Geelong game weather

[Roscoe]

Remember the final at the SCG against the crows in 98
when Vardy got 6 in the wet?

Eade said that in the wet the side that had the greater skills
rose above the other team

I tend to agree - we got belted that night - even though Cressa was injured and Kelly had done his knee earlier in the season

[liz]

Originally posted by Vivien
Doesn't the old saying go that the rain favours the lesser skilled side? That would be us, I'd say. Maybe the saying is that the rain favours the lesser skilled side unless the lesser skilled side is the swans, in which case they are rubbish!

I think rain lessens the distinction between averaging skilled players and poorly skilled players but accentuates the advantage that the mostly highly skilled players have.

More than that, though, it advantages sides who are well drilled in playing direct football, even if they do it at the expense of finesse. In the rain a fumble is more likely than in the dry and the more times a team has to touch a ball to move it forward, the more likely they are to make an error. Lots of dinky, in-tight handballs - the way the Swans are prone to play at times - tends to come unstuck.

[floppinab]

Early Sat. morning and it looks perfect. They're talking about the rain staying away till tomorrow. Should be a good one.

[Jeffers1984]

Originally posted by floppinab
Early Sat. morning and it looks perfect. They're talking about the rain staying away till tomorrow. Should be a good one.

Yup, very very nice weather in good old sidddenyy town.

[Glenn]

Latest forecast from www.bom.gov.au

For Saturday
A fine partly cloudy day.
Moderate northwest winds tending fresh to strong westerly in the
afternoon and evening.

Sydney: Fine, partly cloudy. 19

[BonBon]

Up there it's fine?

Down here it was raining. Very overcast. Is rain likely up there?

[Glenn]

If we get any rain, it will be more likely late tonight and into tomorrow so should be ok for most (if not all) the game

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by floppinab
Early Sat. morning and it looks perfect. They're talking about the rain staying away till tomorrow. Should be a good one.

Now we only have to worry about the people who will go to the bloody Union tonight as opposed to our game in terms of drawing a big crowd.

As we very well know, there is a huge overlaps betwen the Swans and Waratahs/Wobblies supporter bases. I'd be happy with 24-25000 tonight.

You wonder if the ARU has done this deliberately YET again, putting one of their matches on the night of another big Swans game.

JF

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Glenn
If we get any rain, it will be more likely late tonight and into tomorrow so should be ok for most (if not all) the game

U coming Glenn?

We are going to need all hands on deck tonight, I reckon.

JF

[Damien]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG


You wonder if the ARU has done this deliberately YET again, putting one of their matches on the night of another big Swans game.

JF

The unconfirmed rumour is that for 2006, the ARU has agreed not to host major games in Sydney on the same night as the Swans. Apparently this was agreed to when the AFL agreed to move the Brisbane Telstra Stadium game to the Sunday.

Time will tell if this is true!

[Matt79]

Just looked at the Ticketek website and listed...

Berwongle, O'Reilly, Bradman, Churchill and Grog free areas as being "Single Seat only" availability.

With the weather being good perhaps we could sneak up to 30,000?

If there was no union on, we get 30,000 + easily tonight.

[ugg]

Noon update: A few grey clouds forming overhead, not as sunny as in the morning but still fine.

[Glenn]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
U coming Glenn?

We are going to need all hands on deck tonight, I reckon.

JF

Shall be there, voice a bit scratchy after giving it to Trent "The Cat" Barrett

[Nico]

At 4.50pm the radar looks good.

[Cher]

Pissisiting down here in Geelong!