#AFL Round 7, Swans vs North, 7:25pm at the SCG #AFLSwansNorth @sydneyswans

[waswan]

We are still yet to put 4qtrs together this year

[707]

Too many on here allow their emotions to swing far too wildly, last week they were heroes, this week they're all rubbish. Remember it's never as bad as it seems, never as good as it seems.

Kennedy & Sinclair huge. Sinkers is becoming a gun!

Let's look at the critical points and I haven't seen the whole game yet. Stuffed score review, twice KJ missed goals he should have kicked, Haywards shocker miss, Heeney shocker miss then we give them two in front of goal courtesy Sinclair & McVeigh. All of these shouldn't have happed - we win by 6 goals!

If Cameron was good again today in the ressies, we need another tall forward more than we need say Fox, time to bite the bullet and go back to some forward structure.

Ronke was ok today, others had lesser games.

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and - way too many soft and technical frees, even replaying some of them I couldn't see the free.

[Nico]

Terrible loss. Only ourselves to blame. Crucial turnovers cost us goals.

Still pissed off at the non goal review. Of course we will get a "sorry" from the afl but it's too late.

If Buddy isn't right for next week then we need another marking tall forward especially for the MCG.

They really need to practice goal kicking and they need to practice when they are fatigued to simulate the game situation.

3 losses at the SCG ????.

I doubt Papley was fatigued. Didn't get near it much. Just a poor execution and should have put us in front; no excuses.

[Matty10]

That was so unbelievably frustrating - we seem to lose our intensity and football nous every second game. What is going on?

It is hard to come up with solutions to problems like that.

The umpiring wasn?t great, but they weren?t our biggest problem. We moved the ball too slowly from defence - with a distinct lack of run - and bombed the ball to bad matchups.

And how is it that the SCG is now our bogey ground?


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[Nico]

Play another tall if not 2 in AA and Melican and have Rampe as the running defender
We never looked like transitioning back to forward all game

Good call. However, again we didn't make space until the last quarter, and our kicking is horrible.

[Swannette]

We seemed bereft of a forward structure. Same personnel as last week, very different implementation. North are good scrappers that?s for sure and that tactic has and still works well against us. Just no flow all night so props to them for being disruptive enough. We just couldn?t do enough with the chances we had - though if they had kicked straight we would have never been in it. Aaargh....


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[Nico]

I had to laugh when the commentators called Florent a 4th qtr specialist. He was totally unseen for the 1st 3..

I checked at 3q time. He had 2 handballs up until then.

[waswan]

Too many on here allow their emotions to swing far too wildly, last week they were heroes, this week they're all rubbish. Remember it's never as bad as it seems, never as good as it seems.

Kennedy & Sinclair huge. Sinkers is becoming a gun!

Let's look at the critical points and I haven't seen the whole game yet. Stuffed score review, twice KJ missed goals he should have kicked, Haywards shocker miss, Heeney shocker miss then we give them two in front of goal courtesy Sinclair & McVeigh. All of these shouldn't have happed - we win by 6 goals!

If Cameron was good again today in the ressies, we need another tall forward more than we need say Fox, time to bite the bullet and go back to some forward structure.

Ronke was ok today, others had lesser games.

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and - way too many soft and technical frees, even replaying some of them I couldn't see the free.

This can be true but we also let a good qtr in geelong mask 3 terrible qtrs
dont worry about our missed chances if any team should have had a 6 goal win it was North

He has changed his mid rotation which is good
The forward line is a bit hard with 2 tall injured and i suppose the defenders have the same issue

Its like he has a method but cant play that way cos he has guys out

That is game day coaching change with what you have

[jono2707]

We just aren't that good.

[Markwebbos]

He has changed his mid rotation which is good

The forward line is a bit hard with 2 tall injured and i suppose the defenders have the same issue

Its like he has a method but cant play that way cos he has guys out

That is game day coaching change with what you have

This is my frustration with the game plan. Completely dependent on kicking the ball long down the line out of defence to create a stoppage, which doesn?t work when you only have one player > 190cm.

With so many running players can?t we try running the ball?

Ditto the kicking into forward 50.

North to their credit held up our ball movement really well so we rarely got an open forward 50 to kick to.

A lot to work on before our #Nemesis next week. I?m pessimistic

[DNJ500]

We seemed bereft of a forward structure. Same personnel as last week, very different implementation. North are good scrappers that?s for sure and that tactic has and still works well against us. Just no flow all night so props to them for being disruptive enough. We just couldn?t do enough with the chances we had - though if they had kicked straight we would have never been in it. Aaargh....


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I think the number and timing of "Misses" was almost equal..Could have been the other way around..If we had been accurate....

[waswan]

Last week awesome at holding the ball up and hitting targets chippping etc

Didnt see it once tonight

[MattW]

Terrible loss. Only ourselves to blame. Crucial turnovers cost us goals.

Still pissed off at the non goal review. Of course we will get a "sorry" from the afl but it's too late.

If Buddy isn't right for next week then we need another marking tall forward especially for the MCG.

They really need to practice goal kicking and they need to practice when they are fatigued to simulate the game situation.

3 losses at the SCG ????.

Yep, thanks for expressing it for me.

Would've been surprised if Papley kicked that one. He's had an inexplicably poor year and ours looks marked.

Salt rubbed etc by fact that this is second of three games attended from Canberra, the first Port, relying on childcare and favours. Feels like a cheap, selfish habit.

[Nico]

What that showed me tonight is that we really lack quality in the bottom half of the team. Some stats from the game;

Towers 4 kicks 6 Hand balls, Fox 4/6, Papley 7/4, Florent 5/4, Cunningham 4/5, Hewett 11/3 (clanger riddled) Rohan 9/1. How do these blokes stay out of the game for so much time. Smith 6/2 (thrashed by Wood). Mills courageous but poor disposal.

I agree with those who say Newman should be in the team. He certainly gets a lot of the footy even though he was butchering it.

[stevoswan]

We just aren't that good.

......at the moment anyway. The coaching is a real concern for me. New innovations from new coaches in the box? Can't see it.....but they can't be blamed for match day player ineptitude but what are they doing during the week to address it?! This week......Truth and Honesty session for the coaches and SKILLS, SKILLS, SKILLS work for the players!!