Round 22 V North Melbourne @Marvel

[dejavoodoo44]

He's in a moon boot ffs.

A few weeks ago, who would have thought Blakey would have become such an important player for us.

Yes, now that I've seen the replay, it didn't look good.

[Swannette]

I'll wait to see what our medical staff say. Last time I checked Gerard Healey is not a qualified medico [emoji6]

I understand he is a physio, but perhaps not enough 'medico' for you


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[joeykanga]

Twisted ankle, I think.

And he was my pick for best at the time Stevoswan

From memory Melican usually takes a few runs back after a spell to hit a little form
Just don’t like his looping kicks that hang in the air for an eternity and they’ve been less than pinpoint tonight

Overall Hickey , Hayward , Parker , McLean Cunningham for me with COR honourable mention for lifting us a little when he came on playing up ground and midfield
And Blakey till he went off
North Melbourne played pretty decently
Nice win after all …good to hold them off and the pressure did lift at the end
Hope Blakey is ok and just grows a new tail(ankle ) and all good for next week

[Ralph Dawg]

There's been a bit of a debate about who's the better recruit, Hickey or Aliir. In terms of impact on team, Hickey for sure. His work has been a big part of our rise from 2nd last to 5/6. If we hadn't done the trade, I don't think we would be top 8.

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I understand he is a physio, but perhaps not enough 'medico' for you


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Wow, I never knew that. I take it back!

[Agent 86]

What are the commentators supposed to say?

“This is a dreary match, no point watching this one”

Lol. Very true. Pretty ordinary game & they have to have to at least try to talk it up.

But Norf have turned things around in 2nd half of the year after being beyond dismal for first 10 or so games.

[Faunac8]

Pretty uninspiring game we seemed to lose focus after half time and North took advantage of that by lifting their game as well.
Roos coach was pretty upset at half time and promised an increase in pressure which they duly delivered. Straight kicking helped them as well.
Almost cruised our way to a loss but a win is a win. Fingers crossed Blakey is only out for a week at most was probably BOG when he rolled his ankle. We have a couple of handy players waiting to come back in so would hope we show some improvement next week against one of our bogie teams.

[Blood Fever]

I love all Swans supporters whether they've been barracking for us for 60 years or one day but if you think being a Swannie since the early 90s makes you a veteran, you're way off the mark.

He's a baby

[Hotpotato]

A not very inspiring win.

[wolftone57]

Well we can take nothing out of this. Terrible game. Play like this in a final, because that is all we will get, we get annihilated. @@@@ing disgraceful. No real pressure and we disposed so badly. Only one quarter did we really play well. The first. Even though we disposed better in the second we simy couldn't score.

We were @@@@. It is my honest opinion. The longer the season has gone the worse we have got. We had some really close games against reasonably good sides and then we fall down against the easybeats. How did this mob, who are at this stage of their development @@@@ing ordinary, get close to us. Well look no further than two coaches, the mids coach and the defensive coach. Not only that what about getting the players to play for each other and maintain intensity for a whole game

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[joeykanga]

Pretty uninspiring game we seemed to lose focus after half time and North took advantage of that by lifting their game as well.
Roos coach was pretty upset at half time and promised an increase in pressure which they duly delivered. Straight kicking helped them as well.
Almost cruised our way to a loss but a win is a win. Fingers crossed Blakey is only out for a week at most was probably BOG when he rolled his ankle. We have a couple of handy players waiting to come back in so would hope we show some improvement next week against one of our bogie teams.

+1

[wolftone57]

You do know there are other players on the Swans' list besides RB? You do know this is a team sport? Your fixation is unhealthy, offensive in the way it's expressed and shows a lack of maturity.

Having said that, I have to agree that we will miss Mills. But the big picture is that while we all want to win tonight, we want to get him and Bud right for what is hopefully a final's run.

I agree there is a pathology there

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[Swannette]

There's been a bit of a debate about who's the better recruit, Hickey or Aliir. In terms of impact on team, Hickey for sure. His work has been a big part of our rise from 2nd last to 5/6. If we hadn't done the trade, I don't think we would be top 8.

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Wow, I never knew that. I take it back!

Cool. I learned via The Bloods podcast that getting him a placement at a sydney hospital (name ??) was crucial to his movement to syd


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[crackedactor 01]

14 point win against bottom of ladder team is not inspiring at all. I would hate to see us play GWS at the moment in the first week of finals. Blakely looks done for the year but I thought COR did some nice things when he came on the ground.

[Markwebbos]

I think we did what we needed to do, given this was a dead rubber. I don't think we should read too much into it.

Blakey is such an X-factor player for us. He'll be a huge loss if that was a season ending injury.

[Bangalore Swans]

Not sure what’s going on with Papley.

Third umpire abuse free kick this year. Just seems totally unnecessary to me. He doesn’t need to do that. He is a great player in good form.

I’m even more dismayed that the commentators were having a laugh about the umpiring abuse free kick and calling him Mr Charisma.

I’m surprised that I’m the only one on red and white not happy with this.