No Oppo Supporters 2025 AFL General Discussion

[GoTheSwannies]

I don't like the fact we play weaker opposition in the 3 games leading into finals. You can go into finals having a false sense of your dominance and have to adjust to a much better opponent + the finals intensity.

Imo it's much better prep having two tough opponents so you know exactly where you're at and perhaps understand what things you need to fix to go deeper in finals.

 

[bedford]

I don't like the fact we play weaker opposition in the 3 games leading into finals. You can go into finals having a false sense of your dominance and have to adjust to a much better opponent + the finals intensity.

Imo it's much better prep having two tough opponents so you know exactly where you're at and perhaps understand what things you need to fix to go deeper in finals.

We haven't even got to XMAS and worrying about the oppo in the last few rounds , how do you know that all those teams will be no good now

 

[SwansLifer]

I don't like the fact we play weaker opposition in the 3 games leading into finals. You can go into finals having a false sense of your dominance and have to adjust to a much better opponent + the finals intensity.

Imo it's much better prep having two tough opponents so you know exactly where you're at and perhaps understand what things you need to fix to go deeper in finals.

I get the point, but IMO if you are going to play finals, and the Swans should absolutely be in the top 4, make no mistake about it, if not top 6, given a relatively decent injury toll of course. Anyway, prep for the finals starts before this. Well before. This club made huge mistakes during 2024. They had leverage on the entire opposition given the ladder and refused to rest guys to give them the best chance late in the season.
Brodie Grundy is going to need rest. Heeney is going to need rest. Papley, Mills, Curnow. All the older guys need to be managed. It's never about the opposition you face in the lead up. It's how is your group physically and mentally. How has the group prepared. If they've got them things squared away, happy days. If not. Talent can only take you so far.

 

[Nuggetz]

I like that our last MCG game is in round 23, gives the boys some exposure to the ground close to the finals.

 

[Nuggetz]

I don't like the fact we play weaker opposition in the 3 games leading into finals. You can go into finals having a false sense of your dominance and have to adjust to a much better opponent + the finals intensity.

Imo it's much better prep having two tough opponents so you know exactly where you're at and perhaps understand what things you need to fix to go deeper in finals.

Before that we have a brutal 5 game period versing top sides. If we don't know what we need to go deep into finals after that period then we're not winning the premiership anyway. I'm glad it looks a bit softer to end the season, hopefully we can manage players without impacting on results.

 

[kickthething]

i would like this to be a talking point come round 20

 

[MrSwans]

Has anyone else noticed that membership has gone up appx 15% (Melbourne premiership)?

Although, apparently we get entrance to the Geelong game too this year.

 

[MarshallG]

Has anyone else noticed that membership has gone up appx 15% (Melbourne premiership)?

Although, apparently we get entrance to the Geelong game too this year.

I noticed the price went up!

Good news it's up 15%.

I might take the lad to his first ever match at Kadinia.

Hopefully they allow more than 200 opposition supporters into the venue nowadays.

 

[The Blue Max]

Before that we have a brutal 5 game period versing top sides. If we don't know what we need to go deep into finals after that period then we're not winning the premiership anyway. I'm glad it looks a bit softer to end the season, hopefully we can manage players without impacting on results.

‘Versing’ - No such word Nuggetz! It’s ‘playing against’.

 

[Callipygian]

‘Versing’ - No such word Nuggetz! It’s ‘playing against’.

Turn it up. I hope this is tongue-in-cheek channelling of bedford . Languages evolve.

 

[bedford]

Turn it up. I hope this is tongue-in-cheek channelling of bedford . Languages evolve.

Leave me out of it thanks , turn it up

 

[The Blue Max]

Turn it up. I hope this is tongue-in-cheek channelling of bedford . Languages evolve.

Languages evolve, but not when they distort the latin the word is based on.
(Meaning turning towards or against)

The word is a preposition, it plays that role in our language - like with, in, at or to.

It is NOT a ‘describing’ word, like ‘playing, competing, riunning, fighting or arguing - IOW an adjective.

If you want english to evolve where basic grammatical structure falls down - You word understanding bloody won’t a says any fool.

It’s like saying ‘I am withing Bedford all the way’.


Or do you just have a problem with giving education the priority it deserves?

 

[kelpie_X]

Farcical

Yay! Go Essendon!

 

[dosser]

Languages evolve, but not when they distort the latin the word is based on.
(Meaning turning towards or against)

The word is a preposition, it plays that role in our language - like with, in, at or to.

