Preview The Swans Redemption Arc Goes On - Sydney vs Port Adelaide - Preliminary Final

[Jack2Jack]

Don't buy they played their GF this week or they will be tired or any of that stuff. They are a high effort side, and they start hot when they're on. The key is to be with them on the scoreboard mid way through the second qtr, if we are you'd back us to work our way on top and should run out the game better from there. Their best chance is build an early lead and defend it or hope it breaks us mentally.
The first qtr and a bit are the danger period imo. Especially given what happened last time, as we saw tonight history can repeat and be a 1% thing, if they were to kick the first 3 or 4 doubt might creep in. Kicking an early goal or 2 will be important.

 

[The King!]

They are good, they will be hard to beat, full of confidence

 

[The King!]

Their fans turn on and off their team minute to minute

 

[The King!]

Don't buy they played their GF this week or they will be tired or any of that stuff. They are a high effort side, and they start hot when they're on. The key is to be with them on the scoreboard mid way through the second qtr, if we are you'd back us to work our way on top and should run out the game better from there. Their best chance is build an early lead and defend it or hope it breaks us mentally.
The first qtr and a bit are the danger period imo. Especially given what happened last time, as we saw tonight history can repeat and be a 1% thing, if they were to kick the first 3 or 4 doubt might creep in. Kicking an early goal or 2 will be important.

Well look if Port start 4 goals to 0 etc will be a here we go feeling.


The 8-0 record since 2016 is interesting. We never play them twice, 5 of the last 6 are Port home games, they rarely come to Sydney to play us. We never get to 100 in the losses, **** only passed 80 once.

I think it means **** all either way


Our best player rating wise the last 5 v Port is.....Callum Mills.

Houston has killed us though..

 

[Bloody]

honestly id rather bring Cleary in as sub over Adams/Fox and send Florent or Lloyd back for Mills

 

[Ticky009]

Well look if Port start 4 goals to 0 etc will be a here we go feeling.


The 8-0 record since 2016 is interesting. We never play them twice, 5 of the last 6 are Port home games, they rarely come to Sydney to play us. We never get to 100 in the losses, **** only passed 80 once.

I think it means **** all either way


Our best player rating wise the last 5 v Port is.....Callum Mills.

Houston has killed us though..

We need to find a way to mitigate him. Backline will have to put on their big boy pants and work their arse off.

 

[Swannie0307]

Quietly confident… we will be primed and raring to go !!!

Happy with either Fox or Adams coming in for our hamstrung captain… don’t mind the idea of Parker as sub either (I know it was only North, but he was great coming in with fresh legs that day… not to mention he was sub the last time we won a flag )

 

[Kirkswan]

Their fans turn on and off their team minute to minute

Lol! If ours are anything like those on this board, we're a bit the same! One minute we're the best, next we useless...

 

[Kirkswan]

I'm with the 'last 8 games aren't relevant' crowd... some of those game go back years and half our team hadn't debuted! If you go back to the 10 games prior to that we won 8/10, so over the last 18 games were slightly in front... all just rubbish and not relevant to this game! Finals are a completely different beast...

I've no idea who'll win, according to the stats we play remarkably similar games... so in my view, it's likely to come down to who can go hardest for longest, and that is likely to be us!

Go Swannies!!!

 

[Maddo11]

Probably the best possible match up to lose Mills, as their forward line will be Georgiades, Rioli and not much else. I'd pretty strongly consider playing Adams for some extra grunt.

Port are going to try and bring the high pressure tackling that kept hawthorn goalless in the first quarter, an extra strong body in the guts definitely wouldn't hurt.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Feeling weirdly zen about this one. If we can't beat Port on our home deck after a week's rest we have no business being anywhere near a grand final.

Yep. Despite my relentless efforts to whip myself into a frenzy of anxiety, my beatific serenity endures throughout the finals.

 

[Swansujelly]

We won't be coming back against these guys. I f we do another slow start it's over, can't afford to give a start this time. Time for some of this..

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

We won't be coming back against these guys. I f we do another slow start it's over, can't afford to give a start this time. Time for some of this..

Sheesh Tommy Raudonikis. One of a kind.

 

[Punts]

Either way it’s gonna be a cracker and close imo

Both primed

 

[King_Tredrea]

We are a purely emotional side. If we get off to a flyer and can get a 5-6 goal lead early than maybe. Other than that Sydney shouldn't have too much trouble controlling the game

 

[The King!]

If they do beat us they better win the week after please

 

[Maddo11]

If they do beat us they better win the week after please

I'd prefer a Brisbane flag tbh.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

There's talk they're seriously thinking about bringing Kane Farrell

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Kane Farrell

Age

25

Ht

182cm

Wt

80kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.8

2star

K

6.4

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

2.1

4star

MG

259.5

4star

D

12.5

3star

K

7.8

3star

HB

4.8

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.5

3star

MG

259.5

4star

D

9.6

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

2.6

3star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.0

4star

back, after they ruled him out for the season back at the end of August with a severe hamstring injury...

 

[Donza]

Weather looks amazing.

 

[Crimson Azure]

If we win the flag u have to change your username to Vermilion Ivory.

What about the cream, the white, the off white, the beige or the bone? And surely crimson is a live option.

Crimson Bone. Now there’s a name you can set your watch by.

 

[King_Tredrea]

There's talk they're seriously thinking about bringing Kane Farrell back, after they ruled him out for the season back at the end of August with a severe hamstring injury...

We have form in terms of risking players welfare so absolutely a chance

 

[The King!]

We have form in terms of risking players welfare so absolutely a chance

Maybe Horse and Hinkley will meet an agree on how many injured players each will pick

 

[The King!]

I'd prefer a Brisbane flag tbh.

Fair enough, I don't mind Port

 

[wills2g]

Sweet gave grundy a bath last time

We need to win the ruck battle

 

[GoTheSwannies]

Feeling weirdly zen about this one. If we can't beat Port on our home deck after a week's rest we have no business being anywhere near a grand final.

Yup, this. No fears about this one.

If we're good enough, we'll get the job done against Port.

I hope the headlines read something along the lines of "150 point turn around since their last encounter"... 200 point turn around would be better, but I'll take a 120 point turn around if we've gotta do it the hard way.