Tiger V Giant$ Who are you supporting on GF day, and reasons

[Bloods05]

On GWS selection, there is a lot of chat about coniglio and whitfield but is the left-field wildcard Johnathon Patton as the ruckman.???
His knee is fixed and he's been training for a month.

No.

[Swanny40519]

I will be supporting no one on GF day.

I cannot stand GWS, players and supporters of their club - full of people who think their #%#%$^^% does not stink.

The AFL have supported them from year one like no other club and have deliberately penalised us (Swans) for being successful and daring in our recruitment. So I will have no pleasure is seeing them win and probably lots of smiles if they are thrashed.

[Daisi]

I'm not very interested. I don't like the Giants, I can't support a team that supports eye gouging- that's beyond me. I also know people who once supported the Giants and then stopped because they thought their style of play was a bad example for their kids who played Auskick.- They got feedback from the kids BTW - The whole family are now Swans supporters...

And Richmond- Well I'm not fond of them either.

So BLAH....

[Sandrevan]

It will be interesting to see how the umpiring pans out this weekend. Overwhelming publicity for Richmond so will the umpires play for Richmond. Or, is there a sense of destiny for a first premiership for the minnow of the competition.


A few of you have mentioned GWS thug playing style. I noticed in the elimination final (vs Bulldogs) and the semi (vs Lions) - as soon as the umpiring calls started to go the way of the opposition the GWS players got really aggressive (even thuggish). I suspect the CEO of GWS has had a conversation with Steve Hocking to remind him of the cheating umpires in 2016 - both in the prelim and the GF. We all remember Easton Wood playing 'the Captains role' in 2016. I can see Trent Cotchin taking on a similar role this year. He's not averse to taking out an opposition player. I hope GWS are awake to this.

[KTigers]

On GWS selection, there is a lot of chat about coniglio and whitfield but is the left-field wildcard Johnathon Patton as the ruckman.???
His knee is fixed and he's been training for a month.

I suspect that is beyond left field and somewhere out in the stands. Who would he replace? Mumford? Mumford survived Grundy,
it can only get easier for him now. As with all GF's there will be some hard luck stories though. Whenever a team makes the GF
they've obviously been playing pretty well as a team, so it'll be hard to drop anyone.

[barry]

On GWS selection, there is a lot of chat about coniglio and whitfield but is the left-field wildcard Johnathon Patton as the ruckman.???
His knee is fixed and he's been training for a month.

[barry]

Not really

Getting good draft picks back is easy when they are 1st rounders wanting to leave. And they have that many gifted (in both sense of the word) 1st rounders, there’s no room for them all. Self-perpetuating

They hardly need a leg up from the umps or home ground when the AFL manufactured them for success from the outset.

Go Tigers (without much enthusiasm)

There are only two teams who got the same sort of setup assistance to compare: GWS and GC. Did GWS succeed or GC fail, or a bit of both?

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Yes, yes, yes, Ralph.
Except for the go tigers bit. They should have finished 9th.

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I reckon that GS$ will be giving away free tickets from their allocation.
They don't have enough members to cover the grant.

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... didn't Gill "tell" him to stay?
Oh wait. He said "it would be better if he stayed" and one week later, an extension was signed.
Don't tell me for one second that the AFL don't run that club.

You are ranting like a bitter old woman Annie.
I can just imagine you with your fists to the sky.

It will all be over in a few days.

[AnnieH]

I in the anti giants camp, always will be. I literally cheer for anyone playing against them, even Collingwood!

I understand the argument that a new team needs a few concessions but 100mil + from AFL, local, state and federal governments, as well as all the draft concessions was just too much.

Then they moved 30km east into Olympic Park because people in actual western Sydney couldn't care less about this team. They are effectively an inner west team, so far removed from their actual name and intended home. Just smacks of fake to me. Bet you none of the players, staff or board would've set foot in Rooty Hill or Blacktown, yet alone know where they are. They've just moved into swans territory, piggy backing on all our hard work, as opposed to spreading the gospel out west.

