Match Day Round 10 Swans vs. Suns

[CJK]

Would like to get or worked up but can't find the energy.

Swans win. That's all I need to know.

#goswans

[Wardy]

Sure it wasn't pretty but really is so much angst & vitriol warranted?!! I'd be pissed off if we lost. We didn't. So I'm happy. Give the blokes a break
or alternatively get out there and do better yourselves. Moving on!

[Mug Punter]

Cheer up you lot. Essendon just played about the worst first half of footy I've ever watched. And it was under the closed roof at Etihad so no rain, dew or wind.

That was a most enjoyable performance by the Bombers tonight.

Could the most delicious sting in the Hird-Essendon saga be about to unfold where it becomes blatantly apparent that the Golden Boy cannot actually coach This is just getting better by the week....

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Goodesy your show boating in 2012 gf cost us & yet you persist. Get over it & play your age not your ego. Rampe get the hair out of your eyes & you might see dangers. Tippett the million dollar dud. In a word no balls & you will lose your fans.

Didn't Goodesy have a reasonable game on a busted knee that day

Didn't we win the flag in 2012

Or am I missing the sarcasm here

[Ludwig]

Goodesy your show boating in 2012 gf cost us & yet you persist. Get over it & play your age not your ego. Rampe get the hair out of your eyes & you might see dangers. Tippett the million dollar dud. In a word no balls & you will lose your fans.

Always appreciate someone showboating his intellect.

Oh, by the way:

1. It's you're, not your
2. danger, not dangers
3. and no balls are 2 words not a word

[Doctor]

The only thing surer than the Swans grinding out a solid 50 pt win against inferior opposition instead of winning by 100 pts is the same old RWO posters will be here going spare and calling it the worst ever.

Yep, and our skills going to pot as soon as it starts raining.

[CureTheSane]

I took away 2 things from the game.

1. I pray for dry finals. Swans in the wet suck.
2. Our missing killer instinct is still missing.

Overall a win by 52 points is great, but I don't think the Suns put up quite the fight the commentators were rambling on about. Seemed more about a bit of complacency at times by the Swans.
The best way to think of it is 4 points, reasonable percentage and no injuries.

Hanners was great.
McVeigh good, but still frustrates the hell out of me at times with stupid errors.
Rampe was better than I recent weeks.
Robinson was unlucky not to get a full game after last week.
Reid continues his roller coaster - still say he's not backman material.
Laidler is becoming one of my favorite players - strong, determined and doesn't seem to make a lot of errors.

I also see problems with our forward entries, given the players we have up there and the lack of marks.
Not sure if it's the players not making good enough position, or the way the ball is getting out of the centre square not suiting good leads etc.

[Industrial Fan]

Pretty awful game similar to the Carlton one. We got in front early and held them off to bank 4 points. Not sure what the problem is as I don't think the flag is awarded to the team that flogs the bottom teams in the first half of the season.

We've seen against port and the hawks that we'll bring the noise when required.

[Wardy]

The only thing surer than the Swans grinding out a solid 50 pt win against inferior opposition instead of winning by 100 pts is the same old RWO posters will be here going spare and calling it the worst ever.

I'll just put my red nose and big shoes back on Gary and head back to the circus...

I'm with you Trips - not the end of the world - a wins a win!!

[frankee]

Tippet kicks 3 goals.... still gets called a dud. I don't understand isn't that what he is paid for?

[Sandridge]

Sure it wasn't pretty but really is so much angst & vitriol warranted?!! I'd be pissed off if we lost. We didn't. So I'm happy. Give the blokes a break
or alternatively get out there and do better yourselves. Moving on!

Yes. Remember the bad old days when we'd play badly - and lose?
At less than half way through the season, I'm more than happy to be underperforming and sitting on 8 -2.
Go the Bloods!

[Gary]

Simply don't get those who seek to go soft on this performance ... if we are ever going to get our skills up to perform in September ... these games are where we ought to show that we have, or at least are working on! (a) basic skills (b) some sort of system (c) the ability to learn from mistakes ... we failed on each count against a team that had 12 or more of their best players missing.
I say again ... if you are content with what was dished up last night ... you weren't really watching.

[Nico]

Simply don't get those who seek to go soft on this performance ... if we are ever going to get our skills up to perform in September ... these games are where we ought to show that we have, or at least are working on! (a) basic skills (b) some sort of system (c) the ability to learn from mistakes ... we failed on each count against a team that had 12 or more of their best players missing.
I say again ... if you are content with what was dished up last night ... you weren't really watching.

I agree, and the stats show we had 74% disposal efficiency. What the ........

[0918330512]

Goodesy your show boating in 2012 gf cost us & yet you persist. Get over it & play your age not your ego. Rampe get the hair out of your eyes & you might see dangers. Tippett the million dollar dud. In a word no balls & you will lose your fans.

Always appreciate someone showboating his intellect.

Oh, by the way:

1. It's you're, not your
2. danger, not dangers
3. and no balls are 2 words not a word

Actually his grammar was correct for the first one, his punctuation was not.
It should have been
Goodesy, your show boating in 2012 gf cost us & yet you persist.
Ie needs a comma after "Goodsey"

Technically, dangers is correct too, if Rampy has missed multiple dangerous episodes.

[Nico]

About time they recognize how useless he was. his 3 three goals were the result of lucky bounces. not good play. I don't think he could out mark my five year old son at the moment. A spell in the neafl is WARRANTED.

Reid's marking was worse. Lucky the footy wasn't a bucket of tripe.

Rohan, Rohan....his ground skills get worse by the week. Any chance he can pick the footy up first go when he is 100 metres in the clear. I am starting to wonder if he hears footsteps.

One thing I think did notice in the game was; I think I saw Harry Cunningham try to win a contested footy. I would have to look at the replay to verify it though. Fair dinkum he is soft.

[Go Swannies]

After the disgrace of last year's GF I said the Swans would only win me back if we were ruthless in every game this year. And I spent a lot of time swearing at the TV last night. But I woke today thinking that maybe the Swans coaching staff are smarter than me and we are doing enough to be there when it counts at the end of the year. I even wondered if Horse was faking the rage last night (I wasn't).

As others have said, 8/2 and one game off the lead is pretty comfortable. I don't care how we do it I just want to win the Premiership this year so the pain of last year goes away. There was always a chance that the Swans would completely drop their bundle after the embarrassment of last year and that hasn't happened. But sheesh I wish we could be neater in the wet.