#AFL Rd 16 Sydney v Geelong, SCG, 05 July 2018 @SydneySwans #SwansCats
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Absolutely not, they didn't win us a premiership end of story. You get judged by results not hopes and dreams, or did i miss the premiership Tippett and Buddy played in. Would have been a completely different story if we had beaten the bulldogs but we didnt.
BTW I am criticizing the fact we took on 2 huge contracts. We should have looked at offloading Tippett as soon as we signed Buddy, even if we had to pay some of his salary, Tippett never lived up to the contract from the start.Comment
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Against an average footy team too . Made them look like work beaters for 3 qtrs. Yuck ! Absolute garbage.
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Getting Tippo was a mistake getting Bud was the best decision we've possibly ever made. We would not have made 2014 or 16 GF without him. Giving Sam Reid another huge contract is a huge mistake.Comment
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I hope that Sammy comes back at the back end of the year and has a huge impact (won’t hold my breath, but he’s potentially what we are missing at both ends of the ground.Comment
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Not much good to say about that. Worst game I’ve attended in some time.
Struck me tonight how slow we look, and how tired by the end. And that’s against a middling opposition. Even J Selwood makes us look slow.
Shame Towers couldn’t make the most of his chance. At least some of the younger ones tried, but let down by skills. Too much faffing about in the 50 leading to turnovers and goals. Would have been slaughter if the Cats kicked straight.
We can only hope that we get some spark from the ins (Papley, Heeney, Reid) in the next few weeks.Comment
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We've been badly hurt by the effective loss of Hanners and Jack from our midfield group, 2 reliable hard ball winners, and suddenly our inside contested game is looking frail. Not having Dawson available to fill a spot has not helped, nor has the loss of Mills, which might have given us another midfield option.
Our kids, Hayward, Florent, Ronke and McCartin have been very good, but are still young players and young players tend to fade as the season wears on.
When Rohan comes back, he has to go to defence. McCartin should stay in the side even when Reid returns.
Aliir still has so much to learn and should have loads of improvement to go. Once we can rely on him to go to the right places we should be able to utilise him more as an offensive weapon, but that's still some way off. Harry Taylor had zero marks for the game and Aliir 8, so not a bad effort for a key defender.Comment
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Longmire saying Hanners did calf early in the game and was played forward with Jack already out of the gameThose who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.Comment
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Totally agree with your sentiments.
That was a tough game too watch... yet another game where the majority of players REFUSE to bend down for the ball at every contest, no wonder the opposition teams have the majority of the ball against the swannies.
Looks like finally most teams have worked out the swans suck at contests for the ball, all a team has to do is be better in that 1 area (which they are) and should win 90% time.
Kennedy doesn't seem to be leading very well imo and the coach completely runs out of ideas when the team is under pressure and has NO other game plan.
Something has to change.Comment
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We've been badly hurt by the effective loss of Hanners and Jack from our midfield group, 2 reliable hard ball winners, and suddenly our inside contested game is looking frail. Not having Dawson available to fill a spot has not helped, nor has the loss of Mills, which might have given us another midfield option.
Our kids, Hayward, Florent, Ronke and McCartin have been very good, but are still young players and young players tend to fade as the season wears on.
When Rohan comes back, he has to go to defence. McCartin should stay in the side even when Reid returns.
Aliir still has so much to learn and should have loads of improvement to go. Once we can rely on him to go to the right places we should be able to utilise him more as an offensive weapon, but that's still some way off. Harry Taylor had zero marks for the game and Aliir 8, so not a bad effort for a key defender.
We should also consider trading out Lloyd and trading for Jayden hunt.Comment
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Trading out Lloyd! Did you not watch the game tonight?Occupational hazards:
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