Sydney's Flag Chances

[ep2006]

I was wondering, surely you guys reckon you're up there in regards to winning the flag

Because i think you'll finish top 4

[UglyDuckling]

it dawned on me this morning that we are actually a genuine chance to have a crack at the top 4 and thus the flag. Comes finals time i think we can beat the saints and geelong maybe the dogs and not collingwood so if the finals fall our way we're a sneaky chance

[Matty10]

We have had some good wins but we are still a fair off knowing whether we will be a top 4 side. St Kilda, Geelong, WB, Carl, Coll, Brisbane, Fremantle & even Melb / Port / Nth would consider themselves chances of making the top 4 - as only 2 wins separate 1 & 11 on the ladder.

We have only played two real contenders at this stage and we are 1 win / 1 loss. The next 3 weeks will tell us a lot. Now is the time to get excited only about what we have done so far - the rest is still a mystery.

[dimelb]

The rest of this month will throw more light on our chances. By the time we've played Geelong, the Bulldogs and Freo we'll know whether we're top four or not, even before we get to Collingwood and Carlton, which I think are the others to consider. If we can play regular periods in four quarters like the later part of the first and through most of the second last night, we could beat anyone. For regular Swans watchers, the precision of delivery was amazing; defenders didn't have much chance.
And then there are injuries ... in the lap of the footy gods.

[Robbo]

Very tough month coming up. Still a long way to go aswell anything can happen.

[CureTheSane]

My thoughts haven't changed since this post.....

To Make the Eight

[sprite]

Too far out to be considering - I'm with CTS - once we are there anything can happen

[Big Al]

Revisit this thread in 4 weeks.We'll know more then.

[DST]

Last night win confirms that we are capable of playing finals and finishing from 5th downwards.

If we can win more than half the games against Geelong, Bulldogs, Dockers, Hawks and finally get over Collingwood in the big game at ANZ I will be willing to consider this side is good enough to finish top 4 and play in a prelimary final.

At this stage I still think we are a couple of more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle away from being a top 4 side.

DST

[Thunder Shaker]

Oo, I feel dirty. We're next to Collingwood on the ladder.

[Yuri H]

I'm with the folks above (though of course on an emotional level I've spent the last week running around the house chanting "we're number one! We're number ONE!"). I don't want the team to get too cocky - even if beating the Lions shows we weren't winning "only 'cause we had it easy". If we do well against Geelong especially, I'll be confident. This month is the big test!

[IrishSwanPerth]

All depends our defence (full back line) holds up we looked very poor at times last nite and the same against the Saints, but at times we were great. We let in too many soft goals and we panic a lot, we need to play our natural game.
Get the half backs braking the lines and play quick balls out of defence, when we slow down the game its impossible for the half backs to brake the lines and open out the midfield.
Grundy is by far the most improved player in the AFL within the last 12 months by a long mile, himself and LRT need to cut out mistakes and get the ball to more of our skilled defenders quicker.

[Go Swannies]

Our best is getting better and our worse is also not as bad as it was in the first rounds. We're certainly giving ourselves the best chance to see Roos off in style. But we're entering the injury period and, despite, better-than-usual depth we'd only have to lose a few (Goodes, ROK, Braddy) to come back to the pack. BUT we couldn't ask for a better draw - next week we may get an unsuspecting Cats after a very easy win. It may be the game when Scarlett stops Braddy and Jesse earns his keep up forward.

[TheHood]

Barring a Bradbury experience, we are a great chance at 5th.

Although we're capable of attaking well in short spurts, when the "other team" come, they are piling on far too many points. The team of 05 and 06 would rarely let 50+ points be conceded agains the Lions last night.

Lions were on toast and our younger brigade just don't quite have the killer that the team of yor did. St Kilda would have overran us last night.

I know we had injuries but every team has injuries such as Brisbane without Merrett, Sherman etc.

[Damien]

At 5-1, I'm comfortable that we are highly likely to be in the finals now (I'd be shocked if we didn't pick up at least 7 more wins), but we probably wont learn if we are really able to challenge until deep into the 2nd half of the season.