2009 Fixture

[ScottH]

1st round and last 3 rounds same teams as 2008

Noticed that.

[goswannie14]

Anyone notice the Saturday DAY game at the SCG?

I think these 2 posters did.

Saturday afternoon games in Sydney is something new. The NRL abandoned that timeslot completely because no-one used to go - hopefully we can do better.

Only problem is that the Saturday afternoon games probably won't be televised in Melbourne, or certainly not as much as Sundays.

[woo]

guess its time to start boking flights fr away games!! YAYAY...I miss the footy already

[hammo]

There are two Saturday day games... Carlton and Essendon. Could be a couple of bumper crowds there.

[johnno]

Anyone notice the Saturday DAY game at the SCG?

2 in fact Timbo, One in round 4 against carlton and the second in round 15 against Essendon, should be interesting.

[573v30]

Collingwood after the break again...

[Xie Shan]

I thought our supporter base was concentrated in the Eastern Suburbs, the Jewish community will be none too pleased about the Saturday games! Thanks AFL!

[PerthSwannie]

Yehhhhh!

Finally after a number of years I can go to a game at Subi to see the Swannies play a different team other than the @@@@ing Weagles.

[Young Blood]

Tough draw given the sides we play twice. But there are some positives:

• as usual we travel to Perth and Adelaide only once each
• the two Manuka games effectively means 13 home games
• 3 games at the MCG is nice

Disappointing that there are no games in Melbourne in April or May.

[Plugger46]

Why do they keep making us play Geelong in Geelong.

I love going down there - haven't enjoyed the recent losses though

[Young Blood]

Adelaide is the only other team that has to play Geelong and Hawthorn twice.

[Mike_B]

I thought our supporter base was concentrated in the Eastern Suburbs, the Jewish community will be none too pleased about the Saturday games! Thanks AFL!

Especially against Carlton!

[Wardy]

I thought our supporter base was concentrated in the Eastern Suburbs, the Jewish community will be none too pleased about the Saturday games! Thanks AFL!

I know of many in the Jewish community who give up the Saturday ritual to go to another event on special and rare occassions - as its only 2 saturday arvo's I dont think they will get into too much trouble if they break the ritual.

I just hope that there isnt a race meeting on at Randwick on those to days, my parking spot there is very important!;-)

[johnno]

I love going down there - haven't enjoyed the recent losses though

I love going to Geelong too, I know I'm getting off the subject now but there is a little family owned and run restaurant exactley opposite SS on the main road that will give you a huge serving of either roast pork, beef, lamb or chicken, a mountain of hot chips and heaps and heaps of veges for just $7.50, can you believe that? $7.50. I always look forward going to this place as unfortunately, the long drive home back to Melbourne with my 2 swans mates is always fairly quiet as we have just lost.

[Go Swannies]

For the first time I'm not confident of the Swans' success in 2009. But Roos has continued to impress me - just as he confounds Mike Sheahan - by finding another rabbit in the hat to reverse the "inevitable" slide.

If we go okay next year with a draw as tough as this one then we are worthy finalists. In fact there are many games of battle hardening in that lot and I expect we'll see a lot of kids with a lot more knowledge about what's required to win a premiership after our R2 game.

Maybe I'll just go back to being like the supporters of most other teams and simply enjoy watching the team play and cheering on the wins whenever they happen instead of constantly thinking of what each game means as a progression to a crack at the Premiership.