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Last year’s GF was an aberration. We often have Geelong’s measure. We can win this.
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Preview The Curious Case of the Two Grand Finalists Geelong v Sydney at GHMBA
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sataris
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Team unfortunately has a history of having bad days on the big day.
Didn't even turn up to 2014 or 2022,
Grand Final was ages ago, but beating them here and now doesn't really mean anything. nor is it an absolution of what happened last year.
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i'll take a win over geelong anywhere, anytime ... of course it means something
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It's a H & A game, it will largely be forgotten.
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not for those of us who friggin despise geelong
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How did you feel after the grand final last year?
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serious question?
i fckn hated them long before that ... i'd happily see them shamed and humiliated and smashed every week, and not win a game, or even score a point ... for years and years
send all those "fans" who emerged outa nowhere in 2007 back to whatever teams they were supporting before then
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and specifically, i did several things to ensure i wasn't feeling anything from about quarter time
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Apparently he went for neck scans on Saturday but I've not read anything about it, only a rumour on here.
He did hurt his neck during the game but played it out in the best form he's been in all season so who knows!
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my experience with geelong and its fans started in 2005, first year i was living and working in melbourne ... (i'd always been a bit annoyed at geelong after sorta cheering for them in those losing grand finals in the early 90s)
i was watching that glorious (although initially horrendous) 2005 semi final in a fairly busy office (yes, night game, i know) and while i was the only swans fan, i specifically remember an absence of cats fans among the 30-40 people around me ... certainly if they were around they were keeping pretty darn silent, especially early in that last quarter when they should've been whooping
two years later geelong won the flag and suddenly geelong fans were everywhere, some even wearing their colours into work, and that has continued ... every second person who wanted to talk football was a friggin geelong fan
in my time in melbourne i took a strong dislike to essendon (because of their deluded fans), hawthorn (ha ... does anyone need a reason!?), north (wayne carey ... but now of course who cares), st kilda (just a woeful club) ... and geelong
i didn't care much about collingwood as i have a few mates who are fans, but once you've lived in the world of eddie mcguire you can't help wanting the pies to be sh1te
and carlton have been so laughably disappointing, even in the overrated, overhyped chris judd era, that their fans were easily ignored
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Knowing our media team we'll find out about any injuries after Thursday team is announced
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Kinda just leaves the Swans!
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only team paul kelly played for ... no other reason needed
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perfect
Find out yourself champ
MarkP
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Would be far too big and more importantly far too smart.
Not the kids fault, he needs a few more years to effectively take any of those mature monsters physically and skill wise.
Hawkins is a smart forward. I don't think he gets enough credit for that side of his game.
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Swans forward out for extended period in big blow
The Swans' initial fears over Joel Amartey's hamstring injury have been confirmed
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LukeParkerno1
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Structurally Stanley out is good wish it was Cameron though
MarkP
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I think the title is referring to a few things
1. Both teams are not exactly setting the game on fire at the moment despite running 1 and 2 last year.
2. We tend to have a good record against them, pass mark at least, and then they give us the mother of all hidings in the one that matters.
3. Despite the last game result we are actually a chance here except we seem to have misplaced a few key position defenders against on paper with a forward line full of tall champs.
4. The op likes movie references
All, some or none of the above.
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Geelong are my pet hate as well. When I was a Victorian Swans member you used to get the Geelong game included. Each year I would religiously get the bus down to Geelong have to stand in amongst all the Meth headed gronks with neck tatts and we used to get flogged every time. Then on the way out have to listen to band wagoners talking about how it was their first game. Strangely enough the biggest spray I got was from a bloke from Perth (ex Eagles) who was suddenly a Cats fan.
The last year I went the bus from Ballarat had been canned so I went on the train via Melbourne which cost a packet got to the game late and we got flogged again!!! The next year I vowed not to go and I think it was after Jarrod McVeigh and his family lost their baby and the Swans won..
Geelong is an absolute hole of a place as well. Anyone contemplating the weekend down there be prepared for numerous drug addled zombies shouting at cars on the main street. Alternatively try the night life and see how many locals want to start a fight with you.
With our outs we are going to struggle this week especially containing Cameron and Hawkins if we don't stop it in the midfield we could get caned. I wouldn't change much apart from Buddy and Rampe coming back in. Gould / Amartey out. Blakey could play forward but after last week you would be loathe to change him around.
Would not surprise me if we dropped this one but gives us a chance to try a few things out. Weather forecast is good which might help us with our running game.
The last year I went the bus from Ballarat had been canned so I went on the train via Melbourne which cost a packet got to the game late and we got flogged again!!! The next year I vowed not to go and I think it was after Jarrod McVeigh and his family lost their baby and the Swans won..
Geelong is an absolute hole of a place as well. Anyone contemplating the weekend down there be prepared for numerous drug addled zombies shouting at cars on the main street. Alternatively try the night life and see how many locals want to start a fight with you.
With our outs we are going to struggle this week especially containing Cameron and Hawkins if we don't stop it in the midfield we could get caned. I wouldn't change much apart from Buddy and Rampe coming back in. Gould / Amartey out. Blakey could play forward but after last week you would be loathe to change him around.
Would not surprise me if we dropped this one but gives us a chance to try a few things out. Weather forecast is good which might help us with our running game.
LukeParkerno1
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Nup. Just bring Francis in
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