#AFL Round 12 Swans v Eagles Sun 9-Jun at SCG #AFLSwansEagles @sydneyswans

[Blood Fever]

rose ok but if u highlight sinclairs kick across the groung same should be said of rose. I don't understand how Lloyd in best 3 he had 2 many turnovers and his kick offs a are substd.

Sinclair played a great game

[MattW]

tanking destroys culture. winning against the odds builds it.

look at carlton and melbourne, both still (arguably) recovering from tanking

Spot on mate. Search 2003-2004 and 2011 season records and you'd find wins like that.

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Has really stepped up with the leadership appointment.

Tommy Papley will be a Swans legend. Bloody awesome game; great season.

[dejavoodoo44]

Earliest I have turned to the ladder predictor in the season also.

Suspect we will miss the 8 - we have a pretty good draw, particularly the immediate future we should win most games. Rounds 18-21 will decide the season. Could go 0-4, hopefully will go at least 2-2.

Well, I haven't given up hope. Our next four are Hawthorn and Gold Coast at home, Essendon at the MCG and then back home to face Carlton. On recent form, all four of those are very winnable. Win all four and we get to 8/8, with six rounds remaining. Which gives us a shot, even if the draw then gets tougher. Of course, if we lose to the mustard on turd, then the new found optimism probably flies out the window.

[MattW]

Tough match to work out the votes. While Lloyd was our highest possession winner, I'd probably have Rampe and Hewett ahead of him.

Yep, bloody hard to simmer it down to three vote-getters.

[dejavoodoo44]

What a fantastic win! We played so well and continued on even with only 1 on the bench. I was worried we were going to tire but we fought it out. I checked and we only had 66 interchanges. No wonder players were cramping...we are going to need the bye.

Loved seeing Buddy back to his best ????. What about that goal after the siren?? The reaction of the coaches in the box as they bent over to follow the kick was priceless!

Papley is like the energizer bunny! He doesn't stop.

The backline was great and had to adjust to losing 3 players.

We finally kicked over 100 points!

It was nice to enjoy a game and not stress out ????.

Yes, first stress free win of the year.

[MattW]

Well, I haven't given up hope. Our next four are Hawthorn and Gold Coast at home, Essendon at the MCG and then back home to face Carlton. On recent form, all four of those are very winnable. Win all four and we get to 8/8, with six rounds remaining. Which gives us a shot, even if the draw then gets tougher. Of course, if we lose to the mustard on turd, then the new found optimism probably flies out the window.

Good one, deja. I'm with you.

[Melbourne_Blood]

Just brilliant , best footy I’ve seen us play in a while. This is a team missing two starting on ballers too, one of them a co captain. Geez Horse Longmire keeps finding ways to make people look silly !


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[stellation]

You are correct. He did come back on but at one point they were checking his jaw. Then he stayed off. The MRO will look at it for sure. Rioli is definitely gone. Should get at least 2 weeks. I think slam/sling tackles should be minimum 4 weeks. Absolutely no mitigating circumstances in this one.

They really do need to do something about sling tackles. As the competition gets more and more professional/sports science gets more advanced players are getting fitter and stronger; generally the overall improvements in the competition means a stronger/fitter player is coming up against a stronger/fitter player but in spinning tackles the body dynamics just don't line up.

[stevoswan]

Loved seeing Buddy back to his best ????. What about that goal after the siren?? The reaction of the coaches in the box as they bent over to follow the kick was priceless!

Here it is!.... AFL on Twitter: "Sydney's coaches box loved Buddy's goal after the siren!

#AFLSwansEagles… "

[stevoswan]

Just brilliant , best footy I’ve seen us play in a while. This is a team missing two starting on ballers too, one of them a co captain. Geez Horse Longmire keeps finding ways to make people look silly !

+1

[Snork]

Not sure if anyone else has had a look at our fixture, post bye, but we could square our season at 8 & 8 by round 16 as we play HAW (home), SUNS (home), ESS (away) & CAR (home). After that, apart from GEE (home) and GW$ (away/home!!) we actually have a draw we could do some damage based on today. Stick Jones and JPK back in an we are looking ok!

[mcs]

That was a bludy beautiful afternoon at the footy. Just glorious indeed!

So many great performances but Tom Papley was the man for mine. Just superb. So many other notable performances and great to see Bud getting some good touch.

It's wins like that today which tell me our future has a lot to like about! Great stuff mighty swannies!

[Ralph Dawg]

Love the line used by the commentators along the lines of "Franklin and his buddies have a day out"

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We really took the game on today, built on control of the ball, much better skills and high intensity. When we play 4 quarters, we can match it with the best.

[Ludwig]

I was very impressed with Ollie Florent's game today. He's got a lot of great moves and feel that he's developing into an elite player. Watch this space.

It's slowly all coming together. Still a lot of work to do, but progress is visible.

[Nico]

They really do need to do something about sling tackles. As the competition gets more and more professional/sports science gets more advanced players are getting fitter and stronger; generally the overall improvements in the competition means a stronger/fitter player is coming up against a stronger/fitter player but in spinning tackles the body dynamics just don't line up.

I don't get players who do this. With a growing list of players with post career head trauma issues you would think players would have a greater duty of care towards their fellow combatants.