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  • goswannies
    Senior Player
    • Sep 2007
    • 3049

    Originally posted by Bloods05
    Looking most likely we're going to be playing at Barry's Grand Old Girl after all. Bugger. The Giants worry me.
    Ditto - heck everyone worries me this season!

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    • barry
      Veterans List
      • Jan 2003
      • 8499

      The grand old lady of australian sport has more stories to tell. Maybe some payback to the swans is in order.
      Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn

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      • annew
        Senior Player
        • Mar 2006
        • 2164

        Why is a final against GWS at ANZ anyway, must be to appease GWS cos it cant be crowds, there would be a bigger crowd if we played Hawks, So next year if we get a home final against GWS it will be at SCG and presumably if its their home final it will be at spotless so I cant see why it has to be ANZ this year.

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        • Industrial Fan
          Goodesgoodesgoodesgoodes!
          • Aug 2006
          • 3318

          Looking at the positives, at least we can blame the ground if they beat us
          He ate more cheese, than time allowed

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          • barry
            Veterans List
            • Jan 2003
            • 8499

            Best possible result for footy in NSW is swans v giants week 1 at ANZ.

            Anyone who boycotts that is a fool. A boycott is a tool for change. In this case the change is already decided.

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            • grarmy
              Warming the Bench
              • Aug 2010
              • 406

              Barry, we love you but you can be really irritating. The SCG is our home ground. This is where we want to see our Swans play.
              "Play like you can’t lose."

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              • barry
                Veterans List
                • Jan 2003
                • 8499

                Originally posted by grarmy
                Barry, we love you but you can be really irritating. The SCG is our home ground. This is where we want to see our Swans play.
                I said best for NSW footy, not best for whinny late sipping swans "fans".

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                • royboy42
                  Senior Player
                  • Apr 2006
                  • 2078

                  Barry, you are becoming a troll

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                  • barry
                    Veterans List
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 8499

                    If you really want to increase our chances for a flag we should be putting our energies into moving the grand final out of the MCG. Assuming we finish first we have earnt the right to host it in any fair competition. 1996, 2014 we lost partly because we had to play away despite finishing higher. Same again this year. We can only hope we meet a fellow non victorian to even it out.

                    Now that is a cause you will have me 100% behind.

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                    • 0918330512
                      Senior Player
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 1654

                      Originally posted by barry
                      I said best for NSW footy, not best for whinny late sipping swans "fans".

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                      Whinny latte sipping Swans "fans" who can spell. If you're going to bag your fellow RWOers, at least have the curtesy of making sense ????

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                      • 0918330512
                        Senior Player
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 1654

                        Originally posted by barry
                        If you really want to increase our chances for a flag we should be putting our energies into moving the grand final out of the MCG. Assuming we finish first we have earnt the right to host it in any fair competition. 1996, 2014 we lost partly because we had to play away despite finishing higher. Same again this year. We can only hope we meet a fellow non victorian to even it out.

                        Now that is a cause you will have me 100% behind.

                        Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk
                        Where do you propose it's held? I can only presume, given your obsession with ANZ, you want it held there? ANZ has a capacity of 83,500. The MCG is 100,024. So you're sacrificing approximately 16,500 seats. That's a lot of unhappy potential patrons and a lot of lost revenue for the biggest money generating game of the year.

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                        • Blue Sun
                          Senior Player
                          • May 2010
                          • 1440

                          While its great that the Swannies can now play some finals football at their true home, playing GWS at ANZ stadium might be good preparation for the big one at the G later in September. I want them to be tested in the lead up to the GF (should we make it, that is), we all know what happened in '14 against the (awful) Hawks after we stomped North in the prelim.

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                          • SCGonasunnyday
                            Warming the Bench
                            • Dec 2007
                            • 323

                            This is doing my head in with all the ladder permutations - but I think there is a bit of pressure off today - lose and we will still finish top 4. An away QF vs Hawks or Geelong doesn't sound too bad. Playing Giants 200m from their home ground is almost worse (but don't get me wrong - top spot and best % is justly deserved and worth fighting for).
                            So I'm going to relax and enjoy today!
                            If Adelaide had won I'd be a nervous irritable soul all day.

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                            • giant
                              Veterans List
                              • Mar 2005
                              • 4731

                              Tremendous news, couldn't be more delighted.

                              - - - Updated - - -

                              Originally posted by barry
                              If you really want to increase our chances for a flag we should be putting our energies into moving the grand final out of the MCG. Assuming we finish first we have earnt the right to host it in any fair competition. 1996, 2014 we lost partly because we had to play away despite finishing higher. Same again this year. We can only hope we meet a fellow non victorian to even it out.

                              Now that is a cause you will have me 100% behind.

                              Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk
                              Couldn't agree more - think it's bad for us, think about poor old West Coast last year who beat Hawks in a Qualifying Final and their reward was to play against them at home in the GF.

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

                                Originally posted by 09183305
                                Whinny latte sipping Swans "fans" who can spell. If you're going to bag your fellow RWOers, at least have the curtesy of making sense ??
                                Courtesy. Or did you mean curtsey?

                                Barry isn't a troll, he is a warrior in a noble cause. I don't agree with him but I don't get upset by him either.
                                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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