Match thread. Swans v North.

[Bexl]

Mcinerney that's it that's the post

[Daisi]

Haha- umpires against us- injuries all over the place- playing like I would play- yet we still win...! Get stuffed Victorian AFL establishment...

[dejavoodoo44]

Nice little exclamation mark from Heeney! Take that you and your @@@@ing umpires!

[Industrial Fan]

J Mac - 3 votes

[Daisi]

I hope Paddy is OK

[longmile]

Horrible game, great win

Umpiring below standard. Hope someone points it out officially. Free kicks completely random.

[Ralph Dawg]

Ladhams way better after passing his concussion test. Some of his tap work just incredible, Dean Cox like dare I say!

Oli, JMac massive in the last quarter.

Ronke has to play next week, maybe for Hayward to increase our forward pressure. Bell aka mini buddy according to my son was good too.

Reid to stay, less influential in the 2nd half but was a rock when we were under siege.

Hung tough, alot to improve but a win is a win.

[crackedactor 01]

Without Mcinerney in that last quarter we would have be stuffed. week after week bias umpiring against us. We will ever get a decent go?

[U.S. Swan]

I am so glad that last 50 was paid. These precious umps can’t get there fifis damaged! What a pampered bunch of prima donnas…oh, don’t tell me…they will quit and NO ONE would ever fill their precious shoes… what a joke. Good comeback win.

[Foreign Legion]

In the last qtr McInerney and Ronke were great - Heeney very good.

Ladhams pushed himself you could tell - he had a good go after he came back on.

[Bexl]

I don't know how he finished obviously others would but I heard in the third quarter in the reserve McDonald had ten marks and kicked 3 goals 4. poor kicking but sounded impressive.

[stevoswan]

I'm back now and see that my absence has lead to an embarrassing Swans win. Glad we decided to give it a go in the end.

I thought last weeks game was the 'wake up call'.....and if we don't actually wake up after this near debacle and realise winning requires effort....we will see this happen again.

Who is in charge of the psychology and mental attitude of our boys? The whole team from the players to the coaches need to pull their fingers out or this season will fade away.

They should be ashamed of today....

[Nico]

Why cant they get the ball out of the centre!!!

It's been a problem for 10 years. Put Campbell and McInernerny in there.

[Faunac8]

Did enough to win but some of our younger players need to pull their heads in .
Can anyone tell me when an umpire has ever reversed a decision they have made based on the feedback from a player?
Will mouthing off and giving away a fifty with a few minutes to go could have cost us the game.
Ronke played like he knows his place in the squad is on the line and I liked what I saw. Definite inclusion for next week IMO.
Could his ego after the seven goal game have put him in the comfort zone ? It happens often when young players have a good game or two and think the natural talent that got them to an AFL list will be all they need and success will come to them.
Too early to say but he appears to have done the work asked of him and as a result has potentially secured a future with the Swans.
JMac was awesome in the last quarter and probably won us the game along with Isaac stepping up as well.
Good ego check for some of our cygnets and if we don’t address the discipline issues we can get used to losing the free kick count for the rest of the season.
Bank the four points review the tapes and look at where we fell down and move on.

[Daisi]

Did Heeney say he was a bit crook before the game in the interview? Maybe there's a covid thing or the horrible non covid flu going round? Look- the team did not play well today, but the abysmal umpiring takes all the attention away from that and from North's good efforts.

Almost 60 free kicks in a game- that's embarrassing for the AFL, it's amateur hour.