Swans V Adelaide

[Donners]

I spent most of that second half playing Snake on my phone. A win is a win, but our ruckmen were exposed badly at times. Doyle just doesn't seem good enough, and there's no other backups. King could carve us up next week.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by boroboy
Unbelievable. The amount of people on this list moaning after a win. Pull your heads in - if pretty football is all you're interested in then good luck to you - I'm just delighted with 4 points, a real run at the top four and 6 wins from the last 7.

Some of you didn't want to sing the song? Great - write to the club and tell them not to play it unless we win convincingly.

Honestly...positive criticism and discussion all welcome - but to pan the team after a win? You should be ashamed....

Utter bollocks mate. A win is a win, BUT just cruising in the second half and just going through the motions simply is not good enough for a club who would like to think that they have finals aspirations. I just hate it how the team does not remain intense for 4 quarters and bury poor sides rather than falling to their level.

I know however that they'll be far more motivated down at Sleep Hollow.

Footy is something that triggers the emotions. I was dissapointed in our second half. I think I have a right to feel that way.

JF

[monopoly19]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
Utter bollocks mate. A win is a win, BUT just cruising in the second half and just going through the motions simply is not good enough for a club who would like to think that they have finals aspirations. I just hate it how the team does not remain intense for 4 quarters and bury poor sides rather than falling to their level.

I know however that they'll be far more motivated down at Sleep Hollow.

Footy is something that triggers the emotions. I was dissapointed in our second half. I think I have a right to feel that way.

JF

I hardly think they were cruising. Had we kicked more accurately, the margain would have stretched a little further. Adelaide haven't had all that much success this year, but it doesn't make winning against them any easier, considering the position they are in. The Swans looked buggered at the end of the game, as did Adelaide. The conditions weren't great, but they managed to grind out a win against an unpredictable side. They may not have entertained you, but I don't think that was their main priority. They won.

[The Boot]

Originally posted by monopoly19
I hardly think they were cruising. ... The Swans looked buggered at the end of the game, as did Adelaide. The conditions weren't great, but they managed to grind out a win against an unpredictable side. They may not have entertained you, but I don't think that was their main priority. They won.

I'm with you monopoly19, and my view is that they didn't sing enthusiastically, for that reason alone - tremendous effort and every bit of energy expended. And the 4-points will keep the finals alive. Any game you drop at this stage is critical. Pretty footy? Who cares.

[TheHood]

Originally posted by The Boot
I'm with you monopoly19, and my view is that they didn't sing enthusiastically, for that reason alone - tremendous effort and every bit of energy expended. And the 4-points will keep the finals alive. Any game you drop at this stage is critical. Pretty footy? Who cares.

Yeah you do expend a lot of energy shutting a game down and just chasing, which is what we chose to do in the 2nd half.

I think we could have used that energy better using our attacking run in the 2nd half. I think we wilted a little under the Crows fierce pressure and let the scoreboard do the work for us.

There was no doubt about it, that was the ugliest win since Freo at the SCG in 2001. Swans supporters were leaving early to beat the traffic.

Baz had one touch in the second half I reckon.

I left uninspired and went to the Olympic to watch the come from behind Roos win which I found much more exciting. Especially because it holds Freo and bay for us.

[BAM_BAM]

I'm not sure about the group of players who went to the Noble end of the ground, but the 5 players (Pebbles, Willo, Fixter, Schneider) who came to our end of the game, looked downright p$ssed off. No smiles all just walking along with a few hand
claps.

They know what the performance was like. I didn't feel that enthused when singing the song either, but I still did.

(yes I know I only named 4, I just can't remember who the 5th was.)

[chammond]

Originally posted by The Boot
I'm with you monopoly19, and my view is that they didn't sing enthusiastically, for that reason alone - tremendous effort and every bit of energy expended. And the 4-points will keep the finals alive. Any game you drop at this stage is critical. Pretty footy? Who cares.

I'd have to agree with that. The Swans rarely play well in heavy conditions, and I think Roos was determined to come up with a strategy to ensure the four points.

We put the Crows down in the second quarter, then spent the rest of the match making damn sure they didn't get up again. It was a hard slog, and the players must have been totally knackered.

