Swans chat 2nd preseason game v North

[KSAS]

Hope Mills is a chance to play some minutes this week going by his archilles injury update this week, which will bring him into calculation for R1.

[707]

So Sydneysiders, will this be a wet weather slog of little value compared to having a run under the roof at Docklands?

[Goal Sneak]

So Sydneysiders, will this be a wet weather slog of little value compared to having a run under the roof at Docklands?

Pretty safe to say it will be wet and slippery. We've had rain every day for what seems like a month. It's not predicted to stop for the next week at this stage.

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We'll have no excuse this year when playing in the wet. We'll be very well rehearsed.

[707]

We have become so used to good surfaces, bring back the VFL suburban mud heaps!

I noticed that they will build a stadium with closing roof in Hobart for their new team, the only way for them to go down there. Needs central heating as well :-)

[Mel_C]

We have to watch the umpire abuse as they are really cracking down. It cost Melbourne 6 goals last night. I don't think our players are known for abusing umpires apart from Papley who is injured. Rampe might have to watch his jokes...no more comments about having coffee with Gillon!

[Bloods05]

We have become so used to good surfaces, bring back the VFL suburban mud heaps!

I noticed that they will build a stadium with closing roof in Hobart for their new team, the only way for them to go down there. Needs central heating as well :-)

Hobart is Australia's second-driest capital.

[Chilcott]

Is there any chance the match will be moved? Don’t see the point of playing a practice match in torrential rain . Considering we have the week off next weekend, it should be played at Marvel on Monday night.

[Aprilbr]

Is there any chance the match will be moved? Don’t see the point of playing a practice match in torrential rain . Considering we have the week off next weekend, it should be played at Marvel on Monday night.

I tend to agree. I believe its a double header with the Giants playing beforehand. So 4 AFL teams will play a game in horrendous conditions. Its not an ideal last hit out before the season starts for any of them!

[Goal Sneak]

It hasn't rained today so far. Still, they are predicting a storm later tonight. Hopefully the rain stays away until we're done

[Mountain Man]

The Sydney Showground arena is well engineered with a water collection "sink" below the grass surface (in turn used for irrigation). It was installed as part of the Sydney Olympic build (used for Baseball - which part explains the excellent change rooms and broadcast facilities), and when expense was put to one side.

Not a guarantee for tomorrow, but I'm more optimistic that it will be OK

[liz]

It hasn't rained today so far. Still, they are predicting a storm later tonight. Hopefully the rain stays away until we're done

What we've had thus far today is consistent with the weather forecast site I generally use. It has the chance of rain at less than 10% for most of the day, increasing later this evening along with the description changing from overcast to possible storm.

But then tomorrow it has the heavy and relentless rain returning, with amounts per hour back over 1mm. At 6am tomorrow it is showing the possible amount per hour as 5.4mm, though I wonder if that is a typo as I've never seen the forecasts with a volume prediction that high. (Though it certainly feels like we've experienced that amount of rain in a single hour.)

Sydney Weather Hourly For Today | Detailed Forecast

[Goal Sneak]

Silly me thinking the game was on this afternoon!

[dejavoodoo44]

What we've had thus far today is consistent with the weather forecast site I generally use. It has the chance of rain at less than 10% for most of the day, increasing later this evening along with the description changing from overcast to possible storm.

But then tomorrow it has the heavy and relentless rain returning, with amounts per hour back over 1mm. At 6am tomorrow it is showing the possible amount per hour as 5.4mm, though I wonder if that is a typo as I've never seen the forecasts with a volume prediction that high. (Though it certainly feels like we've experienced that amount of rain in a single hour.)

Sydney Weather Hourly For Today | Detailed Forecast

There's this snippet from an ABC article on the recent record breaking rainfall in and around Brisbane.

"From 9am Thursday to 9am Monday three stations recorded over a metre of rain:

- 1637mm at Mount Glorious, QLD
- 1180mm at Pomona, QLD
- 1094mm at Bracken Ridge."

If my maths is correct, the Mt Glorious total averages out at a bit under 17mm per hour. Much of that would've flowed into Wivenhoe dam, yet commercial media talking heads still wanted to carp about dam releases.

[giant]

There's this snippet from an ABC article on the recent record breaking rainfall in and around Brisbane.

"From 9am Thursday to 9am Monday three stations recorded over a metre of rain:

- 1637mm at Mount Glorious, QLD
- 1180mm at Pomona, QLD
- 1094mm at Bracken Ridge."

If my maths is correct, the Mt Glorious total averages out at a bit under 17mm per hour. Much of that would've flowed into Wivenhoe dam, yet commercial media talking heads still wanted to carp about dam releases.

Those amounts are staggering. That's roughly 2.5 times Melbourne's average ANNUAL rainfall - in a day!!

[mcs]

There's this snippet from an ABC article on the recent record breaking rainfall in and around Brisbane.

"From 9am Thursday to 9am Monday three stations recorded over a metre of rain:

- 1637mm at Mount Glorious, QLD
- 1180mm at Pomona, QLD
- 1094mm at Bracken Ridge."

If my maths is correct, the Mt Glorious total averages out at a bit under 17mm per hour. Much of that would've flowed into Wivenhoe dam, yet commercial media talking heads still wanted to carp about dam releases.

Some of the rainfall figures up around lismore were incredible. In 20 hours, the Channon I think it was (a little north of Lismore) had 750mm of rain - utterly crazy!