Half time views?

[NMWBloods]

Anyone have thoughts on the game to half time?

Mine are that we look crap. It's lucky we are playing a very ordinary side because we look @@@@house. We are nearly a third of the way through the H&A season and we still look like we are trying to get our game going. At this rate we are just going to remain a middle-ranked also-ran.

[midaro]

Bevan looks jinxed after all the wraps this week. Flailing aimlessly

Buchannon looks like he can find the ball alright... I'm going to put those early HBs down to nerves.

Saddo looks good when forward, sould've been in the goal square that quarter to contest a few of thos Richmond marks.

Overall we look the much better team. We just need to get the score on the board.

[ugg]

We better pick it up in the 2nd half, because if the Tigers get a sniff with Richo in good form we could be in some trouble. Too many mistakes, I don't know how many cutesy little kicks and chips that have not found its mark. I say stick Saddo back at CHF where he was looking good.

[dawson]

If it was the Lions playing the Tigers at the Gabba they would be up now by 15 goals.

The fact that we are up by just 8 points is a disgrace.

Wrong options! Poor skills! Hopeless delivery to our forwards!

Maybe if we put the Richmond defenders in Swans jumpers we would have a chance!

[NMWBloods]

BTW - I notice that Ch 9 are now using two of my favourite stats - I50s/goal and disposals/I50!! Must be reading my previews!!

[ugg]

O'Keefe finding a lot of the ball, if only he could use it just a bit better. Hall is getting mobbed by a number of Tigers at the moment.

[Red]

Can't disagree with any of those sentiments NMW.

We've dominated posession, but turned it over I45 almost every single time in Q2, which is unacceptable even given the amount of flooding that Richmond are doing. Disposals are abysmal -- esp. to Bazza. Our defence look like pygmies (where the #$%@ is Schauble anyway?!). We've gone down the corridor only about half-a-dozen times so far, but to little effect. Kirk, Jude & Goodes are relatively quiet.

Not good. We look more like the Swans of 2001-2002 than 2003.

[midaro]

Boy, do we need Schauble.

[NMWBloods]

We look crap - this is reminding more and more of 1997!!

[midaro]

Most of the game, I've just been waiting for us to get our act together, and kick away.

Now, with the heavy rain and the inability to score with the wind - we could lose this

[NMWBloods]

Nice goal to Hall. The plan for the wet game is so simple and easy - crash and bash it forward, and kick it long to our forward line where we are much bigger. Instead we p!!ss around with it, short kicking and handballing, which leads to lots of fumbles and turnovers. Why is it that our guys are less sure with the wet ball than Richmond?!?

Jeezus - 6th goal to Richo!!!

[Foreign Legion]

We can't play in the bloody wet - plain and simple.

Worst team in the comp and we look like getting beaten.

Jude Bolton would be playing the worst game I have ever seen him play - maybe time for a run in the 2's.

[NMWBloods]

Jude Bolton has been crap for the past three games and only ordinary before that. Looks like he decided one year was enough for him to play well!!

He has just demonstrated perfectly then (11 min) how poor he is going - did not even make a contest with Chaffey who took a good mark to stop our run forward.

[Charlie]

There's a few players and a coach who are spending a lot of their brownie points at the moment.

Roosy - I KNOW you can coach. But why aren't you doing it the way you did last year? You know, the way that put us a quarter away from a Grand Final?

[midaro]

You know, I don't think Roosy's smart enough to be coach.



But seriously, he dosen't seem to have many tricks.