Rnd 23, vs St Kilda at Marvel, on Sunday 14 August, 2:40 PM

[Kafka's Ghost]

Harry Cunningham is pretty much the last player in the comp to completely shut down Shai Bolton. He’s an excellent close defender, but was struck with injury at the worst possible time for himself. Meanwhile, the fantastic Mr Fox is doing a top job, and is a better ball user. Swings and roundabouts.


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[Maltopia]

I think we have exceeded our expectations overall to be competing for 2nd spot, but this is indeed a danger game despite our recent form, as we have lost some games were were clearly expected to win - not just vs Essendon (as mentioned by RogueSwan), how about Port Adelaide? Very excited about the match, but also nervous!

[Faunac8]

I think we have exceeded our expectations overall to be competing for 2nd spot, but this is indeed a danger game despite our recent form, as we have lost some games were were clearly expected to win - not just vs Essendon (as mentioned by RogueSwan), how about Port Adelaide? Very excited about the match, but also nervous!

Yes we have lost games we were expected to win but not for quite a few weeks.
Why is this I wonder ? Could it be that we have a settled side that are all playing to a team game plan and know what their roles are?
Now it may be a coincidence but currently we are unbeaten when Ryan plays and to suggest we bring Harry in to replace him at this stage of the season doesn’t make much sense to me.
Ryan has evolved from a depth player to a role player and that ( along with a couple of other changes ) is what has helped drive our recent success.

[707]

I think we have exceeded our expectations overall to be competing for 2nd spot, but this is indeed a danger game despite our recent form, as we have lost some games were were clearly expected to win - not just vs Essendon (as mentioned by RogueSwan), how about Port Adelaide? Very excited about the match, but also nervous!

How about Gold Coast, grrrrr

[neilfws]

It's a bit of a dumb headline, but there are some interesting and honest quotes from Rampe in this article:

The desperate Rampe run-down that proved the Swans are the real deal

Probably all of our losses have come against teams that aren’t as high up the ladder as some of the other teams that we’ve had good wins against.
Whether that’s a maturity thing, we’re not sure, but we’ve got a pretty good base of evidence to suggest that if we go into any game thinking that we’re going to get it done, it comes back to bite us and actually kind of embarrasses us, really.

[aardvark]

Will Gould named in extended squad.

[stevoswan]

No changes.

SYDNEY

In: Nil
Out: B.Campbell (Medi-Sub)

.....and George Hewitt is an emergency for Carlton....are they actually serious?

https://www.afl.com.au/news/825022/teams-key-blue-misses-out-as-dogs-hawks-swing-the-axe

[Maltopia]

Sorry for cross posting. For us to get to 2nd, our required winning margin will depend on St Kilda's score.

This is what our winning margin needs to be to get to 130.6 percentage, based on what St Kilda scores

30 44.0
40 47.1
50 50.2
60 53.2
70 56.3
80 59.3
90 62.4
100 65.5

So we need to win by 10 goals if St Kilda score 80. If St Kilda score 50, we *only* need to win by 8.2.

[Markwebbos]

Damian Barratt reckons we are going to destroy them … our percentage over out last six weeks is huge.

It’s definitely possible

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Yeah thanks Brisbane you spineless hacks.

My tip is 61-107 and we just fall short.


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[Maltopia]

Yeah thanks Brisbane you spineless hacks.

My tip is 61-107 and we just fall short.


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If so, we would be short by the rubbish free kick goal that got Collingwood onto the scoreboard last week.

[DeadlyAkkuret]

If so, we would be short by the rubbish free kick goal that got Collingwood onto the scoreboard last week.

Oh no!

I didn’t think of that.


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[liz]

One positive from tonight is that it will be pretty hard for us to finish below fifth now, meaning we're unlikely to face Richmond in an elimination final (though I guess Carlton could win, and Essendon might pull something out of the fire against the Tigers). I think the Tigers are being over-rated by some of the media (certainly in terms of their chances of going all the way) but they do have the weapons to trouble most teams on their day.

Secondly, if we win on Sunday and match up against Melbourne in round one of the finals - wherever the game is - we go in against a team that's just had a soft kill. If you look at Melbourne's recent form, they've thrashed Brisbane twice, but otherwise they lost to Collingwood and the Dogs (a mediocre side) and only just fell over the line against Carlton. I guess there was a strong result against Freo in there too. While Melbourne looked very impressive tonight, I'm no more "scared" of them that I was before. They just have something that turns Brisbane to jelly.

Finally, the margin we now need to win by to secure second is so large that I don't think the team will start thinking about it until they're far enough ahead that the game is well and truly won.

[Aprilbr]

Yes, last night's result was far from ideal for us but we should account for the Saints comfortably on Sunday. Its a matter of whether it will be enough. If we can get on top early as we often have in recent games, then a big win is quite plausible.

[Hotpotato]

The Dees v The Jellies (gosh that’s a Liz ‘label’ to avoid) was so boring (after all the hype) as a contest, I dozed off and missed nothing.