Are the Swans done?

[Cyber_punk]

No. Still top of the ladder, only 1 more win of the last 3 will clinch a top 4 spot. They could still finish with 16-17 wins.

Likely a gastro issue tonight.

I'm not writing them off yet and would favour them to recover from this type of loss more than just about anyone.

 

[maskmcgee]

Will be thrashed again by the dogs in week 1, lose to hawks in week 2.

 

[Moonatic77]

112 point win is out of this world! Premiers don't lose by 100+ in the home and away season.
Are the Swans done? Does a bear shit in the woods?
Swans form has been suspect for a month now.
Not sure who is the new favorurite now, maybe Port?
Sack Hinkley thread #13 will be funny reading if they win it

 

[saintsrfreak]

 

[kaiserchief13]

No. Still top of the ladder, only 1 more win of the last 3 will clinch a top 4 spot. They could still finish with 16-17 wins.

Likely a gastro issue tonight.

I'm not writing them off yet and would favour them to recover from this type of loss more than just about anyone.

I reckon no premier in the last 20-30 years has had a 100 point loss in the season, let alone in a month before finals. I don't have facts to back that up, just a hunch.

 

[maskmcgee]

Last teams this happened to, Pies in 2011, lost big on GF day. Freo 2015, the obvious weakest minor premier ever, thrashed by 20 goals by Hawks, missed the GF.

 

[Mayes2Gray]

If Bulldogs are anything to go by, this is when they get into form.

 

[boncer34]

112 point win is out of this world! Premiers don't lose by 100+ in the home and away season.
Are the Swans done? Does a bear shit in the woods?
Swans form has been suspect for a month now.
Not sure who is the new favorurite now, maybe Port?
Sack Hinkley thread #13 will be funny reading if they win it

It's happened before

 

[My Tilly]

Always had a soft underbelly.

They're in big trouble now. Collingwood next week is suddenly a season defying game.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Yes we seem to have forgotten how to football, typically we reserve performances like this for big games.

Came early this year

 

[Moonatic77]

It's happened before

How many times?

 

[Grockadoc]

It's happened before

Really? I read somewhere that no side has ever lost by 100+ points and gone on to win the flag that season.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Backing Swans to win the flag this week.

 

[BStaff17]

What is the biggest loss a flag winner has copped in a season? Specifically in the last 2 months of a season?

1945 - Carlton lost by 100 in Round 3.

AFL Tables - Game Records

 

[boncer34]

Really? I read somewhere that no side has ever lost by 100+ points and gone on to win the flag that season.

Carlton did it once.

 

[windyhill]

It’s a culture issue. Always has been.

Not the “bloods” culture ?!?! Surely not !

 

[Cyber_punk]

I reckon no premier in the last 20-30 years has had a 100 point loss in the season, let alone in a month before finals. I don't have facts to back that up, just a hunch.

Probably won't find any in the AFL era

Closest I can remember was 2004 when we beat Port by 92 points. We did lead by 110 in that game.

 

[kickazz]

Really? I read somewhere that no side has ever lost by 100+ points and gone on to win the flag that season.

Seems an even hundred is the record:

AFL Tables - Essendon v Carlton - Sat, 5-May-1945 2:45 PM - Match Stats

 

[QuietB]

Seems an even hundred is the record:

AFL Tables - Essendon v Carlton - Sat, 5-May-1945 2:45 PM - Match Stats

Essendon were probably cheating though

 

[DrEvil_]

Swans had been extremely arrogant this year. I cannot believe they simply refused to address their poor starts. They got out of jail a few times as Heeney and Warner were on fire. But they didn't seem to learn. Very poor coaching.

 

[ibd77]

What ever extra curricular activities the Swannies are doing. You need to stop right now. I have never seen an top of the table team perform like that. 0 interest, 0 intent.

 

[danster168]

No. They get a home final and biased umps that will get sucked into the noise of affirmation so of course they're not out. But I never want to see them in a GF again after their 2022 effort. I attended that match and it was over in 10 minutes.

 

[Altum Volantes]

This is Fremantle 2015.

They are cooked.

 

[RUNVS]

Swans had been extremely arrogant this year. I cannot believe they simply refused to address their poor starts. They got out of jail a few times as Heeney and Warner were on fire. But they didn't seem to learn. Very poor coaching.

Many Swans fans did not care either, arguing that we were winning so it shouldn't matter, but there were a lot of us that saw it as a symptom of a larger problem.

For me the problem is pressure. The reason opposition teams played well in the first quarter against us is that the beginning of games the pressure is usually the highest, players are able to run, the motivation is also at its highest and Sydney could not cope with it, it did not allow us to play how we wanted. Then though in games the pressure would go down and allow the Swans to play how we wanted, and dominate those parts of the game. The problem is we always needed the pressure to go down before we did that, we couldn't do it when the opposition was really trying.

It felt unsustainable to me as I worried about finals, and how teams would not lower their pressure levels in finals like they do during the home and away season, but turns out I was mistaken as we have allowed the bottom to fall out way sooner than I thought.

Apply pressure to the Swans, tackle hard, don't let us get free players and we can't cope, we can't break out of it.

 

[Handsuper47]

crazy that even if they lose another game, they'll still be on top due to their massive percentage