Round 18 - Western Bulldogs

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  • Cheer Squad
    Sydney Swans
    • Apr 2007
    • 1948

    Round 18 - Western Bulldogs

    Hmmm, well, kind of hard to predict what's going to happen this weekend after yesterday's performance.

    I think we're now really paying the price for not having a settled structure, even if it's not a particularly good one, because there are too many players wandering around looking lost at the moment. Almost as if they don't have a sense they're part of a team. Maybe it's a leadership issue.

    As for the Bulldogs, after beating Carlton the previous week, and losing to North by five goals (how on earth did we beat North???), they must win this week to keep their finals hopes alive.

    I hope it doesn't rain - it's supposed to - otherwise I fear this year's curse of the SCG will strike again.

    Swans by 8.
    28
    Swans - 40 points or more
    0%
    2
    Swans - between 20 and 39 points
    0%
    3
    Swans - between 10 and 19 points
    0%
    3
    Swans - between 1 and 9 points
    0%
    9
    Match Drawn
    0%
    2
    Bulldogs - between 1 and 9 points
    0%
    2
    Bulldogs - between 10 and 19 points
    0%
    6
    Bulldogs - between 20 and 39 points
    0%
    1
    Bulldogs - 40 points or more
    0%
    0

    The poll is expired.

  • neilfws
    Senior Player
    • Aug 2009
    • 1834

    #2
    On recent form of both teams... I have absolutely no idea. We might bounce back, looking for redemption and we certainly could win. I just wonder if 10-12 goals a game will cut it against the Bulldogs.

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    • Peace
      On the Rookie List
      • Mar 2010
      • 598

      #3
      I expect 100% discipline and focus from the boys this week.... If there is even a sniff of "titt for tatt" from one of our boys, they should be rotated and informed the game is NOT about themselves or how unfair a free kick was.

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      • mcs
        Travelling Swannie!!
        • Jul 2007
        • 8177

        #4
        Swans by 15. Dogs have improved from earlier in the season but IF we turn up and play more than 2 quarters we will win. Big IF there I know.
        "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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        • Big Al
          Veterans List
          • Feb 2005
          • 7007

          #5
          One prediction is that the Umpires will be under lots of pressure. I sense the Swans faithful are fired up at the moment.

          Swans by 11 (Dry)
          Bulldogs by 11 (Wet)
          Draw (Half & Half)
          ..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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          • Lucky Knickers
            Fandom of Fabulousness
            • Oct 2003
            • 4220

            #6
            This is going to a tough game for us. I'm keeping the faith.

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            • Untamed Snark
              Senior Player
              • Feb 2011
              • 1375

              #7
              I cannot make it this week so I predict a brilliant switched on game from the boys with a large convincing win.
              Chillin' with the strange Quarks

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              • Dan
                Warming the Bench
                • Oct 2010
                • 338

                #8
                I wonder if Vez is gonna get a crack for the bullies this week?
                I See It But I Don't Believe It!!!!

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                • msb
                  On the Rookie List
                  • Mar 2006
                  • 827

                  #9
                  What a hard match to pick, an elimination final IMO. If we lose I think we are all but gone for the year, especially with the bye the following week. I am hopeful but far, far from confident of a win. Swans by 3 points.

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                  • Rob-bloods
                    What a year 2005 SSFC/CFC
                    • Aug 2003
                    • 931

                    #10
                    The bookies have us warm favourites, it is a joke, I may have a rare bet and take the dogs...how could you serously back us wet or dry at $1.55 or something. Unless of course there is a Red and White Fine Cotton Guernsey on Saturday?
                    Sports do not build character. They reveal it....Heywood Broun

                    I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures......Earl Warren

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                    • Dosser
                      Just wild about Harry
                      • Mar 2011
                      • 1833

                      #11
                      I am feeling so negative now. I am all Chamberlained out. We have no forward structure and no foot skills to get it to the forwards anyway. Bulldogs are a faster, more skillful team than us. Dogs by 15 (that way I hope to be pleasantly surprised on the day..) I am so tired....

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                      • Nich
                        Senior Player
                        • May 2010
                        • 1291

                        #12
                        We've certainly made things difficult for ourselves - in true Swans style. Adelaide game/Freo game and we would have been sitting pretty. Both games we knew we had to win bad and we didn't. You would have thought that all the talk after the pre-lim loss last year and the feeling as though they were on the cusp of a great year with young talent that they would have aimed up.

                        Now they are going to face a resurgent Dogs/Essendon/Saints + Geelong in the next 5 matches. Not good. Very disappointing.

                        I think that last 2 spots in the 8 will be decided by us/dogs/saints/bombers/maybe Melbourne with easier last 3 games. And we play them all but Melb. If these guys don't aim up in coming weeks they will be out on the arse.
                        Last edited by Nich; 20 July 2011, 06:49 PM.

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                        • Yuri H
                          That One Over There
                          • Aug 2005
                          • 588

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Dosser
                          I am feeling so negative now. I am all Chamberlained out. We have no forward structure and no foot skills to get it to the forwards anyway. Bulldogs are a faster, more skillful team than us. Dogs by 15 (that way I hope to be pleasantly surprised on the day..) I am so tired....
                          I hate to agree, but after last week, and now this awful weather, my Dostoyevskian Slavic gloom is in the ascendant. Hoping as ever for a win, but as Cheer Squad said further up, we're "now really paying the price for not having a settled structure [....] there are too many players wandering around looking lost at the moment". I would love to be proved wrong this weekend. Please!

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                          • longmile
                            Crumber
                            • Apr 2011
                            • 3372

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Yuri H
                            I hate to agree, but after last week, and now this awful weather, my Dostoyevskian Slavic gloom is in the ascendant. Hoping as ever for a win, but as Cheer Squad said further up, we're "now really paying the price for not having a settled structure [....] there are too many players wandering around looking lost at the moment". I would love to be proved wrong this weekend. Please!
                            Me three.
                            I had such hopes for this season, with the emergence of lots of young players, it seemed we were moving in the right direction. But last week got to me and this weather is terrible; I hope the Swans surprise me

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                            • aardvark
                              Veterans List
                              • Mar 2010
                              • 5685

                              #15
                              I just put my last 8 bucks in my sportsbet acc. on the Doggies.......so now we are sure to win!!

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