vs the Hawks

[bloodhound]

Even though I feel that our first half last week warrants a real good shake up for the medium to long term good of the club, I still think that the swans can beat the hawks convincingly this week !
The hawks have been playing rather bad football by all accounts, and are missing Holland and Thomson. The Swans havn't got the required personel to challenge for a premeirship yet, but they should account for Hawthorn by 18 points.

[motorace_182]

According to swans.com we are playing Port. Poor website
And the photo is covering some of the writing. All because of an oversized add.

we can win, just like any other game. Providing we perform. We still have a large sized injury list for round 3. They are coming off an all round bad performance while we are coming off two fairly good quaters, hopefully a good game

[Angelic Upstart]

I'm worried that Hawthorn will be all fired up after their poor form. That's what happened with Adelaide who bounced back from a bad game against St Kilda. There's been a lot of media coverage this week about how Hawthorn have been stung by all the criticism they've got for their slow start and how they're keen to prove a point.

Hopefully the Swans too will be fired up after their pathetic game last week, but this is a danger game for us.

[Cheer Cheer]

I'll tell you what I'm worried about this week against hawthorn more than anything - Its the players going in TOO hard to atone for last week and we get 2 or 3 players suspended.
I have heard comments like the players are filthy with themselves, the coach has got stuck into them etc, so I am worried that the players are really going to try to make a big statement against hawthorn and some players may be to "eager"
and get themselves suspended, not what we need with a sizeable injury list.