Preview 2024 Round 13: Swans v Cats (a fast preview's a good preview)

[caesar88]

I hope Stanley plays and Blivcas takes a week off instead

Blicavs has killed us the last few times. Pain in the arse (which is the highest compliment you can give an opposition player)

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Blicavs has killed us the last few times. Pain in the arse (which is the highest compliment you can give an opposition player)

They will rotate him through the center bounces Scott loves using bigger bodies in the middle against us.

 

[Kiama Chris]

Wouldn't be the worst idea to make him sub one game.

I am sure he can play the last 5 minutes of a game.

Emergency, not sub. Learning the prep and feeling the atmosphere.

 

[Millky95]

They will rotate him through the center bounces Scott loves using bigger bodies in the middle against us.

Smells like 50 point loss

I cannot shake my bad feelings about this game

 

[the hypnotoad]

"Ablett keeps it in...." leading up to the winning goal

yep, he was a big part of that desperate, wonderful last few minutes

 

[sthmelb_dimmies]

****ing blicavs

 

[Jimbo OZ]

If we are a serious top 4 team (not the Essendon variety top 4), then this should be a 50 point win easy.

So if we win by 20pts and are at 11-1 you won't consider us a serious top 4 side?

 

[Swannie0307]

I’m less stressed than usual for such a big game.

It’s because with this team, even if/when we get off to a poor start, we seem composed and confident enough to grind away and work ourselves back into the game… and then come over the top of the opposition in the 2nd half.

Once again, if we bring the pressure, I think we’ll win, and by at least a few goals

 

[The King!]

How did I erase last years draw from my memory

 

[The King!]

Horse was on the bench in the draw .

Is it my imagination or has he been in the box mostly this year?

 

[kickthething]

Percentage booster on the way….like we need it….

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Last year some Cats just laughed at us. Time for revenge.

 

[caesar88]

I was listening to the Rookie in Red & White podcast, which is a fun listen as it's a mad Swans fan introducing his girlfriend (or wife?? can't remember...) to footy and the Swans. So her perspectives are kinda unsophisticated in a footy sense, but that's what makes them interesting.

She made a comment that she'd noticed a trend over the year so far that the Swans seem to play off the opponent's energy, so when the opposition is going well, it seems to fire us up to match that energy and then surpass it.

I think this is a great quality to have, and I'm glad we've shown to have it in spades so far, but in a grand final scenario - as we know all too well - you've gotta be able to bring the intensity from the very start, regardless of how the other team's going. So I'd like to see us really turn up to show we are the best from the opening bounce this week, rather than wait for the other team to fire a decent shot before we decide to prove it.

 

[rustycrate]

I work in a school in very country Victoria.
200 kids.
Amazing to have 3 staff other than me as Swans supporters.
Luke asked me how we would go this week, he is always worried. I said we need to go beast mode on their mids. Warner, Heeney, Rowbottom, Adams...we need to monster them like they did to us in the GF I have forgotton about. This battle is the key. If we monster them or meet them in the middle we will win.
Further more, I believe that the confidence of a win over Geelong will set us up with the confidence, and more importantly, the belief that we truly can beat anyone this year.
This game is critical to confirm our belief that we can take on anyone and beat them.

 

[the hypnotoad]

I work in a school in very country Victoria.
200 kids.
Amazing to have 3 staff other than me as Swans supporters.
Luke asked me how we would go this week, he is always worried. I said we need to go beast mode on their mids. Warner, Heeney, Rowbottom, Adams...we need to monster them like they did to us in the GF I have forgotton about. This battle is the key. If we monster them or meet them in the middle we will win.
Further more, I believe that the confidence of a win over Geelong will set us up with the confidence, and more importantly, the belief that we truly can beat anyone this year.
This game is critical to confirm our belief that we can take on anyone and beat them.

yes indeed, the psychological part of this game is huge ... in terms of the result on the day and for what it means into the second half of the season

 

[Donza]

Reckon this may nudge a H&A record crowd.

Long weekend.
Amazing weather.
Favourable timeslot for family

 

[Tedeski]

So if we win by 20pts and are at 11-1 you won't consider us a serious top 4 side?

You can anal eyes my post however you want Jimbo boy.

 

[Swannie0307]

Reckon this may nudge a H&A record crowd.

Long weekend.
Amazing weather.
Favourable timeslot for family

Yeah shld bd over 45k … what’s the H&A record, anyone know?

 

[The King!]

Bothers me Geelong being written off, respect that side

 

[anotherletdown]

What a night that was!!

That night was a good mate's 21st. In the middle of the speeches someone said the come back was on and there was 5 minutes to go. 20 seconds of nervous looks and then a stampede for the door and the public bar. Birthday boy and parents the only people left in the room. Funny stuff

 

[Donza]

Yeah shld bd over 45k … what’s the H&A record, anyone know?

44659.
Swans pies 2022

 

[Donza]

600 more than the recent Carlton game

 

[Jeffers]

Cannot take this game lightly at all. Any win by any margin will do.
We’ll be in for a dogfight all game despite what the betting agencies are saying.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

This must be a terrible and remorseless humiliation of Geelong.