Woeful

[midaro]

We were bad, they were as bad.

If it had've been soccer it would've been a nil all draw.

Nothing to get excited about.

[hardluck_harry]

If the alternative is to play brilliant and lose, nah, I take a win any day.

[monopoly19]

Re: Woeful

Originally posted by midaro
We were bad, they were as bad.

If it had've been soccer it would've been a nil all draw.

Nothing to get excited about.

Are you serious? We won by a point! That's the most excited I've been in ages.

Why be a supporter if you're not even happy when we win?

[undy]

Re: Woeful

Originally posted by midaro
We were bad, they were as bad.

If it had've been soccer it would've been a nil all draw.

Nothing to get excited about.

Bllody hell - nothing to get excited about ! Did you just sit in your seat and yawn when that siren went off (what a long quarter).

Earlier on when Sam Mitchell hand-balled a rushed behind under no pressure I had thought AND said "hope we win by a point". Very sweet, although in retrospect a larger margin would be good.

[ugg]

Yes we were bad and if we had played any other side I reckon we would have been smashed. But a win is a win and you have to take them as they come.

[stellation]

Harumph on you midaro

I enjoyed the game.

[midaro]

Re: Re: Woeful

Originally posted by monopoly19
Why be a supporter if you're not even happy when we win?

Wow. I have no idea how to answer that. Inertia I guess?
Good point.

I just have this thing where I'd like to see the Swans win a flag before I die - it's kinda on my to do list.

Playing that badly - no matter what the result - simply reinforces to me, that it isn't gonna happen this year or anytime soon.

When I watch us play I ask myself if I could see each player in a premiership team; and the answer is no for so many: Mathews Crouch Ablett Fosdike Warfe Nicks JBolton (as an important midfielder anyway)

And then there are those who are too old to win a flag with the Swans: Maxfield Williams Ball

I just have a horrible feeling we're gonna win our next spoon before our next flag. That's a feeling I've had for probably 24 of 27 years supporting the Swans, and I hate it.

[NMWBloods]

I tend to agree with Midaro. I win is better than a loss for sure, but it was hardly great.

There were perhaps a couple of small positives, but not a lot - Buchanan doing quite well in clearances and tackles; Saddington showing some reasonable form early; patches of good form by Kennelly and Barry; good games by Kirk, Crouch, Hall, O'Keefe and Williams again.

Nothing great though, except for 4 points.

[stellation]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Saddington showing some reasonable form early

Only reasonable? He had 9 touches to 1/4 time. Seemed (to me, I could be wrong) that he died out as he started to have to do more ruck work, which is fair enough (if I am correct).

[Barry Schneider]

The way we have been going I'll take a "woeful" win any day of the week over a loss.
How well did leaping Leo play.Williams has been the Hawks best player but Leo held him to 1? posession plus ran like a mad man out of defence.
Tadhg also ran a bit more.
Handballing to players under pressure is frustrating the hell out of me.

[Bron]

Bah humbug!

You are so negative.

Why would you support a team if you don't even savour the wins!

[Captain]

Bloody hell people come out with some crap.

We finally won a close game. Get excited!

We have hardly been in the best of form recently so to expect to beat Hawthorn by 10 goals is silly. To win after a Perth road trip and play ourselves into form is great.

This will be the start of something. If we can beat the Dogs next week, I reckon we have a great chance of knocking off the Saints. If we do that, I hope a few of you downers come out and eat humble pie.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by stellation
Only reasonable? He had 9 touches to 1/4 time. Seemed (to me, I could be wrong) that he died out as he started to have to do more ruck work, which is fair enough (if I am correct).

Reasonable in that a lot of our possessions were easy, uncontested ones (we had 100 in the first qtr!!).

He spent quite a bit of time in the ruck and did okay against the huge Robert Campbell.

[NMWBloods]

Sure, it's great to get a win but let's put it in some perspective.

We fell over the line by 1 pt at home against one of the worst sides in the competition and we were goalless for nearly half the game. Hardly points towards a great return to form.

[Ruda Wakening]

Well i think it's all positive because Hawthorn regardless of their table status, have proven to be a major headache to Sydney in the past.