Sydney Swans vs Essendon Bombers - Gameday Thread

[Matty10]

Goodes clearly B.O.G., but also could have won the game, which we should have won after dominating the last qtr. That really was the win that got away.

[gossipcom]

Speaking of Hanners when he came off I thought he had broken his cheekbone at first because of how quickly it swelled up, but he's one tough nut and was out there when it counted. Personally I would have subbed off someone other than TDL - because when he went off that's actually when we started kicking the behinds. You just have this feeling that if he was the one taking one of those kicks in the final quarter he would have slotted it straight through.

[CJK]

WTF.

How difficult is it to kick straight. FFS Adam.

[IrishSwanPerth]

Lets do an Eagles on it and play for draft picks, forget about wining a game lets try and win a flag............

[Daisi]

I think people are being a bit hard on Lewis Jetta. We had many opportunities to win that game but couldn't kick a goal- 9 behinds is pretty disgraceful for a professional football team with their season on the line.

Oh well- a very disappointing loss, but there are some good signs for the future. Consider all the experience our young players are getting with all these close games- not only that , I think we've played on almost every damn oval in Australia this year- How did we get such a horror draw? Queensland -twice, Adelaide, WA, Geelong- we have travelled everywhere this year.

[giant]

One of my lowest moments as a Swans supporter. Threw away our season with 10 minutes of utter crap. When does the lacrosse season start?

[CJK]

Shame we can't count on our captain.

This is in addition to the fact that he gave that goal away as he was clueless to the rules.

Pretty pathetic.

[Matty10]

Personally I would have subbed off someone other than TDL.

I would have liked him to stay on also - not sure that I would have subbed anyone off at all in this game (it seems that we did it as a matter of course rather than as a well reasoned decision).

[desredandwhite]

Gutted but a cracker game. When we were on, we were ON. Amazing to watch. When we were off... Best not go there. We are simply not up to standard this year, simple as that. Keep your eye on the young guns - AJ was amazing, it is incredible to think he has less than 20 games. Sammy Reid just needs to fill out more - his kicking was good, and busted a few packs. Dan Hannebery - that took guts, simply brilliant effort to come back on after that big hit.

For a bounce or a swing 10cm either way at any point during the match, it could be us on this thread patting ourselves on the back for a great win.

I played around with one of the online finals predictor ladders this week and I figured that if we win one of the two games against Essendon and St Kilda, we'd make finals, and if we dropped both, we were still a chance to scrape in. Makes that match against the Saints so important now. (Assuming wins against Richmond and Brisbane, and a loss against Geelong, and all other matches being won by the team higher on the ladder)

[Margie]

Are we out of the 8?

[GongSwan]

Definitely we lost the game with poor kicking at goal, they didn't win it. Can't win games of footy kicking at goal like that, on the positive, not so many handovers or clangers tonight, and a good 4 quarter effort, still at least 3 games we should have won this year but lost thru poor kicking

[gossipcom]

Nope we're in 8th. The only way we'd get knocked out is if Roos win by 200 or so. :lol:

ETA: Actually we're in 7th just in front of Bombers. Remembering that the Bombers have still got the bye to come.

1 Geelong 19 17 0 2 160.42 68
2 Collingwood17 16 0 1 175.81 64
3 Carlton 19 13 1 5 136.32 54
4 Hawthorn 17 13 0 4 136.70 52
5 West Coast17 12 0 5 118.82 48
6 St Kilda 18 10 1 7 111.91 42
7 Sydney 18 9 1 8 108.83 38
8 Essendon 19 9 1 9 100.05 38

[CJK]

Bad luck for Goodes. Can't be blamed for that miss.

From watching on TV it looked like it was Goodes who missed it, so I'm happy to blame him.

If it was different at the ground I'll stand corrected.

[annew]

Not his fault we can't kick straight. League footballers should be able to kick for goal better than that.

He's the coach and an ex forward teac them to bloody kick straight! It is his fault he picks he picks the team and does the coaching. Not a great coach and I predict he will take us nowhere. I am also sick of it being a 2 horse race.
Let's face it the GF will b between Collingwood and Geelong the rest are just making up the numbers

[Kirkari]

Devastating loss with potentially very big consquences for Top 8 considering we have an inform St Kilda and Geelong at Skilled on the run home. 9 behinds in the last quarter, just devastating.

A big loss. A tough run from here!