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  • Big Al
    Veterans List
    • Feb 2005
    • 7007

    #16
    Originally posted by Triple B
    I call bull@@@@ on that.

    I don't have the stats and I'll let somebody with more time on their hands to get them if they please, but from my observation over many years is, when sides put on a clinic and lead by 10 goals or more at halftime, they frequently either lose or barely win the second half. Seen it many many times before with good sides and bad.

    It's just the nature of the beast that the intensity drops away a little after the break. The big blowouts nearly always come when sides take control in the 3rd quarter and blow them away with 10+ goal last quarters where sides being obliterated don't have the luxury of rejigging and regrouping at halftime...
    That's my thoughts as well. It'd been disappointing if we'd only won by 5 goals after that lead but we pretty much broke even with a side desperate to save face in front of their home fans so it was pretty good effort.
    ..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC

    Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN

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    • aardvark
      Veterans List
      • Mar 2010
      • 5685

      #17
      Originally posted by Big Al
      That's my thoughts as well. It'd been disappointing if we'd only won by 5 goals after that lead but we pretty much broke even with a side desperate to save face in front of their home fans so it was pretty good effort.
      Agree. Its really hard to know how any Swans supporter could be disappointed with last nights win.

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      • royboy42
        Senior Player
        • Apr 2006
        • 2076

        #18
        Originally posted by aardvark
        Agree. Its really hard to know how any Swans supporter could be disappointed with last nights win.
        +1

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        • msb
          On the Rookie List
          • Mar 2006
          • 827

          #19
          No change IMO, the team we had on the park the other night should be enough to account for the tigers at home....bring mummy and jack back cherry ripe for the blues game the week after, whom didnt we only play about 5 weeks ago???

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          • Red
            Foreign Correspondent
            • Jan 2003
            • 651

            #20
            Originally posted by msb
            No change IMO, the team we had on the park the other night should be enough to account for the tigers at home....bring mummy and jack back cherry ripe for the blues game the week after, whom didnt we only play about 5 weeks ago???
            Yep -- Jack's last game before hobbling off.

            He can come back on and immediately resume keeping Judd quiet & accountable. It'll be like he's had a 5-week half-time break.
            To all those people who waited 72 years to see a South Melbourne/Sydney Swans premiership HERE IT IS!!

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            • Ruck'n'Roll
              Ego alta, ergo ictus
              • Nov 2003
              • 3990

              #21
              Although I believe we should play 2 ruckman, I don't believe we will.

              Just because it worked against Footscray and it will stop us burning the Mummy out again, I am pretty sure the Swans will adhere to the "replacement rule killed the second ruckman" school of rehashed banality.

              So unless the Mummy gets another week off, I'll see you at 10.30 Mr Seaby.

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              • johnno
                On the Rookie List
                • Apr 2008
                • 1102

                #22
                Originally posted by aardvark
                Agree. Its really hard to know how any Swans supporter could be disappointed with last nights win.
                I am!!! I had us to win by under 39.5 points in my weekly multi....and what do they do??? They go on to win by over 10 goals!!!!

                VERY VERY ANGRY!!!!!

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                • aardvark
                  Veterans List
                  • Mar 2010
                  • 5685

                  #23
                  Originally posted by johnno
                  I am!!! I had us to win by under 39.5 points in my weekly multi....and what do they do??? They go on to win by over 10 goals!!!!

                  VERY VERY ANGRY!!!!!
                  Ah well you will waste your money Tut Tut....

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                  • undy
                    Fatal error: Allowed memo
                    • Mar 2003
                    • 1231

                    #24
                    Out: BRISWAN
                    In: Footyhead

                    Its a like-for-like swap, but I'd like to see Footyhead get a run next week just so that we can compare the two.

                    It was the same with Seaby and Pyke - until I'd seen both of them play this year, it was hard to be sure that Pyke had caught Seaby (although Seabs is probably still working back to the form he showed last year). We haven't seen Footyhead for what feels like years - give him a crack !
                    Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way you'll be a mile away and he'll be shoeless.

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                    • nomae
                      Regular in the Side
                      • May 2006
                      • 523

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Triple B
                      I call bull@@@@ on that.

                      I don't have the stats and I'll let somebody with more time on their hands to get them if they please, but from my observation over many years is, when sides put on a clinic and lead by 10 goals or more at halftime, they frequently either lose or barely win the second half. Seen it many many times before with good sides and bad.

                      It's just the nature of the beast that the intensity drops away a little after the break. The big blowouts nearly always come when sides take control in the 3rd quarter and blow them away with 10+ goal last quarters where sides being obliterated don't have the luxury of rejigging and regrouping at halftime...
                      Exactly. Essendon had a 95-point lead against the gold coast after one quarter and then lost the second quarter. It happens.

                      Also, Pyke anyone? A week ago he was listed on the Swans website as one week away, so if my calculations are correct...

                      In: Mumford, Pyke

                      Out: Seaby, Everitt.

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                      • Chilcott
                        Regular in the Side
                        • Jan 2008
                        • 595

                        #26
                        BRISWAN, how old are you? My father is in his mid 70's. Therefore, I forgive him for being the bitter and grumpy old fart that he is.

                        He was carrying on about how poorly we played on Saturday night and that we should have beaten them by more. So, I asked him whether a 30 goal win would've been sufficient. He told me it would depend on how many errors we made. Suffice to say I got a bit angry at the old bugger.

                        Now BRISWAN, you should focus on the many positives that came out of the game otherwise you will end up a bitter and twisted old man, like my father.

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                        • ugg
                          Can you feel it?
                          Site Admin
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 15961

                          #27
                          Longmire hopeful of stars' return

                          Longmire revealed Jack may have to spend a week in the reserves before rejoining the side.
                          That would certainly be an incentive to turn up early on Sunday.
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                          • dimelb
                            pr. dim-melb; m not f
                            • Jun 2003
                            • 6889

                            #28
                            Originally posted by ugg
                            Longmire hopeful of stars' return



                            That would certainly be an incentive to turn up early on Sunday.
                            Another interesting snip from the same story:
                            And while it's yet to happen this season, Longmire said he had no qualms about playing tall timber Mumford, Mark Seaby and Lewis Roberts-Thomson in the same side.
                            I'm pleased to read it.
                            He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                            • Mountain Man
                              Regular in the Side
                              • Feb 2008
                              • 907

                              #29
                              maybe Jack as the Sub - get some fitness, and slot back into the team before Carlton game

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                              • ugg
                                Can you feel it?
                                Site Admin
                                • Jan 2003
                                • 15961

                                #30
                                If Jack needs some match fitness, wouldn't it make more sense for him to run around 4 quarters in the reserves rather than a quarter in the seniors. I know the intensity is much lower in the magoos, but surely not by that much!
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