Rnd 13 Match Day Thread Sydney V Melbourne. SCG 13.10 pm.

[i'm-uninformed2]

Nankers doing exactly as you'd hope - crash, bang and making a contest.

And at risk of upsetting some people, McVeigh's class and touch important in this weather. Kennedy a beauty.

[Melbourne_Blood]

Rose had started well too. Allir just needs to get a bit smarter, does some nice stuff and then some really dumb stuff.

[bloodsbigot]

Are the swans the unluckiest team in the AFL in terms of weather?

[dejavoodoo44]

Nankers doing exactly as you'd hope - crash, bang and making a contest.

And at risk of upsetting some people, McVeigh's class and touch important in this weather. Kennedy a beauty.

Yes, I thought that McVeigh was possibly BOG in the first quarter bog. Towers has been surprisingly useful. While Kennedy, Jack and Parker have slowly been getting on top in the clinches.

[Auntie.Gerald]

Go deano
Go nanko
Go rose
GoAA
Go jones
Go hewett
Go mills
Go Heeney

8 pups

Significant impact

The next wave ????

[longmile]

Lucky we have a week off next week, all these wet games must really drain the Swannies.

McGlynn seems a bit past it, but Towers looks like a good replacement.

[Melbourne_Blood]

McVeigh hopefully coming into top form. Coming off no pre season at his age, maybe it's just taken him a while to find the pace. I hope that's the case. Our two big guys Sinclair and Nanka have been good.

[Foreign Legion]

Very hard slog but really we should win this by 4-5 goals in these conditions. Most of the team has played pretty well really. Allir showing good judgement and reads the play well - he just needs to be a bit more sure with his disposals.

Heeney seems a bit down at the moment - conditions probably don't suit but would like to see a bit more go from him.

[dejavoodoo44]

Thought that all our defenders played well and are right on top. Our midfield is also on top. Hopefully our forwards can take advantage and put the game away.

[dejavoodoo44]

Very hard slog but really we should win this by 4-5 goals in these conditions. Most of the team has played pretty well really. Allir showing good judgement and reads the play well - he just needs to be a bit more sure with his disposals.

Heeney seems a bit down at the moment - conditions probably don't suit but would like to see a bit more go from him.

Well, Heeney hasn't had many disposals, but he has laid nine tackles. And as a team, we have laid 87 in the first half, which is all time record AFL pace.

[Mug Punter]

Terrible terrible selfishness by Tom Mitchell when his own greed denied Rose a goal

[Auntie.Gerald]

The pressure of our forwards to prevent clean transition by the Dee's has been first class

Buddy, Mcglinn, rose, Rohan etc have been awesome

Certainly a big factor in helping our backline and midfield dominate

[Untamed Snark]

Possibly our best game in the wet for a while.

[longmile]

Possibly our best game in the wet for a while.

horrible to watch tho!

[Mug Punter]

Great four quarters of wet weather football.

A bad day for the haters on here. McVeigh was immense and surely we can stay off his back today. Towers was also absolutely brilliant today, worked hard and got two goals but also did a lot of little things. On that effort he is definitely in our best 22

Other comments from me:
* Nankervis did very well against Gawn and I think the run of game will do him the world of good.
* Mills continues to amaze me with his poise and confidence for a young lad
* Zak Jones continue improve and is becoming a regular first grader for sure.
* Aliir Aliir did OK and he didn't let us down but I still think he is a fair way off the finished article but he is definitely a keeper. He does seem to have very good judgement which is of course essential for a backman
* And I guess I should mention JPK, how spoilt we are to take that effort today as a given

But highlight overall me was Rose. I've never been a huge fan but he's won me over with his workrate and effort and I just really admired his effort today. He's finish isn't there yet but he has clearly developed very well this year.

We have struggled in the wet of late so it was good to see a good four quarter effort