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I'm so bloody sick of the media and the footy community who blame us for flooding - is it just jealously that we're going alright and play a tough brand of footy??? or is it true - is roos a dirty flooder????
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Re: Why is it that we get labelled as "flooders"????
Have you seen the way it rains in Sydney? (when it does rain of course)Originally posted by punter257
I'm so bloody sick of the media and the footy community who blame us for flooding - is it just jealously that we're going alright and play a tough brand of footy??? or is it true - is roos a dirty flooder???? -
Why don't they mention the inventor of such rubbish in Terry Wallace? Imagine if HE was coaching our club, we would be ridiculed beyond belief!Comment
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I don't remember rain.Originally posted by ScottH
Have you seen the way it rains in Sydney?Comment
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Alcohol induced Alzheimers?Originally posted by eirinn
I don't remember rain.Comment
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Re: Why is it that we get labelled as "flooders"????
None of the other teams flood, they get numbers behind the ball.Originally posted by punter257
I'm so bloody sick of the media and the footy community who blame us for flooding - is it just jealously that we're going alright and play a tough brand of footy??? or is it true - is roos a dirty flooder????
We are the stoppage kings, others play tempo footy (although basketball crap was probably quote of the year).
We only give free kicks away because we are hard and tough scraggers, others are "a bit stiff" about 1/3 of the time.
We demand low scoring tight contests, ask Richmond if we can score heavily when the opposition doesn't try to FLOOD AGAINST US. (That Richmond display was tactically the worst performance I think for a long time)
The bottom line is we will never have genuine recognition for our achievements in the Melbourne based footy media, and will never have credible, informed footy media in Sydney to offer a balanced assessment, so things are unlikely to change in a hurry.I hear not what you say, for the thunder of who you are.Comment
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So true. Huddo and Walls are the worst offenders.Originally posted by wheels27
None of the other teams flood, they get numbers behind the ball.
Sydney floods and the other 15 teams "push numbers back into defence"."As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk
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We are the stoppage kings!!Originally posted by wheels27
We are the stoppage kings,
I don't recall the word "flooding" be used any more about us than any other side this year.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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I am with NMW on this one, living in the past a bit.Originally posted by NMWBloods
We are the stoppage kings!!
I don't recall the word "flooding" be used any more about us than any other side this year.Comment
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I think now everyone does it, we are just better at it, so they can hardly bag us anymore.I hear not what you say, for the thunder of who you are.Comment
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The flooding term was a parting gift from Rodney Eade - and even he said it was completely misunderstood in his time at the club. While his meek attempts to re-badge the tactic a mid-field press came to nothing, the flooding term - and the derogatory connations that go along wiith it - stuck.
It is now simply part of the lexicon of fans who hate Sydney. Opposition supporters love to generalise. We're bandwagoners who flood in the same way that all collingwood fans are all on the dole etc etc. Means nothing.
That said, I've noticed finally this year that some of the worst offenders in the media have begun to button their lips a bit, thank God.Comment
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It's amazing what two GFs in a row will do for perceptions.I hear not what you say, for the thunder of who you are.Comment
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Exactly ... it's a Rocket thing, and it's all now a part of our chequered (sp?) history.Originally posted by Tuco
The flooding term was a parting gift from Rodney Eade - and even he said it was completely misunderstood in his time at the club. While his meek attempts to re-badge the tactic a mid-field press came to nothing, the flooding term - and the derogatory connations that go along wiith it - stuck.
It is now simply part of the lexicon of fans who hate Sydney. Opposition supporters love to generalise. We're bandwagoners who flood in the same way that all collingwood fans are all on the dole etc etc. Means nothing.
That said, I've noticed finally this year that some of the worst offenders in the media have begun to button their lips a bit, thank God.
Button their lips AND show a bit of respect Tuco!!
Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.Comment
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Yeah, it certainly encourages the paranoid perceptions of Swans supporters...Originally posted by wheels27
It's amazing what two GFs in a row will do for perceptions.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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Just because everyone is out to get me doesn't mean I'm paranoid.Originally posted by NMWBloods
Yeah, it certainly encourages the paranoid perceptions of Swans supporters...Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.Comment
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