I couldn't care less that it wasn't pretty . . . the team was on a mission and carried it through. Many a Swans team of the past would have bottled out and lost that game.

Let's take the 4 points and move on.

Plus of course, it was good practice for next week's conditions

[Margie]

At times during the reserves game, the rain was pretty heavy. Hence the conditions were slippery and it was never going to be a free-flowing game. Plus the checking was tight from both sides.

Kirk was commendable once again and while a percentage boost would have been nice, as soon as I saw the weather yesterday, I gave up all hope of that happening.

We've had some tough matches with close wins and more to come. However, I don't believe the team gave up in the second half, but were exhausted. The Sun Herald described the game as "mind numbing" and said the crowd were "comatose", but I still sang the song and cheered the team off. A win is a win.

Went to the after match function for the first time in ages - might as well do that as sit in the carpark waiting to get out. It was fun - would love to know who were some of the RWOers there.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Margie
Went to the after match function for the first time in ages - might as well do that as sit in the carpark waiting to get out. It was fun - would love to know who were some of the RWOers there.

It was worse than ever last night. Whilst they were playing wanky songs inside, Roosey was being interviewed on the screens.

So several of us went out on to the patio to listen to what he had to say.

I'm fed up with after-matches not being about football. Like why in hell's name are we ever there for?

If we just had a screen to watch a replay of the match on, all the people who talk over the players when they are talking would get bored and leave.

And we'd get people wanting to talk about the game, not watch people playing celebrity head.

Why are Sydney people such airheads?

JF

[j0lly]

someoen said something about our midfield was lacking??

i thought that our midfield for once raped (if thats the right word) the crows midfield

but then i wouldnt know would i....i was already sloshed when i was watching the game!?

edit actually come to think aobut it i cant remember much of the game at all...except that we won and i was singing the song at the final siren,quite j0llily in the pub

[swansrule100]

this game was not as bad as some seem to think IMHO. I thought we showed something in rubbish conditons. I thought it allowed some players to run into some form. I think the swans almost got sick of the crows inability to make a match of it.

Who was the old grey haired gent playing for the swans? :P

[NMWBloods]

The conditions didn't seem so bad after half time. Didn't see a lot of people fall over and the ball didn't seem too slippery or waterlogged.

[Barry Schneider]

Originally posted by swansrule100
this game was not as bad as some seem to think IMHO. I thought we showed something in rubbish conditons. I thought it allowed some players to run into some form. I think the swans almost got sick of the crows inability to make a match of it.

Who was the old grey haired gent playing for the swans? :P

Kenny played quite well didn't he.

[penga]

Originally posted by Donners
but our ruckmen were exposed badly at times. Doyle just doesn't seem good enough, and there's no other backups. King could carve us up next week.

yes we could get killed by king next week, but biglands and clarke combined would have to be close to the best ruck setup in the league, apart from everitt going lone hand

[sharp9]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
Why oh why do we lower the level of our game when we play a poor opponent?

I think the point might be that poor opponents drag us down deliberately. We're good enough to still win (usually) but not good enough to break the midfield flooding tactics employed by inferior sides.

Anyone notice that inferior teams this year (at the time of playing them) have ALL done exactly the same thing TO us. Some commentators reckon we are deliberately playing this way. No, it is a mark of respect

Melbourne, Geelong, Richmond, Hawthorn, Bulldogs, Carlton, Collingwood, Adelaide...see the pattern?

When we play teams who rated themselves ABOVE us we have had a normal game (Brisbane, Freo, Roos, Port, West Coast, St. Kilda).....now do you see the pattern?

Some are saying we lack the killer instinct to smash lower teams.. No, the lower teams fear us and go in saying "the ONLY way we can win this is if we clog it up and stop Sydney's run....and then eke out a few goals ourselves."

What we lack is that little extra bit of class and speed which can break out regularly from this strangling stuff.

Geelong will play their own game next week. And we will beat them. In fact come the last quarter I reckon we will (for once) do the strangling of our own volition to hold onto a 30 point lead after a high scoring first 3/4. Well, that's my tip anyway.