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  • barry
    Veterans List
    • Jan 2003
    • 8499

    #76
    Originally posted by 707
    What kind is that, a player who won't leave once he gets there? Suns have plenty of fringe players, they don't have a critical mass of above average/elite players. I fear that the GC experiment will never get off the ground floor.
    There are two parts to the experiment. On field and off field. Between GC and GWS I would say gold coast marginally ahead on off field, GWS way ahead on on field. But onfield can be fixed. Off field is the fundamental on whether a team survives.

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    • Bill Posters
      Warming the Bench
      • Sep 2014
      • 259

      #77
      Not feeling confident about this. I don't feel we've picked our best team and we normally manage to get beaten by one of the bottom sides each season.

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      • aardvark
        Veterans List
        • Mar 2010
        • 5685

        #78
        Originally posted by Bill Posters
        Not feeling confident about this. I don't feel we've picked our best team and we normally manage to get beaten by one of the bottom sides each season.
        Anyone remember this? St.Kilda v Sydney round 5 - 2002. One of the most dramatic AFL finishes ever! - YouTube

        One of the worst games I have ever seen.

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        • Sandridge
          Outer wing, Lake Oval
          • Apr 2010
          • 2049

          #79
          Originally posted by aardvark
          Anyone remember this? St.Kilda v Sydney round 5 - 2002. One of the most dramatic AFL finishes ever! - YouTube

          One of the worst games I have ever seen.
          Cetainly remember it. I was there and it was a shocker of a game! I found out a few days after the game that an ex-work colleague - a St.Kilda fan - had a heart attack after going to that game and, unfortunately, passed away.

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          • liz
            Veteran
            Site Admin
            • Jan 2003
            • 16737

            #80
            We've had a few dire games against the Saints. There was one to open the season one year, down at Etihad, or the Dome or whatever it was called then. And it was after a Saints game in the middle of 2005 that Demetriou declared that the Swans were awful and would never win a premiership playing the way they were.


            There are a couple of very young looking Fox presenters featured at the end of that clip. Firstly Nick Dal Santo, looking about 15 (though actually 18). And then a junior Gerald Whately interviewing Thompson at the end.
            Last edited by liz; 9 June 2018, 05:38 PM.

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

              #81
              Originally posted by liz
              We've had a few dire games against the Saints. There was one to open the season one year, down at Etihad, or the Dome or whatever it was called then. And it was after a Saints game in the middle of 2005 that Demetriou declared that the Swans were awful and would never win a premiership playing the way they were.
              'The Circus Tent" according to the Fitzroy Youth Club in the Jack Irish novels!
              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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              • aardvark
                Veterans List
                • Mar 2010
                • 5685

                #82
                Originally posted by dimelb
                'The Circus Tent" according to the Fitzroy Youth Club in the Jack Irish novels!
                I believe it was "Colonial" in those days. Loved the Jack Irish series.

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                • liz
                  Veteran
                  Site Admin
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 16737

                  #83
                  Originally posted by dimelb
                  'The Circus Tent" according to the Fitzroy Youth Club in the Jack Irish novels!
                  Yeah? Don't remember that quote. Must have been one of the last two books, given it didn't open until 2000.

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                  • caj23
                    Senior Player
                    • Aug 2003
                    • 2462

                    #84
                    I left early I was so disgusted with the performance

                    Safe to say I?ve never left a swans game early again

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