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  • Triple B
    Formerly 'BBB'
    • Feb 2003
    • 6999

    Originally posted by 31 hard at it
    ...... it was hard to see in the last quarter as my view was blocked by departing North supporters !
    Well, next year you'll know not to sit behind him.
    Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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    • ScottH
      It's Goodes to cheer!!
      • Sep 2003
      • 23665

      Originally posted by Triple B
      Well, next year you'll know not to sit behind him.

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      • timtayla
        On the Rookie List
        • Mar 2004
        • 112

        Now sitting 3rd not bad

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        • giant
          Veterans List
          • Mar 2005
          • 4731

          Saturday confirmed why we were all excited about getting Bradshaw. He really was the difference - it also means there is much less pressure on Jesse to score goals, to take his time and really learn the CHF craft and that we can unblinkingly send Goodesy back into the centre square. What a gift to be presented with a player like that on a platter?

          Jude and Kirk must be the meanest partnership since Bodie and Doyle - hope we can squeeze a couple of more years out of those hombres. North fans must hate Kirk - he destroys them every time.

          Anyone else think both B2 and ROK might be carrying a little niggle? Both looked proppy at times but maybe that's just old age - I know I can barely get out of bed in the mornings...

          Lovely start to the season somewhat tempered with the knowledge that we've beaten 14/15/16 - good news is we play 12 next week!

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          • Yuri H
            That One Over There
            • Aug 2005
            • 588

            Originally posted by Jeffers1984
            Melb swans fans sounded awesome on TV. Well done!
            There were quite a few points I had to re-check the schedule to make sure I wasn't missing a game in Sydney; the Swans crowd were that loud through the tv.

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            • Yuri H
              That One Over There
              • Aug 2005
              • 588

              Oh, and good to see others noting the "unique" umpiring (I like that term) in the 1st half. By the end of the first quarter had pretty much driven my partner, who had dutifully sat next to me on the couch to watch the game, out of the room by my mounting abuse hurled at the screen full of creative ideas on how to kill the umpires along with their families and pets and level their native villages.

              Good to see I wasn't just being biased.

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              • Go Swannies
                Veterans List
                • Sep 2003
                • 5697

                Originally posted by Yuri H
                Oh, and good to see others noting the "unique" umpiring (I like that term) in the 1st half. By the end of the first quarter had pretty much driven my partner, who had dutifully sat next to me on the couch to watch the game, out of the room by my mounting abuse hurled at the screen full of creative ideas on how to kill the umpires along with their families and pets and level their native villages.

                Good to see I wasn't just being biased.
                Mine was working on the coach beside me. I got a lot of post-comment irony like "are the umpires robbing the Swans again" but she stopped after I showed her the Goodes goal square bump over and over again. How was that illegal? Now neither of us can understand that call.

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                • stellation
                  scott names the planets
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 9720

                  I must admit that I forced my better half to watch the Mummy bump at a throw-in that lead to a free kick a few times so that she could share my disdain (and also confirm my theory that it would probably be acceptable in a game of netball).
                  I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
                  We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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                  • johnno
                    On the Rookie List
                    • Apr 2008
                    • 1102

                    Well, what an afternoon. I'm pretty sure thats the first time I've been to Etihad stadium in the afternoon with the roof open, was a different experience.

                    Got to the ground earlyish, around 1:00pm, met my mates there who told me he had a friend working in the North Melbourne social club(Melbourne Victory rooms on level 1)who would be able to sneak us in through the kitchen(which he did) and got to eat free food and drank free alcohol all day. Was very surprised as I wasn't expecting this until my mate told me when I met him at the ground. Nice.

                    Anyway, onto the game, thought the first half was an even contest, was also very surprised at how quiet it was seconds after the opening bounce.

                    Dont get me started on the umpiring. That free that was paid against Mumford in the 1st quarter has to go down as the worst umpiring decision I have ever seen in my history of watching AFL football. My god did I go off at the umpires over this once they showed the replay on the bigscreen( I think the alcohol had something to do with this as I am normally a pretty quiet type at games). Also, can some one tell me, as I have not seen a replay of this, was the free paid against Goodes late in the 1st quarter there. Didnt look like it to me, but I could be wrong.

                    Anyway, the thing I enjoyed most was Daniel Bradshaw, for years I have admired him when watching Lions games, to finally see a quality full forward tear it up right in front my eyes in the red and white was well worth going on Saturday.

                    Ended up going to the Collingwood vs Hawthorn game later on that evening....was boring as bat @@@@@.

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                    • Jewels
                      On the Rookie List
                      • Oct 2006
                      • 3258

                      I flew down for the game and the first thing I noticed was how crap the North supporter base is.
                      Of the 23000 there, at least 15000 were Sydney fans and of the 8000 odd Roos fans there, half of them left at 3/4 time!
                      Now, seeing as I drive to all our games, when we are suffering our annual loss to Collingwood, I do tend to creep out 5 or 10 mins early to beat the traffic (and the smart ass comments) if we are 30+ points down, but they were only 3 goals down!

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                      • ScottH
                        It's Goodes to cheer!!
                        • Sep 2003
                        • 23665

                        Originally posted by stellation
                        I must admit that I forced my better half to watch the Mummy bump at a throw-in that lead to a free kick a few times so that she could share my disdain (and also confirm my theory that it would probably be acceptable in a game of netball).
                        The most shocking part of that is, it seems holding (both players did it) is OK. They were all over each other at times, without penalty.
                        I also noticed a t a throw in in the 1st Q (i think) Swans FWD pocket, were Seaby couldn't raise his arm high enough to contest the throw as it was being held.

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                        • swansrob
                          Senior Player
                          • May 2009
                          • 1265

                          Originally posted by johnno
                          was also very surprised at how quiet it was seconds after the opening bounce.
                          I actually missed the bounce; I'd turned my head, and when I turned back around, the game had started. I had no idea!

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                          • Lucky Knickers
                            Fandom of Fabulousness
                            • Oct 2003
                            • 4220

                            Just watching the replay and can't believe how good Grundy's goal was....I mean Mattner.
                            That is a pretty funny stuff up by Matt Campbell. That helmut head dark haircut and the nbr 9 they share in common makes telling them apart pretty tricky.

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                            • goswannie14
                              Leadership Group
                              • Sep 2005
                              • 11166

                              Originally posted by Lucky Knickers
                              Just watching the replay and can't believe how good Grundy's goal was....I mean Mattner.
                              That is a pretty funny stuff up by Matt Campbell. That helmut head dark haircut and the nbr 9 they share in common makes telling them apart pretty tricky.
                              Isn't Grundy a right footer though?

                              We were on the other side of he ground, so couldn't see the "9" at all, so it could have been Shaw shooting for goial!!!
                              Does God believe in Atheists?

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                              • cruiser
                                What the frack!
                                • Jul 2004
                                • 6114

                                The Winners on Foxtel gave us both mark (White of course) and goal (Goodes surprisingly rather than Grundy or Hannebury) of the round. Wow - when did that last happen?
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