The positives

[laughingnome]

Nice photo

It shows Jesse still isn't leading properly.

lol.

[snajik]

jetta kicking it straight into the post from 30m out straight in front.... i dont want him to kick a goal, this is way too amusing

Long term sports fans may recall that during the Baltimore Orioles baseball team's losing streak of 1988 (they started the season with 21 losses) some of their female fans decided not to wear underwear until they finally won. I can't see why a similar arrangement can't be enacted amongst Swans fans in anticipation of Leroy's first goal.

Though to stay on thread, my offering would be 'No injuries from this game', though you wouldn't really be expecting any from a performance like that I suppose.

[swansrule100]

if the season ended right now overall there would be more positives than negatives. I think the weakest part of our list is sadly the players who should be at their peak, too many of them go missing, i would say the 24-28 year olds are that group

Shaw, Rhyce 28yr 9mth
Mattner, Martin 27yr 11mth
Richards, Ted 27yr 6mth
Roberts-Thomson, Lewis 26yr 10mth
Pyke, Mike (R) 19 26yr 4mth
Seaby, Mark 26yr 2mth
Malceski, Nick 25yr 11mth
Bevan, Paul 25yr 9mth
McVeigh, Jarrad 25yr 3mth
McGlynn, Ben 24yr 11mth
Moore, Jarred 24yr 4mth
Grundy, Heath 24yr 1mth
Mumford, Shane 24yr 5

as a whole i dont think we get enough out of this bracket of players

but i think the players are the bottom of this list are all looking good and if you keep going down the list in age they are starting to show a bit and for me thats the big positive of the season

[Young Blood]

A few comments here about White leading well, and yes he did take a couple of marks on good leads. However at the ground it was apparent that these were the exception. Most of the time he had no idea where or when to lead - or where to lead from. On several occasions our attacks broke down because our main tall target was not making position to receive the ball.

I also noticed his lack of defensive effort - he does not react quickly enough when his man runs off him, and does not chase hard enough.

The popular theory was that Bradshaw would help White's development by teaching him how to play the position. Well, on the basis of this season, either Braddie is a lousy teacher or big Jess is a slow learner.

I like White, and am bullish about his future, but I wouldn't be overly positive about his game yesterday, despite the more-than-acceptable return of 3 goals.

[Matty10]

You two must have been salivating during that game at how dreadfully we were playing, it's been a few weeks now since either of you have been able to stick the knife in and turn it so completely.

Interesting. I had been on holidays for a few weeks and did not realise that the joyful negativity had been stopped by a couple of sweet wins (seems like I missed the best of RWO then). You never know though, maybe the 'impossible' of the next few weeks can become 'possible' once again if the players turn it around - go Swans!

[BSA5]

A few positive comments about Bevan in this thread.

Dont know why? May be I accidently watched a previous Melb/Swans game?

From what I saw, he made Green look like a super star, instead of the 'good' player that he is.

Bevan only moved to Green after half time. Green did most of his damage in the first half on Richards.

[UglyDuckling]

if the season ended right now overall there would be more positives than negatives. I think the weakest part of our list is sadly the players who should be at their peak, too many of them go missing, i would say the 24-28 year olds are that group

Shaw, Rhyce 28yr 9mth
Mattner, Martin 27yr 11mth
Richards, Ted 27yr 6mth
Roberts-Thomson, Lewis 26yr 10mth
Pyke, Mike (R) 19 26yr 4mth
Seaby, Mark 26yr 2mth
Malceski, Nick 25yr 11mth
Bevan, Paul 25yr 9mth
McVeigh, Jarrad 25yr 3mth
McGlynn, Ben 24yr 11mth
Moore, Jarred 24yr 4mth
Grundy, Heath 24yr 1mth
Mumford, Shane 24yr 5

as a whole i dont think we get enough out of this bracket of players

but i think the players are the bottom of this list are all looking good and if you keep going down the list in age they are starting to show a bit and for me thats the big positive of the season

The guys in this age bracket are really going to determine the medium term success of our club. Its time for them to step up and take on the leadership from kirk, bolton, goodes, etc.
some of these guys are doing well and some need to improve
McGlynn, Mummy, Mal, Grundy, LRT have been doing really well

McVeigh has plenty of talent but just cant seem to get it all together and get back into the form that won him the skilton

Moore - Needs to improve if hes going to be a long term senior player

Richards, mattner, Shaw, bevan - Need to seriously consider their value to the list moving forward

Seaby - injured all year

[msb]

Are you confusing them with the Eagles in the old Chick n' Cuz days?

Oh, ok you had me for a second there....ok they will be keen to go out on a WINNING note

[Doctor J.]

Bevan only moved to Green after half time. Green did most of his damage in the first half on Richards.

Spot on BSA5. Once Bevo went to him Green was very quiet.

[Chilcott]

Thanks BSA5.

Both probably only in the side due to our injury list.

[Melbournehammer]

Spot on BSA5. Once Bevo went to him Green was very quiet.

actually i think richards started on him - but dunn kicked the first goal and then grundy moved to him while richards got dunn. green kicked his first two goals on grundy i think.

bevan went to him late in the first quater. it was obvious at the ground that during the early avalanche that the swans backmen were all being mixed and matched. shaw started forward and was back after 3-4 goals, johnson went forward at one point and had pyke with him, and grundy then moved onto dunn.

you could tell they had no idea who should match up on whom and the demons were very good at putting players into difficult situations. as soon as bevan went onto green all the demons forwards went to hf and bevan was one out with green.

in relation to white i don't think he lead at all well - the two goals he kicked were despite his failure to lead - but he read them better in the air - both goodes and hannebury kicked from about 50 without much penetration and he started shoulder to shoulder and got in front. he's actually reasonably quick in a short sharp sprint

[Bloody Hell]

Players and pundits will stop using the cliche - "Whenever you play the Swans you know you're going to get a contest."

Now you don't know.

[Triple B]

..... in anticipation of Leroy's first goal.

You're not a Ch7 commentator by any chance?

[jono2707]

Players and pundits will stop using the cliche - "Whenever you play the Swans you know you're going to get a contest."

Now you don't know.

I checked the heading of this thread and was wondering if this post should have been placed elsewhere on here.... :-)

[Bloody Hell]

I checked the heading of this thread and was wondering if this post should have been placed elsewhere on here.... :-)

One less cliche in the world is a positive.