Match thread, round 2, Swans v Hawks.

[mcs]

Yes mcs the umps just are scared of the crowd. Should not be a factor but always is. Wish the crowd at the SCG would create a 'boo factory' like in W.A.

Corey will stay in I reckon and Cleary out - just don't understand why some people rate him. He hardly ever disposes of the ball well and doesn't seem to tackle well. I hate to 'put the boots' into a young bloke but we have to try someone else.

It is so different at a game in Sydney compared to a game in Melbourne. It is what it is - and the SCG can be hostile at times. But usually it takes a cascade of horrendous umpiring for it to happen (A Freo game I think it was several years back sticks in my mind - I genuinely thought the umpires wouldn't get out of there in one piece), not week in week out like the big Melbourne clubs achieve.

[crackedactor 01]

11 more free kicks and a 5 day break which resulted in10 players getting one or less possession in the last quarter.Every year its the same story. AFL ORGANISATION IS CORRUPT.

[UUaswan]

Yes mcs the umps just are scared of the crowd. Should not be a factor but always is. Wish the crowd at the SCG would create a 'boo factory' like in W.A.

Corey will stay in I reckon and Cleary out - just don't understand why some people rate him. He hardly ever disposes of the ball well and doesn't seem to tackle well. I hate to 'put the boots' into a young bloke but we have to try someone else.

Cleary is 100 miles at the contest with no sense of how to get the ball or sometimes even go for the ball.

[UUaswan]

Warner got plenty of the pill, but was poor disposal wise and butchered several chances,

Last person he laced out was Buddy for his 1000 goal, he breaks lines and gets the ball down the ground quick for fwds to be 1 on 1 and smalls to swoop

Need to read the room on the 25 players, play Ladhams as the 2nd ruck between the Centre and the Bench just for Grundy to rest.

Ned Reeves played 40% game time, same as Reidy in Opening round.
We are destroying a functional fwd line by not having talls down the line or up the ground presenting as they are cooked from rucking.

Our smalls fwds are also non existant as our talls can't get to contests or present.

21 Touches between Cleary, Rosas, Amartey and Curnow.

Leave 3 talls in the fwd line, one can go high and get on the lead

Basic fwd setup, same mistakes as last year

[Nico]

Curnow is getting the Barry Hall treatment from the grumpies. He was held or blocked nearly every time the ball went near him. The worst was when he was pushed in the chest in the goal square and a Hawthorn player in front marks. Probably the most one sided umpiring I have seen in a long time. Ginnivan dragging ball in and hatching it wasn't the only one. Nash held the ball for an eternity at times. The Brownlow votes from the game will be interesting. Another one: Watson being tackled over the line and gets a 50.

[SwanSand]

5 day break. We had no chance after playing frenetic 2 rounds.
move on.
I think Corey Warner but he has no poise with the ball. Similar to how Dylan Stephen’s was with us. Cleary the same.
we need a big body in the midfield and as the year goes by we would clearly miss having a dynamic but bigger bodied midfielder who would prevent the ball coming off the centre square easily. Rowbottom is a tackler but doesn’t get his own ball very often. Currently him and Sheldrick need to be the ones that need to improve for us to have a chance in the middle.