Autopsy Swans lose to Dogs by plenty

[lazy77]

I thought Roberts had a decent game.

Roberts is someone I expected to make way when bigger name players returned from injury. But I liked that he kept trying to the end and performed well despite the team being dominated.

Roberts had a lot of the ball but butchered it nearly every time apart from a few minutes at the very start and the very end. I’m surprised so many are praising his performance tbh. He gave us very little to work with despite being involved.

 

[RUNVS]

Roberts had a lot of the ball but butchered it nearly every time apart from a few minutes at the very start and the very end. I’m surprised so many are praising his performance tbh. He gave us very little to work with despite being involved.

At least he was getting the ball, which was more than Mills was doing.

 

[zyzzbruh]

Roberts had a lot of the ball but butchered it nearly every time apart from a few minutes at the very start and the very end. I’m surprised so many are praising his performance tbh. He gave us very little to work with despite being involved.

Had everything to do with dogs pressure and closing space. Had nothing to do with Roberts and had everything to do with the mids and wingers being out worked. It's the reason why the whole team butchered it today.

 

[tombomb]

Wicks was garbage again

He had plenty of mates.

But I would always pick talent over a specific role.

Sheldrick is just a much better player, with a much higher ceiling, and should have been in the team this week.

Parker should have started in the forward line if that is the issue.

 

[JackHiscoxWasFast]

OK, back home and here are my observations at the ground:

• it was bruise free footy. Plenty of examples of hard ball gets where we refused to go in for the contest.
• very little talk among the group / bad body language.
• Dogs midfield doing drills right up to the first bounce, not us, we were in a huddle. They were ready.
• Dogs prepared for our backwards and sideways kicking leaving us under the pump nearly every time we did it.
• Our missed tackle count was through the roof
• Best for us was Grundy and Roberts, yes Roberts.
• Blakey continues his 5 weeks of shocking form, caught out of position defensively again.
• The big 3 went missing.
• Gulden needs to stop remonstrating with his own players - bro you dropped an easy chest mark yourself and weren’t too flash with a few kicks and gave away a 50 that led to a goal.

Felt like the ‘22 GF in the sense that we were never in it. Boys are cruising and avoiding a bruising. I get it when you’re on top but complacency is our biggest problem right now.

Credit to the Dogs, Libba and Naughton killed us and we had no match in the air. Cody is still a flopper and drew the umps in a couple of times but umpiring had zero impct on the game.

Still confident we can kick into gear and bring the manic pressure but we were off all day today.

 

[RUNVS]

Had everything to do with dogs pressure and closing space. Had nothing to do with Roberts and had everything to do with the mids and wingers being out worked. It's the reason why the whole team butchered it today.

To be honest I think that is why Sydney have had poor starts this year.

Opposition teams come out of the blocks with high pressure, and we just can't cope with it, but as the game begins to wear on and the initial high of the start of the match wears off opposition teams pressure drops off a bit and that allows us to play how we want to play.

The problem is that when the oppositions pressure does not drop off we are no where. We rely entirely on the opposition not being able to sustain pressure.

 

[caesar88]

He had plenty of mates.

But I would always pick talent over a specific role.

Sheldrick is just a much better player, with a much higher ceiling, and should have been in the team this week.

Have you watched the VFL lately?

 

[tombomb]

Have you watched the VFL lately?

Yeah.

Sheldrick was good last week.

Quieter this week, but only because he was getting a hard tag. He was good in the second half, when they stopped tagging him.

Wicks did nothing in the reserves to warrant a recall and no VFL team would bother to tag him.

Have you been watching?

 

[TheGoatBaron]

Why do we always go to water when teams work us out? Everytime without fail this happens. We start a year playing hard progressive football then go into our shell. I’m not sure what needs to be done but something has to though

 

[caesar88]

Yeah.

Sheldrick was good last week.

Quieter this week, but only because he was getting a hard tag. He was good in the second half, when they stopped tagging him.

