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

    Todays Random Wiki Page - Season 1947

    Not neraly as bad as 1964.

    Season 1947 - RWOwiki
  • laughingnome
    Amateur Statsman
    • Jul 2006
    • 1624

    #2
    8th of 12 teams, 19 games, 8 wins and a draw, averaging 84.3 for and 86.9 against (96.97%). So not bad, but considering we werre 10 points behind 7th (who were 4 wins from 1st) we were the best of the not-much-chance, and no one (apart from Collingwood once) went to town on us. We even beat the premiers, Carlton, on aggregate (R2 win 14, R13 loss -4)!
    10100111001 ;-)

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    • Frog
      Retired from RWO
      • Aug 2005
      • 1898

      #3
      For a little more info on the season (not necessarily Swans related) go here.

      Oh, smiling little fella, sir, if apart from Collingwood (by 52 points) nobody else went to town on us, am I to assume that you are defining "going to town" on someone starts at 52 whilst it ends at 51? (Essendon, round 1 beat us by 51) ... I don't mind either way, I am 52 in a couple of weeks, I am looking forward to putting that theory to the test!!

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      • laughingnome
        Amateur Statsman
        • Jul 2006
        • 1624

        #4
        Originally posted by Frog
        Oh, smiling little fella, sir, if apart from Collingwood (by 52 points) nobody else went to town on us, am I to assume that you are defining "going to town" on someone starts at 52 whilst it ends at 51? (Essendon, round 1 beat us by 51) ... I don't mind either way, I am 52 in a couple of weeks, I am looking forward to putting that theory to the test!!
        Hey, the first round NEVER counts. I like to think of them as mulligans
        10100111001 ;-)

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        • ShockOfHair
          One Man Out
          • Dec 2007
          • 3668

          #5
          8th is a big dive from '45. Good that we beat Carlton though.
          The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news

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          • Frog
            Retired from RWO
            • Aug 2005
            • 1898

            #6
            Originally posted by ShockOfHair
            8th is a big dive from '45. Good that we beat Carlton though.
            There was a war going on in '45 (well, ending, but still ...). The AFL "landscape" (if I may call it that) would have been totally different, even 2 years later.
            Carlton and South finished 6th and 7th respectively in 1946. Not so much a big fall for South in 1947 as it was a rise for Carlton I suppose.

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