Round 3 - Swans v. West Coast Game day thread

[Matt79]

Commitement and never say die!

When Kennedy was giving his post match interview, I thought he even looked like a young Kirky!!

[Go Swannies]

i thought we were exposed again in the mid field & wings due to lack of due care to their opponents. We had no second option when this happened. We really stuffed up today in only taking 1 ruck to the contest. I really believe that if Everitt had made way for Pyke who is very athletic we could have been in a very different position. We are nowhere near a top $ at this stage. Maybe these games are sorting out the slag from the precious metal but I firmly believe our best is in the youth. Teddy was only just passable tonight get LJ in. If Ryan is off form give him a holliday in the resies & put Parker in his place. We had a lot of so called good players down tonight, Reg's delivery was just appalling. Everitt was ordinary until moved into attack, great move by the way. Bring in Lewis Johnston & sumner & TDL &b get rid of some of the fakers. We really need someone like TDL to kick a lot of goals & give a whole lot more off.

I thought the same re Pyke but that's the only thing you've said that I agree to. Teddy was poor? We would have lost by at least four goals without him. Ryan will only be in Canberra if he's returning from long term injury. And do you forget that TDL isn't there because he wasn't even doing anything in the pre-season cup - and isn't he injured? Three games at the season that we haven't lost so we should dump the experienced players and bring in more of the kids to build towards some mystical future: 2012, 2013 . . 2016 maybe?

[Big Al]

i thought we were exposed again in the mid field & wings due to lack of due care to their opponents. We had no second option when this happened. We really stuffed up today in only taking 1 ruck to the contest. I really believe that if Everitt had made way for Pyke who is very athletic we could have been in a very different position. We are nowhere near a top $ at this stage. Maybe these games are sorting out the slag from the precious metal but I firmly believe our best is in the youth. Teddy was only just passable tonight get LJ in. If Ryan is off form give him a holliday in the resies & put Parker in his place. We had a lot of so called good players down tonight, Reg's delivery was just appalling. Everitt was ordinary until moved into attack, great move by the way. Bring in Lewis Johnston & sumner & TDL &b get rid of some of the fakers. We really need someone like TDL to kick a lot of goals & give a whole lot more off.

FFS... We've just had a fantastic win and you want to come up with this glass half empty nonsense.

[Swans500]

I think this is the first time for Geelong at the SCG (Usually Homebush) in some years....could be a help...

[Go Swannies]

And Jude too.

[fingers in ears] la la la la la

[ugg]

I think this is the first time for Geelong at the SCG (Usually Homebush) in some years....could be a help...

The first since the you-know-what game in 2005.

[Matt79]

I think this is the first time for Geelong at the SCG (Usually Homebush) in some years....could be a help...

Hope we get a bumper crowd!!

[Mike_B]

I think this is the first time for Geelong at the SCG (Usually Homebush) in some years....could be a help...

Last quarter of footy played v the Cats at the SCG was Nick Davis' finest half hour.

[ABloodsMan]

What a great win, having such a shocker of a night and still scraping home the win says it all about our boys.

Reading through the thread was comedy gold reading how @@@@ Everitt was playing then 2 pages later OMG EVERITT!!!!!

Pretty elated right now, gunna put off work untill tomorow morning. @@@@ yeah

[ernie koala]

Nick Smith played his best game for the club...close to bog IMO. He is a fantastic decision maker, with skill and courage....hats off.

[Triple B]

One player who I believe hasn't been mentioned once in this thread is Craig Bird. New role for him tonight tagging Embley and did a huge job...

[hot potato]

Finding a way to win especially against the home crowd support (worth 5 goals) that West Coast get plus a dodgy goal umpy, is bloody awesome, it's not worth bagging anyone. There is no way all of 22 players will perform well anyway, when there are so many good players on the other side (they have real good uns).
This will be recorded by the footy writers as a very impressive and important win by The Swans.

HP

[ernie koala]

One player who I believe hasn't been mentioned once in this thread is Craig Bird. New role for him tonight tagging Embley and did a huge job...

Yep second that. Smith and Bird both had huge games.

[RogueSwan]

i thought we were exposed again in the mid field & wings due to lack of due care to their opponents. We had no second option when this happened. We really stuffed up today in only taking 1 ruck to the contest. I really believe that if Everitt had made way for Pyke who is very athletic we could have been in a very different position. We are nowhere near a top $ at this stage. Maybe these games are sorting out the slag from the precious metal but I firmly believe our best is in the youth. Teddy was only just passable tonight get LJ in. If Ryan is off form give him a holliday in the resies & put Parker in his place. We had a lot of so called good players down tonight, Reg's delivery was just appalling. Everitt was ordinary until moved into attack, great move by the way. Bring in Lewis Johnston & sumner & TDL &b get rid of some of the fakers. We really need someone like TDL to kick a lot of goals & give a whole lot more off.

BTW we just had a great come from behind win against a good Weagles team

+ what GS said:

I thought the same re Pyke but that's the only thing you've said that I agree to. Teddy was poor? We would have lost by at least four goals without him. Ryan will only be in Canberra if he's returning from long term injury. And do you forget that TDL isn't there because he wasn't even doing anything in the pre-season cup - and isn't he injured? Three games at the season that we haven't lost so we should dump the experienced players and bring in more of the kids to build towards some mystical future: 2012, 2013 . . 2016 maybe?

I also thought Jetta had a decent game I think a lot of his close in work gets overlooked.

[ernie koala]

Everitt forward seems logical (in hindsight). He's not a great decision maker in defence..lacks confidence...looks much more assured and confident up forward.