Super Sledging Swans?

[dejavoodoo44]

Meh, I'll stick to my statement. Giants are our main threat. Get through them and I think we'll go all the way.

Adelaide and West Coast aren't threats away from home. Bulldogs got lucky and plagued with injuries. North don't worry me at all if they play outside of Tasmania; got us last year, but we were limping into finals with half our team missing.

We seem to have the edge over Geelong for some reason. Hawks are a worry, but I think they can't ride their luck with the umps forever. I genuinely think there's something suspicious going on with the umps at Hawthorn and AFL will take steps to stifle this stink, which will muck up their dominance.

In terms of threat and where we stand on the ladder, I would rank them like this:
1) Giants
2) Hawks
3) Adelaide
4) Geelong
5) Bulldogs
6) Kangaroos
7) West Coast

Swans fans tend to be conservative in their predictions I've noticed. Probably due to decades of losing and being quite humble. I find this humbleness fairly admirable, but it gets irritating after a while.

Though, I have a place in my heart for negativity, as Hawthorn forever angered and humbled me in 2014. God that still haunts me. I need redemption for my sanity and white-hot hatred of Hawthorn. Almost legitimately needed therapy.

Yes, I'm sort of hoping that we get to play Hawthorn at some stage during the finals. Just so we can drive some dirty great stakes through the hearts of the undead ones.

[Thunder Shaker]

I would rather have players put the opposition off their game by sledging them than belting them.

[Thunder Shaker]

Swans fans tend to be conservative in their predictions I've noticed. Probably due to decades of losing and being quite humble. I find this humbleness fairly admirable, but it gets irritating after a while.

Some reasons why you would see conservative expectations from Swans fans:
(1) Half a century of not winning a single final.
(2) 98 years since we finished on top of the ladder and won the premiership in the same year (the five times since 1918 when we finished on top, we made the Grand Final but lost it: 1935, 1936, 1945, 1996 and 2014)

More recently, the 2014 Grand Final is still a source of pain (for me, anyway), and GWS are the only side that has beaten the Swans by a large margin this year.

We have learnt many years ago not to get overconfident - especially this year with the finals being so even.

[bloodsbigot]

Some reasons why you would see conservative expectations from Swans fans:
(1) Half a century of not winning a single final.
(2) 98 years since we finished on top of the ladder and won the premiership in the same year (the five times since 1918 when we finished on top, we made the Grand Final but lost it: 1935, 1936, 1945, 1996 and 2014)

More recently, the 2014 Grand Final is still a source of pain (for me, anyway), and GWS are the only side that has beaten the Swans by a large margin this year.

We have learnt many years ago not to get overconfident - especially this year with the finals being so even.

I know that, but it'd be a welcome change to see an overconfident wacko come along. We're supposed to be supporters right?