A nervous Tom Bally forecast a close game with The Enemy on a ground increasingly unsuited to Sydney’s style of play. He now predicts a coaching career isn’t on the cards for him anytime soon.
AFL Round 10 – Sydney v Essendon: Sydney strong, Goodes good.
June 2, 2013 by 1 Comment
The upsetting week in footy prompts Rod Oaten to remember one of the VFL’s earliest Aboriginal players as he watches the Swans do battle with his Dons in rainy Tinsel Town.
AFL Round 10 Preview: Wilburrrrr
May 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Sal Ciardulli took a look this week at which clubs (not including the new teams) are playing the most kids with 50 games or less. After Melbourne and the Dogs comes…Hawthorn. Worryingly for Richmond fans, they are fielding less new players than all but Sydney.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: Madam, I’m Adam
May 30, 2013 by 11 Comments
Adam Goodes rose above this one-sided romp like a colossus not once, but twice, on a night in which he unintentionally wrested the AFL reconciliation baton from another great indigenous player, Nicky Winmar, 20 years after he lifted his jumper to the Collingwood Social Club.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney (Haiku Bob): start of nothing
May 30, 2013 by 3 Comments
Haiku Bob on Round 9.
AFL Round 9: The 2013 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup
May 30, 2013 by 10 Comments
Earl O’Neill asks which one is the real Ed? Does the real Ed even exist?
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: Starting the mower
May 29, 2013 by 1 Comment
Sydney’s performance on Friday night seemed all too familiar to Don Meadows. Until then, the Swans’ season had been like the first mow of the new growing season. Lots of cough and splutter, the motor occasionally catching. On Friday, the Swans finally roared into life and mowed down the Magpies.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: The Egyptian Curse
May 29, 2013 by 5 Comments
Lou Richards may have buried the Colliwobbles at Victoria Park in 1990, but a new curse has been placed at the ground and, on Friday night’s performance, it looks like it has worked.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: A long way from Victoria Park
May 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Swans fan Keiran Croker wanders past Victoria Park – remembering the time he saw South Melbourne break a 20-year drought at the ground – on his way to the MCG. No matter the time or place, the sweet feeling of beating the Pies remains.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: A much needed win
May 27, 2013 by 2 Comments
Swans fan Tom Bally felt uneasy leading into this game – and that was before the bus broke down on the way to the G. What he saw over four quarters had him thinking of September.
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney (Floreat Pica): Pies fans under attack
May 27, 2013 by 7 Comments
Pies fan Andrew Fithall copped a ribbing from a Swans supporter for the first time in his life following the Freo match two weeks ago. [On their current trajectory, he may need to get used to it – Ed.]
AFL Round 9 – Collingwood v Sydney: Acceptance under the May full moon
May 26, 2013 by 5 Comments
Can Buddhists be competitive asks E. Regnans? Full moon or no full moon?
The elusive role that culture plays in a club’s success
May 24, 2013 by 3 Comments
There’s something that can’t be bottled, defined or imitated with the elusive thing that is culture, and that’s where the beauty lies, writes Sean Curtain,
AFL Round 8 – Sydney v Fremantle: Kirky’s homecoming
May 22, 2013 by 5 Comments
The Premiership quarter was the Turnover quarter for the red and white, writes Mathilde de Hauteclocque, who was forced to turn to the Footy Record for entertainment during dour periods of the game.
AFL Round 8 – Sydney v Fremantle: Dockers, Swans show their mettle
May 21, 2013 by 3 Comments
Malcolm Allbrook expects both Fremantle and Sydney to figure prominently in September after this hard- fought, tight encounter.
AFL Round 8: The 2013 ‘Mopsy’ Fraser Cup
May 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Can someone warn Terry Daniher that Earl O’Neill is looking for him. He has a score to settle from the 1920s when Terry’s granddad gave Earl’s a broken nose in an interstate carnival.
AFL Round 8 – Sydney v Fremantle: Draw your own conclusions
May 19, 2013 by 2 Comments
The Swans need to find their hunger. They are vulnerable to fast ball movement and skills errors are proving costly.
AFL Round 7- Hawthorn v Sydney: Pleasure and pain
May 15, 2013 by 1 Comment
This game was not one to enrich a rivalry, but only time will tell whether it highlighted a Hawthorn maturing above the necks or Sydney as a team showing the first signs of rheumatoid arthritis.
AFL Round 7 – Hawthorn v Sydney: Revenge
May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Young Cody Lane develops a serious sense of satisfaction as his Hawks do the job against the premiers.
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