Review Round 1 - Sydney Swans vs Essendon Bombers - Match Discussion Thread

[RainMachine]

Jetta , what more can I say

Reid, pyke, anyone else bar maybe heeney

 

[The King!]

Harry looks to be shitting himself everytime the ball goes near him

A few like that, we have some squibs

 

[Chaisa]

Longmire is a shit coach. Been coach for 5 years now and still not convinced he's any good.

I do give a lot of credit for 2012....but since then he's often been really exposed tatically. He has one gameplan, and when the going gets tough, we fall to bits.

 

[vonn]

This is funny

 

[SSwans2011]

Towers has been one of our better players imo. Not great, but he's actually made us look dangerous up forward. I don't understand why people are attacking him.

In contrast, Goodey has to go. The fact that he was too buggered from that burst to chase Hibberd on the wing is very, very alarming. Sad to see, but there's really no difference between he and O'Keefe last year.

 

[The King!]

Mila kunis is kinda hot

 

[dangle]

It just goes to show if we don't bring immense pressure and cave under opposition pressure, we're not much chop.

Tackling pressure the main KPI. It's just not there at the moment.

C'mon Swans!

 

[The King!]

Towers has been one of our better players imo. Not great, but he's actually made us look dangerous up forward. I don't understand why people are attacking him.

In contrast, Goodey has to go. The fact that he was too buggered from that burst to chase Hibberd on the wing is very, very alarming. Sad to see, but there's really no difference between he and O'Keefe last year.

To be fair birdy messed that up after goodes just busted his rear end the contest before

 

[scaryness]

Mila kunis is kinda hot

Only kinda?

 

[The King!]

Only kinda?

Solid 7

 

[Gongswan]

we'll run this mob over at the death, but makwe no mistake, we have some players not going in hard enough, Essendon are getting the bounce of the ball but they're making it that way with better wet skills

 

[RUNVS]

Mila kunis is kinda hot

True but what does it have to do with the game?

 

[Millky95]

OK just had some comfort food. Let's look at the positives

Parker, 23 touches by half time
Jack kicking at a higher percentage than normal
Heeney
Leading contested possessions.

Things we need to improve:
Overal disposal work, particularly going forward
Tackles
Who we tap to in the ruck

We can still win this. Essendon are gonna run out of legs by red time this quarter.

 

[False]

This is absolutely pathetic. Do they not care about proving themselves after their pathetic GF performance? We didn't fumble the ball nearly as much in the NAB cup match against Freo in the rain. They're running around like headless chooks.

 

[J_Moore]

That quarter was better. It's not an insurmountable lead. A fair few guys would want to lift, though.

Shaw has acquitted himself well.

 

[The King!]

Positives

Heeney
Tippett isnt injured
One game closer to anz contract being over
Kunis hot
Can still win despite own inept performance
Towers ok imho
Parker


Negatives
Reid
Shaw
Pyke
Bird despite goal
Dwyane
Druggies hype
Longmire

 

[Donakebab]

Only kinda?

Had surgery to fix the eye, points deducted.

 

[Dan87]

Don't mind Mila.

 

[SSwans2011]

Honestly I'm not so convinced we will win this game. They have to do something to prove it to me first. It takes 5-10 good minutes from Essendon this quarter, and we're done.

 

[The King!]

That quarter was better. It's not an insurmountable lead. A fair few guys would want to lift, though.

Shaw has acquitted himself well.

First goal or two and essendon might collapse

Think cos we just have one goal makes it worse

 

[The King!]

True but what does it have to do with the game?

She was on the fox footy ad for jim beam or whatever it was

 

[Tedeski]

Our only hope is bombers run out of legs, and I mean completely and utterly.

They will!

We will snap out of it.

I expect us to win this from here.
The Bombers won't have a last Q effort left in their legs.
We should win & then we can address the players that will perhaps miss out on a senior gig during the week while we have the 4 points (luckily) in the bank.

Positives?

Parker is a Captain!

 

[scaryness]

So why is Tom Mitchell not playing in these conditions? Would rather have 20+ touches and 6+ tackles than Reid/Pyke

 

[The King!]

Craig Bird winning the goal kicking

 

[The King!]

Razor ray may prevent a win

Im not convinced we wre hurting from granny