Wet Rain

Top4King · Post: # 600836Post **Top4King** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 9:13am

make sure that we all put our red weather gear on tonight because it's going to be wetter than blue whale ..
the question is, is it a good thing?

saintsrus · Post: # 600837Post **saintsrus** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 9:16am

Wow when was wet rain invented

Top4King · Post: # 600838Post **Top4King** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 9:18am

saintsrus wrote:Wow when was wet rain invented

who knows.

.. just going to be very poor conditions tonight one feels.

jonesy · Post: # 600844Post **jonesy** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:24am

Radar looks fairly reasonable to me,won't be much if anything left by this arvo. So no excuse for the new range of sushi eating theatre going generation of saints fans to not be there. I want to hear some noise tonight,but the way our fans are these days I expect there to be about 10K of us there and 40 of them

saintbrat · Post: # 600848Post **saintbrat** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:36am

layers - and preparation the key

Love the rain- water storages are still diminishing

but the saints need to play everywhere-- I have been retaping some old games

dal's 50th was just a little damp- and we won that. Ok it was 4 years ago.

Top4King · Post: # 600851Post **Top4King** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:48am

jonesy wrote:Radar looks fairly reasonable to me,won't be much if anything left by this arvo. So no excuse for the new range of sushi eating theatre going generation of saints fans to not be there. I want to hear some noise tonight,but the way our fans are these days I expect there to be about 10K of us there and 40 of them

is that so jonesy?

rain may not be a bad thing.
rain would assist the experienced players you would think and rain would be a good thing in my opinion.
even if there is no rain the conditions will still be very very soft and greasy.

saintbrat wrote:layers - and preparation the key

Love the rain- water storages are still diminishing

but the saints need to play everywhere-- I have been retaping some old games

dal's 50th was just a little damp- and we won that. Ok it was 4 years ago.

i like the way you think saintbrat

thermals
wollen socks
leather shoes
a pair of jocks
a pair of boxers
slim tracky-racks tucked into wollen socks
baggy tracky-racks over the top
t-shirt tucked into slim trackys
t-shirt tucked into baggy trackys
jumper
overcoat
jacket
scarf
beany
gloves

= 15 layers

EDIT: plus a garbage bag = 16 layers in total

your momma · Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:50am

i remember the qualifying final against Sydney at the G, was watching it bak yesterday..

the ground was wet, it showered every now and then.
we played one of our best footy for the year, Frasier kicked 6, Milne kicked 4...although finals can be unpredictable.

sydney the week before played a wet game against WC and won that, being the favourites against the saints the following week.

i guess having the help of some small players who r advantaged in wet weather, Powell, Thompson and Aussie.

well just saying, i feel confident for a wet game at the G, and to make it that carlton havent beaten us for now...8 years

Top4King · Post: # 600853Post **Top4King** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:52am

exactly,

wet/dry..

.. it doesn't really matter.

i think i read that we have beaten them the last nine times played, rain would simply increase the margin.

your momma · Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:53am

plus...we kicked a centurary (with the help of Frasiers 92+6 goals)

important to storm infront early in the game. i think it was like sydney - 52 - Saints - 106

Top4King · Post: # 600856Post **Top4King** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 10:54am

yeah!

three or four in the first quarter and again in the second and third should be enough to see them off.

saintboy · Post: # 600909Post **saintboy** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 1:36pm

What's up with the "Wet Rain" title???? Im pretty sure i knew that rain was wet already!!

saintspremiers · Fri 11 Jul 2008 2:15pm

saintboy wrote:What's up with the "Wet Rain" title???? Im pretty sure i knew that rain was wet already!!

You can get Acid Rain, but that was trendy many years ago before Climate Change and Sustainability became trendy...

saintsRrising · Fri 11 Jul 2008 2:21pm

saintsrus wrote:Wow when was wet rain invented

Yeh...I think they call the other stuff snow and hail

Lennon · Post: # 600951Post **Lennon** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 2:30pm

So dry rain's a bit like dry ice, yeah?

GrumpyOne · Post: # 600965Post **GrumpyOne** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 2:41pm

Come in out of the rain. You'll get soaking dry out there.

saintboy · Post: # 600966Post **saintboy** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 2:41pm

I think it is??

Top4King · Post: # 601054Post **Top4King** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 4:37pm

3:30pm some four hours until start time and I'm pumped!

Four hours of leave should see the surface firm up a bit if we dont get any more rain. Just on the subject, and jonesy may have been correct with his forecast. Appears that the rain has moved over at least for now and that the surface will be dead, yet firming.

saintsRrising · Fri 11 Jul 2008 5:00pm

Mainly blue skies at present....

So will still be very cold as the heat will escape without couds to hold it in.

But without rain the standard of the game should now be pretty good.

saintbrat · Post: # 601082Post **saintbrat** » Fri 11 Jul 2008 5:07pm

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR023.loop.shtml

radar as of now

and what maybe coming in from wider view

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR02 ... =true#skip

saintspremiers · Fri 11 Jul 2008 5:27pm

latest forecast from bom is in (updated 4.20pm):

MINIMUM FORECAST TEMP FOR MELBOURNE IS 6 DEGREES TONIGHT!!!

Melbourne Forecast
Issued at 4:20 pm EST on Friday 11 July 2008

Warning Summary
Nil.

Forecast for Friday evening
A few showers, mainly over eastern suburbs, clearing later tonight. Moderate to
fresh westerly wind, easing and tending northwesterly.

Precis: Becoming fine.

Forecast for Saturday
Cloud increasing with a shower or two developing later in the day, mainly in the
south. Light northwesterly winds becoming moderate northerly and freshening.

Precis: Late shower or two.
City: Min 6 Max 13