Swans v Giants Elimination Final 2021

[Industrial Fan]

Just heard Bell deleted his social media accounts which is awful.

I honestly still don’t get the hatred sent his way. Brutal miss which will haunt him for a while but I think he did his job otherwise.

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Thanks I’m out.

Have a good offseason everyone.

I can see that most people want me out of the community.

I’ll take a hike.

can’t help but feel like this is a trap

[O'Reilly Boy]

[QUOTE=Industrial Fan;830241]Just heard Bell deleted his social media accounts which is awful.

I honestly still don’t get the hatred sent his way. Brutal miss which will haunt him for a while but I think he did his job otherwise.]

Absolutely awful. I really feel for him. I thought he was doing the job yesterday. He didn't lose the game for us. And we all need to remember that GWS—Jesse Hogan—hit the posts a couple of times in the third quarter. An extra goal at that point would have buried us. Bell probably should have goaled, but it takes a team to lose, as it were (but I don't mean to make that sound like they are losers: winners in my book).

[crackedactor 01]

The lose was hard to take but on the positive side, winning the flag from 6th placed was always going to be an enormous task without that week break. I think I can sees an big list of de-listing players next year. i.e Gray, Taylor, Naismith, Clarke and Reid will be a 50/50 prospect. We need a talented defender who can play on a tall and maybe another young ruck prospect. If everything goes to plan, then 2022 could be an exciting year. Just hope we can sign Parker, Dawson and Hewett without too much trouble.

[bodgie]

Thanks Swans players, newbies, coaches and staff for an entertaining year of footy out on the road!

It's saddening for it to end pretty much on the back of some crap shooting for goal in the last quarter in a game we could easily have won. Other than that the selection of fringe players seemed a bit weird. We could have used Reid and Fox I reckon. Not that I am a great Reid fan anymore but he would have been useful against those late Q GWS goals. Fox would have been more useful than an underdone Warner.

[MattW]

Just heard Bell deleted his social media accounts which is awful.

I honestly still don’t get the hatred sent his way. Brutal miss which will haunt him for a while but I think he did his job otherwise.

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can’t help but feel like this is a trap

Ah, that's awful. I'm going to delete an earlier post questioning his selection. It wasn't personal, but still feel like I should.

[mcs]

Ah, that's awful. I'm going to delete an earlier post questioning his selection. It wasn't personal, but still feel like I should.

There is no issue with criticising a selection, or arguing/expressing an opinion that someone isn't good enough to 'make it' at AFL level. That's part and parcel of playing professional sport, and reasoned criticism is not unreasonable.

I'm frustrated that Bell missed what was an easy chance. But equally I'm frustrated that Wicks did, that Buddy did, that Hickey did. But I don't feel any need to directly have a go at them, like the pond life out there will. Social media is full of those tools that go way beyond that and make it personal.

There is a difference between in the moment frustration and the cowardly keyboard warrior actions of the pond life out there. They can all go and rot in hell.

I like Bell, and hope he can go to the next level to carve out a genuine AFL career. I have my doubts that he will ever quite make it, but his effort just to get this far has been fantastic, and hopefully he can learn from yesterday's pain and continue to improve. Make it a fire that drives his career forward, and ignore the minority pond life that have no lives.

[MattW]

There is no issue with criticising a selection, or arguing/expressing an opinion that someone isn't good enough to 'make it' at AFL level. That's part and parcel of playing professional sport, and reasoned criticism is not unreasonable.

I'm frustrated that Bell missed what was an easy chance. But equally I'm frustrated that Wicks did, that Buddy did, that Hickey did. But I don't feel any need to directly have a go at them, like the pond life out there will. Social media is full of those tools that go way beyond that and make it personal.

There is a difference between in the moment frustration and the cowardly keyboard warrior actions of the pond life out there. They can all go and rot in hell.

I like Bell, and hope he can go to the next level to carve out a genuine AFL career. I have my doubts that he will ever quite make it, but his effort just to get this far has been fantastic, and hopefully he can learn from yesterday's pain and continue to improve. Make it a fire that drives his career forward, and ignore the minority pond life that have no lives.

Good post, man.

[The Runner]

Yesterday hurts. But we're the club that would be supporting and loving Bell right now.
He may have missed something he shouldn't have. But, he tried to do it right. I'd take him and his values every day over Toby Greene. Who, despite being the best player in the competition, also let's his team down with his behaviour. And is about to miss a major final.
Even the free that Bell gave away to Mummy. He'd just watched Mummy bash his teammates with his deliberately clumsy movements. Which he did you Hewett regularly. Belly was just trying to do something to stand up.
As much as yesterday sucks for the Swans, we're the club that rallies around.

If you go to post on the club socials. Or get to cross paths with him. Think about what he's thinking himself at the moment, and think how we can help him through it.

[dimelb]

Even good kickers can have problems. I can still recall sitting in the MCG before the north pavilion was built and watching Matthew Richardson (Richo to the Richmond crowd) kicking for goal when about 15-20 metres out and missing everything. OK, it was an ordinary season game, but the Richmond fans laughed their guts out!

I like Bell too and hope he can keep improving.

[KTigers]

If James has had to delete his social media accounts then that is just terrible. Seriously, he is just a young fella trying to make his
way in the game and the world. Anyone that thinks that this is all beer and skittles for some of these young blokes then they need
to read Brandon Jack's book.
It reminds me of years ago when people used to come after Jack Hiscox, a young bloke who for many years played with and against,
and went to school with, one of my sons. Man, that was unnecessary and thoughtless. Maybe try to remember that you know as much
about a young footballer as they know about you.

[i'm-uninformed2]

Thanks I’m out.

Have a good offseason everyone.

I can see that most people want me out of the community.

I’ll take a hike.

Actually, it's someone else - though please stop both telling people to be better while bemoaning censorship.

And Piers Morgan is nothing more than a bad reality show judge super troll, so don't invoke his name.

[giant]

Frankly, I don’t give a rats if he gets suspended or not. I do hope GWS beat the cats, tho’. With or without the little @@@@@@.

Cats will win by 15+ goals I reckon.

[snajik]

Social media often serves as a welcome mat for cowards. If Belly hit the post in the first quarter no one would give a toss. Few would remember it.
Players don't go out there to stuff up. They don't go out there to not try. I'm proud of every player that pulls on the red and white jumper. They always give their best. Sometimes their best isn't good enough. That's life. We will never have 18 or 22 champions on the park at the same time. That's unrealistic.
Hope James is ok. It was a game of inches. This was one of about 35 single incidents that impacted the result.

[Agent 86]

…And Piers Morgan is nothing more than a bad reality show judge super troll, so don't invoke his name.

Spot on. Horrible man who likes to dish it out but can’t take it.

[Industrial Fan]

Spot on. Horrible man who likes to dish it out but can’t take it.

he’s a bottom feeder, but the Brett Lee over he faced made compelling viewing