Then throw in their thuggish playing style, excusing their dirty play due to the fact they "play on the edge", I just can't stand them.

Go Tigers!

Yes, yes, yes, Ralph.
Except for the go tigers bit. They should have finished 9th.

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I reckon that GS$ will be giving away free tickets from their allocation.
They don't have enough members to cover the grant.

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coniglio signing big extensions.

... didn't Gill "tell" him to stay?
Oh wait. He said "it would be better if he stayed" and one week later, an extension was signed.
Don't tell me for one second that the AFL don't run that club.

[0918330512]

You have to admire the way the giants have built that list.

Not really

For all the want-aways, they have been able to get good draft picks in return.

Getting good draft picks back is easy when they are 1st rounders wanting to leave. And they have that many gifted (in both sense of the word) 1st rounders, there’s no room for them all. Self-perpetuating

This is the real fairytale, without umpire or home ground leg ups.

They hardly need a leg up from the umps or home ground when the AFL manufactured them for success from the outset.

Go Tigers (without much enthusiasm)

[AnnieH]

You'll love this Annie

There’s a big big sound
From a boardroom in town
It’s the creation of the AFL Giants

You feel the deals a makin’
As Tassie heads are shakin’
Wondering why the Bloody Giants

We get the biggest salary
And the highest picks
We’re given much more than the rest

We’re the AFL owned Sydney GIANTS
We’re more privileged than the rest.

And we will never surrender
Our corporate ownership
We’re born from a focus group.

I've just given a standing ovation.
Bravo.
Bravo.

[barry]

You have to admire the way the giants have built that list. For all the want-aways, they have been able to get good draft picks in return.
Only in the last year or so have they been able to build a culture where players want to stay. Eg. Kelly, Greene, coniglio signing big extensions. Even players like Scully didn't really want to leave.

Who knows, next year they may even be a destination club.

At the moment they are doing the heavy lifting in the Sydney market while the swans rebuild. It's turns out a perfect combination for the AFL.

I don't expect their support will grow by the massive leaps of 1996 and 2005 like the swans did, but it will grow.

This is the real fairytale, without umpire or home ground leg ups.

[KTigers]

I read this elsewhere. It has taken GWS eight years to get to a grand final, the same number of years as it took Port Adelaide.
In that time West Coast had got to three. There are eighteen teams so in a perfectly even world each team would make a grand final
every nine years.

[Markwebbos]

Giants obvs
Toby G to win the Norm Smith

[Velour&Ruffles]

Can't believe I'm saying this, but Giants for me.
I love a first. And being able to hear crickets chirping 30 seconds after the final siren blows at a VFL/AFL Grand Final will be a first.
I absolutely loathe the Giants. They are a plastic farce. But I loathe the AFL administration even more. Let the blood-sucking merchant bankers and captains of industry who have slowly but surely turned the VFL/AFL from a passionate sport into a soulless commercial endeavour (yes I'm looking at you Fitzpatrick, you @#$%face) bask in the golden view of all 8 genuine Giants supporters in the known universe revelling in victory while 99,950 seats stand empty around them in the colosseum that is footy's beating heart. Let them enjoy the electric atmosphere of 3 people throwing ticker tape and confetti at them as they enjoy their parade through the streets of Lakemba (ho ho, like that would happen) the following Monday.
Reap what you have sown you venal, money-obsessed parasites.

[MattW]

Richmond.

I've had an antipathy towards the Giants develop from their thuggish and arrogant on-field behaviour. Greene, Mumford and Cameron in particular. Others like Whitfield bug me inexplicably.

I've also been kind of annoyed by the AFL's self-interested promotion of, and assistance to them, while irrationally penalising the Swans. I am also a bit nonplussed by their adult Sydney-based fans - why weren't they already Swans fans?!

I've warmed to them a little bit, begrudgingly. I cheered against them on Saturday but was impressed by their guts. Also, they have some respectable senior players. Phil Davis, Coniglio, Ward.

But not enough to cheer them on... ever I suspect. I guess I have bought into the rivalry - cheers Toby Greene.