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Happened to Ben McGlynn in 2012 after he tore his hamstring against the Crows in the qualifying final. Ben was in tears on bench after he had to go off injured, as he knew what it meant for the rest of the finals round. Ben had previously also lost opportunity to play in Hawthorn’s 2008 premiership because of a knee injury. And he never did play in a GF winning team. Must sting a bit.
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Well, the Mills business is pretty unfortunate all round. Obviously devastating for him. But also made awkward by him telling the media after practice, essentially, that he felt ready to play and that it was up to Longmire. This increased the pressure on the decision and scrutiny of it. I also wonder how it affected the main training session of the week to have him training and then not playing with the team. It seems like it could be unsettling and distracting for the team and coach. Even if he does not come out publicly along these lines, I hope Callum addresses the team and indicates he backs the decision and the team, and will do all he can to support them off the field.Comment
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One thing I would love to see a repeat of from 2016, is Horse giving Mills his GF Medal, like Beverage gave Bob Murphy.
Posted this elsewhere before the decision:
As a Swans and Mills fan, I hope we don't risk it. We have a great team without him.
Whatever the tough decision is - GoSwans!?Comment
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Matt Stevic the umpire along with Simon meredith. Same as 2012, 2016.Comment
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I feel sure that he'll already be right behind the rest of the team, because it's highly likely that one of the main reasons why he was made captain, when it was known that he wasn't going to play for most of the season, would have been his strength of character. So, after his initial disappointment, I suspect that he would have been working out how he could get involved, to increase our chances of success. Even if there may have been a sneaking suspicion, that if he was in peak form, then he could have got an extra day or so to prove his fitness.
Personally, if he was in the side, I would have preferred him as the sub, as on form and match fitness, I think the other likely subs of Campbell or Fox, would be more likely to play a high quality game. But I did think that Mills would have been useful coming on late, to provide some leadership and stability, if the result was still up for grabs. Which makes me think that he could have a role on Saturday, sitting on the bench, geeing up the players as they come on and off, and perhaps giving a bit of tactical feedback to the coaches in the box.Comment
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My Anxiety level is rising as the week has progressed. And it is only because Brisbane lions have too many good players, they have the same desire to win due to their loss last year and they have recently played on MCG. But looking at the vision of Geelong vs Brisbane, I doubt we would give them as much easy passage and lack of defensive effort that Geelong did on occasions in 3rd and 4th Quarter but I also doubt we would be up by that much at half time. The premiership quarter is real this match. Quarter 3 will be the one that decides who takes it. Hopefully they have played too many hard games over the last 2 weeks and we can run them off their feet in the second half. Hopefully it is a boring game with Swans controlling the game right from first to last quarter.Comment
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It's the one game I got to live this year. I sat behind the goals at the end we kicked to in the final quarter. Harris bloody Andrews was everywhere all day. Mark, spoil, mark, spoil. They didn't do a bad job at times of slowing some of our ball movement which forced us down the line to allow him to pick us off. But it was almost as frustrating as having to listen to Country Road or that kids movie song Daniher uses.Comment
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Clearance is often an issue for us. Grundy has helped but his ruck work has not been that great in the second half of the season.
We got well beaten at clearance against the supposedly tired Port, but won with ball movement and control on turnovers.
I suspect we will be beaten on clearance again even against their replacement ruck :/Comment
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