Swans v Pies Match Thread
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I just love watching our boys and their skills when they are playing well in midfield. Their decision making is fabulous at times, and they are so adept at moving the ball cleanly and exceptionally quickly. We did it brilliantly at times in the Granny last year, and it was pretty special on Friday night as well. When we are on song, and they are all on a wave length, it is great to watch!"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."Comment
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1) we didn't have the ball all that often, and
2) they hawks pressure was relentless, unlike the pies insipid display.Comment
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I think its important to realise that yes we played well, but my god the pies were indeed insipid. Played just like a team sitting well outside the 8Comment
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Swannies for life!Comment
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I genuinely believe that was as good as the Hawks can play. Hodge and Roughhead were absolutely on fire, and even $Franklin$ turned up to play. A truly superb team display. And yet it was a dead heat after the first quarter. And we were half the side then than what turned up for (most of) the Freo game, and even half that again for the C'wood one.
My only fear is that we meet the Hawks in the Prelim rather than the GF - not because we may lose, but that it may be one of the greatest games ever played, but one week early. Only fear other than the sheer terror of missing September all together of courseComment
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I thought the main thing with the Hawks vs this game was that players really got in each others way, with two guys trying to pick up the ball at the same time, etc. While against the Pies one guy blocked and the other got the ball...Just generally played more like a team.The eternal connundrum "what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" was finally solved when David Hasselhoff punched himself in the face.Comment
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When a side works as hard as we did you can make the other side look slow and insipid. I think there's been too much talk about how the Pies performed and not enough of on how brilliant we were on the night...And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC
Here it is Again! - Huddo SENComment
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Buckley's take is worth mentioning:
"We were beaten by last year's premiers playing their best footy in 2013, so we have had a really good look at what the very best looks like this year. Sydney are the best side we have played this season."
Read more: Lukewarm Pies feeling the heatHe reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)Comment
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In the Sunday HS the match report was all about how Collingwood lost the game, not the way it should have been written.Comment
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