Swans v Pies Match Thread

[CureTheSane]

Maxwell looked like a player from a local footy team on Fri night.
Maybe he's gone one year too long

[ScottH]

Maxwell looked like a player from a local footy team on Fri night.
Maybe he's gone one year too long

so did Swan and a few others.

[ScottH]

Why the heel didn't Morton claim his mark in the goalsquare....surely it would have been paid? Ump called "Play On' AFTER he played on and missed what would have been a certain goal.

After a truly fabulous win it might be petty to gripe but.....gee we butchered quite a few opportunities to score. We aren't going to have the luxury of more than 30 shots at goal against a top team very often. Usually we would be hoping to win with 21 or so and scoring 14.7 ()

On Friday night we made a dissappointing number of BRAIN blunders that saw us not bury Collingwood much earlier.....Jetta not handpassing to Jack for an easy goal and putting it OOBOF from the pocket instead....(BTW Chelsea R will be demoted for that blunder - she paid a point)

Also Jetta going the checkside, Morton not taking Rampe's kick on full.

Also Everitt's absolutely appalling kick into 50.......had two really easy targets one 20 metres away one 40 metres away with both players 10m off their man....yet kicked it 50 metres to a place where two Collingwood players were the closest to it.

I Like Mike!

There were other examples where a player was free and we didn't kick it to there advantage.
A classic was where Jetta was one out in the goal square behind his man, but the ball dropped short and he had no chance.

Plenty of frustrating moments.
My personal one was when I asked my daughter, "how the hell did we get so far in front?"

[hot potato]

Didnt find it that frustrating, more exhilarating that they played such proactive blowtorch footy to to such effect that so many of the Pies stars were MIA.
HP

[Melbournehammer]

There were other examples where a player was free and we didn't kick it to there advantage.
A classic was where Jetta was one out in the goal square behind his man, but the ball dropped short and he had no chance.

Plenty of frustrating moments.
My personal one was when I asked my daughter, "how the hell did we get so far in front?"

The whole third quarter was one of wasted opportunities. morton playing on, mal kicking out on the full, jetta kicking round the corner twice (which is especially disappointing given that he is just uncatchable from behind and such a long straight kick), mal missing free players, handpassing backwards and the umpire getting directly in the path of the handpass.

But that miss by bolton to jetta was particularly bad. I blamed mummy on the night - he just needed to lead to the ball and the collingwood player would have been caught in no mans land. bolton has never had a really penetrating kick anyway but he could easily have hit mummy on the chest if he had led to the ball. instead he sort of drifted around and the pie was able to stand in between easily covering both.

I think I swore repeatedly over that ten minute period - I genuinely felt at the time and even now still feel like I have never seen a side so dominant as we were that night against good opposition. Never. And yet we were still only up by four goals at the time. They couldn't get their hands on it, were incredibly fumbly couldnt mark it or pass it and we still couldnt bury them. I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen a more one sided 4 goal difference after nearly three quarters.

The swans were just so super impressive everywhere other than ten metres out from our defensive goal and actually shooting at goal.

Nonetheless I was able to carry on a conversation with my dad by text message in the last quarter - first time in so ever long that i felt they were never a winning chance.

[CureTheSane]

Didnt find it that frustrating, more exhilarating that they played such proactive blowtorch footy to to such effect that so many of the Pies stars were MIA.
HP

Same.
I enjoyed the whole game.
There were mistakes, but far fewer from the Swans.

[Primmy]

I always remember what Kirky said after a harrowing game....to a friend of mine who knows him slightly.....Never give up on us! .... Now I kind of look over my shoulder in guilt if I do think of slinking off.....what would Kirky say. Even now.

I just had another look at the game, and yes there were nervous mistakes (history, Collingwood, MCG) but the intent and commitment was there at all turns, and I applaud Mitch especially as he is playing like a committed AFL player, to Drey who played his role relentlessly, to Dane who has stepped in and taken his chances, to NicMal who is doing the work of two without his usual partners in crime, to Jetts who got it wrong and didn't go into his shell and then got it right, to the battering ram that is Luke Parker, to Jed Lamb who stepped in like a professional player and made a difference.

Eminently satisfying.

