Match thread. THE GRAND FINAL!!! Swans v Cats.

[Kafka's Ghost]

No it’s longer. Also apparently the half time break is longer for Friday nights (heard it on the espn footy podcast this season)

No wonder Friday night games go so long and late. They’re a pretty hard ask after a 10-hour day at work.


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[Kafka's Ghost]

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[MattW]

I couldn't disagree more. Apart from the last 2 years, I've been to every GF since 1996, and he was one of the best I've ever seen.

Yeah, when I got back from Melbourne to my family, my partner suggested it may have been my highlight of the experience. I initially guffawed but she may have been right! I wasn't a massive fan back in the day, but it was a fun sing-along. Particularly, the cover of You're The Voice.

(Other contenders:
- Chad's multi-possession maraude down the wing and in-board kick inside 50 in the second;
- the sorrows-drowning chilli basil chicken after the game.)

[ugg]

Question: Is the 1/2 time break the same duration at the Grand Final as for other games?

No it’s longer. Also apparently the half time break is longer for Friday nights (heard it on the espn footy podcast this season)

[Mountain Man]

Question: Is the 1/2 time break the same duration at the Grand Final as for other games?

[KTigers]

A bit off topic but . . . I finally caught a bit of Robbie William's pre game (must have been off having a nervous moment on Saturday).

What a flabby, mail it in, half-arsed performance. Can't believe Gil paid $1m+ for that. My wife's 70s cover band would give it more of a serious shake.

Steady on. And try $3M. There is no way Robbie is sitting on a private jet or in first class for 23 hours (twice) for a million puny Aussie
dollars.

[Mel_C]

A bit off topic but . . . I finally caught a bit of Robbie William's pre game (must have been off having a nervous moment on Saturday).

What a flabby, mail it in, half-arsed performance. Can't believe Gil paid $1m+ for that. My wife's 70s cover band would give it more of a serious shake.

I couldn't disagree more. Apart from the last 2 years, I've been to every GF since 1996, and he was one of the best I've ever seen.

[i'm-uninformed2]

Didn't TB promise to give it a break about Rowbottom once the kid cracked 25 possessions?

And/or coaches votes

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Exactly! No matter how much TB bangs on about it, Rowbottom will be entrenched in that midfield from round 1 next year (and many more going forward), and was also one of the few that could hold his head high in that horror first quarter as he tried his best against a primed veteran side!

However he'll never admit it and wonder "if we were watching the same game...".

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Didn't TB promise to give it a break about Rowbottom once the kid cracked 25 possessions?

[Meg]

I say get rid of ALL pre-game and half time "entertainment." If people need that to buy a ticket then let them stay home, there's plenty of proper football supporters who'd take their ticket. If Channel Seven want the entertainment to fill in their programming let them pay for it and hold it at Rod Laver Arena or the back of Bourke for that matter.

We had overflowing crowds before this yank style garbage began. Let's play the under 18 game at 9am, followed by the VFL Grand Final, then the main game. At half time have the little leaguers and give some quiet time for people in the crowd to talk among themselves.

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[i'm-uninformed2]

Feel better?

I'm not a Williams fan but I thought he was great. The crowd thought so too.

Pigs. I saw him 15 years ago at his peak and he was great. His voice is shot, he needed to be surrounded by a hundred dancers and Delta to make him look good, he could barely bust a move, and handed off half the singing to the crowd. Our midfield had more energy.

[The Big Cat]

Feel better?

I'm not a Williams fan but I thought he was great. The crowd thought so too.

I say get rid of ALL pre-game and half time "entertainment." If people need that to buy a ticket then let them stay home, there's plenty of proper football supporters who'd take their ticket. If Channel Seven want the entertainment to fill in their programming let them pay for it and hold it at Rod Laver Arena or the back of Bourke for that matter.

We had overflowing crowds before this yank style garbage began. Let's play the under 18 game at 9am, followed by the VFL Grand Final, then the main game. At half time have the little leaguers and give some quiet time for people in the crowd to talk among themselves.

[troyjones2525]

Maybe reasons rather than excuses?
Regardless, your main solutions seem to be to get rid of one of our most consistent and embedded midfielders, and to introduce two youngsters untried at this level?
This to a side that won 18 games and, against the odds, made a grand final.
I see a developing side that exceeded expectations in 2022, and which will excite us and further develop in 2023/4.

Exactly! No matter how much TB bangs on about it, Rowbottom will be entrenched in that midfield from round 1 next year (and many more going forward), and was also one of the few that could hold his head high in that horror first quarter as he tried his best against a primed veteran side!

However he'll never admit it and wonder "if we were watching the same game...".

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[Blood Fever]

Stuff history.....we are talking about the Swans. We were back in a GF two years after a 64 point GF humiliation in 2014.....and we would have won that GF with decent umpires.

Geelong were humiliated just last year in a prelim by 83 pts and won the GF a year later. As I said, stuff history.

Lot of crap being written at the moment. Young group should be better off for the experience. List still developing.

[stevoswan]

A bit off topic but . . . I finally caught a bit of Robbie William's pre game (must have been off having a nervous moment on Saturday).

What a flabby, mail it in, half-arsed performance. Can't believe Gil paid $1m+ for that. My wife's 70s cover band would give it more of a serious shake.

Feel better?

I'm not a Williams fan but I thought he was great. The crowd thought so too.