Game Day Thread: Qualifying Final Sydney Swans vs Hawthorn Hawks

[Ludwig]

We look like a team that needs a complete rebuild. Move over Melbourne Demons. We're the ones that need a priority pick.

Is there anyone on this team that can hit a target wearing a jumper with similar colours?

I would play our reserves team next week. Give them some senior finals experience. Our season is well and truly over.

[DA_Swan]

Not sure that we will have to many fit players next week either - interesting selections ahead

[DK_]

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarck!

[Cardinal]

Well thank god we've managed to avoid Collingwood in the finals.

[barry]

Disgraceful, lazy effort.

We can lift, but youd have to ask yourself if our players are still patting themselves on the back about 2012

[annew]

Yes we are gone for this year, Bolton injured, McVeigh injured, Tippett couldn't mark for some reason been a long season without some of our better players. I want Everitt to be delisted he is scared of getting tackled.

[On-Baller]

Mummy didnt look too happy about being subbed and rightly so, we dominated one area,stoppages and we gave that up when mummy went off. Allowing the Hodge -White match up was a big mistake.
Out coached and out classed...please only fit guys next week.

[Ludwig]

I don't know what our training regime was this year, but we have looked tired since the Richmond game. Something's not right. This is a very different looking team than the one that couldn't miss a target and was linking up so beautifully in mid-season. It's hard to see anything changing next week, except perhaps even looking more tired than today.

[Swanner]

Way too many players just not up to it. Ball control was hopeless and we just didn't get any run through the middle of the ground.

[goswannies]

Our biggest loss under Horse

Tippett our first goal kicker & we lose ... maybe start him at CHB, back pocket or on the bench until another Swan kicks our first goal

Every time the Hawks kicked 100 point against us we've lost to then this season.

Been a long season, lots of injuries to our better players. Unearthing some promising talent as a result. Where there is life, there's hope ... regroup boys.

[crackedactor]

Looking top next year

Yes you are right it doesn't matter we are finished for this year & the best scenario is we go out next week.

Having to play Cats, who will massacre us is not something we want to do, best to go out in two. Get better picks too.

I am often optimistic but tonight effort was a joke. I think it may be time to call the 2013 season over and go out in straight sets. Will definitely are missing AJ and shaw in our backline. I don't think we could beat GWS on tonight's effort. Missed tackles, fumbles , poor kicking, no marks , no hard running. For once it was not the umpires that screwed us over, we did a good job of doing it to ourselves. It might be time to drop a few players and let a couple of kids have finals experience. Maybe Biggs and Jack, Bolton and McVeigh look injured. Cannot see Goodes coming back. Don't worry about Geelong giving us a massacre, Richmond will do this next week!

[wolftone57]

Mummy off was huge and stupid. Another stupid move by a very stupid coach. The bombing into the forward line is just bloody asking for the ball to be cleared as we never have enough players to match them in their back half. Tonight Longmire was totally out-coached. The centre mix was too much in their control and Longmire did nothing to stem the flood. The players in the centre square; Joey, ROK & Kizza. They were getting flogged, it might have helped to change the centre square rotations.
I think Longmire wants us to play next week. But if we get beaten next week that is it. I think we are gone!!!

[Melbournehammer]

One thing they did very very well was work out whoever pyke was playing on in defence and kicked it tem on the lead. Wish we had one player who could actually kick it to a lead

[Industrial Fan]

Who are you to call Longmire a very stupid coach?

Endless bleating. Was that you who said we'd never win a flag playing the style we were last year?

You may prefer the muppet show?

[liz]

One thing they did very very well was work out whoever pyke was playing on in defence and kicked it tem on the lead. Wish we had one player who could actually kick it to a lead

We have one - Jetta. We didn't win enough ball in the second half to give him much of a chance but there were a couple of beautiful pinpoint passes to remind us of what he can do.