I know it wasn't a strong squad we put out there but that was still a bloody hard watch. Tackle them FFS!!

At least Williams got one to stick on Blakey at the end, enjoyed that.

Durdin Fantasia Owies Marchbank had games to forget, & hardly saw TDK get near it. Thought we might be a chance on the small ground but as it turned out they used the small space so much better than us, forced us wide then long to the wing all night.

Overall shit, but we simply must get over it & not let GC come here with their tails up & upset us.

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#DonTheStash

Fantasia was the last picked on our list. We felt there wasn't much to lose. Was either going to struggle off so long be be at his goalkicking best. Sadly it's the former. Sometimes you take a punt on players. Our issue isn't recruiting him, it's continuing to play him.

Talent is not intent.

We have talent.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

You simply can't play 20mins of good footy in the first qtr and then resemble witches' hats from that point on. The Swans were far, far too good from that point and rightly deserve the comfortable win as well as premiership favoritism right now. Not sure what's going on with our tackling, but clearly, they cannot hold one or successfully execute an acceptable amount required effectively. We let the Swans loose far too often on the outside of the contest and they took advantage multiple times to stream forward with speed and make us pay. We turned the ball over and failed to protect the ball on the rare occasion we got it in a offensive position. Was it wet? Nup, just horrific handling.
Of course, when the last thing we needed was ANOTHER injury, especially to a KPP, we get one in Weitering. The fact is our injury list is ridiculous and its now just got bigger.
Well done Swans!
Not much else to say, except I quiver with massive fear that we will just fall in a heap and have a disastrous rest of the season. I hope I am wrong, but there are major red flags going on here.

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Cripps is the man

Hard to argue GWS

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Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Really poor effort tonight. Tackling was embarrassing. Lost every 50-50 ball. Too many passengers. The one thing I’ve never understood is why more teams don’t put effort into Cripps and Walsh. Take one of them out and our midfield will struggle especially with Cerra out.
In saying that, I’m not shocked with this result. Sydney are the best team in it. Probably won’t lose at the SCG this year. 3rd time in 4 weeks playing 1st on the ladder. The other game was Melbourne who are a top 4 contender. A horrendous injury list the whole way through. Weitering going off at half time.
I’m not hitting the panic button just yet but will be reaching for it if we can’t beat GC at home next week.

Coming to the sobering realisation that we aren’t anywhere near as good as I’d hoped we’d be. In fact, we are very very ordinary.

Tonight was putrid. Absolutely putrid.

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We are on our way back...

Newman can be quite dumb but not tonight.

Acres and Weiters I agree with. Walsh, Saad, Kennedy, Martin, Fogarty. Gov with ball in hand,. That's probably it for me.

Stop Walsh and Cripps having big games and teams know Carlton don’t have much else in the midfield. It is why Cerra is so important. Kennedy and Hewett are liabilities. It is the major reason why are still making up the numbers.

I'm watching post match. Luke hodge continues to flap about the boyd matter. Not sure if someone said something in ear piece. Ends up saying boyd isn't really in the ball park of why the sweeping of leg was outlawed, and stiff to be suspended. Quality journalism

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Mick Martyn

There also should have been about 24 frees paid to each of them for ‘illegal’ holding, shepherding and even tackling.
Any chance Voss gets to receive a chat this week…….oh wait…..

I was at the game tonight, just got back to my daughter’s place. She didn’t come to the game this time as she said she “doesn’t like swans supporters”, probably a good decision this time.

I wasn’t expecting a win but I also wasn’t expecting us to be so uncompetitive, even the swans fans were bored and left early en masse.

As an aside I don’t really understand these swans supporters, they chat amongst themselves all match and barely pay attention to the game. Then they all leave with 15 minutes to go. I was in the middle of a huge section of swans supporters and by the end of the game there was hardly anyone left within 20 feet of me.

As to the game, from what I saw the problem wasn’t our defence, the problem was our midfield and forward line. The swans players were just hard at the ball all night and our guys didn’t like it and were constantly second to the ball. That’s why the swans players won so many high contact frees, they just went harder at the ball all night. It all started and stopped there.

You need a settled side. You can't have 4 ins and 4 outs every week that's what bottom 4 sides do.
Settled back 6 or 7
Settled midfield
A forward structure that plays weeks if not seasons together.

Fancy being in Sydney position where a bloke like Luke Parker can't push his way into the team.

Every year it seems before the season starts we have a best 22 thread and whilst on paper you struggle to fit every one in but after 4 to 5 games you are struggling to select 22.

Until we get to the stage where we are not gifting players games because we have so many outs we are going to be bottom of the 8 team.

We have no 200 game players
We have players on the list who should be pushing 150 game mark who have played 50 to 70.

We had 7 players tonight who haven't played 2 seasons of football.
We only had 3 over 150 games
Swans had 8 over 150 with another 5 sitting in the stands.

We are 2 to 3 seasons away from being flag contenders and that's only if we can get a clear run of injuries

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If you allow the Government to change the Laws in an emergency
They will create an Emergency to change the Laws

Me sad….!


kindest regards tommi

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that'siti'mnotchangingthistagain......!

Correct. As an example, how many marks did we drop expecting contact, even when it wasn’t coming? Refused to put our head in and win the contested ball and even worse got easily pushed and out bodied at contest.

Wow

i just think we started to protect the lead a bit too early....

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my last one was rubbish

Got what we deserved tonight consistently picking players who have no form at all and not rewarding other players who have been playing well in the VFL

This.


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