Canberra there was even this Uruguayan. We started 'Ole Ole Ole Ole Sydney Sydney" and his eyes lit up with joy, even if he was following North. I got a kick out of that, and so did he.

I'm very proud to be different, to think beyond the square, to be unique. Long may that continue!

JF

[Bron]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
At what other ground would they have gotten a "Syyyyyyydnnneyyy" style chant or "One Tony Lockett" going.
JF

The Freo chant (take off of our Syyyydnnney) was fabulous at Subi yesterday. It even got me excited sitting in Sydney!

I love it when the SCG reverberates with that. Unfortunately, I'm tone deaf and my pitch is not something to be proud of! (As those around me well know)