Swans v Tigers Match day thread

[swans_premiers]

Originally posted by swans05
hopefully this is simular to what happened from round 16-18 in 1987
rnd 16 - Sydney 30-21-201 def. West Coast 10-11-71
rnd 17 - Sydney 36-20-236 def. Essendon 11-7-73
rnd 18 - Sydney 31-12-198 def. Richmond 15-17-107

it has started this week v richmond
now we got 2 fairly weak teams in the following 2 rounds and 2 teams that can easily get scores kicked against them time to rewrite some record books

hmm yeah but after that we lost 3 out of our next 14 I think.

[TheMase]

Originally posted by timbo
Have you seen our percentage?! It's gone from 100% to 120% in one game! Don't see that too much in the middle of the season.


first 100+ point win in melbourne i can remember for a while.

first time i can rember kicking 24+ goals for a while.



ahhh, let the good times roll

cant believe i was stuck in row b next to the players race. lol

From what I have heard it was the first 100 point win in Melbourne by us since 1979 and of course our first as the Sydney Swans.
Not sure about that though...

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by swans05
hopefully this is simular to what happened from round 16-18 in 1987
rnd 16 - Sydney 30-21-201 def. West Coast 10-11-71
rnd 17 - Sydney 36-20-236 def. Essendon 11-7-73
rnd 18 - Sydney 31-12-198 def. Richmond 15-17-107

it has started this week v richmond
now we got 2 fairly weak teams in the following 2 rounds and 2 teams that can easily get scores kicked against them time to rewrite some record books

Hopefully not. We were smashed in following weeks against the top two teams (Carlton and Hawthorn) and we embarrassed in finals.

It's our highest score in Melbourne since 1980.

It's our equal 8th biggest win of all time.

It's only our 15th win > 100 points

It's our 5th biggest win in Melbourne of all time.

It's our biggest win in Melbourne since 1995 (against Fitzroy) and before that 1955.

It's our first win > 100 points against Richmond.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by AussieAnge
The two Tigers fans at the Aussie Rules club in Kings Cross also left early.

Could you blame them really?

We had a great little group there. All basically RWOers.

I am just thrilled at our effort. It was not just that attacking running footy we played, it was the defensive 1%ers ALL GAME. The Tigers were rattled bfore too long.

We are BY FAR the BEST defensive team in the league. If we continue to play footy like this, we will be up there for sure.

The only negative though I could think of at the end of the day was whether we were peaking too early.

Today we grew as a footy club. We played like DESERVED premiers. That feels bloody good to be honest!

JF (bloody happy tonight)

[Cher]

Originally posted by j0lly
did anyone else see richo smack lrt in the guts?

I didn't actually see it happen but noticed LRT doubled over in a bit of pain.

[NMWBloods]

Doc Larkins said he just ran into a screen set by another Richmond player.

[ScottH]

Awesome game.

[Layby]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
We are BY FAR the BEST defensive team in the league. If we continue to play footy like this, we will be up there for sure.

I think Adelaide probably have that tag but we are pretty close

[Nico]

Outstanding display.

Tackling and inside pressure was excellent.

Sure opposition turned out to be poor, but good sides should destroy teams under these circumstances.

[BonBon]

Richmond were never in it. I can't believe we kicked 7 goals straight without any behinds. Amazing stuff. Ryan was fantastic.

[AussieAnge]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
Could you blame them really?

Nah, don't blame them just commenting that they too left the game early. I admired them fo going to the club and watching the game there considering all the rest of the spectators were swans fans.

[Big Al]

Probably already mentioned but the commentators stated that its the highest score for a non victorian club at the dome. Great effort.

[cruiser]

Originally posted by giant
For the record, looked like most Richmond fans stayed to the bitter end.

No, at the start of the 4th quarter the number of Richmond supporters there had halved. By the end of the game, you could see exactly how many Swans supporters were there (along with a small number of very loyal Tigers supporters).

Magnificent effort by Sydeny - an awesome performance that will have the other teams very worried with Sydney back to its premiership winning best. Some of the highlights for me included our accuracy kicking for goal and our forwards giving good leads and having the ball delivered superbly to them.

[cruiser]

Originally posted by swans05
now we got 2 fairly weak teams in the following 2 rounds and 2 teams that can easily get scores kicked against them time to rewrite some record books

The Dogs weak? Are you serious? Ask a Port supporter if you have any doubt.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by cruiser
(along with a small number of very loyal Tigers supporters).

Leaving during the last quarter when you are 100 points behind hardly makes supporters less loyal. The players don't notice supporters have left in that case - they simply want to get off the ground and don't waste time looking around to see what support is left.