NAB Challenge: Swans v Eagles @ BISP Thursday 27th Feb 2014

[0918330512]

Does anyone else find they're anxious everytime Steve Austin x1.5 goes to ground even remotely awkwardly?

[sharp9]

Did not have a possession forward of the centre in the last nine minutes either. Not one. The poorest quarter of football I have ever seen from the Swans in 17 years of watching.
This was typical, though of 2011-2013 - when the Swans are put under a lot of strangling type pressure and the a) game of quick, brilliant handpass and run through traffic does not work, we have no b) game. And worse, instead of it turning into a dour struggle the opposite happens, we completely capitulate skill-wise and become an uncompetitive rabble. Weird. It's like Jekyll and Hyde.

I watched the last 16 of the 20 minutes and we did not move the ball from one Swan to another in the forward half even once. I've never actually seen that before.

[DLBIA14]

Appalling disinterested excuse for a performance....

I know, right? Preseason game or not, whatever this is, it's worrying. I'll reserve my final judgement until the end of the game, but it's really hard to see what sort of purpose the coaches had for this game. What's one positive thing you can draw out? How exactly is this going to help our season? I have no idea.

[Melbourne_Blood]

It's nab cup, sure we've been @@@@, but this hasn't exactly been the time of year when we've normally excelled. Got 3 or so weeks to sort it out, wouldn't get too stressed about it. Plus it's wet and that's our kryptonite

[DLBIA14]

Scary bad.

[sharp9]

That's five uncontested marks in traffic (2 in the fifty) in the first minute and a half of the quarter. This is laughable.

- - - Updated - - -

Clock says 17 minutes and A HANDPASS from Smiffy to Jets on the fifty!

[DLBIA14]

In two weeks we have to play real football. Holy @@@@!

[Mel_C]

Not sure why we would give all our main midfielders a rest this week considering it is Buddy's first game. You would think it would be an opportunity for him to get used to the delivery.

We have not handled the conditions well at all. Very frustrating!

[goswannies]

it's really hard to see what sort of purpose the coaches had for this game. What's one positive thing you can draw out? How exactly is this going to help our season? I have no idea.

Well, for starters, Buddy WILL eventually have a great game, so, by definition, he will have average or crap ones before then. This match gets one of those crap ones out of the way ... one game closer to Buddy's first blinder in red&white

[undy]

I know, right? Preseason game or not, whatever this is, it's worrying. I'll reserve my final judgement until the end of the game, but it's really hard to see what sort of purpose the coaches had for this game. What's one positive thing you can draw out? How exactly is this going to help our season? I have no idea.

They get to see who keeps plugging away when it all goes to pieces (Smith, Bird), maybe a couple of the youngsters will make way for Jones and Shandy.

We get to see Rohan still has it.

[0918330512]

Give Aliir Aliir a run!!!!!

Naismith runs like a gazelle when chasing the ball, tackles like a gorilla, but lopes like a giraffe when chasing a player down ... promising though

[Melbournehammer]

Fascinating to see that our game plan of kicking it aimlessly long, or occasionally aiming at a pack of talks hasn't changed. Buddy will get pretty frustrated with our inability to actually hit a forward on a lead since that is his strength not the pack mark.

[DLBIA14]

Words can not describe. I really wish I didn't watch this.

[goswannies]

Fascinating to see that our game plan of kicking it aimlessly long, or occasionally aiming at a pack of talks hasn't changed. Buddy will get pretty frustrated with our inability to actually hit a forward on a lead since that is his strength not the pack mark.

Meh ... that's what Sammy, Pykey & Tippett are for

[0918330512]

Aliir Aliir reminds me of Matty Wheeler (pre-dreds/Sanford)