Are we contenders in 2012?

[WeHaveTheGoodes]

Yeah pretty much - all clubs have their idiots. However, The ex players who scream the loudest about bad behavior if others were generally the ring leaders for louts back on their day. My other Niece is married to the cousin of a former SOO hero - and I have never met a bigger idiot dick brained arsehole in my entire life,he played for Newtown. And yet he is revered by the likes of the buffoons on the NRL footy show when in reality he isas truly awful person. So take what he NRL media say with a grain of salt as a lot of the time they have it just so wrong.

Either Tommy Raudonikis, Phil Gould (did he play SOO?) or Phil Sigsworth! Doubt it would be the latter. Since newtown were fitzroyed in 1983 and SOO was a fairly new concept i can only think its tommy or phil.

[Wardy]

You have named him and its not Tommy or Gould. Let's just leave it at that. :-)

[WeHaveTheGoodes]

a SOO legend? really?

I just remember him from the 1981 scanlens cards..he always appeared in most of the packets i bought!

[Wardy]

He's a peice of work that's for sure.

[Swansongster]

You have named him and its not Tommy or Gould. Let's just leave it at that. :-)

I used to love when HG and Roy referred to him as "What's a packeta" on the Festival of the Boot.

[Wardy]

Yeah my Fave was michael "3 knees" Hancock - anyway lets back on track and have all of our bits crossed that we win this weekend, hope that he Tigers have miracle win over Wc ( yeah well....) and we are on top of the ladder on our own come Sunday night !

[nicko18]

Again does the NRL media do this? Does a team from sydney who is coming last amongst sydney teams get more talked about than say a non sydney side that is undefeated?

OMG absolutely they do. The media is non-stop Parramatta this and Wests Tigers that. Jarryd Hayne gets a double page feature spread in todays rag. Parramatta and Manly are the back page stories. There are a handful of paragraphs devoted to the Storm a few pages in but it's only regarding some salary cap rorting stuff. You wouldn't know Melbourne and Brisbane are on top of the ladder by the coverage.. but hey, they cater to their Sydney readership/listeners and i'd only expect Melbourne to be the same... so we've just got to get the ball rolling by getting a few of you Melbourne based fans to start bombarding SEN

[Big Al]

Twitter: Mark Stevens - Herald Sun
Sydney amazing value at 3.35. Goodes back and Swans seriously good...top 4 bound

Big call this. I'm going to hold off on whether we're contenders of not until about the 29th of Sept. Will get a clearer picture then.

[nicko18]

6th on the line of Premiership betting.. The top 5 are all under $10 then there's a big gap between us, Essendon and Fremantle in the $20-$30 range. Probably fair enough at this stage.

You can still grab a GWS bargain at 5000/1

[Matimbo]

Twitter: Mark Stevens - Herald Sun
Sydney amazing value at 3.35. Goodes back and Swans seriously good...top 4 bound

Big call this. I'm going to hold off on whether we're contenders of not until about the 29th of Sept. Will get a clearer picture then.

I agree that 3.35 is big overs for head to head considering Swans are sitting higher on the ladder. I've put a bet on it. C'mon Swannies!

[Wazza]

Im with you Al good call.

Cheers

waz

[unconfuseme]

I was meaning to post in this thread before now ...

YES

[ScottH]

I was meaning to post in this thread before now ...

YES

We certainly are.
Beating the Premiership favourites away from home!!

[GongSwan]

The confidence from the woin over hawks will see us into the next few rounds, which is good because Adelaide and Richmond at MCG are 2 of the harder games in our draw, but then, who picked us to beat the Hawks, Billy Brownless and Leigh Colbert did, must be good judges. If we can kep playing like that we will be there at the end

[ugg]

No

Half Time

Yes.