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  • Reggi
    On the Rookie List
    • Jan 2003
    • 2718
    #1

    Baby Swans Flying High

    http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1225854925911

    Actually the below is a really good match review by Rohan Connolly. He's stuck in the 80s, but he is not a Swans hater, one of the best game reviews I have read, ever really, just spot on

    Swans give abject Roos a lesson
    http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/swans-give-abject-roos-a-lesson-20100417-slkk.html
    This game plodded along for a good half, the moments of brilliance punctuated by too many fumbles, stumbles and slipshod disposal, not to mention umpires intent on having a serious impact on proceedings.
    Last edited by Reggi; 18 April 2010, 07:05 AM.
    You don't ban those who supported your opponent, you make them wallow in their loserdom by covering your victory! You sit them in the front row. You give them a hat! Toby Ziegler
    Tags: baby, flying, high, Swans, sydney
    • Vonsteinman
      Warming the Bench
      • Sep 2008
      • 368
      #2
      Yep, a great review of the game. Interesting to note another scribe putting J. Bolton in the best. A number have in other threads bagged his game but I thought he was pretty good.

      As for Connolly, I've always thought he was, if not a hater, at least a disliker. I've often thought he never got over the '96 Prelim...

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        • dimelb
          pr. dim-melb; m not f
          • Jun 2003
          • 6889
          #3
          I wasn't reading Rohan Connolly in '96 but in the noughties I got the impression he was a bit of a fan, and greatly admired our hard-at-it approach when others (e.g.Andy D) were critical. He certainly likes what he sees now.
          He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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            • Red
              Foreign Correspondent
              • Jan 2003
              • 651
              #4
              Originally posted by dimelb
              I wasn't reading Rohan Connolly in '96 but in the noughties I got the impression he was a bit of a fan, and greatly admired our hard-at-it approach when others (e.g.Andy D) were critical. He certainly likes what he sees now.
              He's Jude's uncle, isn't he?
              To all those people who waited 72 years to see a South Melbourne/Sydney Swans premiership HERE IT IS!!

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                • liz
                  Veteran
                  Site Admin
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 16865
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Red
                  He's Jude's uncle, isn't he?
                  Nah. that is Martin Blake. Unless they're both his uncles...

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                    • Red
                      Foreign Correspondent
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 651
                      #6
                      Originally posted by liz
                      Nah. that is Martin Blake. Unless they're both his uncles...
                      Ah yep. Right paper, wrong writer. Thx for the fix Liz.
                      To all those people who waited 72 years to see a South Melbourne/Sydney Swans premiership HERE IT IS!!

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                        • caj23
                          Senior Player
                          • Aug 2003
                          • 2462
                          #7
                          I think he likes us. He actually predicted us to be premiers in one of the pre-seasons prior to 2005, suffice to say that he was in the minority at the time

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                            • giant
                              Veterans List
                              • Mar 2005
                              • 4733
                              #8
                              The umpiring really was very poor. Some absolute howlers that led to goals for both sides.

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