Unofficial Preview Early Thoughts - Sydney Swans vs Hawthorn Grand Final Edition

[jjami15]

Congrats to your mob! Long family history tied to South Melb so will be cheering for your guys next week (only for three hours mind you!)

 

[The King!]

Im not worried about ted short term surprised some are, he was no different to normal, defenders can defenders can look bad way more easily than anywhere else, long term different story.

Hope reg is ok, presume he may be sore at the very least,

Reid played his best game in a while and got hurt, still got in the way early, we can cover him thats for sure

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Im not worried about ted short term surprised some are, he was no different to normal, defenders can defenders can look bad way more easily than anywhere else, long term different story.

Hope reg is ok, presume he may be sore at the very least,

Reid played his best game in a while and got hurt, still got in the way early, we can cover him thats for sure

Grundy will be jabbed up similar to Richards in 2012 when he did his ankle in the prelim, Reid meh plenty of options to cover him.

Its a GF it will be take something drastic for a player to miss.

 

[The King!]

Reid limping heavily at recovery

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Reid limping heavily at recovery

Wonder which way we will go pretty obvious its between 2 Mitchell or Towers.

 

[Millky95]

Some food for thought, here is the 2012 to now ins and outs for the GFs (going on that Reid will be OK):

OUT: Johnson, Mattner, O'Keefe, LRT, Mumford, Bolton, Morton
IN: Rampe, Rohan, McGlyyn, Franklin, Cunningham, Tippett, Llyod

Parker also moved from the sub to starting 18. We have more pace and a more potent attacking 50

 

[MarkP]

I love you for omitting Towers' name but I have no doubt he would be the in for Reidy

Ruck cover eh

 

[Punts]

Reid looked pretty happy after the game , unless it is structural damage he wont be missing the GF lets be honest.

If he was to miss it would be Towers come in imo

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Reid looked pretty happy after the game , unless it is structural damage he wont be missing the GF lets be honest.

If he was to miss it would be Towers come in imo

If Hawthorn win i would rather Mitchell in the side Towers will have no impact in the game against that defence, if Port win reckon Longmire will go with Towers for pace.

 

[Punts]

If Hawthorn win i would rather Mitchell in the side Towers will have no impact in the game against that defence, if Port win reckon Longmire will go with Towers for pace.

Mitchell as sub ?

 

[The King!]

Reid wont miss

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Mitchell as sub ?

Hmm i keep thinking back to that third quarter in round 18 i know we didn't have Hanners but for 8mins we couldn't win a clearance and they went bang bang bang.

I want Mitchell to play a full game against Hawthorn.

 

[Millky95]

If Reid misses:
Mitchell for Hawks, Bird as sub. Need that clearance work
Towers/Jones for Port for extra pace

 

[Punts]

Reid hit a little bit of form last night I thought.

Set shots were a little of but was moving and putting on pretty good pressure

 

[SSFC]

Rohan was good

 

[SSwans2011]

Reid isn't going to miss the Grand Final. We will go in unchanged.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Reid hit a little bit of form last night I thought.

Set shots were a little of but was moving and putting on pretty good pressure

Yer reckon if he slotted those 2 goals which were pretty easy i would have a different view on his performance last night, those 2 kicks were ugly shanks tho

 

[CharlieG]

*Shudders*

I don't understand the hostility to Dean Towers among Swans fans. He didn't star but he's played six matches, you wouldn't expect him to.

He may seek further opportunities elsewhere, but I hope he-resigns. We may well be about to lose both Rhyce and Mal.

 

[Membling]

Parker is part God. Will win a brownlow

Hey, you may or may not like the swans but join the Parker bandwagon.

Now it's fully justified

 

[Tuco]

Reguardless of the outcome of tomorrow's game I think you guys should be congratulated on yet another fantastic year and a very well deserved GF appearance. The amount of crap your boys have copped from round 1 all season has been unjustified, Goodes, Franklin all that crap, none of it. I won't lie it's really painful watching that 23 run around but that guy still brings a massive smile to my face. Sit back and enjoy what will be another bumper game tomorrow night.

Congrats and all the best.

As an AR lover you always want a great GF. Our two teams have delivered that in spades recently.

I think the offield stuff has overtaken what AR is all about in the last 10 years. Your post gives me hope footy will still win out over media fuelled negativity. Especially the kind that has created a seeming hysteria between our two supporter bases

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I love you for omitting Towers' name but I have no doubt he would be the in for Reidy

Tim Membrey, "Compulsory" Jones, "Ronnie" Biggs, The Other Guy?

 

[GotTheGoodes]

Reid isn't going to miss the Grand Final. We will go in unchanged.

If he's not 100% he may miss... All depends on how far away from 100% he is. He looked ok after the game though & Horse seemed confident. I'm expecting the team to go in unchanged...

 

[Troystenvic]

Love being a Melbourneite Grand final week Its awesome. Weather is going to be sensational all week with a top of 21 Saturday (clearing shower). Its going to be a MASSIVE week.

 

[scaryness]

6 players will play their first GF:

Ben McGlynn, Kurt Tippett, Jake Lloyd, Harry Cunningham, Gary Rohan, Dane Rampe

 

[Sanecow]

6 players will play their first GF:

Ben McGlynn, Kurt Tippett, Jake Lloyd, Harry Cunningham, Gary Rohan, Dane Rampe

This is why I don't understand the Mitchell / Membrey wants to leave rumours. Well, except if its a money thing.