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I'm probably about to offend a lot of people right now, but I'm feeling very depressed at the moment, after last night's "performance".
After last night's inadequate performance, I believe all the praise the Swans received following the Adelaide game is totally unacceptable.
Sure in Adelaide the Swans got back into the game and almost won it. But 2 games in a row doing the same thing is just not on. I think last night's game shows that the Swans are not anywhere near being able to challenge the best. Almost always, whenever a team goes into half time with a decent lead, they relax, and let the opposition into the game. This is what happened in both of these games.
I think these games show that when the contest is there to be won, the Swans are way off the pace. Once the game is all but over, they stage some sort of a comeback. It wasn't good enough last week and it wasnt good enough this week.
All this is very distressing. A few of us noticed that the mishandling of the ball cost us badly last week, but were willing to overlook it as the team seemed to fight back strongly to almost win. It was this same fumbling, as well as shocking disposal and playing from behind (e.g. Leo against Rawlings, who took 3 marks inside the forward 50 in the 1st quarter), that cost us the game last night. These issues have slowly been creeping into the team's games over the last month or so. Bad, but short, periods during the Freo and Carlton games have now become bad quarters and bad halves of the games against Adelaide and Hawthorn.
Now for some more individual player bashing.
Saddington is woeful. At least he took some marks last night. But his disposal is disgraceful. I called for hime to play on the wing, and he did. He got the ball a few times, but my responses went from "Go Saddo" to "Oh no, Saddington, you are a goose"
If Roos is to pull through with his 3 year premiership plan, then guys like Stevens, Matthews and Nicks have to go, coz these types of players will never be good enough to win a premiership for this team, although I'd be more than happy for them to prove me wrong.
Kennelly has now been pinged almost once per game for the same holding the ball infringement where he lies on the ball and thumps the ground. What the...?
PLEASE give O'keefe more game time.
PLEASE teach Hall how to mark. And it wasnt just him. The whole team seemed to want to drop marks last night, including a sitter by Willo.
And finally, PLEASE Schneider get fitter, coz he was the only one out there in the first quarter who looked like doing anything.
I think I've offended enough people now. And since I've got that out of my system, I'll try and be more positive for the rest of the week.
After last night's inadequate performance, I believe all the praise the Swans received following the Adelaide game is totally unacceptable.
Sure in Adelaide the Swans got back into the game and almost won it. But 2 games in a row doing the same thing is just not on. I think last night's game shows that the Swans are not anywhere near being able to challenge the best. Almost always, whenever a team goes into half time with a decent lead, they relax, and let the opposition into the game. This is what happened in both of these games.
I think these games show that when the contest is there to be won, the Swans are way off the pace. Once the game is all but over, they stage some sort of a comeback. It wasn't good enough last week and it wasnt good enough this week.
All this is very distressing. A few of us noticed that the mishandling of the ball cost us badly last week, but were willing to overlook it as the team seemed to fight back strongly to almost win. It was this same fumbling, as well as shocking disposal and playing from behind (e.g. Leo against Rawlings, who took 3 marks inside the forward 50 in the 1st quarter), that cost us the game last night. These issues have slowly been creeping into the team's games over the last month or so. Bad, but short, periods during the Freo and Carlton games have now become bad quarters and bad halves of the games against Adelaide and Hawthorn.
Now for some more individual player bashing.
Saddington is woeful. At least he took some marks last night. But his disposal is disgraceful. I called for hime to play on the wing, and he did. He got the ball a few times, but my responses went from "Go Saddo" to "Oh no, Saddington, you are a goose"
If Roos is to pull through with his 3 year premiership plan, then guys like Stevens, Matthews and Nicks have to go, coz these types of players will never be good enough to win a premiership for this team, although I'd be more than happy for them to prove me wrong.
Kennelly has now been pinged almost once per game for the same holding the ball infringement where he lies on the ball and thumps the ground. What the...?
PLEASE give O'keefe more game time.
PLEASE teach Hall how to mark. And it wasnt just him. The whole team seemed to want to drop marks last night, including a sitter by Willo.
And finally, PLEASE Schneider get fitter, coz he was the only one out there in the first quarter who looked like doing anything.
I think I've offended enough people now. And since I've got that out of my system, I'll try and be more positive for the rest of the week.
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