Autopsy Groundhog day averted! Swans defeat Cats by 30 infront of a packed SCG

[The King!]

The patchy spurts can be worrying at times but make for great replays

 

[The King!]

In regards to what?

Its been confirmed that it was a cork.

His haircut

Nah the injury and cheers

 

[JackHiscoxWasFast]

Slick Wicks loves his mates chicks lol. Nah just kidding. On ya Wicksssyyyyyyyyyy!

Mods - time for KingV24 after that lol

 

[Ticky009]

Oh Errol!!

 

[Ticky009]

Papley!!

 

[Ticky009]

Both of Heeney's goals - for you The King!

 

[demondavey]

Would be incredibly surprised if they don’t win the premiership in a pretty one sided affair. Unless Collingwood pulls it together, I don’t see any other team getting close on GF day.

 

[caesar88]

With Roberts, fox and Melican building up down there with Blakey, Lloyd has had to change roles and by doing so, has revitalised himself

It's accidentally achieved what many, including myself, have been crying out for with Lloyd for years.

In a career quite literally littered with brilliant coaching moves, Horse taking one of our best runners and ball users and turning him into a chip-kicking guard hemmed into the back pocket was not one of them.

 

[GoTheSwannies]

How brilliant are those highlight clips... so many classy moments in this game... and our best showed the way.

 

[Banyo Bloods]

Have we won all those? i think so off the top of my head

No we lost to Geelong in the number 1 biggest crowd as I flew down to watch it as my first SCG game. We won the reserves though and Goodes was amazing in the ressies.

 

[WhippingCupcakes]

That 5 goals defecit eroded rather quickly. It's a good sign that we can respond when the chips were down.

Probably not ideal to let it get to that point but clearly work to do in this space.

I'm still not convinced our brand holds up on GF day. Any pressure seems to really affect us and we concede goals quickly.

We definitely aren't quite the finished product and adding Mills dials up the side to another level.

He may add the finishing touch to help stem a tide when needed and add so much polish and pain for opposition with his smarts and ball use.

Great spot to be

I keep forgetting our captain hasn't played a game this season ...

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Both of Heeney's goals - for you The King!

Ticky! media thread!

 

[Kiama Chris]

Amazing crowd, must be close to a record.

Complaining about the academies does disservice to the recruiting of Grundy, Adams and Jordon. Jordon in particular has come from no where.

Cats never died wondering, credit to them they didn’t give up but lacked pace.

We are the team to beat.

Jordon was crucial in our second quarter comeback. Three direct assists and a goal. He was solid the rest of the game but was huge in turning the tide.

 

[Swannie0307]

What an exciting game to be at today … yes it was a poor start but tbf we copped some terrible decisions, think we had at least 2 posters, and they played out of their skins and kicked some unbelievable goals from the boundary … everything that could’ve gone wrong, DID!!

BUT, per my attached post, I was never concerned and had a firm belief that we would work our way back into the game.

I remember saying to my son in Q2 that if we could just reduce their lead by a couple of goals , we should run over the top of them in the 2nd half … and then BANG, we played some of the most exhilarating footy in a 10-15 minute surge to pile on 5 very exciting goals to almost grab the halftime lead

And once we took the lead from Paps’ great set shot from 50, we pretty much had the game in full control.

Once again awesome contributions from everyone, another great spread of goal kickers… and we are now a tough mature resilient and skilful team who can run out games well … what a great time to be a Swans fan!

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

This is why we are so fortunate to have acquired Grundy/Adams/Jordan for peanuts.

Opposition clubs rarely want to gift improvement to a competing team

 

[Ticky009]

Ticky! media thread!

Nah. These always get put into the Autopsy - bit of inspiration for you all.

 

[Kiama Chris]

The only time momentum swung back to Geelong in the 2nd half was when Grundy was on the pine.

Today I saw the AA ruckman hit peak form.

And it was superb.

Scott WOULD NOT CONCEDE that Grundy had outplayed Stanley. Or even that he had played well. Reckoned it was all our ground level crew who did the damage. Off with the pixies.

 

[Ticky009]

Scott WOULD NOT CONCEDE that Grundy had outplayed Stanley. Or even that he had played well. Reckoned it was all our ground level crew who did the damage. Off with the pixies.

I'm surprised he conceded anything - what rule does he want clarified this week.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Regardless still dont want anything to do with Geelong in the finals

O.Henry and Danger would of made the game even closer today.

 

[Donza]

This is why we are so fortunate to have acquired Grundy/Adams/Jordan for peanuts.

Opposition clubs rarely want to gift improvement to a competing team

It's a bit like when the Hawks got Lake.
Which was for what ? A Early-ish second rounder.
Everyone was like. WTF. How did that happen so easily.
He just became an integral part of the Hawks dominance

 

[WhippingCupcakes]

don't agree with your last line
geelong will struggle to make the eight, and essendon will struggle to stay top four ... and maybe even the eight
i thought carlton would beat essendon, i think they're clearly better than the cats and bombers, and i think they're a top four team

Carlton are overrated.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

It's a bit like when the Hawks got Lake.
Which was for what ? A Early-ish second rounder.
Everyone was like. WTF. How did that happen so easily.
He just became an integral part of the Hawks dominance

Yep those 3 are one of the reasons why we are 11-1

 

[Ticky009]

 

[Ticky009]

I'm going to settle back with a Gin & tonic and watch the replay. It's going to be delicious.

 

[Dubai Quacker]

All this positivity is not the Bigfooty board way.

A whipping boy is needed.

And I, dear reader, bring to you 3 viable options:

McLean: hasn’t kicked a goal in forever & his ruck worked just didn’t measure up. Geelong took control whenever Grundy was off. Only took 1 mark, none contested. Applies no forward half pressure and questions are starting to arise, with Hamling kicking bags in the VFL.

Roberts: clearly in need of a spell. Some of his chasing efforts were sub-par. 66% ToG shows he’s either tired, or Horse is losing faith.

Cunningham: job is to lock down an opposition small forward. Close & Miers had a field day early on (I won’t include Stengle here, as Rampe had the job on him). 9 disposals - quite a few of which were clangers + no tackles.

Now doesn’t that feel better? Normal whipping boy discussions may now resume .