Game Day 2023 Round 16 Swans v Cats Friday 30 June @ 7:50 @ SCG

[the hypnotoad]

Skills were spot on first half. Soon as the goal kicking inaccuracy and missed opportunities started to eat into confidence our decision making and lack of purpose crept in. We were hoping to hit targets second half rather than knowing we would with our foot skills. Lack of purpose can kill you.

exactly! but for a lot of the past two months, when that's happened we've been smashed
not tonight
we took plenty of hits but kept coming, and hitting back ... at least we saw that fight tonight

 

[Wolfgang West]

This is how stupid these so called experts are. Lyon just shows Fox miss and says hard to hang him out to dry then in same breathing says an AFL standard footballer kicks that. Dill.

 

[lazy77]

I may be in the minority here but that felt far less like a hard-fought, honorable draw and much more like a disastrous loss.

You're not in the minority. That was a disaster.

 

[Wheresbuddy]

I found myself nodding along - until the “Armatey and McLean chipped in with some useful acts” part.

Personally, I thought they were both poor.

My view:

Our mids dominated the bulk of the game.
Our forward line failed to take advantage.

I'm thinking it was more Heeney, Papley and Haywood failed to take advantage. They are the guys who should be icing the game.

 

[Bloods86]

I may be in the minority here but that felt far less like a hard-fought, honorable draw and much more like a disastrous loss.

We fought, but there was no honour in our goalkicking tonight. Definitely feels like a loss.

 

[lazy77]

What's the go with the Gulden bashing?? One of our best tonight!

He made a few really costly mistakes in the last.

 

[Wheresbuddy]

He made a few really costly mistakes in the last.

On balance, his good absolutely outweighed his bad. He's a star, one of our best in only his third year.

 

[Deccas]

He made a few really costly mistakes in the last.

Yeah he was one of our best, but also made a few mistakes that probably gave them the lead. It's really frustrating that both those things are true.

 

[ErrolisGoldun]

And yet still received 7 less frees. Why the * were Geelong constantly being allowed the run over the mark? Remember the stkilda loss? Same thing just 10 times more and they weren’t penalised once.

So true

 

[MK38]

He made a few really costly mistakes in the last.

He may have but the forwards lost us that. Yes Gulden and others missed goals too, made mistakes, but we also out played the cats because of the likes of Gulden.

 

[Superstar swan]

If Clarke is of no use when full of energy halfway through the 4th quarter then why was he made the sub at all?

Coz horse. It's been around for a decade now , and he still has no idea on how to use the sub. Someone needs to tell him it's not 23rd man...it's meant to be an impact player

 

[ErrolisGoldun]

Fox miss was the game, 10m on the run, deplorable

 

[ErrolisGoldun]

Coz horse. It's been around for a decade now , and he still has no idea on how to use the sub. Someone needs to tell him it's not 23rd man...it's meant to be an impact player

Should have subbed off fox he was lost unfortunately

 

[ErrolisGoldun]

He may have but the forwards lost us that. Yes Gulden and others missed goals too, made mistakes, but we also out played the cats because of the likes of Gulden.

Anyone having a crack at gulden has no idea about football

 

[lazy77]

He may have but the forwards lost us that. Yes Gulden and others missed goals too, made mistakes, but we also out played the cats because of the likes of Gulden.

Of course. Gulden was excellent overall, but was guilty of some inexplicably dumb kicks in the last that led to Geelong goals.

 

[Superstar swan]

Anyone having a crack at gulden has no idea about football

If he doesn't make AA , it will be farcical

 

[ErrolisGoldun]

Heeney was the most wasteful tonight and Hickey had two very gettable goals missed, lots went wrong goal kicking but we should have won the game

 

[SwansProudly]

Autopsy - Round 16: It’s like kissing your sister

The most frustrating game in my decade plus of attending Swans games. Love Sheldrick though.

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