Preview 2024 Round 14 Adelaide v Sydney - Adelaide Oval

[caesar88]

Keep going

1909?

Think all four were black and white

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Think all four were black and white

https://s.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL Tenant/SydneySwans/Images/1909premiershipteam.JPG

 

[Ticky009]

In 2012 our midfield consisted of three blondes and one brunette.

In 2024 our midfield consists of three blondes and one brunette.

Flag is ours.

C88 can you get me a still shot of that gif? I've been after a photo of that and I can't find one anywhere.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

C88 can you get me a still shot of that gif? I've been after a photo of that and I can't find one anywhere.

Mods can have animated Gifs!

 

[The King!]

https://s.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL Tenant/SydneySwans/Images/1909premiershipteam.JPG

Spiffy officials l.

But umm what's with the one guy with the giant head?

 

[The King!]

Mods can have animated Gifs!

They get cheesecake as well apparently.

 

[Ticky009]

Mods can have animated Gifs!

I want a pic I can use later of a decent size. Not avatar size.

 

[SydneyBlood]

Sorry Shannon Noll, I don't remember discussing beer with you.

You strike me as a VB or Fosters fan. Am I hot or cold?

Strikes me as more so the Moving Pictures/Alex Smith era of 'What About Me'.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Spiffy officials l.

But umm what's with the one guy with the giant head?

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The Brains of our flag side.

 

[caesar88]

C88 can you get me a still shot of that gif? I've been after a photo of that and I can't find one anywhere.

 

[Ticky009]

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[elastic]

If one of our key forwards is carrying a niggle or suffering exhaustion, I have no problem with bringing Hamling in for a week or two to cover for him.

And given that if we win this week we’ll have the luxury of a three-win buffer, I have no problem with bringing Hamling in for a couple of rounds just to sound out our depth for the business end of the season.

But otherwise…. big nah.

The system is demonstrably working very, very well.

The ultimate in AFL is to win a flag. I hope we win one this year or next year.

But if we do win one, there’s nowhere higher to go.

We don’t get a bigger flag because we won most of our games by 70 points instead of 30.

It's great that Hamling is applying himself in the twos and giving us a real option to bring in if anyone goes down. Good to see

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

It's great that Hamling is applying himself in the twos and giving us a real option to bring in if anyone goes down. Good to see

Do you ever feel bad tho for players that uproot their life to move and be stuck in the reserves?

 

[Jimbo OZ]

Do you ever feel bad tho for players that uproot their life to move and be stuck in the reserves?

Not me. I'd happily move my family to Perth to play football and get paid 300k

 

[the hypnotoad]

Spiffy officials l.

But umm what's with the one guy with the giant head?

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sniper's dream

 

[the hypnotoad]

I like McDonald. I think he offers something different to Amartey & McLean (who each offer something different to McDonald as well.) More of a smooth-moving aerobic type, rather than a brute.

The three of them are perfect for the game we are playing at the minute.

If we like what Heeney, Warner & Gulden are doing (and I assume we all do?) then the way to maintain that is to not have a big power forward who will command the ball in the front half away from them.

Our forwards don't do this but rather work well to complement each other and the mids to give them ample opportunity, time and space to do their thing in.

As I commented earlier today, I think there's a chance this 'decoy' structure gets found out, and maybe then we're tested to see if we can rely on a forward to have a big game. But it's a pretty fool-proof structure that makes the chances of this happening very unlikely, and all three forwards have shown they can have big games on the odd occasion anyway.

It's great that Hamling's going well in the VFL and even better that we can leave him there and let him get better and better so that if the unfortunate happens and he's required, he'll be in the very best form possible.

we had one of them until very recently, and he was a very, very good one ... we seem to be doing pretty well without him

 

[Millky95]

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Probably one of my favourite stills from this year

 

[caesar88]

Probably one of my favourite stills from this year

Such a shame none of the photographers could get a proper snap of it. Unless they did and I missed it somewhere.

 

[coach beard]

In 2012 our midfield consisted of three blondes and one brunette.

In 2024 our midfield consists of three blondes and one brunette.

Flag is ours.

Prefer the comparison to 2005 personally, a ruckman from Melbourne won a flag in his first season with us

 

[bedford]

Do you ever feel bad tho for players that uproot their life to move and be stuck in the reserves?

NO , Port Melbourne to Albert Park , a tough walk past South Tec ferals

 

[The King!]

Do you ever feel bad tho for players that uproot their life to move and be stuck in the reserves?

It would be frustrating but think other people are doing it tougher

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Wonder if that goalpost snicko thing will be working.

 

[Kiama Chris]

Mate, that is just the BEST response.
Hanging out at Borat's place.

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Borat's sister demonstrating the latest kitchen accessories.

 

[KingV23]

Got a bad feeling about this week. Obviously hope I am wrong, but Crows being criticised from all angles, they will come out firing infront of a ferocious home crowd. The boys MUST turn up. I don't want to lose to these pricks.

 

[anotherletdown]

Got a bad feeling about this week. Obviously hope I am wrong, but Crows being criticised from all angles, they will come out firing infront of a ferocious home crowd. The boys MUST turn up. I don't want to lose to these pricks.

I've got a bad feeling too. Our win might not be big enough to improve our percentage... extra laps next week