Round 10: the other games.

[neilfws]

Free kicks for travel (running too far) would be easier to adjudicate if the rule was tweaked to a fixed number of steps instead of a distance that the umpire must estimate. 15 steps would be about right.

A couple of analysts on Twitter reckon from the footage that he ran two to two-and-a-half "grass stripes" which are apparently about 9 metres wide. So the right call based on that.

[Sandridge]

Lions /Tigers is looking nasty!

[Torpin de Torpe]

Average AFL attendance in Sydney for round 10: 22,500

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Probably still better than the League ?

[troyjones2525]

Can someone please tell me how the @@@@ we lost to Richmond.... [emoji2357]

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[BRS328]

This is really concerning to me.
Having been at the SCG on Friday night with 44,000 plus and a great atmosphere, I am wondering whether the time will come that GWS will relocate to the SCG in the hope of building supporter base over the longer term.
It clearly is not working where they are now.

[The Big Cat]

This is really concerning to me.
Having been at the SCG on Friday night with 44,000 plus and a great atmosphere, I am wondering whether the time will come that GWS will relocate to the SCG in the hope of building supporter base over the longer term.
It clearly is not working where they are now.

It’s not the ground. It’s the fact that the club is an invention, a plastic organisation based on zero history playing at a place with little geographical relevance to the area it is supposed to represent and draw new supporters. It was originally supposed to be at Blacktown but I think the players rebelled on that one. Without an historical link to the club you can’t expect the people of Greater Western Sydney to travel halfway across the city to watch something that has no sentimental attraction.

Imagine if the AFL invented Geelong from scratch then allowed them to be based in Frankston. Dead in the water from the get-go. GWS should be sent to Western Sydney rather than trying to be Sydney Swans Lite.

[707]

GWS games always seem lightly attended, not sure there's been much growth in 12/13 years. Crowd size depends on the size of opposition crowd, us and big Vic clubs fill the ground outnumbering the orange folk.

But I'm rapt with our attendances this year :-)

[Kafka's Ghost]

It’s not the ground. It’s the fact that the club is an invention, a plastic organisation based on zero history playing at a place with little geographical relevance to the area it is supposed to represent and draw new supporters. It was originally supposed to be at Blacktown but I think the players rebelled on that one. Without an historical link to the club you can’t expect the people of Greater Western Sydney to travel halfway across the city to watch something that has no sentimental attraction.

Imagine if the AFL invented Geelong from scratch then allowed them to be based in Frankston. Dead in the water from the get-go. GWS should be sent to Western Sydney rather than trying to be Sydney Swans Lite.

Or just send them to Canberra.


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[Kafka's Ghost]

Can someone please tell me how the @@@@ we lost to Richmond.... [emoji2357]

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Many of the team were quite unwell. Typically, the club has not used that as an excuse in any way. Unfortunately it also coincided with Richmond’s strongest team of the year.


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[Nico]

The Saints are very ordinary. They certainly drafted the wrong King.

[i'm-uninformed2]

Hey, with St Kilda losing again, in part because their list has hacks like Douglas Howard clogging it up, it seems like a good time to remind everyone of my fave example of “so and so club did lots, so they won trade week.”

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-trades-2019-afl-trade-period-winner-st-kilda-dougal-howard-paddy-ryder-bradley-hill-zak-jones-dan-butler/news-story/be3a1f4c01e6f5675cfadc75e9baab5d

Final 2019 trade period takeaways

[rb4x]

Easy. It was the match that Sam Wicks was left out because of some dispute with another player. The team did not have their heads in the game.

[MattW]

Or just send them to Canberra.


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Attendance at yesterday's GWS game at Homebush: 7,747 - Inaccurate Bulldogs bite back with Giant upset.

Attendance at the most recent game at Manuka (a Thursday night v Brisbane: 13,080 - Greater Western Sydney Giants overpower Brisbane Lions with second-half demolition.

[dejavoodoo44]

Bizarrely, long time medium defender, Blake Hardwick, has kicked four goals in the first quarter against Port; although he has played a bit as a forward this year. Slightly less bizarre, Hawthorn lead 38-7.

[707]

Hey, with St Kilda losing again, in part because their list has hacks like Douglas Howard clogging it up, it seems like a good time to remind everyone of my fave example of “so and so club did lots, so they won trade week.”

AFL trades 2019: AFL trade period winner, St Kilda, Dougal Howard, Paddy Ryder, Bradley Hill, Zak Jones, Dan Butler

Final 2019 trade period takeaways

What a great read! Footy media love an overblown story. Saints are firmly stuck in No Man's Land, there's a thread about Saints titled that on BF, some Saints supporter was saying they are a "bigger" club than Swans - delusional LOL