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  • aguy
    Senior Player
    • Mar 2014
    • 1324

    Originally posted by Melbournehammer
    Gee whiz you lot are soft. I wore my swans stuff to tennis on Tuesday. Got a fair few go Hawks but just said - you don't hop off.

    So wore the whole lot on morning jog from Glenelg to Adelaide. Looking forwards to trade, pre- season and 2015
    Yep I agree. Still wear all my gear everywhere. I've been up on the golf coasts the last few days and struck up a number of conversations with other members wearing their 2014 caps. Still proudly sydney

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    • Ludwig
      Veterans List
      • Apr 2007
      • 9359

      You wouldn't believe the number are Swans supporters there are in Thailand

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      • Meg
        Go Swannies!
        Site Admin
        • Aug 2011
        • 4828

        Yeah Ludwig, and they look as happy as we did at the MCG on grand final day!

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        • barry
          Veterans List
          • Jan 2003
          • 8499

          The NRL just showed the AFL that you can host a grand final in sydney, at ANZ, and it has 10 times the atmosphere of the MCG because its full of actual fans not corporates.

          Time for the highest qualifier to host the grand final. Time to be the AFL, not yhe VFL.

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          • O'Reilly Boy
            Warming the Bench
            • Feb 2014
            • 474

            Originally posted by barry
            The NRL just showed the AFL that you can host a grand final in sydney, at ANZ, and it has 10 times the atmosphere of the MCG because its full of actual fans not corporates.

            Time for the highest qualifier to host the grand final. Time to be the AFL, not yhe VFL.
            As long as we don't have to have Tony Abbott there. In fact, I though the hoopla before the game was a bit overdone. I loved the pregame at the MCG?focus on football, not pyrotechnics.

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            • BRISWAN
              Warming the Bench
              • Aug 2005
              • 304

              Originally posted by barry
              The NRL just showed the AFL that you can host a grand final in sydney, at ANZ, and it has 10 times the atmosphere of the MCG because its full of actual fans not corporates.

              Time for the highest qualifier to host the grand final. Time to be the AFL, not yhe VFL.
              Totally agree barry

              NRL put up a great pre game and AFL fell far short of it

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              • CureTheSane
                Carpe Noctem
                • Jan 2003
                • 5032

                Agree on the MCG being exclusive as wrong, but 10 times the atmosphere?
                Nope
                The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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                • mcs
                  Travelling Swannie!!
                  • Jul 2007
                  • 8149

                  Originally posted by BRISWAN
                  Totally agree barry

                  NRL put up a great pre game and AFL fell far short of it
                  I thought the NRL pre-game was as lame as the AFL pre game to be honest..... the 'arrival of the trophy' bit was absolutely cringeworthy as well (one thing the AFL does do right!)
                  "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                  • Ampersand
                    On the Rookie List
                    • Apr 2014
                    • 694

                    Originally posted by mcs
                    I thought the NRL pre-game was as lame as the AFL pre game to be honest..... the 'arrival of the trophy' bit was absolutely cringeworthy as well (one thing the AFL does do right!)
                    It was like whoever organised it hadn't turned on a radio for 10-15 years. Train? Slash? Superjesus? I was waiting for Fuel to come out and sing "Shimmer".

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                    • Plugger46
                      Senior Player
                      • Apr 2003
                      • 3674

                      I thought the entertainment was just as bad as the AFL.

                      Good to see the League fans turn up for a change. ANZ normally looks like an empty stadium.

                      People waving flags for the duration does not equal a great atmosphere by the way.
                      Bloods

                      "Lockett is the best of all time" - Robert Harvey, Darrel Baldock, Nathan Burke, Kevin Bartlett, Bob Skilton

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                      • Go Swannies
                        Veterans List
                        • Sep 2003
                        • 5697

                        It's taken a week but, back on topic, how good were the Hawks in the Grand Final? With their injuries this season I thought they'd do what the Swans did last year and fall short after the preceding Premiership year. Instead they showed a lot more strength than we did and went back to back. Clarkson (pre and post illness), Hodge and the whole team set an example to the rest of the competition. And their performance on Grand Final day was simply superb - and showed how far ahead of every other team they were.

                        After R18 I though the Swans were so lacklustre that night that Longmire was holding something back for when we played the Hawks in finals. As it turns out, it looks like the Hawks were the team keeping their powder dry. If so, the near-loss to Port in the PF must have been stressful.

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

                          Originally posted by Plugger46
                          I thought the entertainment was just as bad as the AFL.

                          Good to see the League fans turn up for a change. ANZ normally looks like an empty stadium.

                          People waving flags for the duration does not equal a great atmosphere by the way.
                          Hear, hear.

                          And I would happily scrap all pop artists and instead just have the junior football most of us didn't get to see. And the AFL would save a bundle.
                          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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                          • Meg
                            Go Swannies!
                            Site Admin
                            • Aug 2011
                            • 4828

                            Originally posted by dimelb
                            Hear, hear.

                            And I would happily scrap all pop artists and instead just have the junior football most of us didn't get to see. And the AFL would save a bundle.
                            And hear, hear to that!

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                            • Meg
                              Go Swannies!
                              Site Admin
                              • Aug 2011
                              • 4828

                              Can others who attended the GF tell me if at any time messages and the text number to make reports re crowd behaviour were shown on the video screen? (We always have these messages at the SCG.) Although I was at the MCG by midday I didn't sit in my seat until about 20 minutes before the game so I might have missed them. As you can probably guess I remain appalled by the behaviour of a significant minority of the Hawthorn fans at the match.

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                              • Go Swannies
                                Veterans List
                                • Sep 2003
                                • 5697

                                Originally posted by Meg
                                Can others who attended the GF tell me if at any time messages and the text number to make reports re crowd behaviour were shown on the video screen? (We always have these messages at the SCG.) Although I was at the MCG by midday I didn't sit in my seat until about 20 minutes before the game so I might have missed them. As you can probably guess I remain appalled by the behaviour of a significant minority of the Hawthorn fans at the match.
                                Meg, we were back up the back of Bay 4 - where the yobs that Erin referred to were - and we were so far back that we couldn't see the top of the screen so I saw no notices. And the yobs were so offensive that I would have noted if it had been shown.

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