Wicks did nothing in the reserves to warrant a recall and no VFL team would bother to tag him.

Have you been watching?

I have. Sheldrick's ball use has been as bad as Wicks.

 

[RUNVS]

I have. Sheldrick's ball use has been as bad as Wicks.

At least he can win a clearance, which is more than most of our midfield can do.

 

[kickthething]

Was there only 1 journo at the presser?

 

[zyzzbruh]

To be honest I think that is why Sydney have had poor starts this year.

Opposition teams come out of the blocks with high pressure, and we just can't cope with it, but as the game begins to wear on and the initial high of the start of the match wears off opposition teams pressure drops off a bit and that allows us to play how we want to play.

The problem is that when the oppositions pressure does not drop off we are no where. We rely entirely on the opposition not being able to sustain pressure.

It is hard to ignore. Everytime we've been somewhat on the ropes this year it's because the opponents pressure gauge was about to burst.

There has been a few times this this year where we dealt with it well and found other ways to win. So I don't think we're inept at feeling our way through a game and lifting in certain areas. But those common areas mostly involve in the clinches or on the outside - and we've got our best outside player, best inside player, best crumbing mid, and most combative defender all out. The reality is we are severely weakened, and we are playing the exact same way we did when unfit last year. We just need to hope this team can scrape a couple of wins. With our strongest lineup in finals I'll feel pretty confident.

 

[Dubsforsam1]

A poor performance but the question is, are we doing a heavy block of training now to peak for Sept (as Lewis suggested before the game)?

We went in missing McInerney, Rowbottom, Papley, Rampe and lost Melican during the game as well as using the games to get Mills/Parker fit for finals.

There is still plenty of reasons to be optimistic

 

[tombomb]

I have. Sheldrick's ball use has been as bad as Wicks.

Wicks never gets the ball so I am not sure comparing their disposal matters much.

 

[caesar88]

Wicks never gets the ball so I am not sure comparing their disposal matters much.

Well if you're going on finding the ball, Cleary should be in over Sheldrick.

 

[GotTheGoodes]

We'll be fine. We are premiership favourites imo. Despite that game.

 

[JackHiscoxWasFast]

A poor performance but the question is, are we doing a heavy block of training now to peak for Sept (as Lewis suggested before the game)?

We went in missing McInerney, Rowbottom, Papley, Rampe and lost Melican during the game as well as using the games to get Mills/Parker fit for finals.

There is still plenty of reasons to be optimistic

Sorry I missed the bit about a heavy training block- what did he say specifically ?

 

[Adnico26Parker]

Was there only 1 journo at the presser?

Yep, 7 and the AFL didn't even bother, and Lachie McKirdy is in Paris

 

[lazy77]

I was more disappointed last week tbh. Sometimes you're off your game and just come up against a brick wall. Last week we put ourselves in a winning position regardless of the injuries and just frittered it away with a very poor last quarter. It's like everyone thought "close enough is good enough without Rampe and Papley". Horse essentially confirmed this with his bizzarely OTT praise for the team in the post match. If that's the prevailing attitude within the club, no wonder we're dropping our bundle.

 

[Swansujelly]

think we need to bring in a Team Psychologist to work out these first quaters.

 

[JackHiscoxWasFast]

Margin was absolute folly i think we are done August is where you should be hitting your straps as a contender.

It’s not August yet, have faith.

 

[PJ68]

Why do we always go to water when teams work us out? Everytime without fail this happens. We start a year playing hard progressive football then go into our shell. I’m not sure what needs to be done but something has to though

For mine when we get worked out Horse doesn't have it in him to switch things up on the fly.

 

[tombomb]

Well if you're going on finding the ball, Cleary should be in over Sheldrick.

I just go off who is a better footballer.

Sheldrick is a much better footballer than Wicks.

I think Wicks' go is to just be a specialist sub.

 

[Adnico26Parker]

With the VFL bye next week, there's really no excuses in regards to players being available to replace Melican and Hayward

Horse confident Rowy will be back in (TBC)