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  • mcs
    Travelling Swannie!!
    • Jul 2007
    • 8177

    #16
    Originally posted by ugg
    This is the worst game of football I?ve seen since our draw against the Saints at the same venue in 2002.

    Not the best advertisement for Good Friday footy.
    Awful quality match. Stainers seem to have gone nowhere fast over the summer, backwards perhaps. And we all know Lol@Norf were going to be garbage this year as well.
    "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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    • liz
      Veteran
      Site Admin
      • Jan 2003
      • 16786

      #17
      Hard to fathom that the Saints could be that poor. North Melbourne did OK for where they're at as a club, but it's not like they had an awesome day out that just blew the Saints off the ground (as they did against the Crows last season in Hobart). But such a lack of response, or any semblance of skill, from a team that fancies itself as a finals chance was hard to understand.

      Steven is a good player (although not at his best today) but after him, they really are a pretty 'meh' side. Lots of solid foot soldiers but very little pizzazz.

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      • aguy
        Senior Player
        • Mar 2014
        • 1324

        #18
        I reckon the saints are really struggling to adjust to playing without Nick Reiwoldt. Over the last few years his play up the wing and in the middle was more important than his forward game and the are directionless without him.

        They won?t play finals this year and will go backwards

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        • 707
          Veterans List
          • Aug 2009
          • 6204

          #19
          Couldn't understand the hype about the Saints for the last couple of years. Wasn't surprised they missed the finals last year and didn't expect them to challenge for a final eight spot this year either. But to get thrashed by potential wooden spooners North?

          Disappointed the serial stager Rance didn't get done but it's probably a warning to him to cease with the exaggerated theatrics that so lowers his standing in the game in my eyes, just play real football.

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          • Markwebbos
            Veterans List
            • Jul 2016
            • 7186

            #20
            Originally posted by 707
            Couldn't understand the hype about the Saints for the last couple of years. Wasn't surprised they missed the finals last year and didn't expect them to challenge for a final eight spot this year either. But to get thrashed by potential wooden spooners North?

            Disappointed the serial stager Rance didn't get done but it's probably a warning to him to cease with the exaggerated theatrics that so lowers his standing in the game in my eyes, just play real football.
            The Rance duel was fascinating. He?s a very talented player who plays right up to / over the line until the umpires penalise him.

            He?s not the best one on one and the Crows put Jenkins on him to expose him by (1) outbodying him and (2) stopping him leaving his opponent and going into other contests... but in the second half he changed opponents and was one of their best players.

            The moral of the story is: even all Australians play to their strengths and have significant weaknesses which can be exposed and exploited.

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            • dejavoodoo44
              Veterans List
              • Apr 2015
              • 8727

              #21
              I'm quite enjoying the Suns giving Carlton a bit of a hiding. Looks like another year of mediocrity for Carlton. Awww.

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              • barry
                Veterans List
                • Jan 2003
                • 8499

                #22
                I hope the sun's make the finals this year and dew ends up being a good coach.

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                • Sandridge
                  Outer wing, Lake Oval
                  • Apr 2010
                  • 2095

                  #23
                  Originally posted by dejavoodoo44
                  I'm quite enjoying the Suns giving Carlton a bit of a hiding. Looks like another year of mediocrity for Carlton. Awww.
                  I'm enjoying it too! Long may the Blues languish at the wrong end of the ladder!

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                  • troyjones2525
                    Swans Fanatic!
                    • Mar 2008
                    • 2908

                    #24
                    Great to see Dewy's boys get their 2nd win!

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                    • dejavoodoo44
                      Veterans List
                      • Apr 2015
                      • 8727

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Sandridge
                      I'm enjoying it too! Long may the Blues languish at the wrong end of the ladder!
                      Living proof of the theory, that a host of number one picks doesn't make a champion team.

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                      • Ludwig
                        Veterans List
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 9359

                        #26
                        Collingwood's pressure is very good, but their skills are atrocious. Giants look second rate so far: lethargic and sloppy.

                        I thought Jeremy Finlayson could have been getable a couple of year's back when he couldn't get a senior game. Now he's the preferred option to Aiden Corr.

                        The Giants are playing 9 KPPs, albeit 1 was brought in to replace Greene. We're going into tomorrow's game with 4. Port Adelaide 6. I think 6 is a good number, which we can do once we get Reid and Aliir in the side. But the Giants don't seem to to be able to take advantage of their height so far. There's something not right about them.

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                        • dejavoodoo44
                          Veterans List
                          • Apr 2015
                          • 8727

                          #27
                          Okay, I'll be the first to say the unclean words, "Go the Pies".

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                          • stevoswan
                            Veterans List
                            • Sep 2014
                            • 8573

                            #28
                            Collingwood.....Jekyll and Hyde.

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                            • troyjones2525
                              Swans Fanatic!
                              • Mar 2008
                              • 2908

                              #29
                              I know we got a 2nd round pick for this years draft off of Collingwood for Sam Murray but everytime I watch him play I see something that we have been lacking for many years, a player who takes the game on with his pace and kicks it long from half back.

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                              • troyjones2525
                                Swans Fanatic!
                                • Mar 2008
                                • 2908

                                #30
                                Love the look of the Demons jumpers agaisnt the Lions tonight! Looks like their jumper from the early 80's!

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