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  • sharp9
    Senior Player
    • Jan 2003
    • 2508
    #1

    Well I was right...

    Way back when when we lost to St. Kilda and I said it was all over if we didn't change the midfield/game plan.

    What happened tonight? Completely beaten all over the ground and in every department.

    We went one on one and were smashed. Two of our players beat their opponents. TWO OUT OF TWENTY TWO!!! (Goodes and O'Loughlin, in case you missed it.) Every single other player was somewhere between adequate and smashed.

    67 tackles to 35. A complete and utter embarrasment. They should actually be ashamed of their effort. A disgrace. Even forgetting about the brain fades when under standard what was only standard AFL pressure, to not be able to be even NEAR Colliungwood when they had the ball was just disgraceful.

    Anyway to return to the title of my thread, what I said all those months ago was that without a proper midfield we were stuffed. AND I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!! Tonight the usual suspects did absolutely nothing (McVeigh, Fosdike, Schneider, J. Bolton) Mathews kept his man quiet...but so what, really? We need to actually TRY to win games. We need to get to the ball first. Our midfielders (except Goodes and Kirk) just watched.

    I'm going to say this loud and clear.

    McVeigh is not actually any good
    Fosdike is not actually any good
    Mathews is not actually any good
    Jude Bolton is not actually any good
    Schneider is not any good unless the team is winning

    Buchanan, Moore and Schmidt are genuinely good players but they don't get selected because they go out to WIN the game. They might actually get a run in the Collingwood side. None of the other five would even get a sniff. They weren't fit to lick the Black and White bootlaces tonight.

    "People" talk about the "pride" of the Swans yadda, yadda, yadda. But our midfield sucks. It is full of several players who are just not good enough and it is an indictment of Roos that he has kept selecting them all year when it has been bloody obvious they the reason it wasn't working was not because they couldn't make it "click." It was because the players he kept selecting were crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    To elaborate

    Tonight.......

    Bevan was second rate...smashed by Buckley, plus brain explosions.
    Richards was second rate
    Jolly was second rate
    McVeigh was second rate
    Fosdike was second rate
    Jude was second rate
    Schneider was second rate
    Everitt was disgusting
    Hall was shocking
    Davis was locked out of the game because no one kicked it to him
    C. Bolton and Barry and Malceski and O'Keefe were beaten but at least they get credit for previous efforts.
    Barlow probably has a future but was nevertheless the lowest ranked player on the ground.

    And another thing....tonight we were completely and comprehensively out-coached. Why did nearly every Collingwood fifty entry see empty paddocks with a leading forward while nearly every Sydney entry saw the Swans forwards standing WATCHING BEHIND BEHIND BEHIND BEHIND their opponent.

    Are they just UNBELIEVABLY STUPID??????????

    And don't start me on the complete inability to shepherd (two goals, thank you very much) or at least get a hurried possession away before being tackled (another three goals, thank you very much).

    Our Midfield coach sucks.
    Our Forward coach is completely useless
    Our Defensive coach is clearly reading from a very outdated playbook.

    I said (to return to my thread beginning) after the Saints game that this was a positive time, because we could now rebuild (and possibly save this season).

    I may as well be a Leonard Cohen record 'cos nobody listens to me!!!

    Anyhoo...heres to an ATTACKING and POSITIVE 2008 and a really good top ten draft pick

    Cheers
    Jono
    "I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005
    Tags: Swans, sydney
    • DeadlyAkkuret
      Veterans List
      • Oct 2006
      • 4547
      #2
      The disrespect that Davis gets is the biggest tragedy of all. If he's played at FF next year, where i've named him in my "Starting 22 for 2008" thread, and our players actually kick to him, we'll already be 3 times more attacking than we are now.

