Match thread: Prelim final; Swans v Magpies.

[i'm-uninformed2]

All our younger players were wonderful in their own ways. And I'm confident none is going to be overwhelmed by the occasion next week. Chad's second quarter, in particular, was super, and as you say, Errol was wonderful throughout. Rowbottom was his normal terrier self all match.

But JMac had a handful of wonderful moments, Braedon had to adjust to not playing at senior level for many weeks but was able to adjust to the speed of the game well and it was his kick to Papley that resulted in the "sealer". Stephens just kept on running and running and running. McDonald took his moment when it arrived.

Very good. And despite the two early blocking frees (thought the second one was line ball), Lizard was excellent. He’s become such a good defender.

[MattW]

Do yourself a favour, make sure you read this

Yes, cracker.

[Roadrunner]

Do yourself a favour, make sure you read this

I will read it 707, but I must confess that though it was fantastic to win, the last quarter left me flat. The boys were terrific in the first half and bar a few gettable goals, we could have posted an unassailable lead. But in the last we went a bit too defensive and I’m not sure whether this was Horse’s instructions or the players thought this themselves.

It’s incredible that we are in the GF- we couldn’t have realistically expected this at the start of the season!
Credit to the lads and all our staff.
Hope Sammy will be ok as he has been terrific- who else can partner big Tom?

In the 96 prelim, Plugger kicked the winning point and the euphoria was phenomenal. Last night we defended with all our lives- let’s hope that next week we bring our attacking game for 4 quarters!

[KTigers]

As The Roar guy said part way through the third quarter Collingwood went into full-on attack mode. To their credit they are
good enough to do that and for it to nearly come off. They had to try something radical otherwise the game would have petered
out and we'd have won by 34 pts or something. Which of course we all would have much preferred rather than the heart
attack stuff at the end.

[Kafka's Ghost]

I will read it 707, but I must confess that though it was fantastic to win, the last quarter left me flat. The boys were terrific in the first half and bar a few gettable goals, we could have posted an unassailable lead. But in the last we went a bit too defensive and I’m not sure whether this was Horse’s instructions or the players thought this themselves.

It’s incredible that we are in the GF- we couldn’t have realistically expected this at the start of the season!
Credit to the lads and all our staff.
Hope Sammy will be ok as he has been terrific- who else can partner big Tom?

In the 96 prelim, Plugger kicked the winning point and the euphoria was phenomenal. Last night we defended with all our lives- let’s hope that next week we bring our attacking game for 4 quarters!

The Magpies only had 3 more inside 50s than us in the last quarter, but we missed some gettable chances and fluffed a couple of entries, e.g. when we were 3 on 2 and Papley could have gone straight at goal but tried the team thing instead, only to turn the ball over. Among others. The last 5 minutes were excruciating.
Having said that, getting to the GF is a phenomenal achievement, and I still can’t quite believe it. Bravo to everyone at the club!


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[SwanSand]

I will read it 707, but I must confess that though it was fantastic to win, the last quarter left me flat. The boys were terrific in the first half and bar a few gettable goals, we could have posted an unassailable lead. But in the last we went a bit too defensive and I’m not sure whether this was Horse’s instructions or the players thought this themselves.

What a game ! I agree that I couldn’t watch the final 4 minutes as the pressure got to me. We were too defensive minded. Lack of Sam Reid and not many players providing the contested marking ability and then having spares in defence meant that Collingwood could easily run the ball from their halfback. I thought players like Logan and Hayward needed to do more to bring the ball to the ground or defensively.
Tactically after losing Reid and putting Mills in defense meant we were always going to have a problem having Crisp, De Goey, Pendlebury to deal with in the middle. I am not sure why Mills went behind the ball, could we not have used Hayward or Heeney. And leave the midfield structure intact. At one Stage Mills even went in the ruck in our defensive half and I thought if we kept doing this we are definitely going to lose the match.
Becoming defensive in the Prelim final is understandable, it won’t happen in Grand final. Collectively we have 2 coaches who have lost 3 grand finals recently. Hopefully they combine to get us across the line.
Grand Final here we come !

[Blood Fever]

Pretty good summation of the match by The Roar even though it initially starts out like a Magpies whinge. They reckon we deserve to be in the GF and have every chance of winning.

AFL Finals Focus: They made it by the skin of their teeth - but here's why the Swans can still conquer the Cats in the big dance

Brilliant article

[waswan]

My takes,

More room at the MCG should help us, can only vividly remember 1 kick that went back in defence and that was in the last 2 mins. We didnt crossed the ground once to switch out the other wing.

When we go long down the line, we didnt go wide enough, thise 50m kicks should be landed 3m from the boundary not the square, we did that all game.

Gees I hope Reid gets up, was and is huge.

Never played the Cats at the G, thats an interesting variable.

Hopefully our boys are better for the run, got plenty if toom to work with next week.

The ending was hard to watch but its easy to forget we put 70+ points on the Pies in a half that could have easily been 90 pts.

[liz]

Never played the Cats at the G, thats an interesting variable.

We've played them there in a couple of recent finals. 2016 PF, and then another game in either 2017 or 2018. I think the second was a SF.

[Kafka's Ghost]

We've played them there in a couple of recent finals. 2016 PF, and then another game in either 2017 or 2018. I think the second was a SF.

We pantsed them in the 2016 PF, but unfortunately lost Allir to a knee injury for the GF.
They returned the favour in the 2017 semi-final.


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[SwanSand]

We've played them there in a couple of recent finals. 2016 PF, and then another game in either 2017 or 2018. I think the second was a SF.

Yes 2017 SF. That was one of the worst games we had played in finals for a long time.

[barry]

My hope is that Reid went of as a precaution because we were well in front, but that's just hope.
Like for like replacement worries me:
Ladhams: suspended. Can we appeal?
McLean: hasn't played since round 8
Amartey:. Not in form

[waswan]

We've played them there in a couple of recent finals. 2016 PF, and then another game in either 2017 or 2018. I think the second was a SF.

My bad

[707]

My hope is that Reid went of as a precaution because we were well in front, but that's just hope.
Like for like replacement worries me:
Ladhams: suspended. Can we appeal?
McLean: hasn't played since round 8
Amartey:. Not in form

No obvious Reid replacement, we mostly need a ruck chop out if Reid doesn't come up so Amartey is the best choice, is also mobile and can clunk a mark.

A whole summer for Ladhams to think about his undisciplined actions and what might have been

On a different tack, I really hope Eddie Maguire was at the SCG last night :-)

[waswan]

My hope is that Reid went of as a precaution because we were well in front, but that's just hope.
Like for like replacement worries me:
Ladhams: suspended. Can we appeal?
McLean: hasn't played since round 8
Amartey:. Not in form

I reckon an appeal will be asked about.

Be arrogant/optimistic to appeal when he did it.