Sydney , were lucky to win ..they had help.

[Q...]

Over the entire match, the Dockers only looked better then the swans in one quarter - the third, but the swans still managed to out score them for the quarter.

And wasn't that good to watch. Freo really got Sydney of their game for a while there. Great quarter.

 

[Jimthegreat]

Why did it take Connolly and coaching staff ages to switch their match ups on players which initially were NOT working ?
Pavlich gave away 2 easy goals through stupid mistakes as did Bell and Johnson .
Pavlich also missed 2 easy goals .
Mathew Carr missed 2 and a half quarters due to injury .
Mcarphalin missed nearly a quarter due to injury.
Umpires gave Sydney 2 easy goals and also questionable free kicks around the ground at crucial times of the game.
At the boundary throw ins and bounceups around the ground Sydney constantly held the Freo players which enabled Sydney to clear the ball easily and only on a rare occasion did the umpires give Freo a free kick re : this illegal tactic .
Buchannan should get reported for his late hit on the Freo player .Harris ( Bulldogs ) did the same hit on the Eagles player and he got suspended the last game they played . I wonder how the match review committee and the Tribunal will view this incident . If its good enough for Harris to get suspended them Buchannan must also suffer the same fate .

Having said all this Sydney were better organised in the Forward Line than Freo .

Like all Sydney's misses in the first qtr. Could've ended the game then.