I know that its too late now, but I wonder if GWS should have throw caution to the wind and reverted to the "orange tsunami" style of play, instead of the grinding safety style. I'd be interested in what do other posters think of this thought.
I know that its too late now, but I wonder if GWS should have throw caution to the wind and reverted to the "orange tsunami" style of play, instead of the grinding safety style. I'd be interested in what do other posters think of this thought.
Man, the Giants made a lot of mistakes. They were like us early in the season, couldn't hit a barn door from 20 metres away. I just think
they'd played a couple GFs in the last two weeks, and didn't have a third one in them. After awhile the score line becomes academic like
for us in ****. Will they be scarred by it? Highly unlikely, the core group at the club survived two years of floggings as children when they
started in '12 & '13 and have played ten finals in the last four years. Besides, is any club defined by one game? Nope. There is always
another game. It's called sport. They'll probably win next year, keeping the media's Richmond win-every-second-year "dynasty" intact.
Which is the main thing of course.
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Told you all no one cared!! (Barry.)Originally Posted by Boddo
I watched the final quarter after goswanies told me that it was a bloodbath and well worth the cringe.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Did I hear right that grubbygreene did a face rub again? Oh my. That's a bit silly.
GW$' lowest score. Ever. That's a bit embarro.
My favourite meme is the one where Jack Riewoldt kicked more that the GW$ score on his own.
Hope the journo who said last week that GW$ are "pioneering" footy in Sydney has a big serve of fries with those words.
Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.
They also seemed to channel a good behaviour code for the big occasion .
Gone was their usual aggression and mongrel.
They just sucked .
Sure are a lot of deleted posts in this thread.
I went to my first grand final and had a ball. I kinda knew GWS would struggle with the injuries and playing an MCG tenant. The ground is no where near neutral.
Leon Cameron's selections and game style was admitting defeat before the first bounce.
I went to the game and I thought GWS were quite well represented in the crowd. There was considerably more orange than I thought
there'd be. They don't have the advantage of a Melbourne link the way the Swans do. You wonder how many of the Tigers fans would
have stumped up the dollars involved in getting to a GF in Sydney if the AFL ever came to their senses and got out that contract they
stupidly signed in 2017.
Unbelievably stupid and biased decision that just reinforces our view of just where the AFL's collective head is at.
So you are at least in theory a relatively committed Swans fan, yet your first grand final was to watch the no shows - despite the fact we have been to the big day 5 times within the last decade and a half (and as recently as 3 years ago).
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Would not surprise me to see the Raiders do exactly the same thing in the NRL on Sunday night. End up playing their grand final a bit early just to get there.
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It couldn't have hurt to try something different. They were already up the creek without a paddle by half time, as we were in 2014 however. Would of been good by trying the old 'don't carry buggered players into the biggest match of the season' trick too!
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
Agree. The Souths win would have sucked a lot of energy out of them. I wouldn't mind seeing the Raiders win, but you can see the Roosters
just rolling over the top of them and the game being over pretty early.
I would very much like to see the raiders win (just to see all the happy faces around the office if nothing else), but just can't see anything but a roosters win. But hopefully they prove me wrong and its a good quality grand final.
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
I couldn't exactly recall, but remember commentary at the time that GWS had received more concessions than what GCS did. Yesterday when the AFL announced their GCS rescue package, Andy Mahr on SEN reiterated that this package goes some way to make up the concession shortfall GCS had received compared to GWS at their respective startups. Andy didn't elaborate what the concessional differences were, but the general consensus is that GWS got the better hand.
I'd always assumed they were identical. Not so, apparently.
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