Today's crowd v Richmond

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  • wolftone57
    Veterans List
    • Aug 2008
    • 5861

    #16
    Originally posted by Nich
    I'll be sitting in the rain. Call me crazy, but I like a good dog fight in the rain. I love getting deep into the 4th quarter when the game is in the balance, leaning over the fence when the play comes close, revving the players up. Does that me sick?

    However, losing while sitting in the rain = worst thing ever.
    Stark raving bl**dy mad, barmy as a Bombay Bellringer. No way you'd get me out in the rain all day I sit in the stands, did all the hard stuff when I was a kid following Glenelg (The Bays/Tigers). I won't be there today lots of expenses this week can't afford to go but will be at ANZ for the game against the Pies

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    • jono2707
      Goes up to 11
      • Oct 2007
      • 3326

      #17
      I'll be there in the rain - good thing I have a Tadhg/Chappo/Gablett haircut so I won't have to worry about the 'do getting messed up.....

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      • erica
        Happy and I know it
        • Jan 2008
        • 1247

        #18
        Leaving home now. All rugged up!
        All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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        • Go Swannies
          Veterans List
          • Sep 2003
          • 5697

          #19
          I'll be in my usual spot - very outside in the front row on the 50 metre arc, getting soaked. Hopefully it will be a better result than the last wet SCG Tigers game at the SCG that I remember (2004?) when Richo finally found his mojo. God that was soggy and depressing.

          Today I hope I've got rain on my teeth as we win by 100.

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          • dimelb
            pr. dim-melb; m not f
            • Jun 2003
            • 6889

            #20
            The trusty plastic poncho means you're covered from head down to shins, so you stay dry in a downpour and even cosy because it's windproof as well. Which is good when you win ...
            He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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            • janem
              Pushing for Selection
              • Oct 2006
              • 81

              #21
              We'll be in our wet seats on the boundary line. Is there any way you can get into the stands if our membership seats are on the boundary line? Any way you can sneak up?

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              • lwoggardner
                Warming the Bench
                • Aug 2005
                • 141

                #22
                Originally posted by janem
                We'll be in our wet seats on the boundary line. Is there any way you can get into the stands if our membership seats are on the boundary line? Any way you can sneak up?
                Not until about 5 minutes before the game.


                (says me planning to arrive 10 m before, and hoping janem doesn't take the last dry seat at the back of the Trumper)

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                • janem
                  Pushing for Selection
                  • Oct 2006
                  • 81

                  #23
                  Thanks for that.
                  Do they let you up or do you really have to "sneak"?
                  I know my dad in Adelaide buys a child's ticket on rainy days. He uses his membership ticket to get into the ground and the $2.50 child's ticket to get into the stands. That is a bit cost prohibitive here as SCG children's tickets are $24!

                  PS We are in the Brewongle so you are safe.

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                  • Cheer Squad
                    Sydney Swans
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 1948

                    #24
                    We'll know if we're going to get a decent crowd by how many are in the Victor Trumper stand. That's where most of the opposition supporters tend to sit.

                    I predict we'll get a crowd of about 25,000.

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                    • stellation
                      scott names the planets
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 9723

                      #25
                      This is the third bad weather home game so far this season? Must be frustrating the financial controllers a bit.

                      I reckon there'll be about 23k, bad weather/against Richmond/long weekend- it being the third bout of not nice weather out of six home games will start to whittle folks down a tad.
                      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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                      • goswannie14
                        Leadership Group
                        • Sep 2005
                        • 11166

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Big Al
                        If I wasn't under cover there is no way I'd be going. If that makes me fair weather then guilty as charged. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to sit in the rain and admire anyone that can.
                        A few years ago on the Queens Birthday weekend we played St Kilda at the SCG on a Saturday night. It poured and poured and poured. It was my Father in laws only game he has been too. I admired that he stayed until the end. BTW we lost that game by 2 points!
                        Does God believe in Atheists?

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                        • Nich
                          Senior Player
                          • May 2010
                          • 1291

                          #27
                          Official crowd figure - 23,782

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                          • dimelb
                            pr. dim-melb; m not f
                            • Jun 2003
                            • 6889

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Nich
                            Official crowd figure - 23,782
                            Not a bad effort.
                            He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                            • Doctor
                              Bay 29
                              • Sep 2003
                              • 2757

                              #29
                              A few showers but it didn't really bucket down until about halfway through the last quarter. Not turning up cos of the weather is soft I'm afraid. My 6yo daughter was given the option and she still wanted to go. She said that if it rained, she'd put on a raincoat. Sounds fairly straightforward to me.
                              Today's a draft of your epitaph

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                              • Cheer Squad
                                Sydney Swans
                                • Apr 2007
                                • 1948

                                #30
                                Originally posted by Doctor
                                A few showers but it didn't really bucket down until about halfway through the last quarter. Not turning up cos of the weather is soft I'm afraid. My 6yo daughter was given the option and she still wanted to go. She said that if it rained, she'd put on a raincoat. Sounds fairly straightforward to me.
                                Hear, hear. Sounds like your daughter is one of our true supporters.

                                You have to go back to 1995 for a smaller crowd against the Tigers at the SCG.

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