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I think the idea of the bye is fine, but I'm always surprised that they don't seem to be able to work out the scheduling so that teams coming off a bye just play another team coming off a bye. 3 weeks with an even number of teams each week having a bye, no reason you can't just have them play each other the following week.I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
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Buddy at his best marking it 60 out, Logan good up the ground
The deep option needs to be Heeney, Reid and the 2nd Ruck
Logan not strong enough to consistently body and Buddy doesnt take pack marks
Reid pure swing man, fwd, back, ruck, if he goes back, Rampes can run off. His 1 on 1 work is killing us, cos he is undersized. The frees he gives away that turn i to shots on goal are momentum turningComment
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They just don't care about that Stella, that's why they don't try to make it work. Sporting fairness is a long way down the list of AFL wants when it comes to scheduling. Whatever TV wants, TV gets in general.
Otherwise, we'd simply have what used to happen - being a general bye and a week without footy, and none of the retarded idea that is the pre-finals bye (aka knows as the Fairypuppies Christmas gift) week either."You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."Comment
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I'm happy for him to get another contract - who wouldn't be. But equally, if I was running the joint, you'd have to seriously wonder whether the - outweigh the +.
I wouldn't mind seeing him playing muych further up the field is he does play on. Off a half forward flank, almost on the wing. Let him be a key weapon kicking it into Inside 50, not the target inside 50.
He has done astoundingly well to kick as many as he had at the Swans given our inability to play to his strengths at all for a large chunk of the time he has been at the club."You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."Comment
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When we only have one good player on the ground, Heeney, it's hard not to blame the coaching staff for poor game preparation. Everyone can't be this bad at once. We only seem to be able to prepare on a 7 day schedule. Otherwise, we looked cooked.
It doesn't pay to criticise individual players, because the list is simply too long. Perhaps I'll just join the consensus and single out Wicks, who hasn't given us much even when the rest of the team played well.
It also bugs me that the same game play problems I've commented on early in the season are still there.- We don't defend the space around 10 metres inside our defensive 50. It's too easy for coaches to pick this up and play to this weakness.
- We play into the congestion going forward instead of away from the congestion. There are too few options inside our forward 50.
When we do play well, we spread the field, run and create open space inside 50. This is true for most good sides, so it's no big secret.
Today we were out-pressured, a sure way to lose a game.Comment
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Don't know where the team was in the third quarter. Perhaps they were overconfident after a couple of players went down for Port and they thought they could coast to victory? But they really were out-tackled, outrun, and more or less stood back while Port took the game away.
For a moment or two, there was a vague chance of a comeback in the fourth, but Heeney was the only forward having a good game. And the forwards missing a number of chances in the second didn't help, either. Hopefully there'll be a four quarter effort next week and we can soon forget all about this abomination.Comment
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Don't hold your breath Deja - we have barely put in a four quarter effort all year. It is simply a sign of a team still very much in the development phase - but the wild swings within games sure are frustrating to watch.
We needed the intensity we showed at the start of the 4th at the start of the 3rd quarter, and it might have been a very different outcome."You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."Comment
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This is one those piss-poor effort games that is just so frustrating. Port weren’t really up for the game early either, but our half-effort ineptitude gave them confidence.
We just didn’t have the fight required to win the game.Comment
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No Boak, Gray, 2 injured.
And they waltzed around under no pressure.
I think Sydney coaches need to change the mindset of instead of going in with 1 ruck cos they dont have a known ruck, why not go in with 2 and exploit their weakness ?
We always try to counter the other side, by tagging a midfield, putting mills back etc instead of just backing in what we bring to the table.
If we have 2 rucks, destroy them in the middle with it.Comment
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Insipid performance. The rot started when Hayward decided it was smart to play on instead of going back to kick the goal from 15 metres. He was dog awful. Enough said about Wicks. How the coaches think he is better than Campbell is beyond me. I suspect it will be Wicks out, Bell in.
On the bye; it appears we lose our sharpness after a bye. Lack of quality training?
Cunningham should not have been out there. Looked way under done and didn't attack the footy with any effort. His old timidness appeared to return. Should have played reserves and doesn't have star quality to just walk back into the side. Fox should have played.Comment
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