GWS v Sydney Swans Early Discussion

[ugg]

Interesting setup already: Naismith rucking and Reid in defence.

[Mel_C]

Buddy knocked out by Rohan. #$@%!!!!!!!!! We needed game time from him today. Hopefully his cheekbone is ok...please please please!

[aguy]

No oh no

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Doesn't look good

[Meg]

Horrible.
Buddy KO'd in head clash with Rohan - AFL.com.au

[Meg]

Rohan's head seems to hit Buddy on the jaw/cheek bone but I think it is Buddy's head hitting the ground when he fell that looks most frightening. Please let him be ok.

[Ampersand]

Sickening. Wouldn't be surprised if his jaw is broken.

[Matt80]

What a great chase by Naismith. Impressive!

[Mel_C]

I know it is only NAB but this umpiring is ridiculous. We get pinned HTB after 1 sec while GWS can do whatever they like. And that wasn't 50 against Kennedy.

On a positive note I am loving our ball movement. Those quick handpasses have been amazing.

I love our young tough players ????.

[Meg]

"Franklin woke up while being tended to and tried to get up, but doctors insisted on using a stretcher. Rohan went to the bench unassisted."
Lance Franklin knocked out in Sydney Swans' preseason clash with GWS - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[jono2707]

Buddy will be fine. As long as nothing is busted (crosses fingers).

[ugg]

I know it is only NAB but this umpiring is ridiculous. We get pinned HTB after 1 sec while GWS can do whatever they like. And that wasn't 50 against Kennedy.

On a positive note I am loving our ball movement. Those quick handpasses have been amazing.

I love our young tough players ??????.

I don't have a problem with the umpiring thus far. I think the fifty was there, maybe a bit soft, but Kennedy didn't have to push him.

Impressed with our tackling and chasing so far, even if GWS have managed to extricate themselves a few times from our voracious would-be tacklers, that kind of pressure will start to tell as the match goes on.

[swansrob]

Buddy is up and about. Looking pretty ginger still, understandably, but he'll be fine

[Legs Akimbo]

Looks to me like GWS have been practicing ducking into tackles over the break. As usual, umpires pay it.

Thought Towers looked good but needs to find more the ball. Heeyey and Robinson both did some good things and Parker holding it together. Forward line pretty disfunctional but really, there's is no better. Few players look off the pace.

[Meg]

Thank goodness.
Sydney Swans Twitter:
"UPDATE: GM of Football Tom Harley on Buddy: "Lance had a clash of heads in the first quarter and as a precaution he has been taken to Canberra Hospital before the team flies back to Sydney this evening. He is not suspected to have suffered any serious damage."

[churry]

Kizza in hospital for a lower abdomen?? Worrying news... Hopefully all will be OK