Match Day SEMI FINAL Geelong v Sydney MCG 7.50pm Friday 15 September

[Bill Posters]

Why all the negative comments. Yes it was a stinker tonight but who would have thought that after a 0 and 6 start that we would be in the finals. I am truly proud of what the team has achieved and am looking forward to next year. They went 15 wins and 2 losses until tonight. Lets toast this and not the shocker of tonight. We can all agree that they were outplayed and out coached. They will come back better and stronger. Cheer cheer our great team.

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[stevoswan]

Why all the negative comments. Yes it was a stinker tonight but who would have thought that after a 0 and 6 start that we would be in the finals. I am truly proud of what the team has achieved and am looking forward to next year. They went 15 wins and 2 losses until tonight. Lets toast this and not the shocker of tonight. We can all agree that they were outplayed and out coached. They will come back better and stronger. Cheer cheer our great team.

Very true. I do like to be positive and are very excited about next year.......but some of us do need a short period of venting and mourning first.

[Bloody Hell]

Cats played well. Swans played terribly.

Disappointed, but the Swans haven't played a bad game since round 6. The losses to the Hawks were close.

Just one of those days. Look at the ranking points on the AFL website. I have never seen them so skewed.

[Boddo]

Thanks for the year everyone. Have a good post n pre season. I will I've already started????

[Hotpotato]

It was a lot of fun while it lasted .

But bloody hell, if the Swans were a racehorse they would have to trial before being allowed to play again .
Their form went up in smoke .
It was such a one sided boring match for a final.
Totally blind sided by that effort.

[dejavoodoo44]

The silver lining is that we can't blame the umpires for stealing a flag from us this year.

Well, we could make an attempt, but I don't like our chances of convincing anyone. Even ourselves.

[Billericay]

Yesterday I said "I'm always nervous when Swans go into a game in the finals as "red hot favourites." The 2014 GF has left me scar(r)ed." and @@@@@@ me ragged if we didn't turn in a total stinker.

I actually agree with Ludwig that there's little to be gained from dissecting this one abysmal performance. No idea why they were so poor. I'm thankful they made history by making finals after a 0-6 start. Looking on the bright side we get higher draft picks and a longer preseason this way.

Back in the dark days of the season I booked a holiday next weekend. Maybe I'm physic?

[Agent 86]

There was only 1 selection issue; were we going to stick with last week's side or bring in Melican for Cunningham. I would have gone with Melican, but it would have had no impact on the result. It was likely that Melican would have played just as poorly as the rest of the team. Why should he be the exception? We just didn't lose. We were absolutely and comprehensively smashed. When a team loses this badly, there's nothing to analyze. We played like a bottom six team. We probably would have lost to Brisbane.

Well summed up. 1 first year defender probably not gonna make much difference tonight.

They were fired up from the start. We never got started.

1 player can possibly hold his head up. 21 should be ashamed.


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[waswan]

Like other's im not happy cos we are wasting the list we have
Best team across the last 5 yrs and not a flag to show for it
Waste of talent the time is now @@@@ next year we could have injuries in September

[mcs]

What was that! Worst game since 1994. Hard to comprehend. Some serious weaknesses exposed. Some very, very dumb footy. Completely out played. Did they all have the flu.

I didn't get to watch any of the game thankfully (trekking around Copenhagen on our final day here on our trip) but it sounds like for every bit as good as we were last week, we were terrible tonight. Ultimately, the bad first 6 weeks has caught up with us as we had no room to have a 'bad one' come the pointy end of the season. Very proud of what we achieved in the end in our season, but a shame to go out like this.

[goswannies]

The lowest finals score since 1924??

[MattW]

There was only 1 selection issue; were we going to stick with last week's side or bring in Melican for Cunningham. I would have gone with Melican, but it would have had no impact on the result. It was likely that Melican would have played just as poorly as the rest of the team. Why should he be the exception? We just didn't lose. We were absolutely and comprehensively smashed. When a team loses this badly, there's nothing to analyze. We played like a bottom six team. We probably would have lost to Brisbane.

I'm not saying we lost because he didn't play or that he alone would have made the team play well. It did leave the team unbalanced and that affected our play a bit, but that itself isn't why we lost.

It is more that it is indicative of muddled thinking. I thought his non-selection was inexplicable and arrogant. It didn't make sense. It suggested the coaches weren't properly focused. The team was similarly unfocused and complacent, like they expected to turn up and win. That's how the 2014 GF and 0-6 start have been explained by some players and I reckon that's the explanation here.

[goswannies]

Like other's im not happy cos we are wasting the list we have
Best team across the last 5 yrs

That's really the main thing that bothers me about tonight and the season overall. None of our champions are getting younger.

[stevoswan]

1 player can possibly hold his head up. 21 should be ashamed.


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Hanners or KJ? I think both.

[Billericay]

OK I'm going to allow myself to be drawn into this maelstrom of a post-mortem. Geelong have been the side we've beaten up on recently and I think there was complacency from the players and the coach.

On top of that, Chris Scott who normally does the same thing expecting a different result, actually did make a radical change, playing Danger forward in the first quarter. If you look at the recent history where we've demolished them in first quarters plus they've been unable to turn inside 50s into goals, it made huge sense. They really couldn't have done any worse in the first quarter than they have in the last 3 games against us. I also heard that Danger is carrying an injury. Whether an act of desperation or genius, it worked a treat.

Slightly amazed that we didn't really have a plan B for Dangerfield. If we'd had Melican I think it would have made it possible for us to defend without having to resort to a spare man... which allowed them to play a spare in defence... the rest is history.

All that aside they were better, harder, faster, worked harder than we did. I'm happy to believe that hauling ourselves back from a 0-6 start did finally catch up with us.