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We’ve got a team full of first and second year players. We shouldn’t even be in the fold.Pretenders
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We’ve got a team full of first and second year players. We shouldn’t even be in the fold.Pretenders
Yeah it definitely wasn't intended as a take down of Brisbane or anything, who are now a really good shot at top 4 and who knows from there.
More that some neutrals (more than Brisbane supporters) have really gotten behind the narrative of Brisbane as an extremely high functioning team. In this season, who knows, maybe you don't have to that high functioning to take it home.
Happy to sink the boot into umpires when it suits the agenda, but Swans supporters very quiet when talking about the non-mark by Rayner or the clear front on to Daniher in that last quarter. Margin flattered Swans to be honest. Got dominated apart from a 2nd quarter blitz where Lions didn’t turn up.
Hmm not so sure after watching that today. When we actually got going they couldn't stop our scoring. I'd comfortably say we're the team to beat.
We kicked a fair few out on the full tooYep the final score did flatter them a bit.
HelloBit like the grand final, really. Scoreboard looks close but one team just isn't good enough.
Cooked that one lmaoHello
Don’t justify yourself to this Brisbane clowns, they fell over the line against a team with no bench and needed umpiring assistance to do so, let them celebrate their “win”
Not only that, you had 3 extra players in green! Makes sense you need all the assistance you can getBy next week the narrative will be that Sydney almost won this match without any players on the field! The number of players out of the game Sydney had seem to be growing after the match has ended.
Not only that, you had 3 extra players in green! Makes sense you need all the assistance you can get
Lions only just getting home against crippled swans with that umpiring doesn't say much
They won't be a threat
HOLLOW WIN BRISBANE - Beat half a team on your home ground.
Don’t justify yourself to this Brisbane clowns, they fell over the line against a team with no bench and needed umpiring assistance to do so, let them celebrate their “win”
Are Sydney the first team to go a couple of rotations down in a game?
I’ve never heard a couple of injuries spoken about more.
excusefactory
Its ****ing bigfooty after a close game, making conclusions on an entire supporter base based on just that is boneheadedI generally thought Swans supporters were pretty reasonable before today. Jesus Christ might be in the top 2 for whinging, salty, excuse making sooks after a loss now I have read this. Reckon all you bitchy Swans fans can suck a fat one.![]()
All that has to be said.It’s…. Interesting. I figured they wouldn’t be too concerned given they’re still clearly the best performed team this year, and all but certain for top 2. Their slump has them losing a few close games… won’t mean much 6 weeks from now.
Can we be clear though, they lost two players. And one of them was replaced by the sub. That means being one player short on the bench. One.
We played almost the entire last quarter without Harro. That means we were one short on the bench.
Yes they did it for longer as their second injury was earlier, etc etc, but this was in no way some avalanche of injuries of an unfathomable scale.
Do we talk about the additional day of rest they had leading into it? Or that we were coming back from Perth?
There’s a billion inputs that go into any game. Today, they produced an output that was us winning by 2. It is what it is.
They definitely had a patch in the 2nd where Papley and Hayward were off at the same time. They had to use their sub early as well for Rampe. Evened up with our best defender off for a large portion of the last quarter.I'm a little confused by this no bench notion that Sydney is talking about.
Papley was the only player out of the game, Andrews was on the bench for almost the entire last quarter with HIA.
So both teams had the same amount of players available going into the 4th quarter, I feel like I am missing something but both teams finished with the same rotations as well lmao.
Swans weren't "cooked with injuries", they just ran out of gas after busting hard in the 2nd & 3rd. Nothing wrong with that, as good as the Swans are we're not easy beats and this competition is incredibly tight.
The point of the sub is to have it available at any time, if people want to reach for an excuse such as "we had to activate our sub earlier" that is some high level straw clutching. I actually would have rathered we activated our sub earlier ironically as well.They definitely had a patch in the 2nd where Papley and Hayward were off at the same time. They had to use their sub early as well for Rampe. Evened up with our best defender off for a large portion of the last quarter.
Definitely worse off in that regard, and same rotations but we would have filtered through more players for more rest I’d assume.
Realistically need someone to review everyone’s TOG to see the stark differences.
He was being polite Swans only had 1 less player on the bench but Sydney supporters are overvaluing it and using as an excuse for the lose we had only 2 players available against the Suns in round 8 yet we wonJust finished watching FOX Footy - Fagin and Lyon were guests.
HUGE KUDOS to Fagan - Credited the Lions win in a big way to Swans injuries and the temperature and lack of rotations.
But he’s a sensible man and a good coach - he has to be a realist…….not a trolling fool.![]()