Match Thread. Round 9 v St Kilda.

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  • bloodspirit
    Clubman
    • Apr 2015
    • 4448

    Ugly finish.
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    • Melbourne_Blood
      Senior Player
      • May 2010
      • 3312

      Match Thread. Round 9 v St Kilda.

      Originally posted by troyjones2525
      Haha exactly! Has missed the mark on developing so many IMO!

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      People on here can paint it anyway they want, we stuffed that up. Pick 32 is a disgraceful return. I know he was out of contract but surely we need to be craftier at the trade table, or keep our talent.


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      • troyjones2525
        Swans Fanatic!
        • Mar 2008
        • 2908

        Where's Taylor? Haven't seen him this qtr! No doubt get "rested" next game...

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        • Markwebbos
          Veterans List
          • Jul 2016
          • 7186

          Originally posted by waswan
          Horse had planned to use him as a midfielder in 2022
          There was an article about Jones today, which said: "The Saints unleashing him as an onballer is a long time coming, after he thrived in the first six rounds last year as a Swan in a similar role before reverting to playing wing and defence."

          Why just the first six rounds last year?

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          • Blood Fever
            Veterans List
            • Apr 2007
            • 4051

            Originally posted by Markwebbos
            There was an article about Jones today, which said: "The Saints unleashing him as an onballer is a long time coming, after he thrived in the first six rounds last year as a Swan in a similar role before reverting to playing wing and defence."

            Why just the first six rounds last year?
            Did his hammy v Brisbane and wasn't fully fit.for most of the year. Was often injured.

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            • mcs
              Travelling Swannie!!
              • Jul 2007
              • 8177

              Awful last quarter, but that will happen during the growing pains period. We desperately need to improve our goal kicking though - a lot of those misses today were eminently kickable ones.
              "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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              • Blood Fever
                Veterans List
                • Apr 2007
                • 4051

                Originally posted by mcs
                Awful last quarter, but that will happen during the growing pains period. We desperately need to improve our goal kicking though - a lot of those misses today were eminently kickable ones.
                Agree but won't stop usual suspects coming alive when we lose

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                • snajik
                  Senior Player
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 1115

                  Used up all the fuel in Q3 trying to get back into the game. Massive quarter for no reward. A deflated effort in the last.
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                  • bloodspirit
                    Clubman
                    • Apr 2015
                    • 4448

                    Originally posted by Melbourne_Blood
                    People on here can paint it anyway they want, we stuffed that up. Pick 32 is a disgraceful return. I know he was out of contract but surely we need to be craftier at the trade table, or keep our talent.


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                    I agree it was a dismal trade. Considering he was a first round draft pick who was coming into his prime after years of development.

                    Still I don't think we had a lot of choice. And maybe we felt we owed him, and possibly even the Saints after they took Banners salary off our books.
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                    • caj23
                      Senior Player
                      • Aug 2003
                      • 2462

                      Originally posted by Blood Fever
                      Agree but won't stop usual suspects coming alive when we lose
                      Bull dust, I think it’s well accepted on this board that we’re a rabble this season and that development is the name of the game from here on in

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                      • Ralph Dawg
                        Senior Player
                        • Apr 2018
                        • 1729

                        Jones was very good. But he had alot of helpers, unlike when he played for us. Ultimately footy is a team sport and a player will always look better when his team is on top.

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                        • Mel_C
                          Veterans List
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 4470

                          Originally posted by Markwebbos

                          My pet hate is players dropping the ball when tackled and no HTB
                          Mine too. It happened a lot today. Yet a player gathers the ball and is tackled straight away with no chance of getting rid of it and it's paid a free. The adjudication has been ruined since Clarko's whinge.

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                          • Captain
                            Captain of the Side
                            • Feb 2004
                            • 3602

                            Originally posted by caj23
                            Bull dust, I think it’s well accepted on this board that we’re a rabble this season and that development is the name of the game from here on in
                            Yep. Just watch the usual suspects see everything out of unrealistic rose coloured glasses.

                            Some cannot accept any criticism of our list management.

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                            • mcs
                              Travelling Swannie!!
                              • Jul 2007
                              • 8177

                              Originally posted by caj23
                              Bull dust, I think it’s well accepted on this board that we’re a rabble this season and that development is the name of the game from here on in
                              Are we really a 'rabble' though? Hot and cold - sure. Not so good some (arguably more often than not) weeks - sure. But a rabble - I don't buy it. We've been smashed by injuries this year, we are running around with one of the most inexperienced teams in the league, yet we are consistently proving, at least for portions of matches, to be highly competitive against most teams we are meeting. On another day, with some better kicking in front of goals, we would of been right in that game today at 3/4 time. It was not a bad performance - we run out of legs in the last sure and they took full advantage, and we wasted opportunities as we have for much of the season.

                              The Crows are a rabble.... we are a below average team, partially as a result of where we are in the development stages, partially due to injuries, and partially due to other factors. But we are on the right trajectory more broadly.
                              "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                              • AB Swannie
                                Senior Player
                                • Mar 2017
                                • 1579

                                The same people complaining about Jones being misused at Sydney are the same who asked for him to be dropped for shocking disposal when he was with us. I didn’t want to trade him either but when you’re out of contract and want to go home to Victoria you get what you want.

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