Autopsy Round 8 2024 – Sydney Swans vs GWS Giants, Saturday May 4, 1.45pm AEST, SCG

[sydney_gws]

We played better vs Carlton.
Still 6 -2 is a good start.

 

[Colonial]

Wake up call that was needed?

 

[steviewonder36]

Didnt see Green go off earlier, that cleary hurt us.

We are bombing into the forward line too know.

 

[steviewonder36]

Thats all she wrote!

 

[Colonial]

No shape

 

[Giant Strides]

Game's gone, but need to play it out and not lose too much percentage. Or pride.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Callum Brown! Hopefully the MRO verdict won’t be as bad as 3 weeks

 

[Del208273]

Looking at the teams we've beaten this year, only Collingwood are in the Top 8.

And they've only got their act together in recent weeks.

Maybe 6-1 before this game was a smokescreen.

 

[InTheWings]

Hi all.

Sorry to intrude but I picked up something with the Brown collision and screenshot it. Thought it may be useful to you guys.

Blakey pushed Brown into the collision.

 

[Del208273]

TFG is going to get suspended AGAIN if he doesn't pull his head in.

Gut punches are MRO gold.

 

[Giant Strides]

We didn't adjust as well as the Swans to the rain. Possibly losing Tom Green

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Tom Green

Age

23

Ht

192cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.5

3star

K

4.3

2star

HB

7.3

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.3

4star

CL

2.8

4star

D

11.5

3star

K

4.3

2star

HB

7.3

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.3

3star

CL

2.8

4star

D

11.5

3star

K

4.3

2star

HB

7.3

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.3

4star

CL

2.8

5star

and the Brown bump may have contributed, but we have to learn to deal with those.

I thought Peatling had a pretty good game overall, too. Disposal wasn't the greatest, but had plenty of the ball, topped our metres gained, and involved in a lot of scores.

 

[Del208273]

Being positive, the worst we'll finish after this round is 4th, and that's only if Melbourne beat Geelong.

So maybe stay in 3rd.

Not sure whether that's a true indication of how well we're going until we play more Top 8 teams.

 

[Giant Gutsache]

Might have missed the XO attack on the ball. Maybe time to give Rowston a run.
Perhaps someone with the tank to run out games with the elite opponents, like Gulden. Hamilton?

 

[MightyBloods]

Didnt see Green go off earlier, that cleary hurt us.

We are bombing into the forward line too know.

And McCartin going off early??

 

[MightyBloods]

Hi all.

Sorry to intrude but I picked up something with the Brown collision and screenshot it. Thought it may be useful to you guys.

Blakey pushed Brown into the collision.


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Good luck with that defence.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

And McCartin going off early??

Tom Green is a much better player than McCartin

 

[MightyBloods]

Tom Green is a much better player than McCartin

Never said he wasn't. And for what it's worth, I tipped you guys to win the flag. If it's not us, I hope it's you guys.

 

[DowJone23]

Pretty disappointed to be honest. Got comfortably beat by a side that will likely lose in the second round of the finals. This is our year and we need to capitalise. Games like that set us back

 

[Cmarsh]

Disastrous game. Green will be out for weeks and Brown will get weeks.

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Crowd was 40,337. The 3rd biggest crowd ever for the Sydney derby. Only the crowds of 60,222 for the 2016 final at Stadium Australia in 2016, and the crowd of 40,350 at SCG in 2018 was bigger.

 

[Bjo187]

Three contributing factors to the loss:

• the swans getting their usual run of goals from free kicks at the scg
• Tom Green going down
• Picking a team with too many light bodies despite knowing it was gonna rain. Harvey shouldn't have been the sub, needed a Rowston or someone that is contested as cover imo as there were already 3 small forwards in the team + peatling who can also play that role.

 

[DowJone23]

Three contributing factors to the loss:

• the swans getting their usual run of goals from free kicks at the scg
• Tom Green going down
• Picking a team with too many light bodies despite knowing it was gonna rain. Harvey shouldn't have been the sub, needed a Rowston or someone that is contested as cover imo as there were already 3 small forwards in the team + peatling who can also play that role.

Nice. Do generally feel like we’re well equipped with bigger bodies but didn’t show up here. Needs to be an inflection point

 

[BarryAglett]

There were several factors contributing to to loss. Before Green went down we looked very strong and afterwards we didn't recover.
Some strategic mistakes by continuing playing the handball game in the rain instead of gaining territory.
Overall we were outplayed.
We should come out angry in the return Derby.

 

[Giant Strides]

Three contributing factors to the loss:

• the swans getting their usual run of goals from free kicks at the scg
• Tom Green going down
• Picking a team with too many light bodies despite knowing it was gonna rain. Harvey shouldn't have been the sub, needed a Rowston or someone that is contested as cover imo as there were already 3 small forwards in the team + peatling who can also play that role.

I don't disagree, but we never pick our team on conditions or opposition (to my chagrin at times). It was always going to be difficult to bring someone in from outside the Lions win (except for Toby & injury returns). Cogs not getting up and Green going off early was the worst possible combination of circumstances given the conditions and the selected team.

 

[Adam Giant]

The midfield without Coniglio and Green looked second rate. I’ve loved what Callan Ward

8

Callan Ward

Age

34

Ht

187cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

22.8

5star

K

11.2

4star

HB

11.5

5star

M

3.8

4star

T

4.3

5star

CL

5.4

5star

D

17.8

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

8.8

4star

M

2.3

2star

T

2.3

3star

CL

3.3

4star

D

10.0

3star

K

4.4

2star

HB

5.6

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.8

4star

has done for this club but he looks off the pace this year. I’d have XO ahead of him at the moment.

Not sure what’s going on with Toby either. He’s only had one decent game all season.

I though Jack Buckley had a good game and saved us from being totally blitzed.