Season over!

[dendol]

heh NMW. I was hoping you'd write me off and give me some reason to believe!

I WANT TO BELIEVE!!!

[NMWBloods]

So do I, but that loss has sapped any enthusiasm I had!

I'm really struggling to find positives, bright lights, silver linings, a way forward, etc.

I'm sure we'll look better in the dry, but that's about the best I can come up with at the moment!

I'm also trying a bit of reverse psychology - if I bag the team completely and say that we have no hope, then they'll prove me wrong!! Maybe...

[swans_premiers]

Look this time last year we had 1 more win and were 6th but our percentage is still better this year and we are yet to field a full strength team or hit great form.. Form can turn around very fast

[dendol]

Unfortunately, percentage doesnt get you into finals if you cant win enough games.

My enthusiasm is totally sapped as well. I walked out of the game a minute before the siren today, dropped my walkman (probably broke it) and left my friends to play kick to kick whilst I went home alone.

Last week I was enraged by umpires. This week it was our players.

[stellation]

The season is not over. I saw positives. I will put my head back in the sand.

[NMWBloods]

Name some positives.

Something to cling to might be useful!

[liz]

We can bag them all we like for effort but it comes down to confidence - or at the moment an absolute lack of it. That is confidence in their ability to use the ball properly, confidence in their team mates' likelihood of backing them up or to execute skills. That explains why we routinely have 2 or 3 (or sometimes even 4) players going for a contest, rather than talking to each other, allowing one to contest while the other stays on his feet to contest the spill or chase the opponent if it goes against us.

Today they played for themselves, not for each other - at least in the second half. What made us good last year was the team effort, not individual ones.

I am at a loss to understand why they have suddenly dropped their heads after a bright start to the season. Good luck to Roos in finding a way to turn it around.

[Go Swannies]

The game today was a waste of an afternoon. For us, the team and the ladder. Sure very few teams are playing with any consistent form (Port?) but we can take little comfort from that. We're consistent but unfortunately that's consistently bad. I said recently that the Geelong game was the worst the Swans have played since the Ainst game of 2002. Today was abysmal. It wasn't just that we played a bad game plan poorly but the whole team (Pebbles excepted) seemed to have no heart.

What is wrong? There has to either be a lot of players carrying injuries (and that I've suspected) or there is some major team division. Where is the always-at-the-ball Jude? When is the Tiger's blinding speed? What is is with Goodes walking (!!!!) while his man runs up the ground.

I'll be away for much of the later part of the season. I was planning on arriving back on the morning of the Grand Final. After today I think I'll go for a few days in Paris and Thailand instead.

Remember after the Brownlow when Ricciutto described the Swans as being like a band of brothers? Right now we have a seriously disfunctional family. The whole of Melbourne will just say they never had the skills. We know they have. But there is no team spirit right now - and there has to be a reason for the change. Any idea what it is?

I think I'm most annoyed because I've only got a few hours of joy out of the Pies' loss yesterday. On the way to the game the ticket collector at Central mumbled "any chance?" as I went through. I asked him to repeat and he said "Have the Swans got any chance today?" and I replied "If we don't win today I can't see when we next will. It's in the bag." Now I just can't see where we next will. If the team tried we could win at Subi. But what are the chances of that. The Hawks will see us as one of their few chances to win this year and will make the most of it. The Doggies kick like crap under pressure but I didn't see us apply much pressure today. The Aints? Then it's Port at home. AARGH.

Or maybe we should just let the AFL know we don't play in the rain? We can't play in the rain - so why should we?

I'm deeply deeply unhappy. Not that we lost but that we didn't try.

[Mike_B]

Originally posted by Go Swannies
Or maybe we should just let the AFL know we don't play in the rain? We can't play in the rain - so why should we?

Hmmm....have all our home games under the roof at the Telstra Dome??? I'm sure Charlie would like that one!

[Diego]

I have had a bad feeling since the geelong game. I dont need to explain how i feel.

Today it felt like may 02, not 04.

[silent lurker]

Originally posted by Jeffers1984
Great, our own Suzi Olsen

She'll be claiming that Daryn Cresswell is her cousin next.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Foreign Legion
Worst game we have played since we drew with St.Kilda at Colonial when they were at rock bottom. May as well be round 22 - what hope do we have next week at the WACA!

No hope at the WACA mate. But a chance at Subiaco.

Don't want to be going to the wrong ground. It's a bloody long and expensive trip over there, you know!

And oh joy, it seems that Perth is having a huge WET WEATHER spell at the moment. Just our luck.

JF

[Bear]

Having been at the last two games, and watched them on TV, we are not quite as bad (talent wise) as most are saying.

The players are really putting in. I have NO doubt about that.

There are 3 problems that are causing us to lose (and kick bugger-all goals):

THE GAME PLAN

THE GAME PLAN

THE GAME PLAN

You can either do things the easy way or you can do things the hard way. We are doing the latter by going via the coast to get a goal. Not only does our chipping along the boundary line cause a turnover after every 2nd or 3rd kick (ESPECIALLY IN THE WET!!) but it gives them space behind the ball to isolate their key forwards one-on-one on the turnover!!! Crazy!

I lay the blame fairly and squarly at the foot of the coach. From where I see the players are really putting in but pushing s*%t uphill.

Over to you Roos & Co.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Go Swannies
Or maybe we should just let the AFL know we don't play in the rain? We can't play in the rain - so why should we?

I know the idea, we approach the AFL to play all out home games at the Telstra Dome. Nice and dry and not a red football to be seen EVER.

At least our Melbourne members would be stop complaining for 5 minutes.

JF

[robbieando]

Originally posted by Bear
The players are really putting in. I have NO doubt about that.

I don't believe that for one minute. Yes, some players are putting in, but to me yesterday they just gave up when Richmond took back the lead in the last quarter. To me to kick 3 goals after quarter time is a performance that I just can't take. They have no passion or heart yesterday and frankly anyone who thinks we have the talent to win a premiership with the current team is kidding themselves. This loss to me is worse than anything the Swans served up in the early 90's