Autopsy 3 Things You Learnt From Hawks v Swans

Paul Kersey · May 13, 2013

db swannie said:
Still, I'm having a fine old time, still enjoying being the premiers.

I bet you are. Best team on the day won it.

Heeney2Franklin · May 13, 2013

deathevocation said:
I bet you are. Best team on the day won it.

Exactly mate its like well if 2013 goes to shit nothing will ever take 2012 off us

baja · May 13, 2013

Exactly, not too sure about all the media and the Hawks supporter talk saying they got their revenge. The flag is forever it was only a home and away game.

swansfan51 · May 13, 2013

db swannie said:
No doubt. 2 out 4 wins would be a pass I reckon, 3 out of 4 would be champagne corks and 4 out of 4 (on current form and with our injury list) a pipe dream.

Injury list is no excuse against a team missing the likes of Pavlich, Sandilands, Griffin, Bradley and Morabito to injury (imagine how our side would look with our 4 top rucks/forwards out). Then Collingwood are without the likes of Beams, Ball, Maxwell, Toovey. Adelaide are without Taylor Walker. Every team has to deal with injuries, it is why you have a squad of 40+. If we lose matches it is because the squad isn't good enough.

I'm not targeting your post db swannie, I agree we're in poor form, but I never like the injury excuse.

Heeney2Franklin · May 13, 2013

baja said:
Exactly, not too sure about all the media and the Hawks supporter talk saying they got their revenge. The flag is forever it was only a home and away game.

We had no right to win it last year according to the Media did you see the headlines it was all " Sydney pull off a Heist" " Sydney Steal the Cup" etc etc

Heeney2Franklin · May 13, 2013

swansfan51 said:
Injury list is no excuse against a team missing the likes of Pavlich, Sandilands, Griffin, Bradley and Morabito to injury (imagine how our side would look with our 4 top rucks/forwards out). Then Collingwood are without the likes of Beams, Ball, Maxwell, Toovey. Adelaide are without Taylor Walker. Every team has to deal with injuries, it is why you have a squad of 40+. If we lose matches it is because the squad isn't good enough.

I'm not targeting your post db swannie, I agree we're in poor form, but I never like the injury excuse.

Its no secret we dont have the depth of the top sides.

db swannie · May 13, 2013

swansfan51 said:
Injury list is no excuse against a team missing the likes of Pavlich, Sandilands, Griffin, Bradley and Morabito to injury (imagine how our side would look with our 4 top rucks/forwards out). Then Collingwood are without the likes of Beams, Ball, Maxwell, Toovey. Adelaide are without Taylor Walker. Every team has to deal with injuries, it is why you have a squad of 40+. If we lose matches it is because the squad isn't good enough.

I'm not targeting your post db swannie, I agree we're in poor form, but I never like the injury excuse.

I take your point, but it's not an excuse, I'm simply pointing out that we will struggle due to players who are out due to injury. Other team's injury lists are there own concern.

bungee · May 14, 2013

Skystyler said:
...The answer is the run must come from somewhere else

No idea why Horse subbed Mattner when Esky was being held back. Thought Marty was one of our better players early. His tackle on Buddy was great. Came across and threw him like a rag doll. So instead Horse kept Rampe in when Buddy ran through him like he was a Brisbane banner (sly ref. to last week). And WTF was Lamb supposed to add to our defence ?

Sanecow · May 14, 2013

Maybe Horse conceded that the game was over, that Lamb could do with the experience and that Mattner should be rested, either because of an injury niggle or because of his importance to the back line in future weeks.

bedford · May 14, 2013

bungee said:
No idea why Horse subbed Mattner when Esky was being held back. Thought Marty was one of our better players early. His tackle on Buddy was great. Came across and threw him like a rag doll. So instead Horse kept Rampe in when Buddy ran through him like he was a Brisbane banner (sly ref. to last week). And WTF was Lamb supposed to add to our defence ?

Agree , I thought Marty was very good, I would have subbed Jetta off

kickthething · May 14, 2013

One thing to note is Hawthorn played at the very top of their game on Saturday. I don't think they would have lost to anyone playng like that. We have so much upside that and it was a loss that was predictable according to most, but not life threatening given the opposition and where we are at. And we won the second half..!

baja · May 14, 2013

kickthething said:
. And we won the second half..!

nice positive :thumbsu:

disgruntled goat · May 14, 2013

baja said:
nice positive

It is actually something positive to take from the game.
1) Hawthorn would probably go on to crush most other teams ... didn't they do that to Collingwood?
2) It says again that we never give up, even playing poorly and being ripe for a big kill, we stood firm.

Leg End · May 14, 2013

baja said:
nice positive

I think Swans fans should show the same balls under pressure that we expect from our players.
I am not in the leat bit concerned about where we are - on the contrary.
We are the premiers. The rest just wish they were the Swans. It's round 7 FFS.

bedford · May 14, 2013

Leg End said:
I think Swans fans should show the same balls under pressure that we expect from our players.
I am not in the leat bit concerned about where we are - on the contrary.
We are the premiers. The rest just wish they were the Swans. It's round 7 FFS.

My only worry with Saturday night was that we were bullied by them

bungee · May 15, 2013

kickthething said:
One thing to note is Hawthorn played at the very top of their game on Saturday. I don't think they would have lost to anyone playng like that. We have so much upside that and it was a loss that was predictable according to most, but not life threatening given the opposition and where we are at. And we won the second half..!

Yes they played well but we missed a lot of shots, we missed tackles, we didn't put on enough pressure and our disposal was pretty ordinary. On balance I have to say we lost it just as much as they won it.

alanlau34 · May 15, 2013

bungee said:
Yes they played well but we missed a lot of shots, we missed tackles, we didn't put on enough pressure and our disposal was pretty ordinary. On balance I have to say we lost it just as much as they won it.

Yeah, and we played at night too. We all know Swans play the MCG best during the day

Leg End · May 15, 2013

bedford said:
My only worry with Saturday night was that we were bullied by them

They got a big jump on us quickly. But we helped them by missing goals early.

It's the same old story - when we start putting 3 or 4 strong quarters together, we'll be very hard to beat.

Glacier · May 15, 2013

baja said:
Exactly, not too sure about all the media and the Hawks supporter talk saying they got their revenge. The flag is forever it was only a home and away game.

Maybe the media, but not too many hawk supporters have said this
Swans thoroughly deserved to win last year, injuries are taking a toll at the moment

Sanecow · May 17, 2013

Glacier said:
Maybe the media, but not too many hawk supporters have said this

Yeah. Geelong are on a ten game streak versus Hawthorn but they still don't have the 2008 cup; it's not really much in the way of revenge.

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