Saints v. Swans gameday thread

[Wardy]

The players are 100 % to blame for this - Longmire and the coaching staff - even Nathan Gibbs would play better than this team tonight. We didn't put in, saints did - I dislike Saints as much as anyone - but they called our bluff and then some.

[Wardy]

FFS Thd Hayes love in is becoming nauseating

[Southern Swan15]

Surly its time for our (cough,cough) inspirational Captain to have a rest, possible for about 17 weeks.

[emaze1]

i'm sorry but this is not acceptable!
malceski is soft and doesnt even run off the half back line..why is he there?
shaw was awful and non existent
where is our run?
we leave it to the parkers,johnsons,hanneberrys who are two seasons in!
we do not have a forward line
i hate to say it as i bleed red and white, but without goodes we are barely a top 8 side!

[emaze1]

and yes mcveigh tries
but captain?
just doesn't influence the game at all

[CJK]

This Hayes BS is making me vomit.

[annew]

Well if the Richmond game was a wake up call, they didn't actually wake up.

[Swans500]

McVeigh 28 disposals?!

[ShockOfHair]

Poor poor effort. Something wrong with our onfield leadership or our game preparation or both.

[Cheer_Cheer]

McVeigh 28 disposals?!

How many were effective ? How many tackles did he miss.. How many targets did he miss with both hand and foot.. I have the same feeling about him being our captain as I do about Gillard running this country..

[GongSwan]

Too slow, at least that's how it looked, not good enough to man up, we didn't get clean posession from stoppages again and missed an awful lot of tackles. There are either some injured players on our list or they've just been out muscled. Either way, a change in attitude is needed. I don't think the Melbourne gane did us any favours, masked some deficiencies. I think we can officially call this our mid year slump

[emaze1]

we are soft
mcveigh,shaw,malceski, etc etc falling off tackles
poor mattner had a shocker
our clanger count all season is a real worry
not sure what longmire can do with our lack of class
bring back mummy and goodes so we can scrape into the 8
hopefully in the meantime we find a genuine forward, just one will do!!

[Swans500]

I am copping SO bloody much off my Eagles mates in Perth....HATE this!!!!

[sharp9]

If I were the coach I would drop at least 10 players.....who gives a stuff about next week's 4 points....we should send a message. It NEVER happens when we put in this sort of performance. We used to have these type of games (esp against bulldogs) where we would lead by up to 20 then just stop and let it get to 50 points or so. No one is ever held to account. The coaches should go through the game and drop every player who was not running in 2nd and 3rd quarters....plus drop every player who made repeated stupid decisions or repeated skill errors.....or who was repeatedly beaten one on one. Won't happen, though, because the only player who have done anything good at all all (Jetta and McGlynn...and a bit of Reid) have also either gone missing/not run enough or made horrible errors.

In summary I would drop (in order of needing it)
Malceski
Shaw
Bolton
O'Keefe
Walsh
Grundy
Smith
Parker
McVeigh
Bird
Mattner
Hannebery
Johnson
Roberts-Thomson

All of them played at some level of disgusting

Lucky to escape the axe
Reid
McGlynn
Richards
Jack
Pyke
Kennedy
Jetta
and Dennis-Lane

I don't who comes in....just anybody so that these muppets don't get to wear the jumper next week after 2 disgusting performances in a row (Melbourne game doesn't count for ANYTHING)

[Sidney V]

We did win the first and last quarters strangely enough - they opened us right up in the middle part of the game.