Sydney Vs St Kilda

Sydney 12.10(82) def St Kilda 9.11 (65)

This was first game I have attended in Sydney this year so it was exciting to finally get to game. Here are some thoughts:

• Not a good spectacle
• I took a non footy fan friend along to this game and I was feeling for him as it was a difficult for me to watch, some one who was actually interested in the result. You hear some fans get frustrated at the way Sydney plays, and I feel their frustration but I think a lot of it comes from a lack of knowledge about how the game works. St Kilda was doing so hard core flooding and neither team could get much drive from their half back line. So what do you expect a player to do when he sees no space in front of him in which his forwards could lead yet luckily there is someone available short due to the flood or someone free for a switch. Gone are the days of just booting it long to a pack and hoping for someone to pull down a mark or at worst force a stoppage
  
• Goals from dodgey frees
• I feel I am able to take my parochial glasses off and talk about umpires from a relatively neutral position. St Kilda kicked 9 goals and I can say that at least four of them were a direct result of dodgey free kicks. They didn't work hard for them at all. You cannot touch Nick Riewoldt because he must be considered a protected species. He's the new Matthew Lloyd where the slightest graze of his jumper results in a whistle and a free kick.
  
• The Pink Ladies
• I arrived to see the pink silhouette on the field. It was a sight to behold. I'm usually a bit adverse to the colour pink but for this cause it is ok to wear pink. For my game we wore pink armbands while another team in my comp had pink jerseys made. It's a big deal as it is hard to find someone that hasn't been in some way affected by breast cancer.