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  • liz
    Veteran
    Site Admin
    • Jan 2003
    • 16761

    #46
    Handball-happy Dogs 'got away with a couple' in GF: Beveridge - AFL.com.au

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

      #47
      Encouragement or Kiss of Death?

      Ha! As he clings tightly to the cup.

      "We will put our hand up and say a couple of balls were thrown in the Grand Final that should have been paid as throws," Beveridge told Fox Sports on Wednesday.

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      • mcs
        Travelling Swannie!!
        • Jul 2007
        • 8161

        #48
        Originally posted by Meg
        Ha! As he clings tightly to the cup.

        "We will put our hand up and say a couple of balls were thrown in the Grand Final that should have been paid as throws," Beveridge told Fox Sports on Wednesday.
        Yet any swans fan that suggests that gets their head bitten off as a 'sore loser'....
        "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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        • MattW
          Veterans List
          • May 2011
          • 4212

          #49
          Originally posted by Meg
          Ha! As he clings tightly to the cup.

          "We will put our hand up and say a couple of balls were thrown in the Grand Final that should have been paid as throws," Beveridge told Fox Sports on Wednesday.
          He admits it to characterise it as luck and mitigate possibility of a perception that his team frequently infringe in this manner.

          "I worry if it's just us (in the spotlight)."

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          • bloodspirit
            Clubman
            • Apr 2015
            • 4448

            #50
            Originally posted by Meg
            Ha! As he clings tightly to the cup.

            "We will put our hand up and say a couple of balls were thrown in the Grand Final that should have been paid as throws," Beveridge told Fox Sports on Wednesday.
            Galling. I felt sick reading it. Easy to say now.
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            • mcs
              Travelling Swannie!!
              • Jul 2007
              • 8161

              #51
              Originally posted by MattW
              He admits it to characterise it as luck and mitigate possibility of a perception that his team frequently infringe in this manner.

              "I worry if it's just us (in the spotlight)."
              Yeh its a completely tactical move on his part - 'we were just lucky' so to try and keep the spotlight off whatever antics they might get up to this season. More gridiron tunnelball perhaps?
              "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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              • Sandrevan
                Warming the Bench
                • May 2016
                • 355

                #52
                Quote Originally Posted by Mel_C View Post

                From reading various articles it seems like the majority have selected us to be runners up again. I don't think I can handle another grand final loss ????.

                I hate seeing footage/photos of the bulldogs from the GF. I mute the tv and turn away!

                Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Tapatalk
                Same here. That loss has really eaten at me. 2014 was bad but we didn't deserve that because of the way we played/Hawthorn played. But last years loss was because of pathetic umpiring. That should have been our premiership. We were robbed and that makes it ten times more painful.

                I feel the same way. The AFL has publicly stated the umpiring of the 2016 gf was poor. I don't have a problem with the Bulldogs - they simply exploited the situation they were in. It started when KJ marked in the forward 50 for the first scoring shot of the game. He got cleaned up by Easton Wood and should've got a 50 m penalty - wasn't paid. We all know what happened to Hanners at the start of Q4 - again Easton Wood. I'd be fairly sure in saying his coach put him up to this. There's an article in the AFL website about Luke Beveridge admitting 'we got away with a few' in the gf. The gf was a media circus and we were on the wrong end of it.

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                • Ludwig
                  Veterans List
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 9359

                  #53
                  I know how everyone hates seeing pics and videos of the Bulldogs premiership victory, and I do too. But I've been forced to review the GF in great detail for my next movie, titled

                  THE MANCHURIAN UMPIRE: HOW RUSSIA HACKED THE 2016 GRAND FINAL

                  There's something eerily similar between the Bulldogs and the Ruskies. I think I'm on to something here.

                  Melbourne, 1 October 2016

                  611697842.jpg

                  Moscow, 1 October 2016
                  russia_3033732b.jpgrussiaday.jpgslava_russia_day1.jpg
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                  • Industrial Fan
                    Goodesgoodesgoodesgoodes!
                    • Aug 2006
                    • 3317

                    #54
                    At least there was a photo of a dog to save it.

                    In the space of a few days- consensus that 2006 was a sham, and then Beveridge says they got away with a few.

                    At least we have noone else to blame for 2014.
                    He ate more cheese, than time allowed

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                    • Mel_C
                      Veterans List
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 4470

                      #55
                      I'm sure I read somewhere that the bulldogs practiced the quick "handballs" at training ????.

                      We were cheated by the sliding, the ducking and the throwing. It is the start of the season and I should be over it but I just keep getting angrier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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                      • stevoswan
                        Veterans List
                        • Sep 2014
                        • 8548

                        #56
                        Originally posted by Mel_C
                        From reading various articles it seems like the majority have selected us to be runners up again. I don't think I can handle another grand final loss ????.

                        I hate seeing footage/photos of the bulldogs from the GF. I mute the tv and turn away!

                        Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Tapatalk
                        Me too....that flag is tainted with betrayal. I can't stand the footage, it leaves me cold.....that 'fairytale' is a nightmare to me!

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                        • Wardy
                          The old Boiler!
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 6676

                          #57
                          HOORAY PEEPS - STINKER STEVIC IS INFLICTING HIS @@@@ UPON THE TIGERS AND CARLTON TONIGHT - WE'VE BEEN SPARED FOR ANOTHER WEEK !!! ????????????
                          I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure..................
                          Chickens drink - but they don't pee!
                          AGE IS ONLY IMPORTANT FOR TWO THINGS - WINE & CHEESE!

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                          • stevoswan
                            Veterans List
                            • Sep 2014
                            • 8548

                            #58
                            Toby played ok tonight too........ and good luck to him.

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                            • Joel Ridge
                              Suspended by the MRP
                              • Feb 2017
                              • 82

                              #59
                              Originally posted by Joel Ridge
                              I think GWS will top the table on 20 wins and it will be a close tussle for positions 2,3,4,5,6.

                              The Swans, Crows, West Coast, Bulldogs, Geelong, Hawthorn, Port, North, Collingwood, St Kilda, Melbourne and Essondon coukd beat each other on the day and injury list will have a major bearing on results.

                              Gold Coast, Brisbane, Carlton, Richmond and Freemantle are penciled in as wins.

                              You could get a team making the top 8 on 10 wins, you could get a 2-4 placing on 14 wins. It's that close.

                              GWS will win 20 plus games. Too much fire power.
                              I stand corrected. Richmond are not in the bottom group of teams and the Swans can't pencil in them as a win. Richmond are one of those tight middle teams.

                              Carlton are in the bottom rung were not terrible and should be able to get 6 or 7 wins.

                              Wonderful to see the evenness of the competition.

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                              • aardvark
                                Veterans List
                                • Mar 2010
                                • 5685

                                #60
                                Originally posted by stevoswan
                                Toby played ok tonight too........ and good luck to him.
                                My son was at the game in his Swans jumper. Got stopped by a number of Tiges supporters who thanked him for giving them Nank.

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