Suddenly, a flood of praise

[ShockOfHair]

The Age has turned its pages over to a Swans love-in today.

Longmire proves the right man
Richard Hinds' verdict: Longmire has been a success in his first year, making some small but key tweaks.

How Adam Goodes? mum made him a star
What a legend. Deserves a medal. Goodesie's mum I mean.

Squeezing the life out of spineless Hawks
Haha, clever pun by by David King in match preview in which he actually predicts a Swans win.

Robert Walls salutes the Swans culture
Sydney gives value for money says Wallsie.

Man of steel
Profile of Jude, of course. With quotes from former flatmates Heath James and Ryan Fitzgerald.

The Josh Kennedy story
How he left the family business to go north and is now no.2 for clearances in the comp.

Loyalty above all for former Swan
Lovely one about Henry Gunstone, who played a dozen games for us in 1960s and still watches all our Melbourne games.

Swans friendless as punters back Hawks
If you?re worried all this friendly support might change our underdog status, fear not. With Buddy named to play, the punters are flocking to the Hawks. They?re around $1.35, the Swans at $2.80.

[bloodsbigot]

Something makes me feel mighty uneasy about the media saying nice thing about us.

[Primmy]

Rockin Ronnie didn't tip us, and now I am afraid.

[ScottH]

Mr Reliable on target - AFL.com.au

300 is tip of the iceberg - the freezing cold baths that keep Adam Goodes at peak fitness

Match-ups to make or break Swans - The Trademark


Finals diary - AFL.com.au

[erica]

This is spooking me. Hope none of the players read these articles.

[DLBIA14]

FMD. All I hope is we don't get obliterated tonight. The media has screwed us over.

[Untamed Snark]

Don't get too stressed over all this media niceness people, the commentary this evening is sure to make up for it

[AnnieH]

PLEASE ... Melbournians ... go out and start burning those papers!!

We don't need the jinx.

[AnnieH]

Rhyce Shaw left Collingwood three years ago with a question mark over him. Not now. In three seasons as a Swan, he has become an elite defender, with his running bounces, followed by long kicks, creating 70-metre plays. Marty Mattner is a better player since he left the Crows and Ted Richards' 33 games for the Bombers have been forgotten. He did a job on Nick Riewoldt last week and will enjoy the challenge of Lance Franklin, if he plays

From the Walls article.
Haaaaaaaaaaaave you met Ted?

[neilfws]

There are only 6 teams left to talk about at this stage of the game; I suppose you'd expect more attention!

It's funny, I don't like this sudden attention either. I'm sure the boys are focused only on the game.

[AnnieH]

Many AFL players use ice baths after games and training. Goodes submerges himself at half-time of every single game.

"I reckon he's been doing it for as long as we've had an ice bath at the club," says Swans physiotherapist Matt Cameron. "He stumbled upon it when we started doing it in pre-season games when playing in hot conditions.

From the Iceberg story.
I had NO idea that Goodesy hit the ice pool at half time.
Cool!!
No.
Cold.

[ScottH]

From the Iceberg story.
I had NO idea that Goodesy hit the ice pool at half time.
Cool!!
No.
Cold.

On hits the ice at half time.
The other hits the bottle at half time.
A match made in heaven

[Big Al]

From the Iceberg story.
I had NO idea that Goodesy hit the ice pool at half time.
Cool!!
No.
Cold.

There's a Ben Cousins joke in there somewhere.

[AnnieH]

I hit the bottle WELL before half time Scotty!!

[JudesaGun]

Don't get too stressed over all this media niceness people, the commentary this evening is sure to make up for it

This.

Tim Lane may be annoying but he's always been on the Swans' bandwagon and hence we got a good run with channel 10 last week. Don't expect anything like it this week with Bruce & co from 7.