Match Day Thread. Prelim Final. Geelong V Swans. MCG 7.50

[707]

Don't mind if the free kicks are there but Selwood is an almighty pest looking for a free every time he gets it. Dangerfield was starting to as well..but his crime is more around incorrect disposal or holding the ball

Selwood spends a whole lot of energy telling the umps how to umpire. Should just get on with the game and help his team more :-)

[707]

Zach Jones !!!! How good was he tonight. Best game he has played. Close to BOG in my opinion.

Finally showing what we all thought he had, a great game and a welcome addition to our best 22, just that he should be on a wing, but then again so should Heeney and Mills!

Geelong supporters are feeling down after that result. Dangerwood were immense last night but they were smashed on the scoreboard. Despite massive recruiting and selling the farm last trade period, a dream draw playing Brisbane and Essendon twice and getting the rest between finals games, they have fallen short with an ageing list and question marks over many of their mid tier players.

This puts into perspective, regardless of next weeks result, what a watershed year this has been for us. So many young players proving themselves to be quality and relatively, a young list profile. A win next week would be fabulous in the context of list management. Just don't let Mitchell walk!

[mcs]

AFL Tables - Essendon v Carlton - Sat, 25-Sep-1993 2:30 PM - Match Stats
Only three players with less than twenty game so well behind us we should be called the the Cygnets

If (and its a huge if of course) we can finish the job next week, its going to be hard to go past this year as our greatest premiership of the modern bunch. Every premiership has its wonderful traits, but the way we have seamlessly turned over a third of our team and bought in some wonderful young swannies has been amazing. A premiership would be some achievement.

As ludwig said though - there is so much more to come from this group, the next few years promise to be fantastic, no matter what happens next Saturday.

Another interesting factoid that is a possibilty - if the dogs win today and we can knock them off in the grand final, we would have beaten every side in the league this season at least once...

Now just one more win to go, on the biggest day of the footy calender. Come on you mighty swannies!

[shaun..]

Don't mind if the free kicks are there but Selwood is an almighty pest looking for a free every time he gets it. Dangerfield was starting to as well..but his crime is more around incorrect disposal or holding the ball

[barry]

How good was zach jones. First game back and dominates a prelim. Gave is far more than mcveigh has.

I wonder if mcveigh can crack the side?

[Mountain Man]

On Fox, there was a statistic quoted - Selwood racked up his 600th career free kick (or was it 800!)

Last night Selwood and Dangerfield received 9 free kicks for and only one against.

Kennedy and Parker combined were 0 for and 6 against. They must very nasty cheating players or very clumsy in comparison

(or maybe they just don't play for a Melbourne based, media favoured team)

[Swansinger]

Quote Originally Posted by dejavoodoo44 View Post
Wayne Carey to Isaac Heeney, "You haven't won a quarter against GWS all year".
Pretty sure we won a game, Wayne.

Carey copping it on Twitter for that apparently......

AFL.com.au should be copping it , too :
"Another good performance should get Ben McGlynn into his first Grand Final"


I'm sorry I can't quote it , but I loved the interview with Franklin - something about "You're going into your fifth Grand Final(in 9 seasons)" and his reply "Yeah , it doesn't happen very often" .

[Ludwig]

Caught the game from Girona, Catalonia. It was a great match to cap off a great vacation from my permanent vacation in Thailand. Will be happy to be back home for the GF. Mrs. L will let me be for a few years and stop threatening to leave me for a Richmond supporter (who would never have a problem gong on vacation in September). It has been a great experience for Mrs L. Before she could only count on her fingers and still made mistakes, but now she can convert the price of every bottle of wine on the shelf from Euros to Thai Baht instantaneously in her head. I think she may have a career ahead of her as a currency dealer.

Really impressed with Jones and Heeney, but so many others as well. It's not just this year, but there's a bright future for us fans for a fair few years to come.

[stevoswan]

Too hyped to go to bed, but I'm going to sleep very contentedly when I do. Three days off now.......lovely!

[dejavoodoo44]

I am. I said in the other thread that I will go and see who's going to win, if our team wins.

Injuries and suspensions. Injuries and suspensions. Though curiously, if there was such carnage, that we ended up playing against GWS's NEAFL side, they'd probably still have more top ten draft picks than us.

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Keiren Jack had such an influential game tonight. He's been a bit of an unsung hero lately.

Yep, reminded me a bit of a manic blue heeler, driving the team forward.

[dejavoodoo44]

Given that the VFL was formed in 1897, that would have been the first instance

Brief pedant moment: while the first comp was 1897, the first grand final was 1898.
But hey, how about those Swans!? Was the first quarter the best we've played all year!?

[MattW]

Keiren Jack had such an influential game tonight. He's been a bit of an unsung hero lately.

Yep, two influential finals games in a row. One of the only Swans who ran hard v GWS, too.

[jono2707]

Keiren Jack had such an influential game tonight. He's been a bit of an unsung hero lately.

[Billericay]

McGlynn proved his doubters wrong

I am one of the doubters and thought he played well tonight, but has lost a yard or two of pace and might get exposed by a quicker team (i.e. Dogs or Giants)

[Odysseus]

... think the Swans will play much better than in the first final. And they get an 8 day break. Whether it's good enough, time will tell. ...

Yes; our six-day turnaround, which could have disadvantaged us, now turned to advantage by the great showing tonight. And yes, time will tell. As others have said, whatever happens, the team has given us a lot of joy this year. But I dare to dream there's one more in them. I just love the fact that some of the kids - eg Papley with his incredible eye for the goal and confidence to take responsibility and kick the set shot and brilliance to make something out of nothing - have shown no fear of the big stage. Can't see why they'd be any different at the same venue in front of another big crowd next week.

Go Bloods!!!