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7 hours ago, Nasher said:

Well, I had a crap day.  The footy sucked. Blundstone Arena sucks.  How good is it that there are seats where it's physically impossible for 7 year olds to see? And which quarter would you like to miss while you get food? Such a [censored] game day experience.

Then Demonland crashed after the game.  Brilliant!

I totally agree about Blundstone Nasher.  We flew down from Canberra, and our reserved seating was abysmal.  Three rows back and it almost seemed like we were sitting below the horizon.  Half of our group migrated to the standing room area to get a bit of elevation so that we could actually watch what was happening on the field, and the rest of us watched most of the game on the large screen immediately behind us. You would need 20/20 vision to see anything meaningful on the small screen opposite, and even then I reckon you would struggle.  Very disappointing, and not up to standard as an AFL venue.

Yeah, and we played crap as well.

Needless to say, we were not a happy group as we left one carpark, only to join another one for what must have been an hour because some traffic lights were malfunctioning and there were no coppers on duty establish any sort of order in proceedings.

Anyway, at least we didn't have to go home and implement a 'recovery plan' to get Demonland back on line.  Many thanks for your efforts on that front!

Oh, and congratulations on your outstanding weather forecasting prowess.  Far better than the BOM, and it came with a guarantee several days out IIRC.

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    I just finally got to the point of being able to come on here (needed a good 24 hours to wallow). Turns out I didn't miss much!

    Thanks for your efforts as always. Could definitely have happened at a worse time.

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    5 hours ago, Deeoldfart said:

    I totally agree about Blundstone Nasher.  We flew down from Canberra, and our reserved seating was abysmal.  Three rows back and it almost seemed like we were sitting below the horizon.  Half of our group migrated to the standing room area to get a bit of elevation so that we could actually watch what was happening on the field, and the rest of us watched most of the game on the large screen immediately behind us. You would need 20/20 vision to see anything meaningful on the small screen opposite, and even then I reckon you would struggle.  Very disappointing, and not up to standard as an AFL venue.

    Yeah, and we played crap as well.

    Needless to say, we were not a happy group as we left one carpark, only to join another one for what must have been an hour because some traffic lights were malfunctioning and there were no coppers on duty establish any sort of order in proceedings.

    Anyway, at least we didn't have to go home and implement a 'recovery plan' to get Demonland back on line.  Many thanks for your efforts on that front!

    Oh, and congratulations on your outstanding weather forecasting prowess.  Far better than the BOM, and it came with a guarantee several days out IIRC.

    I got caught in that traffic too deeoldfart,  traffic lights flashing Amber all around the ground , took me an hour to move about 500 metres.... Flashbacks of VFL Park with 80,000!

    Shocking game day experience all round! 

     

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    Watched the game a couple of Suburbs away and decided to aggressively walk home and check out the demonland post game thread. The showers started as soon as I stepped out the door. The rain steadily increased and by the time I rounded my Street corner it was torrential, people took shelter under shop fronts and I suspect I looked a bit of a goose in my dress shorts and a shirt as I power walked back into the wind and rain. I was punishing myself and was almost enjoying it. I arrived home, dripping wet, put the key in the gate and the rain stopped, I looked in the direction the weather comes from and there it was, blue sky, "yeah fn right" I said to myself and had to chuckle. My mood was lifted, demonland was down and I spent the rest of the arvo and evening feeling not too bad!

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    Was pretty weird not being able to [censored]. I feel like even demonland was disgusted by what we all saw.

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