Changes to R20 V Dons

[Mark26]

Looks like we are playing at the MCG tomorrow - a good thing me thinks (hopes). We need more games at the in readiness for late September.????????????????

My nieces husband is medico for the Canberra Raiders, she was going to take the kids up there to Qld, she’s so glad she didn’t!!

I agree about the change of location to the G. The more games we play there, the better.

[i'm-uninformed2]

Nothing wrong with a big night out

if the swans player was being an antagonistic and hateful @@@@@ as well then you would be closer to the mark

And just because we got rid of Grohan doesn't mean we got rid of Grohan behaviour , ill leave it at that

This would be happening at every club , we are lucky we are out of the way up here so they fly under the radar more !

Grohan behaviour?! I was right with my original theory wasn’t I. Young James got up to no good with her.

[Maltopia]

Nothing wrong with a big night out

if the swans player was being an antagonistic and hateful @@@@@ as well then you would be closer to the mark

And just because we got rid of Grohan doesn't mean we got rid of Grohan behaviour , ill leave it at that

This would be happening at every club , we are lucky we are out of the way up here so they fly under the radar more !

While I think it is unfair to spread rumours or make allegations without backing it up with proof, there is a strong a priori case for unknown misbehaviour at AFL clubs - why would we be immune?

Look at the drug test results that come up from time to time. Do you think GWS knew what Whitfield was up to prior to the night he got his manager to hide him from a drug test?

And we had our own player caught a few years ago in alleyway with another player and illicit drugs in their possession - the Tahlia lad.

Think back to our 20s and 30s and think of some of the dumb @@@@ we did with cars, drugs, alcohol, sex etc.

A lot of people use illicit drugs and function very well in most areas. Before Cousins got finally found out, most people in the AFL wouldn’t have had a clue that he was on meth.

[TheBloods]

Grohan behaviour?! I was right with my original theory wasn’t I. Young James got up to no good with her.

Has nothing to do with Rowbottom , now you are the one obsessed !

[giant]

I think today is day 9 - out of a mandatory 14 .....

If the Swans are going to remain in Melbourne (report on Swans site says they have ‘relocated’) I assume/hope families will come out of quarantine straight on to a flight to Melbourne.

Assuming the Vic Government allows .... but seems rational as the families have been in isolation for the period of this new S/E Qld outbreak.

Yes, this passage from Swans comms seems ambiguous - is it suggesting we're moving holus bolus to Melbourne?

[TheBloods]

While I think it is unfair to spread rumours or make allegations without backing it up with proof, there is a strong a priori case for unknown misbehaviour at AFL clubs - why would we be immune?

Look at the drug test results that come up from time to time. Do you think GWS knew what Whitfield was up to prior to the night he got his manager to hide him from a drug test?

And we had our own player caught a few years ago in alleyway with another player and illicit drugs in their possession - the Tahlia lad.

Think back to our 20s and 30s and think of some of the dumb @@@@ we did with cars, drugs, alcohol, sex etc.

A lot of people use illicit drugs and function very well in most areas. Before Cousins got finally found out, most people in the AFL wouldn’t have had a clue that he was on meth.

I am not making allegations as i havent named anyone , nor will i . My point is the same one you made , which is that we are not immune to this stuff , thats it

[Bangalore Swans]

Nothing wrong with a big night out

if the swans player was being an antagonistic and hateful @@@@@ as well then you would be closer to the mark

And just because we got rid of Grohan doesn't mean we got rid of Grohan behaviour , ill leave it at that

This would be happening at every club , we are lucky we are out of the way up here so they fly under the radar more !

How many Swans players out of the entire list are exhibiting behaviour that I as a father would be disappointed in if my son exhibited the same behaviour?

[KSAS]

I agree about the change of location to the G. The more games we play there, the better.

+1
Received email communique from the club informing change of fixture, however they've wrongly pointed out that it will be our 2nd game at the G this year when in fact it will be our 3rd. They've overlooked we'd also played Melbourne there after we'd creamed the Tigers in R3. Non Vic teams normally only get 2 games fixtured at the G.

[stevoswan]

No i will not. There are some ratbags among them and i wont sugarcoat that . Coaches dont even know the half of it but even if they did they wouldnt care as long as they perform their role and are part of the team and not doing anything criminal

Im not going to name them because what they are like as people matters stuff all as long as they can play . I dont have to like them but as BLOODS i love them

So you're saying the Swans DON'T have a 'no dickheads' policy? I can't help but think you are basing this ratbag quotient on a societal 'law of averages'....if so, not fair on the Swans playing group. If indeed true then to air it publicly as some sort of talking point.....still not fair on the playing group. Didn't really need to be said.

Considering how much hub life our players have had to endure and the on field success it has brought, seems to me any 'ratbags' we might have are behaving.....

[Ludwig]

This is all The Bloods is saying: Any random group of 40 young men is bound to have a few troublemakers.

From that we surmise that if you take the Swans players as a group, there's bound to be a few troublemakers.

I would love to say that this sort of gossip is not befitting this forum, but sadly it is.

[Matty10]

Looks like we are playing at the MCG tomorrow - a good thing me thinks (hopes).

I hope so too, although we haven’t beaten the Bombers there since 1923.

[royboy42]

I hope so too, although we haven’t beaten the Bombers there since 1923.

Have we played them there since 1923 tho?

[Foreign Legion]

Have we played them there since 1923 tho?

Yes we have. I have the unfortunate memory of going to Essendon V Swans in 1999

[Matty10]

Have we played them there since 1923 tho?

We didn’t play the Bombers at the MCG in the years 1924-1991.

Yes we have. I have the unfortunate memory of going to Essendon V Swans in 1999

The 90s were brutal. We had losses by 43, 23, 34, 18, 60, 81 & 69 (from 1992-1999).

The last two losses (2004 & 2019) were only by 10 points each.

[Sandridge]

Yes we have. I have the unfortunate memory of going to Essendon V Swans in 1999

I was there too.

We lost by 81pts, Matthew Lloyd kicked 13 goals and walking through the carpark after the game, I copped a footy to the head (accidentally) by Essendon supporters having a kick to kick!