It is NOT a ‘describing’ word, like ‘playing, competing, riunning, fighting or arguing - IOW an adjective.

If you want english to evolve where basic grammatical structure falls down - You word understanding bloody won’t a says any fool.

It’s like saying ‘I am withing Bedford all the way’.


Or do you just have a problem with giving education the priority it deserves?

As a qualified TEFL teacher, I understood this post.

 

[kelpie_X]

It's out

Put it back in!

 

[kelpie_X]

The Collingwood story gets better, we play them Marngrook round. Oh the irony.

 

[Callipygian]

Languages evolve, but not when they distort the latin the word is based on.
(Meaning turning towards or against)

The word is a preposition, it plays that role in our language - like with, in, at or to.

It is NOT a ‘describing’ word, like ‘playing, competing, riunning, fighting or arguing - IOW an adjective.

If you want english to evolve where basic grammatical structure falls down - You word understanding bloody won’t a says any fool.

It’s like saying ‘I am withing Bedford all the way’.


Or do you just have a problem with giving education the priority it deserves?

You've totally missed the point. Traditionally 'verse' may not have been a verb but in the sentence 'we are versing them on the weekend' it is being used as a verb and understood as such. You probably wouldn't catch me saying that but plenty of words you and I use glibly would have sounded just as wrong once upon a time. (For instance, no one now would bat an eyelid at me saying wrong rather than wrongly in that last sentence but they might have done formerly.) Anyway, if you want to take this further I suggest the Bear & Bandicoot or the Bob Skilton bar.

 

[bedford]

You've totally missed the point. Traditionally 'verse' may not have been a verb but in the sentence 'we are versing them on the weekend' it is being used as a verb and understood as such. You probably wouldn't catch me saying that but plenty of words you and I use glibly would have sounded just as wrong once upon a time. (For instance, no one now would bat an eyelid at me saying wrong rather than wrongly in that last sentence but they might have done formerly.) Anyway, if you want to take this further I suggest the Bear & Bandicoot or the Bob Skilton bar.

Are you now policing ?

 

[The Blue Max]

You'vetotally missed the point. Traditionally 'verse' may not have been a verb but in the sentence 'we are versing them on the weekend' it is being used as a verb and understood as such. You probably wouldn't catch me saying that but plenty of words you and I use glibly would have sounded just as wrong once upon a time. (For instance, no one now would bat an eyelid at me saying wrong rather than wrongly in that last sentence but they might have done formerly.) Anyway, if you want to take this further I suggest the Bear & Bandicoot or the Bob Skilton bar.

Plenty do bat an eyelid, and in areas that might surprise you.

It’s because it’s basic grammar, people hear it everyday - so when someone gets it wrong, it goes off like a pistol shot.

Calling an umbrella a hockey stick is not evolution - even if you think it is.

Of course people can make up their own lingo, but everytime I hear Cornes say something like ‘He did it wrong’, instead of wrongly, I just think to myself what an uneducated git.

Or he’s a weak minded tool trying to sound like a dumb American

Anyhow we’ve been down this path - it’s not evolution, it’s reversion to jibber jabber - Vocabulary may evolve, but grammar does not.

It’s not progress, it’s at best a lack of awareness and at worst it’s brain-lazy retrograde stupidity.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

 

[dosser]

Plenty do bat an eyelid, and in areas that might surprise you.

It’s because it’s basic grammar, people hear it everyday - so when someone gets it wrong, it goes off like a pistol shot.

Of course people can make up their own lingo, but everytime I hear Cornes say something like ‘He did it wrong’, instead of wrongly, I just think to myself what an uneducated git.

Or he’s a wesk minded tool trying to sound like a dumb American

Anyhow we’ve been down this path - it’s not evolution, it’s reversion to jibber jabber - Vocabulary may evolve, but grammar does not.

It’s not progress, it’s at best a lack of awareness and at worst it’s brain-lazy retrograde stupidity.

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If it is footy commentary, then it is actually "He done it wrong".

 

[Mister B]

Turn it up. I hope this is tongue-in-cheek channelling of bedford . Languages evolve.

Nahhhhhh. My pet hate. You can jam your 'versing' right up your .

 

[TheGoatBaron]

Great start to 2026 for the Bombers

 

[bedford]

Sad i rate him

 

[The Blue Max]

Great start to 2026 for the Bombers

Poor bugger. So much work and now it starts again.