Autopsy Game is long over, Swans were putrid

[The King!]

Last week should have been this big dogs wasted it

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Last week should have been this big dogs wasted it

Yep back to back 90+ point losses

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Hooking Corey was the most dreadful “leadership” I’ve seen.

Poor Corey gets scapegoated by his gutless coach. The kid must be mortified.

Morale-destroying.

And the team would have noticed.

Tonight was a bad loss. They happen.

I’m more angry with the coach for being weak & throwing a kid under the bus.

 

[Superstar swan]

Lost for words.

Humiliated, disgusted, repulsed all describe how I'm feeling about the club tonight.

I don't care how the season has gone up until this point, but john can't leave the club quick enough.

Too many times he has been in charge of absolute capitulation.

Too many times he has been in charge when we have absolutely humiliated ourselves.

Why was ladhams picked

Why an undersized, unauthentic francis is picked over a player in joel hamling

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Joel Hamling

Age

31

Ht

194cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.6

3star

K

6.2

2star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.0

5star

T

1.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

11.8

3star

K

7.6

3star

HB

4.2

4star

M

5.8

5star

T

1.0

3star

who is a premiership defender.

Why sub corey warner, effectively burying him. That was the move of a desperate man who had no idea what to do and made the "safest" decision he could because he felt like he was expected to make a change.

Why did mills keep his captaincy after getting his arm ripped off during a drunken wrestle.

Why did mills walk straight back into the team despite not playing footy for nearly 12 months.

I'm ashamed to be a swans supporter

 

[elastic]

I hope Horse has another game plan up his sleeve because this one is done. Needs to try something and it's not just personnel

 

[Kennedy Parker]

With these kind of performances becoming a theme in recent years, Bloods culture is nothing more than a marketing slogan nowadays sadly.

 

[Troystenvic]

Didn't think we had hit the wall this hard.

Not sure what Horse will say but it should be noteworthy I'm sure .

Seems like we had just over half a brilliant season and nothing.

Heeney gave half a good season. Trade him or use him more sparingly. He has a cooked ankle maybe?

McDonald and Amartey need to stop being timid and start inserting themselves into a game. Smash a pack, take a strong mark and kick straight. Get ruthless.

Sick of blinded hack kicks around the corner to no-one.

Horse is a one trick pony. Missing Pyke and other outside views.

Mentally we are cooked. Some young players will learn what it really takes to win a flag and others will realise it's a bridge too far.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Hooking Corey was the most dreadful “leadership” I’ve seen.

Poor Corey gets scapegoated by his gutless coach. The kid must be mortified.

Morale-destroying.

And the team would have noticed.

Tonight was a bad loss. They happen.

I’m more angry with the coach for being weak & throwing a kid under the bus.

"Players" coach my backside just absolutely destroyed the kids confidence.

 

[WhippingCupcakes]

Hey we almost won the last quarter

Yeah look at the positives

 

[Olian]

Credit to anyone who watches a replay. Hopefully the players have it on repeat.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Hooking Corey was the most dreadful “leadership” I’ve seen.

Poor Corey gets scapegoated by his gutless coach. The kid must be mortified.

Morale-destroying.

And the team would have noticed.

Tonight was a bad loss. They happen.

I’m more angry with the coach for being weak & throwing a kid under the bus.

Would not blame him if he requested a trade this year.

 

[The King!]

Gulden in the bests that's all he plays for these days imo

 

[sthmelb_dimmies]

I'm convinced the coaches have tried to fix something that was never broken, and it's ****ed with their psychi. The losses have probably compounded that inviting even more unneeded instruction.

I've experienced this personally in the middle of a very very good season. We won 11 on the trot and were flying, but the last one of those wasnt as convincing (probably because the opp was just good on the day), so the coach felt he had to do something and got us to train a couple of different set ups. Safe to say it absolutely screwed us and we seemed to lose our magic in the space of just a few games. We played out the rest of the season attempting these new setups and got bundled out in straight sets. We were worrying more about where we were asked to be and where we needed to kick it rather than just playing footy. Funny things is that also coincided with the return of a couple of key players from their euro trip.

Horse needs to take a leaf out of Chris Scott's book. Treat your players like men and trust them to know what they are doing. Instead I feel like horse is still playing around with the settings without realising that he's ****ing it up the more he plays with it, despite the fact he shouldn't have touched it in the first place. It's clear the players are trying to do what he's asking, it's not working which is throwing their efforts off and losing 1 v 1s they'd normally win, this is resulting in chasing backside all game. That's exactly how we've lost these two games.

I dunno mate - to me seems like the high pressure /corridor/ direct to goal game strategy got found out as evidenced by the Freo game, and there hasn’t been many answers. To be belted last week by Footscray then what happened tonight shows zero recognition of systemic issues.

The persistent failures to win first quartwrs have been an issue all year and to me it’s negligence on coaching that this hasn’t been resolved

 

[WhippingCupcakes]

I've got tickets for next week. Reckon it's the first time I've genuinely not wanted to go. Season is done.

Is the first time a teams season is done when they're still top of the ladder

 

[Superstar swan]

Is the first time a teams season is done when they're still top of the ladder

Of coarse it's us

 

[legend166]

Wonder if some of the contract stuff drove a wedge between the players. A side that has the talent to go 12-1 doesn't get beat by 112 points unless there's something seriously wrong behind the scenes.

 

[MF]

The club is ****ed for years to come

Horrible loss no doubt but I feel like this could be a slight overreaction to a loss that sees us still sitting on top of the ladder with 3 games left.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Credit to anyone who watches a replay. Hopefully the players have it on repeat.

I don’t have enough tequila to last a replay

 

[ashep]

Devastating.

Not just tonight, but the way this has likely killed off a season that just 2 months ago, was astonishingly dominant.

In 2022 I convinced myself that we were ahead of schedule and overwhelmed by the occasion. This was supposed to be the hardened, enhanced version of that team and it's all falling apart.

I think we still win 2 of our next 3 and finish top, but I don't know how these players win a flag after being so thoroughly dismantled.

 

[Day_night_honourer]

I'm going to put the same sort of effort into this post as our team put into tonight's game:

.

 

[Jimbo OZ]

I’ve had a shit day and was relying on this game to lift my spirits. **** you.

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Would not blame him if he requested a trade this year.

Being humiliated by the coach like that - I know I’d want out.

Corey can stay. Horse can go.

 

[The King!]

Horrible loss no doubt but I feel like this could be a slight overreaction to a loss that sees us still sitting on top of the ladder with 3 games left.

We will finish 7th at this rate is all, and if that happens and we can't save the ladder spot at all, this will be scarring and this core is locked in for a few years.

Maybe I am wrong but they will be fragile for a while

 

[Superstar swan]

Absolutely gutted for corey.

Would love to see John put on the spot for that one

 

[TheGoatBaron]

The club shamed the spirit of South Melbourne tonight. I’m disgusted. I’m going back to the Mandalorian