Pies VS Swans Game Thread - The time for talk is over

[top40]

What particularly frustates me is that this Collingwood side was not the best to come up to Sydney in recent years. They made their own fair share of mistakes and lacked the intensity of past Pies in recent years that have come to Sydney. And they were missing their captain and leader, Nick Maxwell.

No, this was a golden opportunity to finally win against the Pies, and it was lost by the worst Swans performance of the season. I know there is an old saying that you can only play as well as your opponents let you. However I really believe that this time it wasn't so much the quality of Collingwood, but the paucity of Sydney that led to yet another Swans lost.

By the way, this makes it No.9 in row in terms of losses against Collingwood. All I could think of going to bed last night was that arty Beatles track from the White Album, "No.9 Revolution", with a deep male voice growning on and on and on with the words, "number 9", "number 9", "number 9" ....and so on.

[Triple B]

What particularly frustates me is that this Collingwood side was not the best to come up to Sydney in recent years. They made their own fair share of mistakes and lacked the intensity of past Pies in recent years that have come to Sydney.

I can't agree with that at all.

As others have said, it was Groundhog Day and the pies intensity was just as great last night as it has been the past 5 seasons in the corresponding game.

As bad as we were, they were no less 'up' then any of the miserable games we have played aginst them recently.

[Robbo]

Collingwood have us in a mental choke hold. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of them raping us every time they come to Sydney. I'm over it to be honest.

We were just beaten all over the ground pretty much. Usual stuff.

[Reggi]

Collingwood have us in a mental choke hold. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of them raping us every time they come to Sydney. I'm over it to be honest.

I don't think it's that actually. They are the best running team in the comp, we are amongst the worst. Once they spread we can't keep up. They are generally aging pretty quick, but at the rate of development we are two years away from competing if everything goes really really well in terms of developing youth

We need better running strength - which we have lacked since Fosdike's knee went really.

[gossipcom]

In the past I would have used the mental edge line but last night it was just poor decisions by our team more than mental element. When you are not first to the ball or hand ball / kick it to the opposition constantly even when you're not under pressure... At some stages I was thinking my 10 year old nephew could play better than them.

[dimelb]

... I know LRT had a shocker, but the back line generally were under an awful lot of pressure all night as our midfield got absolutely hammered and none of the defenders really did a lot. I was frustrated however by the amount of times that almost all our defenders were found 2 or 3 yards behind their direct opponent.

I agree with a lot of what you said but the basic problem was good delivery to a leading forward in front of his opponent. LRT and the others couldn't change the outcome in the time and space available if they were faster than Usain Bolt. Our worst problem atm is the midfield.

[Peace]

We suck, pies fans suck, anz stadium sucks, losing sucks.

[aardvark]

We suck, pies fans suck, anz stadium sucks, losing sucks.

I think that just about sums it up...quote of the week

[Swannette]

Still deflated at the very poor effort. Big thing for me is how quick woods boys were to spread once ball cleared. Our boys trailled all night in this so they were always first to the ball as either a takeaway or a contest. We seemed to be a metre behind all night which began with slow reactions rather than simply less foot speed. Groundhog day post the break! Please let it end soon!

[giant]

Still deflated at the very poor effort. Big thing for me is how quick woods boys were to spread once ball cleared. Our boys trailled all night in this so they were always first to the ball as either a takeaway or a contest. We seemed to be a metre behind all night which began with slow reactions rather than simply less foot speed. Groundhog day post the break! Please let it end soon!

It's horrid isn't it, especially when you see how slow the Pies looked against the Demons. When Leigh "QEII" Brown makes not one but two of our defenders look like they're in broken down wheel chairs, you know there is something very very wrong with our mental state. Just all night we looked as slow as molasses - and it happens every time. Soooo sick of it.

[lwjoyner]

very disapponted with some of my fellow R&W on liners, that we who critisize are wrong. My wife and daughter travelled up from south for the gaem first time at ANZ a good view from the Red zone where you could anticipated almost everything Collongwood where going to do. Shaw and Obrien they had a picnic with no opponent and other at times seemed to be by themselves Daisey and Swanny for instance. We rely too much and AG and when he has no support he is in trouble. Our coaching has gone backwards Bevo and LRT are alright when the team is playing well. I have made a number of comments on other threads and I wont repeat but suffice to say we must make changes.

[2005]

Havent read any of the thread.

We were ordinary.
Same old result against Collingwood. Simple.
We had a heap of passengers, we should of been beaten by 10 plus goals.
Positives : Nothing.
We didnt have a winner anywhere.
Negatives : Where do you start.


TWO things though :

WISH WE COULD PLAY COLLINGWOOD AT THE SCG.
We are the worst kicking out team easily. By a country $%^%% mile.
This week wont get any easier as well.
The Richmond faithful are up and about

[2005]

We're not getting in front.
Numbers aren't getting back.
Our delivery in front of 50 is @@@@.
There is no taking the ball on.
Collingwood kick a point. Mattner takes the kick. Kicks to himself. Plays on to the left flank. Every time. Gee - the ball gets smothered. Who'd've thought?
There is no desperation at the ball.
We take a possession. We stop. We prop. We push back against the mark. We kick to a contest. Gee Collingwood have got numbers - why is that?
Did anybody watch the saints last night? Did you watch the way they were manic at the ball? Well have you seen that tonight? No.

No more membership for me until we beat them. 15yrs+. i'm sick of it.

Not according to your Bio.
On ya bike then.

[BigD]

What a horrible night. To start with my train from the city was full of Collingwood fans(I was even silly enough to help some of them find the way to the train). There was only one other Swans fan that I could see and I was told(by the Collingwood fans admitedly) that he had no idea who Paul Kelly and Warrick Capper were. Then I had to sit the that atrocity of a game. We should have been beaten by a lot more. And to top it off the umpiring was DISGRACEFUL. I don't know how they kept saying that we were in front in the free kick count when it seemed to me that all a Swans player had to do was breathe on a Pies player for the whistle to go yet it was all but no holds barred the other way. Can someone please explain how the same rules can be interpreted so differently for different teams.

[Bas]

There was only one other Swans fan that I could see and I was told(by the Collingwood fans admitedly) that he had no idea who Paul Kelly and Warrick Capper were.

That was positive. A NEW post Kelly fan. Not like us bandwagon dinosaurs of 1996. Although I went to my first Swans game in 1979 at Artic Park when they lost to the Bombers. Took another 17 years to convert me.