First game of the season - Swans v GWS

[Big Al]

My son and I will be driving up from Ballarat, hoping to find somewhere to stay within easy driving distance of the stadium. What's the parking like there?

The best part of ANZ is the parking. As Erica said the best bet is prepay P1, get there for the Ressies and you'll be sweet in getting out pretty quickly.

[wolftone57]

Don't care about the car parks as I will be going out there by Pubic Transport. All I care about is getting a good view of the action. I think we will win but games like this are danger games because players can take them a bit too easily. Don't lat Sheedy's mad act fool you he is as sharp as a tack. That bugger will pull a swifty before the start of the season 'Don't You Worry About That' as Joe says.

[desredandwhite]

Roosy you could not have ever parked at ANZ if you think that, I'm not a fan of the ground by any stretch of the imagination but the parking (particularly P1) is the one thing I give a big tick too. The access is superb and exiting is far, far easier and quicker than any of the parking stations at the SCG and as Erica said, pre pay and it's easier still.

I'm not prone to exaggeration, however I believe the parking at ANZ to be approximately one million times better than the gladiatorial @@@@fight that is the post-game Moore Park shuffle. If you get there early enough (say 1.5 hours or more before game time), you can get parking on the first 2-3 levels in P1, which means you have a nice easy run out of Olympic Park. OP was designed from the ground up to get lots of people in and out in a hurry, and my experience has shown that it is much easier than at the SCG. Park on the top level though, and you have to fight your way out....

[erica]

Even on the top level, I've never had problems exiting from P1. The down ramps are designed to aid flow of cars. I think it's the best designed multi-level car park I've been in!

[Adelaide Swan]

Especially considering that the cost of train travel is normally included in ANZ stadium tickets - I assume this will be the case with GWS games, or at least this one....

Not sure how GW$ will do it but having been a long time regular at our games at ANZ, the train ticket cost is included in match tickets.

In saying all that, public transport is a lot better going to ANZ than the SCG.

The amount of times I have been to the SCG, it is bad even for a small crowd.

I went to the 3rd Day of the Sydney cricket Test(Michael Clarke's 300) and getting out of the place took ages.

[Adelaide Swan]

I'm intrigued KR, where do you park?? That's the very opposite of my experience of parking at ANZ.

I usually get public transport, mate.

I have gone in by car to ANZ a few times and parked in a side street not far from the ground.

It's not too bad doing it that way but I've always thought public transport was the better option.

[Adelaide Swan]

Don't care about the car parks as I will be going out there by Pubic Transport. All I care about is getting a good view of the action. I think we will win but games like this are danger games because players can take them a bit too easily. Don't lat Sheedy's mad act fool you he is as sharp as a tack. That bugger will pull a swifty before the start of the season 'Don't You Worry About That' as Joe says.

Agreed, I think we'll win but I desperately hope our players don't go into the game believing they just have to turn up to get the points.

[Adelaide Swan]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/greater-wester-sydney-star-israel-folau-ready-for-round-one-kevin-sheedy/story-e6frexwr-1226246730335

I see Sheedy is heavily spruiking Folau again.

[wolftone57]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1226246730335

I see Sheedy is heavily spruiking Folau again.

There will be more mind games before the game. Sheedy is the master of the mind game.

[Primmy]

There will be more mind games before the game. Sheedy is the master of the mind game.

Problem is, Swans haven't a track record of playing mind games. Can you imagine Horse dancing around in the mind game battle? Leaves Sheeds with a party of one. Don't think anyone in redandwhite could be bothered enough about him to come out to play.

[wolftone57]

Problem is, Swans haven't a track record of playing mind games. Can you imagine Horse dancing around in the mind game battle? Leaves Sheeds with a party of one. Don't think anyone in redandwhite could be bothered enough about him to come out to play.

No they won't as we have already seen with Sheeds trying to bait Richard Colless by calling him 'King Richard'. But he will keep it up anyway to get exposure in the media for the game.

[Adelaide Swan]

There will be more mind games before the game. Sheedy is the master of the mind game.

Exactly, I am confident the boys are smart enough not to be fooled by Sheedy's mind games.

[wolftone57]

I think Sheeds will get quite a few converts out west because they are going to come to the conclusion that this bloke is one of them. He was born and raised in inner city working class Melbourne and a lot of people in the west will identify with him. He comes over as a knock about bloke and Sydney-siders love that.

[Primmy]

Yep, he is the master of "playing the game", even to hook in the westers. Go for it. Anything to boost readership in the local papers, and then possibly even getting reasonable AFL coverage! Oohhwha. Have I overstepped the mark! Great Expectations.

[Adelaide Swan]

Yep, he is the master of "playing the game", even to hook in the westers. Go for it. Anything to boost readership in the local papers, and then possibly even getting reasonable AFL coverage! Oohhwha. Have I overstepped the mark! Great Expectations.

I'd still rather those westers come and support us though, mate.