[ugg]

Just watching the replay again, in the first quarter as Harley is trying to describe the tough task being assigned to Rampe in marking Lynch he tells us viewers that Rampe is five-ten five-eleven on the old scale. Just a few inches off Tom!

[liz]

I always remember what Kirky said after a harrowing game....to a friend of mine who knows him slightly.....Never give up on us! .... Now I kind of look over my shoulder in guilt if I do think of slinking off.....what would Kirky say. Even now.

I just had another look at the game, and yes there were nervous mistakes (history, Collingwood, MCG) but the intent and commitment was there at all turns, and I applaud Mitch especially as he is playing like a committed AFL player, to Drey who played his role relentlessly, to Dane who has stepped in and taken his chances, to NicMal who is doing the work of two without his usual partners in crime, to Jetts who got it wrong and didn't go into his shell and then got it right, to the battering ram that is Luke Parker, to Jed Lamb who stepped in like a professional player and made a difference.

Eminently satisfying.

Great summation Primmy. The "lesser" players certainly all stood up and performed their roles, which as we learned last September, turns a decent team into a champion team.

I especially liked what Morton brought to the forward line, notwithstanding the fact that he wasted most of his scoring opportunities.

[swanspant12]

Typical melbourne media "journo" flogs.

All I've heard is "they had Shaw, Beams, Thomas out." Well any danger of mentioning how many injuries we had out?

LRT, Shaw, Mattner, AJ, Rohan and Reid subbed out.

The lids off for me. In Jimmy's opinion if we can get all our players on the track come finals we will go back to back. Not to mention a certain Kurt Tippett at FF.

Imagine a fit and firing Rohan on one wing and Jetts on the other come finals time. Wow.

[JudesaGun]

Is anyone able to send me a copy of the game? Happy to pay.

[Melbournehammer]

Typical melbourne media "journo" flogs.

All I've heard is "they had Shaw, Beams, Thomas out." Well any danger of mentioning how many injuries we had out?

LRT, Shaw, Mattner, AJ, Rohan and Reid subbed out.

The lids off for me. In Jimmy's opinion if we can get all our players on the track come finals we will go back to back. Not to mention a certain Kurt Tippett at FF.

Imagine a fit and firing Rohan on one wing and Jetts on the other come finals time. Wow.

Who comes out for rohan ?

I think we plan for him to return circa 2014 and look after the kid. it will be amazing if he manages to return this year to the way he was heading in 2012.

[Dosser]

Maxwell looked like a player from a local footy team on Fri night.
Maybe he's gone one year too long

Although Maxwell has been applauded for his efforts over the years, I have taken a different view. I have always thought that Maxwell was never a star and has always received a lot of the ball because Malthouse's role for him was as the extra defender. So many times Maxwell played as the loose man in defence that it was only natural that he dominated stats. His problem occurs when other teams isolate the Wobble's defenders so that they have to go one-on-one. When this happens, Maxwell becomes an average player and this was shown on Friday night. The only one who tried to create down there was Harry 'Ive Got A Chair I Think In' O'Brien who tried to run it out but continually got isolated and had nobody to give it to.
This happens when forwards execute a coach's instructions, so well done to our boys and to our forwards coach.

[wolftone57]

This is what it can be like when a team actually delivers the ball to the forwards. We have played at the most a half of real footy in every game this year. To win against quality opposition we needed to play a full game and on the weekend that is exactly what we did. Gone was the bomb to a pack and only a few times did we just bang the ball in without looking straight to the opposition (Jetts lift the head mate). The delivery was accurate, the play well thought out, the run was back and players continually ran to positions that were dangerous. This is how Longmire had them playing last year, this is what you have to do to win a premiership. The skills are still a bit rusty but over the second half of the season should get sharpened.

I made the comment that if we continued to just bomb the ball out of defence and into the forward line Horse would not win another premiership and I stand by that. What the side showed on the weekend was nothing like the sloppy skills, long bomb to a pack, lazy running, lack of intensity that had marred our games against Hawks, Cats and Freo. What we showed was a game plan that was followed to the letter and executed on most occasions very well.

[dimelb]

One thing that struck me was the handballs were often dazzling in pace and accuracy. Not too rusty there.