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For anyone in Sydney interested - it is 10 am in Melbourne and it is teeming. Maybe we are lucky we don't have to sit out in it to watch a team that doesn't handle the wet very well. Hope it doesn't stop Brisbane though.
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Definately not a nice day for football down here, I suppose there is some consolation for not being there -
I would not have liked our chances in this weather.
Braved watching last week's final this morning on Foxtel - their advantage in strength around the ball is really noticable.
When you see it in retrospect we really look 5 - 6 players short of a top level side - our best players Goodes - Hall - Williams some others perform well - but our lack of depth atm really cost us.
LRT certainly is a talent maybe we underestimate his ability to improve next year.You don't ban those who supported your opponent, you make them wallow in their loserdom by covering your victory! You sit them in the front row. You give them a hat! Toby ZieglerComment
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Maybe, maybe not. It's easy to look back on the PF and conclude this, but fact is that team did beat Collingwood, Port and Brisbane during the course of the season. Apart from the second Brissie game where they let the door open for us, all the other victories were achieved by clearly playing better for enough of the game.Originally posted by Reggi
When you see it in retrospect we really look 5 - 6 players short of a top level side - our best players Goodes - Hall - Williams some others perform well - but our lack of depth atm really cost us.
I've watched the first three quarters of that PF several times now, and we really didn't play to our normal game style. For that 10 minutes during the third quarter where we piled on the goals, the team was running and taking chances, playing on quickly and moving the ball forward. This was something they failed to do for the rest of the game. Obviously the Lions had something to do with this, but its hard to tell what the Lions suddenly stopped doing for that 10 minute period that enabled the Swans to play attacking footy. I think it was just that the guys suddenly remembered how to play their best footy.
When we are playing like that we look like a team of champions. When we are holding up play and kicking the ball sideways and backwards we don't.
Don't deny the team needs to get better. But it was capable of beating the Lions last week - it just didn't.Comment
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my backyard resembles Mt Buller at the moment, they may need skis out there todayComment
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