Anyone optimistic?

[joemoore12]

Anyone optimistic? I am. Tough times, but hang in. The tide will turn.

Wrote this for the club website: http://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/2...e-to-from-here

[CureTheSane]

I am.
I still say finals

[WauchopeAnalyst]

This is me at my most optimistic moment.

No.

I am sure we have many severe problems.

100 gallons of cool-aid couldnt change my mind.

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[Southern Swan15]

I am of the opinion that the in the long run the losses will help us more than had we played poor and had close wins. Our current position on the ladder has shown that lomgmire will need to tweek something, question is can he? We are a proud club and have become what most other clubs aspire to be, that achievement was not a fluke and we will bounce back.

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[Hotpotato]

If as Heeney suggests : "it's quiet out there , very wierd "
that the camaraderie has gone to Gowings...
It might take awhile .
But I'm hoping there's not much to see there , and they will bounce sooner that later.

[tlock]

I'm optimistic that we'll trade out the right players at the end of this year.

[SCGonasunnyday]

I'm optimistic. There would have been no 2012 without 2009 draft and trades. A down year may put us in a position to draft / trade for a premiership next year. We were always going to drop eventually - this is spectacular and unexpected- but we will be back.

[barry]

There are probably a few demons out there that success has masked and this will be good for the club to do a bit of a spring clean.

I think it will play out exactly like freo did last year, with a bounce back next year.

[neilfws]

I'm not pessimistic.

[annew]

I'm optimistic. There would have been no 2012 without 2009 draft and trades. A down year may put us in a position to draft / trade for a premiership next year. We were always going to drop eventually - this is spectacular and unexpected- but we will be back.

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[Ludwig]

I'm optimistic, but not in the sense that we will suddenly turn things around and challenge for a premiership this year. If we split the rest of our games we will have 8 wins and should finish around 12th or 13th, which should get us a couple of good draft picks.

Nothing has changed in my assessment of our playing list. We've have an incredible group of players who have joined the club through the past 4 drafts. Jones, Hewett, Aliir, Heeney, Mills, Melican, Dawson, O'Riordan, Papley and the entire crop of players from a strong 2016 draft. These players will be around for the next decade.

There are many ideas floating around about why we've done so poorly this year, but a whole group of elite players is not going to suddenly fall off the edge together. Hannebery and Parker are at the peak of their careers. KJ should play at a high level at least till his contract ends in 2019. JPK and Smith have been consistent performers at a very high level for a long time; I am sure they will regain their best form soon enough.

The intensity seems to have been drained from the club, but I feel this will be temporary and we will regain our composure and form sometime during this season. It could be next week. It could be in a month or 2. Maybe we will have to wait for AJ's AFL 2nd coming (not a bad idea to get a club in the dumps revved up again).

I have confidence that our coaching staff are clever managers and will find the key to our future success that will become apparent to all and we will go into the off season eager for the 2018 season to begin.

[S.S. Bleeder]

I'm optimistic. There would have been no 2012 without 2009 draft and trades. A down year may put us in a position to draft / trade for a premiership next year. We were always going to drop eventually - this is spectacular and unexpected- but we will be back.

I agree 100%. Now is the time to trial some youth, experiment and rest injured players in order to prolong their careers. Take a top 4 draft pick and regroup for next year.

[Flying South]

Definitely!! I can't believe how many people have given up on the year. Granted it's a long shot. But i cant give up on them. When my son turned to me with tears in his eyes on Saturday and asked if we can still win the flag, I said of course we can. Our team will never give up and you should never give up hope as well. Giving up is easy. I want teach my son that reaching any ultimate goal should be a special moment. If it wasn't hard, then we didn't achieve it.

[DynamoJim]

Definitely!! I can't believe how many people have given up on the year. Granted it's a long shot. But i cant give up on them. When my son turned to me with tears in his eyes on Saturday and asked if we can still win the flag, I said of course we can. Our team will never give up and you should never give up hope as well. Giving up is easy. I want teach my son that reaching any ultimate goal should be a special moment. If it wasn't hard, then we didn't achieve it.

Well said

[magic.merkin]

There's no way this list can be this talented and all be under performing to this extent. Besides the fitness/injury stuff only the gameplan touches them all. I think there has been some change or tinkering by the coaches that the team just isn't gelling with. Unfortunately the change has co-coincided with a horror injury run and a reasonably tough fixture. The results have compounded the problem with confidence dropping through the floor. I think they will sort it out sooner than later, possibly not in time to reach the eight. Once that's mathematically not going to happen, i'd fully support sending in injured players for surgery, persisting with kids and playing your BJacks and Foote to give them that consistent run at it and see what they show. The coaches can continue to work on their desired tactical changes and not fear the results in the mean time.

I see a budding list with some real talent, we can do with another quality KPD and KPF mostly. I think the talent is already there to help with the mids, time will fix that as they learn and transistion. So a top 5 pick for a key position player. A fresh fit list, an early start to preseason (as opposed to us pushing on into finals and delaying our start as usual) and lets have a run at it.