Home final

[Damien]

SCG was amazing last night and a sold out final there would be the best. Oh well.

[Bas]

for all those NARF's who didn't go last year because it was raining AND at ANZ ... do us a favour and stay at home again this year.

A crowd of 19K who really want to be there is FAR better than a crowd of 80K who are sipping chardy and chatting.

I didn't go two years ago and I will be going this time. The days of a female telling me what to do are well and truly over thank you.

[top40]

SCG was amazing last night and a sold out final there would be the best. Oh well.

What made the Bulldogs game such an occasion with a big crowd, (almost the biggest Sydney-Bulldogs home and away crowd ever), was how well promoted the game was from the AFL and the Swans. Contrast that to the terrible, shoddy marketing exercise of the AFL for the 2008 Elimination Finals game against North at Homebush.

There is a real window of opportunity for the AFL even this week to start the groundwork to properly market the Homebush final on the first week of September, even before such a game becomes official

[Xie Shan]

If we do beat Brisbane and win our first final, we'll almost certainly play the Dogs again at the MCG in the semi-final and we'd be half a chance to win that. In that case I will be barracking hard for St. Kilda to upset Geelong in Week 1 of the finals so we end up in their half of the draw should we make it to a prelim, and hope Collingwood and Geelong knock each other out in the other prelim. *exits fantasy land*

[DST]

If we do beat Brisbane and win our first final, we'll almost certainly play the Dogs again at the MCG in the semi-final and we'd be half a chance to win that. In that case I will be barracking hard for St. Kilda to upset Geelong in Week 1 of the finals so we end up in their half of the draw should we make it to a prelim, and hope Collingwood and Geelong knock each other out in the other prelim. *exits fantasy land*

Finish fifth and win our first final and we play the loser of Collingwood v Western Bulldogs

Finish sixth and win our first final and we play the loser of Geelong v St Kilda

Most likely it's the Hawthorn, Western Bulldogs and Collingwood combo.

As I said at the start of the year, finals and a win at home would be about right for this year. Along with moving the team forward which we have.

DST

[cruiser]

My prediction is that we'll be playing Carlton at ANZ on Saturday night, 4 September. We'll then play the Dogs in Melb in a SF, then onto a preliminary final against Geelong. The end.

[aardvark]

My prediction is that we'll be playing Carlton at ANZ on Saturday night, 4 September. We'll then play the Dogs in Melb in a SF, then onto a preliminary final against Geelong. The end.

ABC radio says pies will play sat night. If Swans and Freo finish 5th and 6th they will play fri night and Sat arvo, BUT only speculation on their part.

[msb]

SCG was amazing last night and a sold out final there would be the best. Oh well.

Sure was, capped off a great weekend in making the trip up. The weather was perfect and I must admit I was actually quite surprised with the passion of the swans supporters in sydney, I was under the impression for some, not all of course, it was like going to a 'party' at a game at the SCG, with not really a care about the game itself, like a social thing, but I was very wrong. The atmosphere was fantastic and the level of support was great and would of surely helped the team. I agree, we should move heaven and earth to get a final there, because if the other night is anything to go by, then that would be a MASSIVE advantage for us!

[AnnieH]

Sure was, capped off a great weekend in making the trip up. The weather was perfect and I must admit I was actually quite surprised with the passion of the swans supporters in sydney, I was under the impression for some, not all of course, it was like going to a 'party' at a game at the SCG, with not really a care about the game itself, like a social thing, but I was very wrong. The atmosphere was fantastic and the level of support was great and would of surely helped the team. I agree, we should move heaven and earth to get a final there, because if the other night is anything to go by, then that would be a MASSIVE advantage for us!

I'm glad to see we proved you wrong MSB.

[magic.merkin]

I hope the club tries every trick in the book to get it at the SCG. Its criminal we have to play at ANZ.

we did it to ourselves

[goswannie14]

ABC radio says pies will play sat night. If Swans and Freo finish 5th and 6th they will play fri night and Sat arvo, BUT only speculation on their part.

ABC radio in Melb says the pies will play Sunday arvo.

[Doctor]

If Pies v Dogs is Sunday that would mean the loser of the Pies v Dogs game would play the Saturday night the following week while the other game (loser Saints v Cats v whoever) would be the Friday night.

So it seems to suggest the two elimination games will be Friday and Saturday nights while the qualifying finals are the day games. That makes sense considering the Friday night game this week. I seem to recall Swans v Dockers in 06 was Friday night at Homebush in front of a pretty big crowd. Could be worse options.

Homebush isn't booked for NRL that weekend btw.

[CJK]

ABC radio in Melb says the pies will play Sunday arvo.

An ANZ game in the afternoon would stop my bleating about wanting to play a final at the SCG.

[ugg]

Sounds like Sunday arvo

The AFL scheduling dilemma

[Bas]

An afternoon final on either day would be great.