#AFL Round 9 Kangaroos v Swans Sat 18-May at Blundstone #AFLNorthSwans @sydneyswans

[56-14]

Blundstone has a capacity of close to 20,000. Will it be full? And how parochial will the crowd be - are Hobartians rusted on North supporters or just interested AFL watchers?

One reason I ask is that I gather from BF that some North supporters are waiting for Nick Blakey with verbal baseball bats. Pretty poor if a 19yo is comprehensively booed every time he goes near the ball. As we know, North supporters have history in targeted booing.

Did this end up happening?

[stevoswan]

It should have been a free. Sinclair pulled Goldstein jumper by. Nearly a foot. Fortunately, I think the ump was in the wrong position to see it.

Meaning we got favoured by a bad non decision and had a win.....we are so owed over years of inexcusable non decisions and in turn, matches lost because of them, including a GF. I hope no Swans fan feels bad about this.....we deserved that non decision.

[stevoswan]

As you might have guessed, I'm over the moon.

Yes, I've been waiting for that.....and for the sake of the mod's, I'll say no more.

[top40]

Longmire said before the game it was a quad injury. Reading between the lines they didn't want to risk him this week so hopefully he will be ok next week. But who knows!

It's the other way around. When the swans lose the liberals win. So I was very worried at the end because the liberals are going to win.

For the record, it was the first time that the Swans' fortunes on a Federal Election day differed from the Labor Party's, since 1943, some 76 years ago.

ALP/Swans
1913 Loss/Won
1943 Won/Loss
1951 Loss/Loss
1954 Loss/Loss
1974 Won/Won
2010 Won/Won
2013 Loss/Loss
2016 Loss/Loss
2019 Loss/Won

[KTigers]

For the record, it was the first time that the Swans' fortunes on a Federal Election day differed from the Labor Party's, since 1943, some 76 years ago.

ALP/Swans
1913 Loss/Won
1943 Won/Loss
1951 Loss/Loss
1954 Loss/Loss
1974 Won/Won
2010 Won/Won
2013 Loss/Loss
2016 Loss/Loss
2019 Loss/Won

So were we meant to lose?, or was Labor meant to win?. It's a quandary, isn't it? But then again, it's Tasmania.
Anything goes down there.

[ScottH]

At the time I was yelling at the TV abusing Thompson when he did that. I though he was a bully towards the first year kid and he did really well to stand up to him. He wouldn't have done that to Buddy.

At least twice Thompson tackled one of our players to the ground, once they had crossed the boundary line.
Many times that is a free kick. Not on Sat Night.

[dejavoodoo44]

Did this end up happening?

Without checking the replay, I think that there was a small amount of booing Blakey, but it was only really in the first quarter and it gradually petered out.

[dejavoodoo44]

At least twice Thompson tackled one of our players to the ground, once they had crossed the boundary line.
Many times that is a free kick. Not on Sat Night.

He also tried to force Blakey over the boundary fence, for no good reason. Probably worthy of a free.
Though I was pleased to be on the winning side of the free kick count. I suspect that us winning the frees, is more likely happen when Ray Chamberlain is umpiring, but I haven't tried to confirm that.

[Meg]

At least twice Thompson tackled one of our players to the ground, once they had crossed the boundary line.
Many times that is a free kick. Not on Sat Night.

Yeah, the physicality by all players, ours included, towards opposition players as they chase the ball over the boundary line annoys me. Jones hamstring injury is the result of a quite unnecessary push by a North player to give Jones a hurry-up over the boundary line.

[AnnieH]

The shinboners like a punch-up, don't they.
I saw them (and the swans) at the airport the following morning... the blue camp were pretty blue!!
You've gotta love heart-attack footy.
What a great game. I had no radio commentary, so had no idea how long we had to go at the 34 minute mark of the final quarter.
Only we can give up a 30 point lead.

I DO have a question about the 30 second countdown to kick for goal... do you have 30 seconds to get rid of the ball, i.e. the ball must touch your boot within and up to the 30 second mark, or is it 30 seconds to start your run in from centre half-back? If it's the former... the shinboners tended to wait until the 30 seconds has passed before they even looked like starting to kick.
Can you imagine the umpire blowing the whistle and saying, you've taken too long and handing the ball over to the defence? I'd like to see that happen.

[dimelb]

And the cheer squad put in their 5 cents worth:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...20-p51paf.html

[AnnieH]

And the cheer squad put in their 5 cents worth:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/...20-p51paf.html

We were waaaayyyyyyy too far away to see that.
Hilarious.