Rnd 8 Vs Freo

[ScottH]

FARRRRRRR out!!!!!

[Cpt. Kirk]

This game come down to 3 things. ROKs HtB decision, Welsh missing OoB with an easy at least point shot, and our terrible last 10 minutes.

[swans_premiers]

Dissapointing but thank god for Reid's mark.

[Melbournehammer]

sam reid is clearly a backman. tom walsh is not better than jesse white and our centre square work is just embarassing at the moment. if we won a single centre clearance in the last quarter i would be really surprised. we are carrying mummy at the moment, he is not a patch on the player he was two years ago.

the reality is that they should have won and we are actually playing pretty poorly.

tippett may help but i would be surprised if we finish top six this season actually. at the moment geelong, hawthorn, essendon, collingwood are all ahead of us and i am not sure that freo wont finish ahead of us.

and if anyone complains about our injuries or uses that as an excuse have a look at freo's list.

[Swans500]

The O'Keefe thing..I do not know what it was????!!!!!....changed everything.....disgusting to fall apart after that....Dockers did not seem to have to even waste much effort after that...pathetic....

[lwjoyner]

Hammerhead you must be joking re Walsh, he should be put on the first boat back to Ireland White would have been far better than him tonight. He took a mark and fell over in the 2nd qrt and then kicked it out of bounce on the full when at least a point preferably a goal was needed. His papers should be ,arked never to play again how lucky were the Saints that the Swans chased him. Our kicking to position was again terrible like is had been for a while. Rampe is struggling and by do we miss Shawy. Goodes is playing terrible , Mummy pathetic and back men are also struggling st the moment not the same.

[lwjoyner]

sorry that should be Melbournehammer, not hammerhead.

[alt_mattr]

Can I ask for one favour? An indulgence if you like.

Don't get stuck into a guy in his first AFL game for almost a year.

The difference between reserves and AFL level is preposterous, you don't just turn up and start kicking goals.

For those who didn't notice, Walsh was partly responsible for the Pyke goal (not to take it away from Mike who marked and kicked very well). He very skilfully shepherded his man out of that contest and didn't try to take the mark himself, leaving Pyke in a one-on-one. Having complained for weeks about the swans bombing to ineffective packs in the forward 50, the structure tonight was much better. I think Morton and Walsh should get some credit for this even though they were clearly not on top form.

[0918330512]

Hammerhead you must be joking re Walsh, he should be put on the first boat back to Ireland White would have been far better than him tonight. He took a mark and fell over in the 2nd qrt and then kicked it out of bounce on the full when at least a point preferably a goal was needed. His papers should be ,arked never to play again how lucky were the Saints that the Swans chased him. Our kicking to position was again terrible like is had been for a while. Rampe is struggling and by do we miss Shawy. Goodes is playing terrible , Mummy pathetic and back men are also struggling st the moment not the same.

lwjoyner ... apart from the incredibly bad spelling & grammar, were you responding to Melbournehammer's comment that "tom walsh is **NOT** better than jesse white". The hammer agrees with you.
Rampe's career in a whole half dozen games old. Mummy is playing injured (& and we lacked physical presence without him last week). The backline is probably struggling without Shawry, LRT & the late withdrawal of Mattner.

Love those heat of the moment angry posts

[707]

Unbelievable loss, yes that was a loss!

Reid had a good game even before his 2 point saving mark.

Walsh is a spud and won't be on the list at the end of the year.

Did I hear Mitchell had a good game in the ressies? well time to start subbing him in the seniors, we need some class

I'm gutted with that result.

[swans_premiers]

Relax Guys.

we're the reigning premiers,and sitting in the top 4 in round 8 despite missing half of our back 6 from last year, our most versatile KPP in LRT and our offseason "star" signing Tippett.

We're doing OK.


P.S Freo ran over the top of collingwood, who just ran over the top of geelong who ran over the top of Hawthorn.
Happens to everyone.

Move on, big game next Friday night.

[wolftone57]

Pathetic. That is the only word for it. This effort was insipid and soft. We were spent by 15 min into the last quarter. somebody look at our fitness regime immediately. We are not running matches out. It was as though we wanted to save the game not win it. how can you protect a lead so small. Even 27 pts after we tried to protect a 15 pt lead in the third instead of trying to win the game. We bombed the ball down the flank to a contest constantly in the third and then in the last 15 min of the last. What was that all about? Why not honour the leads that were provided. There also seems to be a Senior player v new boys mentality happening. Jetts, Rampe, Parker etc lead time and again for Mal and he ignored them then kicked to Goodes in a contest against three Dockers. Reg can go home after this one. He was ordinary and got out-marked by a player 10cm shorter at one stage.

[Melbournehammer]

i wonder whether we are doing ok. my instinct is that we are struggling big time. if we cant win these games we have to jag wins elsewhere. we need to get around 15 wins to make top 4. i cant see where that is coming from.

[msb]

To be bloody 4 goals up at home in the last qtr and only just manage a draw (I feel like its a loss!) is just unacceptable! WTF happened? I could only listen to parts of the game, did we run out of puff? Love to get a take on it from someone who was at the game. Oh geez pies at the G next week, looking forward to another great home and away game performance there.

[swans_premiers]

i wonder whether we are doing ok. my instinct is that we are struggling big time. if we cant win these games we have to jag wins elsewhere. we need to get around 15 wins to make top 4. i cant see where that is coming from.

Give the Docker's some credit. They're currently 5th. Drew with us tonight and lost to Essendon in the final seconds. Very easily could be equal top with Hawks and Geelong.