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        • NMWBloods
          Taking Refuge!!
          • Jan 2003
          • 15819
          #3
          Schneider was injured - should never have been picked.
          Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

          "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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            • ugg
              Can you feel it?
              Site Admin
              • Jan 2003
              • 15976
              #4
              Originally posted by NMWBloods
              Schneider was injured - should never have been picked.
              If Schneider was injured, then why risk him when Buchanan would have been raring to go. Silly decision.
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                • shaun..
                  Stuck in Reserves
                  • Jun 2007
                  • 691
                  #5
                  They like to play injured players..
                  "In some ways we?re less predictable to ourselves and sometimes that can be detrimental because we don?t really know where we?re going" - P.Roos

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                    • AnnieH
                      RWOs Black Sheep
                      • Aug 2006
                      • 11332
                      #6
                      Originally posted by DeadlyAkkuret
                      The disrespect that Davis gets is the biggest tragedy of all. If he's played at FF next year, where i've named him in my "Starting 22 for 2008" thread, and our players actually kick to him, we'll already be 3 times more attacking than we are now.
                      I wasn't at the game, so it's hard to tell what's happening behind the play. I note that they tend not to kick to Davo. Did Davo make himself available to get the ball, or was he just standing around waiting for it? I think he only had about five touches.

                      Why can't they ALL be like Goodsey (who probably had a few clangers himself, but they were redeemed).
                      Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                      Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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                        • hammo
                          Veterans List
                          • Jul 2003
                          • 5554
                          #7
                          Originally posted by sharp9

                          Our Midfield coach sucks.
                          And has already been anointed as our next coach. God help us if our midfield is the result of his coaching abilities.
                          "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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                            • DeadlyAkkuret
                              Veterans List
                              • Oct 2006
                              • 4547
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Annie Haddad
                              I wasn't at the game, so it's hard to tell what's happening behind the play. I note that they tend not to kick to Davo. Did Davo make himself available to get the ball, or was he just standing around waiting for it? I think he only had about five touches.

                              Why can't they ALL be like Goodsey (who probably had a few clangers himself, but they were redeemed).
                              Nor was i, but even on TV you can see they go straight past him atleast 4-5 times a game, probably more. He's our best kick at goal, by a mile, and should be our permanent full-forward.

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                                • NMWBloods
                                  Taking Refuge!!
                                  • Jan 2003
                                  • 15819
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Annie Haddad
                                  I wasn't at the game, so it's hard to tell what's happening behind the play. I note that they tend not to kick to Davo. Did Davo make himself available to get the ball, or was he just standing around waiting for it?
                                  Davis leads most of the game. And generally he sensibly leads up the middle. They usually look to the pockets.

                                  When he does have position on his opponents and they kick it to him, the idiots kick it to his opponents' side.
                                  Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

                                  "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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                                    • hammo
                                      Veterans List
                                      • Jul 2003
                                      • 5554
                                      #10
                                      Michael Voss' comments were spot on... Davo should've been given more time in the midfield.
                                      "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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                                        • Allymay
                                          On the Rookie List
                                          • Sep 2007
                                          • 298
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by NMWBloods
                                          Schneider was injured - should never have been picked.
                                          What was wrong with my Schneiderman?? I saw him on Ch 10 with an ice pack on his ankle???
                                          I might have a slight drinking problem. My husband asked me to toast some bread for him...so I raised my wine glass and said "Here's to bread!"

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                                            • NMWBloods
                                              Taking Refuge!!
                                              • Jan 2003
                                              • 15819
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Schneiderpig
                                              What was wrong with my Schneiderman?? I saw him on Ch 10 with an ice pack on his ankle???
                                              Came into the game with an ankle injury - had to have shots before and during the game.
                                              Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.

                                              "[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."

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                                                • AnnieH
                                                  RWOs Black Sheep
                                                  • Aug 2006
                                                  • 11332
                                                  #13
                                                  I was right when I said that the swans would be

                                                  FODDER

                                                  this year.
                                                  Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                                                  Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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                                                    • Bazman
                                                      Warming the Bench
                                                      • Jun 2005
                                                      • 213
                                                      #14
                                                      Thanks Sharpe9 you nailed it every bloody thing that went wrong this season.
                                                      Im glad its over, im sick of this crap sort of football we try and play every bloody week. Tonight we showed we are not BLOODS we are actually DUDS.

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                                                        • Allymay
                                                          On the Rookie List
                                                          • Sep 2007
                                                          • 298
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by NMWBloods
                                                          Came into the game with an ankle injury - had to have shots before and during the game.
                                                          As much as I love the little bloke, what could he do that Buchanan couldn't??? Surely Amon was 100%, even if he has been crap???
                                                          I might have a slight drinking problem. My husband asked me to toast some bread for him...so I raised my wine glass and said "Here's to bread!"

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