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Ticketek did try to warn us when it made it near impossible to buy a ticket day 1 of ticket sales .......Comment
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Was that the reason for the place not being full?Comment
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Well that was utterly horrendous. So very disappointed in that - awful performance where barely anyone broke even with their direct opponent.
An embarrassing way to go out and frankly a good wake up call to show just how far off we truly are.
Happy for people to defend him, but like Chris Scott I honestly feel Longmire gets off lightly. Tonight showed just how desperately one dimensional we can be, and how we need to adopt to where footy is headed.
And why the hell play buddy when he was nowhere near fit. May as well have not been out there...
At least im not on driving duty back to Canberra tonight, going to be a long trip nonetheless."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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Watched the game on replay and haven’t read a comment so if I double up or revisit other quotes I apologise
In summary we looked like a senior colts team playing the A grade team.
GWS appeared to have bigger body all across the field and our decision-making seem to be that split-second slower than theirs as well.
At one stage I was tempted to call for a headcount given the pressure and numbers around the ball the giants had. Unfortunately this situation never appeared to change. We were never good enough at any stage that we even looked like winning this game. I would never suggest that I was embarrassed to watch the team that I love play however I believe that many of today’s team will feel their own level of disappointment with the performance they delivered.
Lots to look at over the off season but another year in the gym for some of our less experienced players and potentially some basic skills improvement for a few give me cause to look forward to season 2019 with some confidence. In the meantime jumping on the Demons bandwagonComment
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Just curious, who will be people be pulling for now? I have to go for Collingwood and Mason Cox (and his fake Aussie accent...really, dude? you are from Texas!)Comment
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Several people at the ground were saying they would now support Melbourne... Looks like they're the official Swans second team this final's series...
Personally I'm a 'no Swans' ' no AFL' fan. I used to follow the rest of the competition,( I like Geelong and Freo) but I've given up this year after some appalling displays of umpiring and some appalling AFL house decisions regarding the Swans. I'm just sick of the Melbourne-centric AFL...Comment
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I think it’s more to do with decision making and execution. It’s like they’re not drilled enough to lower the eyes , kick to space for a moving target rather than sit it on the head of a stationery one. Hit up a medium target than bomb it long to nobody , an outnumbered player or to the direct disadvantage of our 1 on 1 . A good example is Jones . He actually looks like he has a terrific piercing boot on him but the way he uses it is horrendous. Lack of footy smarts ?Comment
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The easiest improvements we could make in the summer would be to learn to handball lower and faster and kick to a player on the lead, not dump it on his head.... all season we have sold players into trouble with dumb loopy handballs and kicks with way too much air under them. We play so often in a way that leaves the reciever under huge amounts of pressure."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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I just don't understand why our worst loss for the year has to be in a final - it is sickening when this happens (and it has happened a bit of late). To only score 30 points, when our next lowest was 59 (and only two goals down from the team who won) - it is so disheartening, and I really am left wondering what it means. It has to be mental, rather than physical (the score and margin, not the result).
Is this the performance that we would have offered up this week had we beaten Hawthorn (which we should have) two weeks ago? It beggar's belief.
We were so close to winning a flag two years ago and now I am not sure where we are. The youngsters will be better for the exposure, but will our senior players come back into form?
Incidentally, I had lunch with a group of people today and I got chatting with a Bulldogs supporter who works for an analytics company and he confessed that their analysis of AFL grand finals revealed that the Swans v Bulldogs match was the worst on record. He said that he did not notice it at the time, but has trouble watching the game now and feels that they were gifted the premiership. That is not my reading of the game (in terms of it being 'gifted'), and it doesn't make me feel any better, but it was interesting to hear.Comment
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