Rnd 13 Match Day Thread Sydney V Melbourne. SCG 13.10 pm.

[barry]

Wouldnt it be nice to have a home ground with a roof where we can play all year round.

Eithad stadium will never produce a premiership team because the ground is so hard they get too many soft tissue injuries by years end. Some teams have resorted to drugs to combat this. Well, one team did.

There will be a roof'ed stadium in Sydney in a few years. It has 3 letters and starts with an A and ends with a Z, but I dare not speak its name.

[Ludwig]

Eithad stadium will never produce a premiership team because the ground is so hard they get too many soft tissue injuries by years end. Some teams have resorted to drugs to combat this. Well, one team did.

There will be a roof'ed stadium in Sydney in a few years. It has 3 letters and starts with an A and ends with a Z, but I dare not speak its name.

The Chinese have come up with another solution.

[Go Swannies]

I think that umbrella was in front of me at the SCG for a few minutes yesterday.

[kilroy]

The Chinese have come up with another solution.

Thats magnificent, if only we could have it mechanically come out and cover the SCG at the start and middle of every season so we dont play in the wet. Maybe a red and white one eh.

[giant]

Advantage was paid whether he wanted it or not so no choice to give it back to buddy

That's how I saw it too - Lloyd went over to pick up the ball and next thing he knows the ump has called advantage!! No option but ti quickly snap the goal.

Mitchell OTOH was rather awful in his spoil of Rose. One for the post-game analysis I suspect.

[dejavoodoo44]

The Chinese have come up with another solution.

Yeah, but I don't know if you'd get much of a view of the game if you're constantly driving around in circles.

[Mug Punter]

What i liked about Rose is he gave a contest every single time and didnt give up. A real "bloods" way of playing. Jones is another and he is our hardnut now.

Towers was superb and for buddy to kick 4 on a day like that was why we pay him so much.

My concern is our rucks, but i guess it will be like first half 2014 and Tom D where we already conceded the hitout but win the clearance by setting up our mids to shark the taps.

I just love that we are rebuilding while being in the top 2, that is amazing. We are the now standard for this sort of thing.

The new high workrate and action man Rose is a revelation, he just has such an appetite for the hard stuff. Quite the opposite of how I saw him last year as a kind of flighty seagull.

I didn't really rate him before now but the last two weeks he has been great even if he kind of mucks things up. Even against GWS he worked hard but yesterday he was just brilliant - he's demanded to be kept in the side and if he keeps that level of effort and enthusiasm I actually can't see him getting dropped for quite a while.

Agree totally re the rebuilding in the top 2, Geelong are the only ones that come close on that but Hawthorn won't be dropping too far either

[AnnieH]

Oh percentage.
You're so important.

[aardvark]

The new high workrate and action man Rose is a revelation, he just has such an appetite for the hard stuff. Quite the opposite of how I saw him last year as a kind of flighty seagull. I didn't really rate him before now but the last two weeks he has been great even if he kind of mucks things up. Even against GWS he worked hard but yesterday he was just brilliant - he's demanded to be kept in the side and if he keeps that level of effort and enthusiasm I actually can't see him getting dropped for quite a while.

The kid can play!

[Sandrevan]

I heard the MMM radio call. They were saying good things about Towers and McVeigh. Aliir seemed to be very clean in the conditions. In the 3rd quarter there was a lot of commentary about how much pressure the demons were putting on but they weren't scoring much. They couldn't keep it up and the 4th quarter - we were just too good. Maybe, the Swans are getting better at wet weather footy. I can recall from past years the commentators would say the Swans were a good wet weather team but then they'd lose the match.
I was a bit worried before the game about the number of injuries and thought it could be a danger game - this was based on Demons v Collingwood match last week. But the younger players are stepping up and this is great. After a 2 week break they'll be full of energy for the Bulldogs game.
There have been no comments about the umpires - were they ok? There were lots of comments last week but none this week.

[RogueSwan]

... There have been no comments about the umpires - were they ok? There were lots of comments last week but none this week.

The usual inconsistencies with deliberate out of bounds, but a funny one when Joey had an ROK like kick out of a contest which the Dees called for deliberate but the ump apparently said nah, he shanked it.

[ScottH]

The usual inconsistencies with deliberate out of bounds, but a funny one when Joey had an ROK like kick out of a contest which the Dees called for deliberate but the ump apparently said nah, he shanked it.

After the Joey "deliberate" call, there were many more that were more deliberate that weren't paid from both sides after that.
The only other one I remember was Reg's, and I think that was the right call.

Surprised that didn't pay Rose's off the side of the boot as deliberate!!

[Doctor J.]

After the Joey "deliberate" call, there were many more that were more deliberate that weren't paid from both sides after that.
The only other one I remember was Reg's, and I think that was the right call.

Surprised that didn't pay Rose's off the side of the boot as deliberate!!

No Way. From where I was sitting, it was punched out by Reg in a contest. You can't pay deliberate OOB for that.

Most of the deliberate OOB decisions were rubbish.

The trouble is once the umpires give the first deliberate decision, it then becomes easier to give the next. The thought process appears to be "I gave the last one and this one is nearly the same circumstances..." so the decisions become more frequent and more bizarre.

[stevoswan]

Five Swans in this weeks AFL 'Team of the Week'; Jones, McVeigh, Towers!, Franklin and Parker. There were none last week!

[ScottH]

No Way. From where I was sitting, it was punched out by Reg in a contest. You can't pay deliberate OOB for that.

Most of the deliberate OOB decisions were rubbish.

The trouble is once the umpires give the first deliberate decision, it then becomes easier to give the next. The thought process appears to be "I gave the last one and this one is nearly the same circumstances..." so the decisions become more frequent and more bizarre.

We were pretty close to that pocket and it looked like a palmed down/slap to me.

They are so inconsistent with the ruling that we have no idea anyway.

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