Gameday!

[31 hard at it]

Great effort by the Swans.
Remember we only had a 6 day break from a late night finish at Etihad last week (same as against Pies) so Hawks hadan advantage in that last qtr.
An extra day to get over bruises and niggles is a big advantage.

Top effort.

[Meg]

Great effort by the Swans.
Remember we only had a 6 day break from a late night finish at Etihad last week (same as against Pies) so Hawks hadan advantage in that last qtr.
An extra day to get over bruises and niggles is a big advantage.

Top effort.

+1. And just to get some idea of the bruises and niggles, look at what is happening in the background of the video of the interview with Jarrad McVeigh on the Swans website. And these are players who will officially have 'no injuries'!

[DLBIA14]

A game that changed with every quarter. First quarter we looked like guns, second quarter we looked like imposters, third quarter was a battle of the wills that left a statelmate and the fourth quarter was a shoot out.

I'm really disappointed losing this game moreso than any other loss this year. I think the boys might have a mentally tough week trying to piece together their confidence again.

[Melbournehammer]

I think playing Geelong in Geelong is likely to help.

My bigger concern is our inability to stop teams once they get on a roll. Teams can score and have scored really quickly against us. The essendon game was almost inconceivable - except that it has been repeated a few times !

We have got to learn what we can do to get hands on the ball and kill it sometimes. To. Have six goals kicked in eight minutes is going to lose you a lot f Ames - particularly since we find it so damn hard to score ourselves.

[Jewels]

Great effort by the Swans.
Remember we only had a 6 day break from a late night finish at Etihad last week (same as against Pies) so Hawks hadan advantage in that last qtr.
An extra day to get over bruises and niggles is a big advantage.

Top effort.

No, Hawthorn game last week was the twilight game, so they had about an hour and a half LESS time then us.

I'm really disappointed that we lost, but we gave it a great shot and very nearly got there. THOSE two umpiring decisions were shocking but that's footy.

If someone had said to me at the start of the season that we'd be top 4 (and still a very slight chance of top 2) going into finals I'd have taken it in a heartbeat. Whatever happens from hereon in, 2012 has been a great year to be a Swans fan.

[DamY]

Gameday!

No, Hawthorn game last week was the twilight game, so they had about an hour and a half LESS time then us.

I'm really disappointed that we lost, but we gave it a great shot and very nearly got there. THOSE two umpiring decisions were shocking but that's footy.

If someone had said to me at the start of the season that we'd be top 4 (and still a very slight chance of top 2) going into finals I'd have taken it in a heartbeat. Whatever happens from hereon in, 2012 has been a great year to be a Swans fan.

Yeah first world problems, there's a lot of clubs way below us, keep that in mind

[BillyRayCypress]

Great game except for the two umpiring decisions.

I was watching LRT by chance at 3/4 time when he got the red vest and he looked very surprised when it was handed to him.

Morton as sub does not work. He needs to be there the whole game if he plays.

Hawks were asleep in the first qtr and by half time the game was as it should have been.

[Beerman]

If someone had said to me at the start of the season that we'd be top 4 (and still a very slight chance of top 2) going into finals I'd have taken it in a heartbeat. Whatever happens from hereon in, 2012 has been a great year to be a Swans fan.

At the start of the year I would have said top-4 is a bit optimistic. So although I'm shattered about last night, I keep reminding myself that we're having a great year. At least we haven't appeared in any commonwealth bank commercials saying we can win the premiership (a la the aussie Olympic team)

My suggestion to those frustrated by umpiring is to let it go! It makes us sound like North fans. Every team every week is robbed by the umpires if you believe the forums. Hawthorn are probably talking about the non-push in the back call against Pyke that I could see from 150 meters away. I'm enjoying footy much more since I stopped umpiring the games and just played the whistle, as it were.

[DA_Swan]

Our guys gave it their best shot - but realistically we had our chances and when you consider that we lead by 38 points and won the frees 27 - 12 - it hurts , maybe if the free count was 29 - 12 including puopolo and the non fifty we win - we made to many mistakes under pressure and it cost us - hopefully we are better for the experience and its great to have that chance to be better !!!

[stellation]

We'll be better for the run. I'll opt to take that away from it and leave it there.

[Dirtyburt]

Agree no disaster, need to match cats now. Great lead into finals

[Wardy]

Good outlook - the hawks will be buggered purely because they had to walk a couple of kms just to get to the away team shed!!! The thing is we are still in the Top 4 that's a heap better than being in the bottom half.

[Buzz13]

Yeah mixed feelings about this one. On one side we matched the premiership favourites and more with perhaps the strongest team they (Hawthorn) have fielded all year. It is worrying that we have lost the last couple at home to the top teams but we can get confidence in knowing that our best footy can blow sides off the park....it is just maintaining it for 4 quarters. We have seen our best blow away Hawthorn, Geelong, Essendon (when they were on top of the ladder), West Coast and to a lesser extent Collingwood. And yes there were 2 blatant umpiring errors that went some way to costing us the game but these were not the only factors. We should not have let them come back from 38 points down so easily. And I know you need to beat the best to win the big one but this loss has probably made the swans finals run a bit easier. Win the Hawthorn game and we would have been playing Collingwood or Hawthorn at ANZ....It is now probable that our opponent will be Adelaide. Yes they beat us last time but we are by far a MUCH better team now. They are still a good team but they have definately had a very easy draw (GWS, Gold Coast, Port, Melbourne all played twice) and I for one will be far happier to play them in a qualifying final than Hawthorn or Collingwood. Beat Geelong next week and we will play Adelaide in Sydney or maybe even West Coast in Sydney. I really beleive that Sydney are the 2nd best team this year and think that it will actually be a Hawthorn vs Sydney Grand Final in which Hawthorn would be warm favourites.....C'mon u swannies!!

[Wazza]

I was at the chairmans lunch john Blakey spoke after the game amd said the guys were shatterred, he was asked if he thought Jude would have made the difference and he said yes. Gary Rohan also spoke said he was coming along well but still only walking laps at this stage IMHO Rohan would have been the player that could have made the difference but thats just dreamland stuff. I thought Jetta missed 4 crucial tackles throughout the game and hasnt really handled the pressure off having a tagger over the last 4-5 weeks. Jetta needs to learn quickly because there will not be one easy kick for the rest of our season should he even play next week given his last 3 weeks??

Cheers

waz

[Cheer Squad]

I have to say I got the feeling of impending doom when Hawthorn piled on 7 goals so easily in the second quarter. You can bet that will be intensively studied when they sit down to review what went wrong.