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2019 Premiers

A few years ago there was a fear that the whole push to unfairly stack the GWS on and off the field was timed just when we started to show some promise. We finally get good and have to face the ever-AFLresourced giants.
Last week’s narrative of GWS being ‘underdogs’ was as insult. Sure, we were favourites. But we were also the underdogs. Built the team and culture in the most compromises of drafts. I was one of the salties - we deserved priority picks. Benny Gale shut me up and I couldn’t be more elated about being wrong.
Sheedy of course had to trot out the bs that he did, but the comments he made were applicable to us, not GWS - WE are the greatest story in the history of the AFL. The giants making the grand final with all of their resourcing belongs under D for well, DUH! Fill a club with everything and of course they’ll be good.
Tigers did it the hard way. Managed the finances, off field staff, playing list with no hand outs - in fact we’re one of the clubs that helps supports other clubs with the equalisation fund. Sheedy’s next comments about Pickett (‘dangerous, disrespectful selection’) was probably an in joke to Dimma, who probably had a chuckle because it’s exactly the sort of pick Sheedy would have made himself.

For the self-resourced traditional club to smash the privileged giants at this precise time and after the adversity we faced through the season IS one of the greatest stories ever in this game, despite the media bile that’s been spewed at us. Fans of bombers, pies and blues might hate us and were barracking for giants. But the reality is that we were playing for them too. Giants will eventually win one. The AFL will make sure of it. But this victory is one for the real fans and even one for Tassie.

The plastic giants faced the true awakened giant and got squashed like a bug.

I love this club.

GO TIGERS!!
 
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I sat on L4, but pushed into the cheersquad area with 10 minutes to go to soak it all up. take a look at these beauties.


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For those at the game, how did the crowd split seem ? If it was was a prelim we would have had probably 95% of the crowd.
 
French Tiger said:
For those at the game, how did the crowd split seem ? If it was was a prelim we would have had probably 95% of the crowd.
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Maybe 60% of the tigers.

I was sitting in a GWS bay at the PRE and there was maybe 25% tigers in the bay.

I have only nice things to say about the GWS crowd. They stayed right to the end and I think were happy to soak up the atmosphere.
 
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TigerFlag2017 said:
Maybe 60% of the tigers.

I was sitting in a GWS bay at the PRE and there was maybe 25% tigers in the bay.

I have only nice things to say about the GWS crowd. They stayed right to the end and I think were happy to soak up the atmosphere.
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I have know idea tbh but it seemed more than that. I was in a GWS Bay in the Olympic stand and there was not one speck of orange in it.

Also couldn’t see any orange in the top level of the southern stand - looked all tigers.

Giants had 4 bays behind the goals at the city end and a couple of bays near the goals at the punt road end and a few others sprinkled around but not much else.

I reckon the placement of their bays near both the goals was a deliberate strategy by the AFL to make it look more even that it actually was. Watching the replay seemed to give that impression also.

Before and after the game outside the ground it was mostly tigers - hardly saw any orange tbh.
 
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TigerFlag2017 said:
Maybe 60% of the tigers.

I was sitting in a GWS bay at the PRE and there was maybe 25% tigers in the bay.

I have only nice things to say about the GWS crowd. They stayed right to the end and I think were happy to soak up the atmosphere.
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The way they applauded their second and third goal when they were getting smashed on the scoreboard, shows they were pretty happy to be there despite the thrashing.
 
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French Tiger said:
For those at the game, how did the crowd split seem ? If it was was a prelim we would have had probably 95% of the crowd.
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I was first level up afl members , I would say it was 70% Richmond, 5% gws, rest neutrals who may have cheered for gws if they were doing better, but just sat quietly .
 
Take away MCC it had to be 75% Tigers. Lucky to be 8% GWS. That'd be 8000 supporters which sounds right considering they couldn't sell half their membership tickets.
 
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year of the tiger said:
I have know idea tbh but it seemed more than that. I was in a GWS Bay in the Olympic stand and there was not one speck of orange in it.

Also couldn’t see any orange in the top level of the southern stand - looked all tigers.

Giants had 4 bays behind the goals at the city end and a couple of bays near the goals at the punt road end and a few others sprinkled around but not much else.

I reckon the placement of their bays near both the goals was a deliberate strategy by the AFL to make it look more even that it actually was. Watching the replay seemed to give that impression also.

Before and after the game outside the ground it was mostly tigers - hardly saw any orange tbh.
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Agree with all of that, but you need to take into account the MCC and AFL members
 
Anyone else suspicious how in two grand finals the attendance is magically 20-odd above 100,000?
 
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Some respect for the GWS fans. They stayed through to the end and kept cheering their team despite being so far behind. Quite passionate as well.
 
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French Tiger said:
For those at the game, how did the crowd split seem ? If it was was a prelim we would have had probably 95% of the crowd.
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The Giants CEO said they would have 10000 at the game which was probably right. The other 90% were Tigers or neutrals but I would have thought 70% plus were tiger supporters.
We made the noise of plenty more
 
I was Q deck in southern stand. My feeling re crowd was 70% Tigers 10 % giants and 20% neutral ...probably NOT going for us as someone posted, but had nothing to make noise about. Yeah...amazing how that crowd just sneaks over the 100K line.
There were a bunch of empty seats (~40-50?) all day on the lower deck in the Ponsford...that looked like a ticketek screw-up
 
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