Autopsy Well beaten v swamsn

[Only Forwards]

Young team. It’ll happen.

Hall mark of a young team is inconsistency.

Let’s see how we bounce back.

 

[trooroo4life]

Tackles and overall pressure numbers down considerably today, a dip in application was expected over the next few, unfortunately it came against a team who pick you apart. Hopefully more competitive next week.

 

[Samsquanch]

Can ops please correct title, my typing on par with our midfield today.

I thought it was pretty good for you Kosh.

Seriously though, it is actually pretty good.

 

[Reagan Smash]

Pointless potting individual players when the whole team sucked.

 

[Possession]

Absolutely everybody was off. Couldn't even capitalise on Sydney's screwups. I hope we don't crumble mentally, got some more tough games coming up that could go bad like this one did.

 

[Waynesworld]

Positives:

Papley had zero goals on LMac.

Didn’t see Arch get beaten.

Other comments:

To those who are saying dumb decision to drop Phillips, would not have made one ounce of difference if he played.

The better decision would have been to take McDonald instead of Phillips in the first place.

 

[Grogg]

9 blokes had laid a tackle by half time. 9.

You aren't beating anyone with that level of effort.

 

[Cool Kangas]

Oh well. Next week.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Taught a few lessons. We need to react next week.

 

[amaz199]

Tackles and overall pressure numbers down considerably today, a dip in application was expected over the next few, unfortunately it came against a team who pick you apart. Hopefully more competitive next week.

They were down but we did lift our intensity in parts. It's just that Sydney were classier, stronger, more experienced, more everything.

The first quarter was a huge missed opportunity to put scoreboard pressure on them. Sydney were not switched on at the start.

 

[trooroo4life]

Our biggest loss of the year. 1 step forward, 3 steps back.

If it happens again next week it’s a step backwards, but surely no one here thought we could keep backing up with that intensity every week without a dip. Let’s be realistic here, they’ve done bloody well to go as hard as we have the last 5 weeks, a down week was coming.

 

[Psychic Roo]

Dawson, McDonald and Comben were absolutely disastrous today.

Comben was still
Ok. Other 2 putrid.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

We almost defeated them last year. But nah, progress.

They are much better this year, playing at the SCG. It’s not a 1:1 comparison.

 

[Devington]

On the phillips non selection, it probably would have made a difference. But we weren't to know just how badly the midfield would get beaten by, and it sure as shit wouldn't have turned this loss into anything nearing a win.

 

[Jeremy Jordan]

Wait a minute, we don’t match up on well at them at all. The experts lied to us.

 

[Roostorm]

Its finished … it was ugly. Team as a collective were…well we know.
Onto to next week .

 

[Kanga Glory]

Hopefully that's an arbitration and not a sign of a tired team

 

[amaz199]

SCG is also a terrible ground for us to possess the ball and create width.

Felt like we were just strangled at every opportunity. Couldn't breathe after quarter time.

 

[Waynesworld]

Dawson, McDonald and Comben were absolutely disastrous today.

McDonald absolutely shut Papley down went he went to him after Dawsons disastrous start, so I don’t think you can call him out.

 

[Val Keating]

Bottom four side got mauled by the best team in the competition. Nearly all of our best players had mares. Shit happens. Some posters need to take Dimma's advice.

Bail out when your teams down and move to the Gold Coast?

 

[CURVE]

We've been very good over the previous five weeks but against the best midfield in the comp we were given a harsh reality check.

The Swans have been building their midfield for 5/6 seasons, our midfield is really still in season 1, Sheezel, Wardlaw and McKercher will, I hope, learn a lot today about what it takes to get to the top.

 

[nelroo]

Didn’t get to watch any of it. Geez ugly scoreline. Any quarters /parts worth watching on the replay?

 

[Only Forwards]

They are much better this year, playing at the SCG. It’s not a 1:1 comparison.

How dare you point out such clear logic.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

McDonald absolutely shut Papley down went he went to him after Dawsons disastrous start, so I don’t think you can call him out.

More with ball in hand.

 

[Psicosis]

Incredible to have all week to plan and still allow Warner and Gulden to do what they did by themselves all day. Shocking day across the board but this was Bontempelli 2.0. We lost the game on Wednesday as Kingy would say.