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As someone said, Cunningham did a great job. He's grown as a player and leader this year.
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I don't think Aliir lost us the game but if he had played as well as he has played the past couple of games we would have won. We really missed his rundowns and long arm spoils. It was as though he was completely rattled. Whatever the Hawks planned for him obviously worked.
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Disappointed that Dawson had a poor game. Really want to see him in the team though as I believe he has plenty of talent. Hope he can have an injury free pre-season and come in fit and firing in 2019. I'd imagine he's possibly played his last game for 2018 though with Buddy and Parker to return.
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If we win in the first week, we play the loser of 2v3 (probably WCE v Collingwood); win that, we play the winner of 1v4 (probably Richmond v Hawthorn).Comment
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That team we put out tonight has a lot of good players but no stars. Won't win many games against quality oppositionComment
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Horse was asked a question about Reid at his presser but went on to mention others that probably won't play next game but seemed were roughly in the wings. Included was Mills. Mmmmm.Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.Comment
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Disappointing, since I really thought that was there to be won at 3/4 time.
Felt like they just fumbled their way to a loss. Hawks did what you need to do in the crunch pressure moments: clean hands, good ball use, good decisions. Swans didn't. Too many inexperienced heads maybe.
Well, there is still hope while we're still in it.Comment
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I think he has ability also. Seems to have zero confidence in his ability. Needs to try and take the game on or somehow believe heis up to AFL standard. Loved some of the efforts of McCartin and florent. Can't believe someone on this forum criticised McCartin. St kilda wants to give us pick 4 and Acres or McCartin for Hannebery. Quick let's take it before they change their mind!!!
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"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."Comment
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Normally take losses pretty well but I’m absolutely filthy after that.
Hate those pricks.Bloods
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Just looking at the stats, too many of our fringe/young players don't get enough of the ball to have any impact. Single figure possession numbers doesn't cut it these days in the AFL. While good teams move the ball around with ease sharing it by hand and foot, we kick to packs and hope for the best which makes it hard for the lighter framed young players to get involved in some easy possession.
Our biggest problem is that our strong bodied veteran players have horrible skills and turn it over by hand and foot, even when under minimal pressure. This has been an issue for many many years and I wonder whether its the style of play that the coaches train for as we have never been able to sustain a game plan that is pleasing to the eye for more than a week or two consecutively where we hit up players and score freely. We always tend to fall back into this dour low scoring rubbish that keeps teams in the game where the highly skilled teams chop us up when it counts.
Do we not work hard enough in this area at training and in pre-season as I haven't seen an improvement in this area while teams like Richmond, Collingwood, West Coast and others have all of a sudden moved past us playing a fast, skilled and high scoring brand of footy!
It's hard to watch and no doubt everyone on here and most people who don't even follow us would have expected a low scoring tight contest tonight. Because we are predictable in the fact that we don't have the ability to come out and put teams to the sword anymore.... changes need to be made this off season.
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There was a moment last night where hannebery had the ball in the back pocket and alir lead to space. Could have kicked it to him and should of but didn't. Shortly afterwards they showed what looked like the two arguing heatedly. I also note that Reg's last game was north melb when Alir shone. Reg comes back and Alir turns into a fumbling mess.
I also saw hannebery yelling at someone on the boundary when he came off after injuring his leg.
At times it looked more like the RWO after match discussion out there than a cohesive happy team.
Just saying.He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.Comment
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This. There were a few things, individually, that could have turned the result but it would be rough to point at any one of them. I do think that if Aliir had played as he has for the last couple of months, we probably would have won. He's been close to our best player over that period. He seemed to lose all confidence early in the game. I guess the next step in his development is the mental strength to move on quickly from a mistake - especially important for defenders. I can't agree with the person above who asked if he is a fair weather player. He was good even during the period when the whole team was awful. He just had a poor game tonight.
What else could have turned things around? We should have been an extra couple of goals ahead at half-time, after dominating in the second quarter. The misses from Hayward and Dawson (first quarter?) stick out as they were very gettable but there were other chances went begging. Even in the final quarter, Kennedy's set shot was well within his repertoire, and Jack had the time and space to steady and get a better kick away.Comment
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