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I believe Scott Pendlebury has exactly that…

Great post.

I enjoyed reading this as if it were a poem.

And you can find no better example of tribalism than this, because I, as a Swans supporter, cannot fathom how anyone cannot flat-out love Gulden, Warner, The Lizard, Heeney, Rowbottom…

700 years! Quite the feat.

In Sydney (the first part of “Sydney Swans”) they are potato scallops. That’s not nothing.😆

Brisbane, then either Freo, GWS.

Now, if I just knew the song you’re referencing…

And people saying our opponents will lift in a final seem to be assuming we won’t.

It’s a fine psychological line to tread, but I really think there’s a very positive way to view this loss.

The Richmond one was just the universe laughing at us.

I haven’t been able to watch the game but I think, if we can come from that deficit to only lose by a point, there won’t be many opponents suddenly deciding we’re easybeats after all. We didn’t quite make it this time, but I think we’re getting inside opposition heads to a Collingwood-like...

Yeah, I mean third-placed Fremantle. Imagine losing to them!

We got thrashed by a point on Saturday. Our era of dominance, which as late as Saturday morning looked eternal, is now over. OK if we keep our concessions now?

And yet… we’re still well on top of the ladder with a massive percentage and the best record of any top eight team against the rest of the top eight. Which suggests that though we’re looking “vulnerable” in so many games, we’re still winning those games, which is the object, surely?

Oh yes a whopping 2 metres shorter than the MCG.

Very mature post.

I’m not sure many Swans fans thought we are unbeatable. On the other hand we do have a very good record against the rest of the top eight teams.

LOL that’s a dopey comment. If Caesar is right and Campbell won more hard balls than Lloyd, Gulden, McInerney, Amartey, Melican, Wicks, Florent, Cleary, Hayward, Jordon, McCartin, McDonald, Rampe and Cunningham, that is way more than merely “participating”. If you’ve got a grudge against a...

Oh well. As good a set of circumstances to get a wake-up call as you could imagine. The lads will learn from it and have their humility reinforced without it denting their self-belief.

Clearly you have a different internet.

So you’re absolutely sure that no Geelong players are recipients of any extra perks outside of the salary cap. And yesterday you were absolutely sure that Sydney had rorted COLA.

LOL exactly what I was thinking!

Yep. I’ve effin’ hated this mid-season period where you never really known where anyone sits on the ladder.

Um, your players get all sorts of very convenient assistance. Surprised you’re not aware of it.

Actually, perhaps you might first provide your “evidence” that the Swans style of footy is not “attractive”. That is an entirely subjective realm, evidenced by the simple fact that plenty of non-Swans supporters have commented on how attractive a style it is.

Funny, I didn’t say that and it’s not what I was implying. The usual reductive internet binary that had me sworn off BF for most of a year. The AFL is an enormously powerful organisation. The AFL is far more powerful than any individual club. The AFL hands out concessions however it feels, and...

Apart from your mischaracterising of a victim mentality I quite agree. I don’t have a victim mentality as a Swans supporter. Rather proud of my club’s fine record actually. I’m the first to admit I’m not across the complexities of how a giant sporting body doles out its concessions. But I...

Except that it wasn’t. Everything was above board. The extra 10% applied to all players and the Swans were specifically prohibited from hoarding it to pay overs to megastars. There has never been any evidence that they rorted COLA payments. By all means argue the merits of this scheme...

I think it’s referring to the trade ban slapped on the Swans some years back for… um, for picking up Buddy and Tippett totally above board, and um, it seems that, um, that, um we had to pay for making the AFL look silly. Or something. Shades of Monty Python’s Piranha Brothers sketch. We ‘ad...