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  • Nico
    Veterans List
    • Jan 2003
    • 11343

    Originally posted by Nolie
    The stupidity of trying to run the clock down with 3 minutes to go and kicking backwards and sideways across the backline was always doomed for failure. One errant kick - ala a too hard chance for Jolly on the wing - and the game was up for grabs. Why didn't they get it into the forward line as deep as possible? If its way down there its hard to get it out again. Who knows they may have jagged a winning point. Chipping it around won't get that. Simply stupid football. Utterly frustrating to watch.
    Probably the last bloke you want to kick to in that situation in the last couple of minutes, unless he marks it is a turnover.
    http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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    • mcs
      Travelling Swannie!!
      • Jul 2007
      • 8177

      I thought for a first gamer Barlow was excellent, kicked well did some good stuff under pressure and was hard at the ball- looked very impressive to me. Want to see more of him. He did I feel find it tough in the last bit of the game, but it wasnt down to him that we lost that game that is for sure. Particulary encouraging debut.
      "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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      • Mike_B
        Peyow Peyow
        • Jan 2003
        • 6267

        Originally posted by Thunder Shaker

        Just to make it more bizarre, we managed to draw both halves.
        As an aside, what would draw-draw have paid for halftime-fulltime combo?

        I'm on the Chandwagon!!!

        If you cannot compete for the premiership, it's better to be young and exciting than middle-aged and dowdy.

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        • Thunder Shaker
          Aut vincere aut mori
          • Apr 2004
          • 4226

          Originally posted by Mr_Juicy
          Certainly wasn't the only reason why we lost
          Technically we drew but I know what you mean, it was a good as a loss as far as top 4 is concerned. I'm sure we will look at this game as one of the three that got away this year.
          "Unbelievable!" -- Nick Davis leaves his mark on the 2005 semi final

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          • Nico
            Veterans List
            • Jan 2003
            • 11343

            Originally posted by Mr_Juicy
            I know. It was one bad mistake. but ffs everyone here is lambasting him from pillar to post. He had an ok game. Certainly wasn't the only reason why we lost
            If a brain fade like that happens in the first Q you have time to make up for it, but in a tight finish like that it is absolutely the wrong thing to do.

            If it was another player I would have been bagging the crap out of him too.
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            • Mr_Juicy
              Warming the Bench
              • Mar 2007
              • 397

              we shut up shop just a fraction too early. This is why we lost. Needed to have one last forward thrust and play it out from there. Just too soon to lock it down in my opinion. I thought it was a great game with both teams playing fantastic, hard, contested footy. Our goal kicking let us down. I'd say a few of those were from the pressure applied by the opposition, but there were also some easy chances that were frittered away.

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              • Nico
                Veterans List
                • Jan 2003
                • 11343

                Originally posted by Thunder Shaker
                Technically we drew but I know what you mean, it was a good as a loss as far as top 4 is concerned. I'm sure we will look at this game as one of the three that got away this year.
                A season of inches indeed. Win those 3 games and we are clearly second.
                http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                • Margie
                  Regular in the Side
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 800

                  One point - that's all we needed! It's just so frustrating.

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                  • Sanecow
                    Suspended by the MRP
                    • Mar 2003
                    • 6917

                    Originally posted by Nico
                    A season of inches indeed. Win those 3 games and we are clearly second.
                    We finished last season clearly second. Not that great, really.

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                    • Mr_Juicy
                      Warming the Bench
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 397

                      Originally posted by Thunder Shaker
                      Technically we drew but I know what you mean, it was a good as a loss as far as top 4 is concerned. I'm sure we will look at this game as one of the three that got away this year.
                      Well bag the crap out of kirk then to give away the free on power in the dieing seconds, allowing him to play advantage, resulting in brown's last goal. It was a free given for holding the jumper and advantage paid. I'm not a bevan lover, it's just how I saw those dieing seconds. And I love kirky, but he got found out in that one piece of play

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                      • Nico
                        Veterans List
                        • Jan 2003
                        • 11343

                        Originally posted by Mr_Juicy
                        we shut up shop just a fraction too early. This is why we lost. Needed to have one last forward thrust and play it out from there. Just too soon to lock it down in my opinion. I thought it was a great game with both teams playing fantastic, hard, contested footy. Our goal kicking let us down. I'd say a few of those were from the pressure applied by the opposition, but there were also some easy chances that were frittered away.
                        Agree, one more forward thrust wins the game but Brisbane wouldn't let that happen. Poor goal kicking was the reason for sure but Brisbane played out the game at the same high degree of intensity as us.
                        http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                        • Mr_Juicy
                          Warming the Bench
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 397

                          Originally posted by Sanecow
                          We finished last season clearly second. Not that great, really.
                          Yeah just going on that...
                          I think if we can get a home final, we can still go VERY deep into September. How deep... well that is up to the players I guess. I'm still thinking PF at worst. Of course it would be easier for me to say "No chance" as many on here would, but I'm going to stick my neck out and say PF at worst. It's so much easier to believe the worst. If the worst happens, you can say "I told you so" and if something better happens you can relish the outcome. It's a win/win situation if you back your team to lose.
                          Last edited by Mr_Juicy; 18 August 2007, 10:38 PM.

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                          • anniswan
                            Footy Mother Big Time
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 2031

                            Originally posted by Nolie
                            The stupidity of trying to run the clock down with 3 minutes to go and kicking backwards and sideways across the backline was always doomed for failure.
                            Absolutely agree

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                            • mcs
                              Travelling Swannie!!
                              • Jul 2007
                              • 8177

                              it would have been the right ploy kicking backwards etc if we used it to create space on the other side of the field to run into or something.... but we just kicked it around and didnt try to advance it which was suicide!
                              "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                              • ugg
                                Can you feel it?
                                Site Admin
                                • Jan 2003
                                • 15976

                                It was working okay until Jolly dropped Goodes's kick down the wing. Pretty symbolic of some of the messed up possessions of the night.
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