#AFL Round 18 Dockers v Swans Sat 20-Jul at Optus Stadium #AFLDockersSwans @sydneyswans

[Mel_C]

Get to the SCG. I’ve got a good feeling an upset is coming!

I wish I could...I'm in Melbourne. I'll be cheering loudly from home with my Geelong supporting brother ????.

[Mel]

I still think Stoddart can play. We need to show faith and not drop him after one quiet game. Look how much Rowbottom has improved since his first couple of senior games. Jordan Dawson started out slowly as well but after given a good run has gotten used to the AFL game and has become one of our most important players. We need to give him games right to the end of the season, hopefully he'll show something more towards the end.

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You reminded me - I thought a few times tonight 5hat we missed Dawson and that beautiful kick. He might have been able to make our forward look a little better with his delivery

[Blood Fever]

Someone said we took a huge step forward in the way we were playing - are these people for real? Have they picked some random off the street to commentate? Baffling how poor the performance of everyone to do with this comp has been this year. Again, 'fans shoukd be pleased' what garbage.

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You obviously don't appreciate heart and effort. Strange.

[Agent 86]

I wish I could...I'm in Melbourne. I'll be cheering loudly from home with my Geelong supporting brother [emoji4].

We’ll still hear you!

[0918330512]

Didn’t decide the game, I didn’t say nor believe it, we were our worst enemies tonight. But it’s so hard to enjoy watching a game where the rules change week to week, it’s too subjective.

I wasn’t singling you - or anyone else - out. The weekly umpire whinge is tedious being my only gripe. I agree that it can be frustrating to watch.

[Blood Fever]

Gerard Healy is becoming an enabler of umpiring underperformance and I cannot stand it. This old boys club fondness for dismissing blatant missed frees as some kind of badge of honour for the beneficiary is very 1980s and freaking wrong.


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Agree. It's all about the brand. Umps now protected species.

[Scottee]

Florent played his worst ever game for us tonight with McCartin a close second. They both look like they badly need a break.Florent exemplified the problems half the team seemed to have kicking to advantage with only 40% effective disposals. Bizarrely, Clarke had an 80% disposal efficiency. Strange days indeed.

Inexperience was the main reason we lost tonight but it was a good experience for a young team to fight out a close one and it appears that we have picked up a player in McLean.Can't complain really, we are clearly in a development phase and making progress.

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[mcs]

I wasn’t singling you - or anyone else - out. The weekly umpire whinge is tedious being my only gripe. I agree that it can be frustrating to watch.

Sadly its a weekly whine because weekly we see the same old crap over and over. Inconsistency of it all is what frustrates me the most. Not arguing they won or lost the game either way tonight - but its annoying to see calls waved on that were blatant (like that holding the ball towards the end) because its a close game.

[grarmy]

Hayward did a few nice things....

Nothing like the impact he had last year. He miss kicks targets. Should be doing better IMHO.

[Mel_C]

I was wondering what changes we would make next week and then remembered Dawson. He will be a welcome inclusion. As someone mentioned above his kicking would have been handy tonight.

[Nico]

For the third week in a row our finishing cost us the game. Did someone say Hayward did some nice things. For mine he was our worst player and that is saying something when you have Melican in the side. Hayward gave us nothing and he doesn't like the hurley burley of the game. Florent was poor and his disposal was even worse. For most of the team you couldn't question the effort, inexperience is one thing but downright poor disposal cannot be forgiven. Papley centred the ball from the pocket 3 times directly to Freo players. No point centreing the ball if there is no one there.

Jake Lloyd had 42 possessions and no tackles. He refuses to move the ball on and rarely kicks more than 20 metres. Some of his piddling kicks were based on poor decisons and lack of accuracy. Mind you a lot of stats are from kick outs. And don't mention his sloppy kick for goal.

We outplayed Freo most of the game but it didn't show on the scoreboard. Our backline apart from Melican has been superb but delivery forward from the midfield is rubbish.

I thought Kennedy was very good and again Rampe shone in the backline.

If we get the finishing right, even 20% we will be an infinitely better team, given in all but 2 games we have been in the game at 3Q time. There was te time in the last quarter when Reid tried to pass to Papley with a much taller player on his tail and of course the ball was knocked away.

[0918330512]

Jake Lloyd had 42 possessions and no tackles. He refuses to move the ball on and rarely kicks more than 20 metres. Some of his piddling kicks were based on poor decisons and lack of accuracy. Mind you a lot of stats are from kick outs. And don't mention his sloppy kick for goal.

Well, while you’re graciously not mentioning that, also don’t mention he is a defender and they aren’t notorious for their goal kicking prowess
Papley 1.3
McCartin 0.2
They are paid to be accurate in front of goals. And I don’t blame them either. Inaccuracy can happen
#scapegoatLloyd

[waswan]

Id take 5 Rampe possessions over 30 lloyd possessions the least damaging playing in the comp for the amount of ball he gets

Poor skills and silly errors, before everyone talks about how uoung kids and higj pressure id say the game was fast as opposed to high pressure, it was end to end.

Should be able to hit a target

[crackedactor]

Florent played his worst ever game for us tonight with McCartin a close second. They both look like they badly need a break.Florent exemplified the problems half the team seemed to have kicking to advantage with only 40% effective disposals. Bizarrely, Clarke had an 80% disposal efficiency. Strange days indeed.

Inexperience was the main reason we lost tonight but it was a good experience for a young team to fight out a close one and it appears that we have picked up a player in McLean.Can't complain really, we are clearly in a development phase and making progress.

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I think our delivery up forward was shocking was the main reason we lost. Can't understand why you cannot kick to advantage of your forward if you cannot find a target. Fox was handy tonight but looked exhausted in the last quarter. Not sure if he is injured but Florent looks disinterested, would not be surprise if he seeks a trade. McCartin had no pre season so he will be inconsistent. At least contested ball was better this week.


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[troyjones2525]

For the third week in a row our finishing cost us the game. Did someone say Hayward did some nice things. For mine he was our worst player and that is saying something when you have Melican in the side. Hayward gave us nothing and he doesn't like the hurley burley of the game. Florent was poor and his disposal was even worse. For most of the team you couldn't question the effort, inexperience is one thing but downright poor disposal cannot be forgiven. Papley centred the ball from the pocket 3 times directly to Freo players. No point centreing the ball if there is no one there.

Jake Lloyd had 42 possessions and no tackles. He refuses to move the ball on and rarely kicks more than 20 metres. Some of his piddling kicks were based on poor decisons and lack of accuracy. Mind you a lot of stats are from kick outs. And don't mention his sloppy kick for goal.

We outplayed Freo most of the game but it didn't show on the scoreboard. Our backline apart from Melican has been superb but delivery forward from the midfield is rubbish.

I thought Kennedy was very good and again Rampe shone in the backline.

If we get the finishing right, even 20% we will be an infinitely better team, given in all but 2 games we have been in the game at 3Q time. There was te time in the last quarter when Reid tried to pass to Papley with a much taller player on his tail and of course the ball was knocked away.

You are spot on RE: Lloyd! His kicking is average at best and so is his decision making. He looks great in my Supercoach side but as far as his impact for the Swans, well there's a reason that opposition sides don't bother to tag him... which is usually a rarity for players who gather a lot of possessions, he just isn't damaging.

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