Round 6 - Richmond

[Leeroy]

It's not just size, it's shape. The SCG has very shallow pockets, like the narrow end of an egg. The MCG, in contrast, is shaped like the wide end of an egg.

[satchmopugdog]

I am at slitting wrists stage..so have predicted a dire loss.In doing so have broken Kanga's evil spell.


But then again I'm not going to this game so we might win...have now cast myself as the superjinx.

[Mike_B]

This I never really understand. The SCG, according to the AFL's website, is 149m x 136m. Ethihad is 159.5m x 128.8m*. That's not a great difference, and I can't think it's enough to jar anyone. Home ground advantage is one thing, but can someone point out to me just how different the SCG is to the other grounds?

The AFL need to update these stats because the SCG is now over 150m thanks to the new stand. The 50m arcs no longer intersect the centre square, so the ground has to be over 150m (unless someone is pulling a shifty).

[laughingnome]

The SCG is a vastly different proposition for any team to play on.

This I never really understand. The SCG, according to the AFL's website, is 149m x 136m. Ethihad is 159.5m x 128.8m*. That's not a great difference, and I can't think it's enough to jar anyone. Home ground advantage is one thing, but can someone point out to me just how different the SCG is to the other grounds?

*These playing dimensions are almost identical to ANZ Stadium, btw.

[Darren Thomson]

The SCG is a vastly different proposition for any team to play on. If we had played Freo here the result may welll have been vastly differnt. Our blokes aren't liking the extra space all that much it would appear, and playing on the smaller SCG seems to offer us an advantage, so I think we'll be hard to beat at home but struggle for wins interstate, can we make the finals with 11 wins? Probably not. But we will win this week.

[Big Al]

after Saturdays dismal performance i not overly sure we can re group..sorry i really love my team but in two minds

We beat Hawthorn after the St Kilda debacle, so it can be done.

[thejones,s]

after Saturdays dismal performance i not overly sure we can re group..sorry i really love my team but in two minds

[Big Al]

I wonder what the banner will read???????

"Have a @@@@ing go"

Brett Kirk

[Big Al]

Sydney by 33

The embarrassment of letting down Kirky will spark them to a much bigger effort this week.

[573v30]

Swans by 43 points, we'll flog the Tiggers at home.

[smasher]

Tiggers have a taste.
I'm picking Sydney, but not by much ... provided of course, that they actually turn up to play.

Will the "ex"-junkie be playing?

Cousins is never going to be an "ex-junkie".He is a recovering drug addict and no,he is not playing in the one's this week.(I read that in the media so you can take it or leave it).
Anyway we are going forward...you can't go back and I'm sure the boys will do a good job against Richmond.

[AnnieH]

Can i suggest a solarium tanned pretender who our esteemed President no less wanted to impose on us, who is in the last year of a much hyped but disasterous five year premiership plan and who once had a serial scratcher playing on his team. Why not boo him. The Tige supporters will be.

Nah.
Can't kick a horse while it's down (except if your name is Cousins).

We more or less told him what we thought of him when we threatened to hang our CEO for even thinking of hiring him over Roosey.

[connolly]

Damn.
Now I'll have no one to boo (other than the maggots of course).

Can i suggest a solarium tanned pretender who our esteemed President no less wanted to impose on us, who is in the last year of a much hyped but disasterous five year premiership plan and who once had a serial scratcher playing on his team. Why not boo him. The Tige supporters will be.

[Yuri H]

As per this I'd say the boys will come out firing.

Oooh, ouch. That article stung. I must finally have become a Swans tragic; I got a little misty (with frustration) reading that!

And I'm hoping they do come out firing - not just for the team, but 'cause I'm probably taking a gaggle of in-laws to the game ...

[AnnieH]

Apparently not.

Damn.
Now I'll have no one to boo (other than the maggots of course).