1st Qualifying Final Sydney Swans v GWS Giants at ANZ Stadium

[kilroyII]

I am disgusted that we were made to play there after coming 1st and now GW$ get to play again at homebush.

I really hope only 10k people show up, but the AFL will give away tickets and plant groups of people with orange to show otherwise.

GW$ is a massive joke, the afl compromised the league to attract a handful of ex pats to follow them.

[KTigers]

I remember it like it was yesterday. We were on a roll with all the momentum then 3/4 time came and killed our run. At the break Voss called the Brisbane players
together for a very long time in the huddle. Whatever he said worked as we barely touched the ball in the last quarter. You could hear a pin drop in our train carriage home after the game. I still think we would have beaten Collingwood in the GF if we'd have made it.

I agree re: 2003 Barry. The noise when we kicked the goal just before 3/4 time to get within a few points was the loudest noise I have heard at ANZ at a Swans game to this day, it was deafening.

I may add that we didn't go 'on-route via ANZ stadium' in 2005, managed to avoid it in the finals that year, with the ultimate result...

[kilroyII]

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We joke about this a lot but its time something is done by the stench that is coming outta AFL HQ in docklands. Somethings seriously up and it can no longer be treated as a joke.

We spend a whole year emotionally and financially invested in a game and a club and even when our club is the best in the league and has a strong chance to win the comp we are still faced with the possibility of being eliminated in straight sets because the AFL knows who they want to win and the chairman of the league has a fiscal investment with one of the "expansion" clubs, which is on its way to win a flag.

[barry]

There will never be a Grand Final in Sydney.

Not now.

And the comp will be forever compromised because of it.
As a put my ANZ hobby horse out to pasture, I can see my next hobby horse (GF venue) cantering toward me. here boy.

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Maybe you should hold your breath waiting for that Sydney granny.
You'll eventually go purple and die.

would you like me to die, AnnieH ?

[AnnieH]

Not now.

And the comp will be forever compromised because of it.
As a put my ANZ hobby horse out to pasture, I can see my next hobby horse (GF venue) cantering toward me. here boy.

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would you like me to die, AnnieH ?

Well, if you hold your breath until you go purple and don't take another...

[kilroyII]

There is no way the AFL Gf will ever not be played at the G.

Somehow the AFL has manipulated fans into thinking tradition is important when its convenient and in the process has turned the MCG into some AFL holy land.

If they want to play the GF at the MCG then like Wembley in EPL it should not be home to any team at all. The hawks, tigers and demons can play at docklands like every other Victorian team or they can go back to using suburban grounds.

[caj23]

Take your red and white glasses off. Of course the Grand Final should always be played at the MCG, to suggest anything else is ridiculous. It holds 90,000+ and there's still not enough tickets for everyone who wants one

[waswan]

I always thought it needed to stay there but I reckon every other year they could play it interstate.
I way more p*ssed about all teams not just us having to play anywhere other than home.

If your the better team it shouldn't matter that your opponent or all your members can or cant get tickets, first in first served.
If I was NSW based, id happily miss out on a finals game at the SCG instead of getting a ticket for that cow paddock

[robamiee]

Stevie J can accept a 1 game ban..a 2 down to 1 penalty...

[Maltopia]

Take your red and white glasses off. Of course the Grand Final should always be played at the MCG, to suggest anything else is ridiculous. It holds 90,000+ and there's still not enough tickets for everyone who wants one

Then as kilroyII says, the Hawks, Tiges and Demons need to find a different home ground to reduce their advantage of having played on the ground 8-12 times during the regular season vs, e.g., 0-3 times for WA, SA, Qld and NSW teams.

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Stevie J can accept a 1 game ban..a 2 down to 1 penalty...

Graded as careless... careless because he didn't make sure it was so far away from the ball that there would be no vision of it.

Mummy cleared (of course).

[kilroyII]

Take your red and white glasses off. Of course the Grand Final should always be played at the MCG, to suggest anything else is ridiculous. It holds 90,000+ and there's still not enough tickets for everyone who wants one

And? Homebush holds what 80k?

Adelaide oval 50k?

The new perth stadium will hold how many?

We are not short of modern boutique stadiums at all, yet the MCG is seen as this holy mecca.

[goswannies]

Then as kilroyII says, the Hawks, Tiges and Demons need to find a different home ground to reduce their advantage of having played on the ground 8-12 times during the regular season vs, e.g., 0-3 times for WA, SA, Qld and NSW teams.

The Tigers & the Dees can play there a little longer, they need all the help they can get.
It annoys me how GWS are given such repeated massive boosts, yet struggling "traditional" clubs are left to flounder.
As the GWS juggernaut rolls along, it will be particularly at the expense of the struggling "traditional" clubs.

[kilroyII]

The Tigers & the Dees can play there a little longer, they need all the help they can get.
It annoys me how GWS are given such repeated massive boosts, yet struggling "traditional" clubs are left to flounder.
As the GWS juggernaut rolls along, it will be particularly at the expense of the struggling "traditional" clubs.

This is what will bite the AFL in the arse. They are undermining and compromising the league and foundation clubs at the expense of perhaps swaying a few ex pats to follow GWS. People say its a long term plan, but is the AFL really ready to lose another 100 million bucks in under 5 years to make GWS happen and wait for that generation of kids to come through?

I think if GW$ wins a few flags a lot of fans will leave and follow lower leagues, like many are currently doing.

[robamiee]

AFL on Twitter: "How good was that! #ohwhatafeeling https://t.co/223FODfsoW"

interesting to see how proud the AFL is the Giants won...As the heading states "How GOOD WAS THAT"...no bias here move along nothing to see here...
Nevermind the fact the swans have toiled hard for over 30 years imagine what we could have done with 100 mill and everyone whinges about COLA and the swans.....please....

[mcs]

AFL on Twitter: "How good was that! #ohwhatafeeling https://t.co/223FODfsoW"

interesting to see how proud the AFL is the Giants won...As the heading states "How GOOD WAS THAT"...no bias here move along nothing to see here...
Nevermind the fact the swans have toiled hard for over 30 years imagine what we could have done with 100 mill and everyone whinges about COLA and the swans.....please....

I laughed at the comment 'glad they could share it with all their fans in the change rooms'