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... A whole new ball game - AFL - Sport - smh.com.au NEWS register www.smh.com.au Home » Sport » AFL » Article A whole new ball game Email Print Normal font Large font Red alert … the Swans have consigned last year's flag to history as senior players such as co-captain Barry Hall, below left, stress their focus is all about the new season.Photo: Bob Pearce April 1, 2006 The Swans have consigned last year's title to history with the focus firmly on this season, writes Richard Hinds.

THE words vary slightly but the answer is always the same.

Ask a Sydney Swan to reminisce about last year's grand final and you soon find the red-and-white curtain has descended.

That, in the unusually robotic words of Barry Hall, "our minds are on this year's challenge".

Typical of players whose incredible discipline last year extended to being deliberately, almost relentlessly bland with the media, such sentiments have become club mantra.

"We're just looking at 2006 now," Michael O'Loughlin tells you straight off the bat.

"It's all about this year now," is Lewis Roberts-Thomson's opening line.

The message to stop celebrating and start working has become ...

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