Best swans games in last 8 years

[ShockOfHair]

The second quarter of the Geelong SF would be a candidate for Swans' worst in the last eight years. Unwatchable.

[Xie Shan]

- similar story in 2005 against the Toasters at the SCG but a few rounds later in the season. They weren't unbeaten for the year at that point but had been on a roll and we brought that to an end too.

You know, in hindsight that was one of the most important games in our history as the Eagles got very wobbly from memory after that game -- with a couple of heavy defeats on the road going into the finals -- I don't think we would have beaten them in the GF if we hadn't won that game given the form they were in.

Also think the 2006 QF against the Toasters was one of the highest quality games I've watched in years - tough, evenly matched and highly, highly competitive. Our break-through win at Subi and against an opponent at the top of their game too.

I remember Luke Darcy's call on Channel 10: "This is one of the best games I've ever seen". It had everything. I was overseas all of 2006 and watched that one from the Brass Monkey in Taipei with my Pies-supporting flatmate (one of the handful of games all year I got to see live...including the GF...sigh) and thought to myself "Damn, I miss footy!!"

[Plugger46]

Agree totally with the QF against Port in 2003 being up there at the top. Don't think I have ever enjoyed being at a game so much at the time. (2005 GF was better in retrospect but was quite painful at the time, especially during the longest last 5 minutes ever.)

Agree entirely there liz, without doubt the most enjoyable game I've ever been to. The second quarter was amazing, we just kept kicking goals.

[liz]

Agree entirely there liz, without doubt the most enjoyable game I've ever been to. The second quarter was amazing, we just kept kicking goals.

Pretty much the complete footy experience. Starting with the cocky Port fans asking us before the game why we had bothered to travel to Adelaide. And to be fair, they had every reason to be cocky after a dominant H&A season and us missing Ball and MickyO.

A bright start in the first quarter, sheer poetry in motion in the second. From Stuey streaming down the wing and potting a shot from a tight angle, Willo running down the other wing, Cressa finding himself completely unmarked, and Jude giving rise to the original "I see it but I don't believe it". Hall in complete control up forward, and Goodes putting on a command performance all around the ground. I remember swapping text messages at half time with a friend watching the game back in Sydney on TV and him telling me that the commentators had run out of words to describe Goodes.

And then that tight, tense second half, with the lead gradually ebbing away as the bench of the wounded grew and grew. Kirk getting collected by Pickett with that perfect hip and shoulder and getting straight back up and into the next contest. And then at last, the final siren.

It's not just my spine that's tingling reliving that game all over!

[AlexC]

Better than just beating Collingwood....we beat them by one point when Didak missed a last gasp chance at Homebush (06??) diddums, poor maggies

wasn't that 05, I remember because we lost to the tigers by the same margin next round

[AlexC]

I can't remember which round but Swans v Lions at the Gabba 05, didn't lead

it all night and hit the front after the siren courtesy of Mr. Hall

[connolly]

Pretty much the complete footy experience. Starting with the cocky Port fans asking us before the game why we had bothered to travel to Adelaide. And to be fair, they had every reason to be cocky after a dominant H&A season and us missing Ball and MickyO.

A bright start in the first quarter, sheer poetry in motion in the second. From Stuey streaming down the wing and potting a shot from a tight angle, Willo running down the other wing, Cressa finding himself completely unmarked, and Jude giving rise to the original "I see it but I don't believe it". Hall in complete control up forward, and Goodes putting on a command performance all around the ground. I remember swapping text messages at half time with a friend watching the game back in Sydney on TV and him telling me that the commentators had run out of words to describe Goodes.

And then that tight, tense second half, with the lead gradually ebbing away as the bench of the wounded grew and grew. Kirk getting collected by Pickett with that perfect hip and shoulder and getting straight back up and into the next contest. And then at last, the final siren.

It's not just my spine that's tingling reliving that game all over!

And Cressa telling Rex Hunt to get stuffed was the icing on the cake.

[royboy42]

What was the Cressa story with Hunt?

[Primmy]

What was the Cressa story with Hunt?

Yeah, anyone know that?

I'm with you Liz, its the game I plonk on when I need a lift. Listening to that twerp Huddo actually having to give the Swans a positive call was brilliant.

I had a couple of Adelaide supporter friends contact us after the game to say that they had called in all families to watch the tv coverage and cheer the Swans on, they loved it. But it was the sheer dominence and masterful command the boys exhibited in that particular game that is an indelible moment for me. I then knew we were going to make it. One day.

And I conclude with my favourite call of time - He got up! He just got up!

[Primmy]

Oh, and I am so glad so many of you agree with me, that the R3 North Melbourne v Sydney game in 1999 was a gem. I knew I had taste.

[liz]

Oh, and I am so glad so many of you agree with me, that the R3 North Melbourne v Sydney game in 1999 was a gem. I knew I had taste.

I think I've just remembered that game. Wasn't it the one the weekend after the massive hailstorm in Sydney, so that scattered seats around the SCG were unsittable on? If it's the one I am thinking of, it seemed to witness the revitalisation of the career of Stuey. Up to that point he was increasingly playing on short bursts off the bench and looked to be almost running out of steam. But he came out in that game and was awesome in the second half, and his whole playing career seemed to kickstart again from there.

[Primmy]

You got it in one Liz. He lost "half his house" during the storm and played like he was mad as hell about it. The only time I remember him almost grandstanding with muscle arms after that goal in the fourth quarter which sealed it for us, did him the world of good.

Its also the game with Kell playing the human pinball into goal, also in the fourth quarter.

Its a grand game.

[connolly]

What was the Cressa story with Hunt?

Cressa gave the big exhibitionist/dogger one of the best post match sprays ever and issued the best press statement in the history of the club. After our David had slew the Port Goliath, Cressa uttered the immortal words

"No one rated us.If you listened to the TV this morning, Rex Hunt was saying Essendon would have to go and play at Stadium Australia. That really pisses me off. No one gives us a chance. They don't rate us. Shove it up your arse, Rex."

As we now know Rex did just that.

[royboy42]

Onya Cressa, and it really is old timers cos I do actually remember it now..Thx Conn

[connolly]

Its getting off the point a little but the same match had the best slice of purple prose in the history of football commentary. This is Stephen Rowe from 5AAA local radio station on Dean Brogan, who was sporting a blonde dyed mohawk haircut and an air of nonchelant superiority when he tripped out onto AAMI stadium. Brogan was matched up against a man who was smaller, darker and wore a conservative clip. And who proceeded to take him apart and throw away the assembly instructions. The great Adam Goodes played the greatest game in our recent finals history.


Stephen Rowe: " Brogan needs to take a good look at himself . . . you can't have a haircut like that at finals time. No shepherding. No voice. No tackling. Absolutely butt-naked nothing,"

Rowe in an apolopletic frenzy of Adelaidian self hatred and despair later whined into the wirelesses of the slumbering metropolis that the great man was "running around like an unregistered dog".

One of the best games in the history of this great club. The cappuchino capital watched it and wept.