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Great post OP.
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Love this thread and totally agree with the initial post.
Last year for the first time I can remember I hated footy. All the stuff with Adam and the endless sniping of idiots like Eddie. And I hated the game itself, the hybrid game of rugby and basketball led by coached like Lyon and Roos (even though it helped us win a flag in 2005). Buddy's situation was the final straw...
I can't remember a season I've enjoyed more to date, The football is amazing, the game tonight of Hawks v Crows was worthy of a GF and amazingly surpassed our game last week.
I love the squad we are building, the way we rebuild within the top 4. We need young talent to step up and we unearth Papley - pure genius. Mills and Heeney, two 200+ gamers and maybe even a Brownlow between them.
Most of all I am enjoying my footy again. I don't think we will win the flag this year, I hope I am wrong, but somehow it just doesn't seem to matter at the moment, I am enjoying the game for what it is.
As Gerard Healy said, "Footy is back"Comment
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QUOTE:Most of all I am enjoying my footy again. I don't think we will win the flag this year, I hope I am wrong, but somehow it just doesn't seem to matter at the moment, I am enjoying the game for what it is.
As Gerard Healy said, "Footy is back" QUOTE
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A postscript after yesterday's game. In a season that keeps giving it was wonderful to see Teddy as the new Buddy - kicking goals from outside 50. The grin on his face as he ran back to defence was truly wonderful.
Then in the last quarter Ted take a screamer. I said to my companions "that rolls back the clock" then corrected myself and said "No it doesn't. Teddy has never been one to take screamers. Where did that come from?"
The "Teddy" chant around the ground when he won the medal topped off a great day.Comment
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In a post match interview on the Swans website, I think, a very happy Ted said that it was his 4 month old son's first football game and that he had told him before hand that he was going to kick a goal for him!!!
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I think we're straying from the topic but since people are talking about Teddy I have to throw in a shout out for whoever wrote the headline for the article about Teddy's game on the Swans' website: 'Teddy's promise coming to fruition'. ???? Got a chortle out of me.All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
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There is such a buzz around Heeney, and in time I think we will see the same around Mills - it really is great, and as much as Buddy is the headline, the supporting acts are doing their bit to really help give a fantastic (for want of a better word) vibe around the Swans this year.
It has been such a great season already, and long may it continue. I think for many, its a fact that we came in with subdued expectations, and the uplift in performance, and particularly the great contribution being made by some of our inexperienced and younger brigade, has really added to the fantastic start.
How long our form will continue is another question, and I don't dare consider us to be a genuine flag threat yet, but if we have a decent run, then who knows what we can get out of 2016. As long as the footy continues to be enjoyable as it has been so far, then it'll be a good year.
And our beloved Swans have never been one to know boundaries of what they can achieve - who honestly though before the action started in 2012 that we could win the flag. It wasn't until late in the season, when we just got beat by the Wees and Poos in around Rd 19/20 in a thriller, that I finally came to the conclusion that we could win the flag that year. There had been signs all along that we could be there or there abouts, but it was only that day, after we played sensationally but only just fell short, that I was convinced we had the mettle to beat the Hawks when it counted!"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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I had a huge operation 2014 grand final week, woke up to the news that I was going to be a survivor and talked my way out of intensive care just in time for the big game. I was back in the depths of depression before half time. Last year, thanks to the radiation oncologists I was pretty crook much of the time and it was hard to enjoy anything, nor was there much to enjoy on the footy field either.
Now I park myself in front of my big HD screen with a six pack of Melbourne Bitter and am loving every minute. There is so much joy in seeing hard, fast, entertaining and high flying footy. New kids come into the side and are so good they give me goosebumps. I?ll never work full-time again, but being able to enjoy a beer and the footy again means i?m loving life.
Go Swannies, come down the South Coast one away weekend; you might just get that beer you reckon I owe you.Pay peanuts get monkeysComment
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Of the season so far, to be sure it has been a relative joy, compared to last years 'annus horribilus', which followed 2014's 'grandis finalis horribilus', and I must say as a life long Swans fan, it is nice to be able to say that after finishing fifth, outside of the depressing Goodes treatment that is. I echo many of the thoughts expressed on this thread so far. As far as the flag goes, at this stage of the season, we are wise not getting ahead of ourselves, but I believe we have as much a chance as anyone at the moment. If not this year, maybe next year, but we may just do it a year early! Early days but all the signs are good.
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There is one very, very, very significant difference. Yes the kids are good and Buddy is back. But finally we are winning the centre clearances each week, handsomely. And not only are the numbers significant, but the quality A class. Fast, crisp and clean. Oppositions had the perception of us as being poor out of the guts. We have turned that around so much that the defences have no idea what is happening. Not only is Buddy back, but Papley is pouncing on the pill, Heeney is an absolute star, McGlynn is back in town and Hewett it seems is a second half lifter. With this quality up front it is a no brainer that it is imperative that we belt them out of the guts. Last year even the cellar dwellers were doing us out of the middle. Our inside 50's are amazing and our forward pressure is outstanding.
I have been hammering this point since 2005 and finally we are delivering in spades; KJ has been super. Combine this with the youth and improvement in the likes of Lloyd and Robinson and magically we have the magic pudding. Yes we have to keep the ball rolling, but is exciting to see that footy going to our forwards like a rocket. How many times have they marked in front of their opponents from a centre clearances or quick corridor movement.
This post was inspired by 3 Leo stubbies at a bar in Chiang Mai.
By the way OldRoyboy, keep on punching.Comment
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ORB I may need to head south to take you up on that offer. Now the after matches are finally back, I miss not dissecting the game with you, Des, et al. Footy is just a part of our lives but the Swans have given us a lot of joy (and a bit of heartache) over the past 15 years. I hope we get to see you at the SCG at some stage this year.Comment
Good play on words considering the promise he made to his son......
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