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  • Reggi
    On the Rookie List
    • Jan 2003
    • 2718

    Kirk to Swans fans: Get set to be surprised



    Bevan to the midfield? The headline is really curious
    You don't ban those who supported your opponent, you make them wallow in their loserdom by covering your victory! You sit them in the front row. You give them a hat! Toby Ziegler
  • Primmy
    Proud Tragic Swan
    • Apr 2008
    • 5970

    #2
    I think everyone thinks that the swans are going to be crap this year. Apart from me and a few of you that is.

    I wouldn't be surprised at anything they conjure up. I quite solidly think we will be in the top eight, I have no problem with that. I think MOD is going to play a blinder year. I think Bevo to the forward line is genius - he will be a great protector. Dennis-Lane and Jetta will perhaps surprise themselves, but maybe not Dennis-Lane, he appears to know exactly where he is at.
    If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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    • mcs
      Travelling Swannie!!
      • Jul 2007
      • 8149

      #3
      I'm absolutely pumped for this season- we will suprise a lot of teams imo and I think we should be hoping for a minimum of top 8. As usual the Melbourne media have us written off (Even in 05-06 they liked doing that), but we will have a good year I think. Just can't wait for Saturday now!!!
      "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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      • johnno
        On the Rookie List
        • Apr 2008
        • 1102

        #4
        Originally posted by mcs
        I'm absolutely pumped for this season- we will suprise a lot of teams imo and I think we should be hoping for a minimum of top 8. As usual the Melbourne media have us written off (Even in 05-06 they liked doing that), but we will have a good year I think. Just can't wait for Saturday now!!!
        Yes, this is very true again. Absolutely annoys the crap out of me each and every time this happens. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to wait till about rounds 15-16 when we are ensconsed(sp?) in the top 8(or dare I say top 4?) for most of the 'Melbourne' footy journos to come out and say that the swans are 'the real thing' this year. Thats what usually happened in the other years.

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        • Plugger46
          Senior Player
          • Apr 2003
          • 3674

          #5
          Originally posted by johnno
          Yes, this is very true again. Absolutely annoys the crap out of me each and every time this happens. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to wait till about rounds 15-16 when we are ensconsed(sp?) in the top 8(or dare I say top 4?) for most of the 'Melbourne' footy journos to come out and say that the swans are 'the real thing' this year. Thats what usually happened in the other years.
          Doesn't bother me. Only makes me more optimistic about the season. Blokes like Gary Lyon and Robert Walls don't watch that much footy, so I don't value their opinion.
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          • Jeffers1984
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            • Jan 2003
            • 4564

            #6
            Haven't been this pumped for a season in yonks.
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            • msb
              On the Rookie List
              • Mar 2006
              • 827

              #7
              Originally posted by Plugger46
              Doesn't bother me. Only makes me more optimistic about the season. Blokes like Gary Lyon and Robert Walls don't watch that much footy, so I don't value their opinion.
              Agree. After 2005, I take absolutley NO NOTICE to what robert walls says! Gary Lyon knows his stuff IMHO, but there is no surprise once again in being written off by theses so called 'experts'.

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              • Flossie
                On the Rookie List
                • Jun 2007
                • 76

                #8
                Originally posted by Jeffers1984
                Haven't been this pumped for a season in yonks.
                I am really looking forward to this season. I am always optimistic but for the past two years it was a false optimism, this year I think we are going to shake the competition up and give a big raspberry to the Melbourne "experts" who write us off every year. Go the Swans!!!!!

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                • Xie Shan
                  Senior Player
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 2929

                  #9
                  I'm excited, but it's a more grounded excitement - I'm just looking forward to seeing what the new guys can do, because we've recruited really well considering the position we've been in. It's like... you just know that Jetta and Rohan are going to be good players. And the Swans' system is going to give them the foundation they need.

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                  • Bas
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                    • Jan 2003
                    • 4457

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Jeffers1984
                    Haven't been this pumped for a season in yonks.
                    I'm exactly the same. It will be a great season.
                    In memory of my little Staffy - Dicey, 17.06.2005 to 1.12.2011- I'll miss you mate.

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                    • penga
                      Senior Player
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 2601

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Jeffers1984
                      Haven't been this pumped for a season in yonks.
                      Same!!

                      I share the same guarded optimism as Xie Shan; I think we will be exciting, but I think our results will be inconsistent. Will be happy to sneak into the 8. Anything more is a massive bonus.
                      C'mon Chels!

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                      • Go Swannies
                        Veterans List
                        • Sep 2003
                        • 5697

                        #12
                        I'm more positive than that. I have so much faith in our coaching staff that I expect they will send a well-disciplined team out on Saturday that will match the best teams throughout the season. I don't think teaching a bunch of new players the Swans' style will be anywhere as hard as holding a team together in 2009 when some players were on their last legs and the spearhead up forward was either spitting the dummy, letting the team down with missed marks and missed kicks and getting suspended so 22+25,000 were nervous throughout every single game.

                        After Baz left we could see that there was the start of a good team in there but I reckon they really needed a whole preseason to get the team to gel. Missing finals (when we weren't going to do anything anyway) was a blessing.

                        And tomorrow night we launch our secret weapon up forward. How exciting will it be when when the scoreboard shows "GOAL-SWANS Bradshaw"? I'll be on my feet.

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                        • swansrob
                          Senior Player
                          • May 2009
                          • 1265

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Go Swannies
                          And tomorrow night we launch our secret weapon up forward. How exciting will it be when when the scoreboard shows "GOAL-SWANS Bradshaw"? I'll be on my feet.
                          Bradshaw's been playing AFL footy since 1996; he's hardly a secret.

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                          • Go Swannies
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                            • Sep 2003
                            • 5697

                            #14
                            Originally posted by swansrob
                            Bradshaw's been playing AFL footy since 1996; he's hardly a secret.
                            But isn't he old and injured and washed up - and getting poor delivery from a midfield that couldn't even deliver the ball to a superstar like Barry Hall?

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