Is Brett Allison still our goalkicking coach???

[Charlie]

If so, enough's enough. **** kicking has just cost us a Grand Final. Time to go, Brett.

[ScottH]

Re: Is Brett Allison still our goalkicking coach???

Originally posted by Charlie
If so, enough's enough. **** kicking has just cost us a Grand Final. Time to go, Brett.

Can't be all his fault

[ugg]

Isn't he a runner and part time coach of the reserves? You can't expect the man to do everything

[NMWBloods]

I thought it was general kicking.

As Schwass said - "the tempo went up and the Swans' skills fell away."

[Charlie]

I did ask *if* he's goalkicking coach.

If he is, then clearly he's doing something wrong. In the time that he has had the role, we've seen Nick Davis and Adam Schneider go from being 70-80% converters to jagging the occasional happy snap. We've seen Amon Buchanan wilt in front of goal too many times to count. Ryan O'Keefe and Barry Hall are now very unreliable.

This isn't good enough. It cost us the game tonight, and any credible chance at a premiership. Something must change.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
I thought it was general kicking.

As Schwass said - "the tempo went up and the Swans' skills fell away."

Yeah, it was. But kicking for goal is a distinct skill in itself - and it was even worse tonight.

[ugg]

Bring back Plugger!!!

[ScottH]

Originally posted by ugg
Bring back Plugger!!!

LMAO

[Bexl]

Originally posted by Charlie
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It cost us the game tonight, and any credible chance at a premiership. [/B]

It did not cost Sydney the chance at this years premiership.
We are still right in it.In fact I think that todays game showed that Sydney can beat Adelaide any where that we might play them in the finals.
We do need to kick better at goal and we should win.
Our kicking for goal has got better over the last 10 weeks compaired to the start of the year and I think tonights game was just a bad one that is gone now. So hopfully we get back to good kicking for the rest of the year.

[liz]

Originally posted by Bexl
It did not cost Sydney the chance at this years premiership.
We are still right in it.In fact I think that todays game showed that Sydney can beat Adelaide any where that we might play them in the finals.
We do need to kick better at goal and we should win.
Our kicking for goal has got better over the last 10 weeks compaired to the start of the year and I think tonights game was just a bad one that is gone now. So hopfully we get back to good kicking for the rest of the year.

Agree completely.

Kicking was ordinary tonight because the legs were tired. Not an excuse but certainly an understandable reason.

Tonight's game was always going to be a tough ask, especially after beating 3 top 4 teams (when we played them) over the past 3 weeks.

Even had we won tonight we were no guarantee for second place but everything I saw tonight tells me we're worthy of a top 4 finish, and from there, anything is possible.

[Foreign Legion]

Amon was a fantastic kick for goal at Port Melbourne - I think he needs mental advice because he was a star at Port.

Would've been bloody handy if he kicked straight tonight...

[Bazman]

Ok so we lost tonight and there's another big game next week and the week after that and the week after that. I think we all knew that we would be up against it tonight and im more proud tonight than i've ever been so let not knock um they've gone into feral stadium and lost by a kick and a bit. Remember the 22 guys
whom are in Adelaide think how they feel,all we can do is get behind them next Saturday night at Telsta dome and show we are not pretenders we are the real deal.
Go SWANNIES

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Bazman
Ok so we lost tonight and there's another big game next week and the week after that and the week after that. I think we all knew that we would be up against it tonight and im more proud tonight than i've ever been so let not knock um they've gone into feral stadium and lost by a kick and a bit. Remember the 22 guys
whom are in Adelaide think how they feel,all we can do is get behind them next Saturday night at Telsta dome and show we are not pretenders we are the real deal.
Go SWANNIES

Err... no. Not good enough.

I have felt proud after losses, very occasionally. Not tonight. The game could have been won, and wasn't. That is never something to be proud of.

We were playing for a top two spot tonight, in the first season in the history of the national competition to guarantee the second place finisher two home finals. If the 22 guys you mention can't handle that sort of pressure, then they're in the wrong business.

I don't think that tonight is a mortal blow to our hopes, but it is certainly a major one.

[Q...]

If the 22 guys you mention can't handle that sort of pressure, then they're in the wrong business.

I don't think that tonight is a mortal blow to our hopes, but it is certainly a major one. [/B]

There's a head that should be pulled in around here and it has Charlie's name on it.

What a load of tripe! You summise that the Swans couldn't handle the pressure!?! The pressure in this match was all the Swan's. When was the last time you saw the most experienced member of an AFL team, with his team only scoring only 1 goal in nearly two quarters, decide that the only reasonable option for getting a goal was a hail Mary torpedo from 60m out?

Adelaide certainly applied pressure and the Swans may not have been able to apply as much pressure as they recently have for all 4 quarters, but the only abnormal response to a situation tonight came from Adelaide.

The Swans didn't convert as well as they need to, but that is the only part of the game that Sydney didn't win. Everyone in Adelaide is very happy that they got away with that (excepting the Port supporters) and if we are to meet them again this year it is they that have the psychological damage from this encounter.

Swans Rock. Charlie doesn't!

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Q...
There's a head that should be pulled in around here and it has Charlie's name on it.

What a load of tripe! You summise that the Swans couldn't handle the pressure!?! The pressure in this match was all the Swan's. When was the last time you saw the most experienced member of an AFL team, with his team only scoring only 1 goal in nearly two quarters, decide that the only reasonable option for getting a goal was a hail Mary torpedo from 60m out?

... Mark Riccuito kicked that goal because he is one of the best footballers of the modern era. He kicked it deliberately, too. Why should Sydney be proud of that fact?

Adelaide certainly applied pressure and the Swans may not have been able to apply as much pressure as they recently have for all 4 quarters, but the only abnormal response to a situation tonight came from Adelaide.

You're right. It was the depressingly familiar response from the Swans. 'Ooh... they're starting to get on top. I better not stuff up. I better kick to a guy 25 metres further away from goal, and hope that he doesn't drop it'.

The Swans didn't convert as well as they need to, but that is the only part of the game that Sydney didn't win. Everyone in Adelaide is very happy that they got away with that (excepting the Port supporters) and if we are to meet them again this year it is they that have the psychological damage from this encounter.

Swans Rock. Charlie doesn't!

Umm, they lost on the scoreboard, too, mate. As for the 'psychological damage', you've got to be taking the piss, right? They beat the 3rd placed team by playing 15 minutes of hard, attacking football. How you extrapolate that into 'psychological damage' is beyond me.

BTW - just for curiousity's sake, do you walk around with your name on your head?