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Autopsy 31 point loss to Collingwood

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It's OK, Brisbane were bottom 4 at round 13 and won the premiership. I'm sure we can do the same.
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Would be nice if we kicked it to the forwards advantage for often (McLean's sitters aside). 3-4 times Ladhams was 5-10m over the back of Frampton, either on a counter or from a stoppage, so our mids drop it 10m in front of Frampton.

Elliott is in the exact same position for them and they kick it beautifully over the top so he can mark it.

Just far too many skill errors in crucial spots and moments, especially from senior players.
 

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Thought Bice worked into it 21 possessions after copping a heavy defensive tag.

Campbell good in his role

Hanily keeps his spot regardless when the players come back

Hayward just flat out annoys me this season I hope he doesn’t think the North game is enough for the year another putrid game
 
But seriously, when the heat was on, our lack of Centre clearance work was on show again. That second quarter blitz broke our back as they waltzed it out of the centre Ala 2024 Grand Final.
Lack of leadership down back
Lack of any trust in our contested marking ability up forward.

I'm surprised we kept it under 50+.

Team is nowhere near finals quality this year
 
Anyone notice the chest guard Warner Snr was wearing under his jumper - suspect there is an injury he is carrying.

Cleary was impressive. Roberts and Wicks too loose tonight in defence.

Rampe is cooked - put a fork through him.
 
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Melican’s absence was always a risk of killling us.

Tonight it did.

Back 6 thrashed.

Tall forward incapable of taking a mark.

The pleasing thing - Hanily, Cleary, Sheldrick and Cleary were all decent.

But at least a couple of them will get scapegoated at the selection table.
Cleary was so good, he got mentioned twice
 
There's plenty of effort but a lock of polish. Nice sections of play breaking down through simple errors and getting punished for it by better sides. Back 6 were very disorganised and gave up a lot of goals by not doing the basic things well. Missing a lot of first choice players so the only silver lining is that we're getting games into some younger players.

Heeney is pure class.
 

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Had our colours lowered after a good showing last week. Defence was shocking, obliterated in the air so they really need to go to work. Amartey subbed off hurt our structure.

Still bullish given the experience to come back. Really really like the look of Cleary, Hannily great first half. Even Sheldrick looked more composed. Ollie has worked into some nice form.
 
If we keep lining up with Blakey and Rampe in the backline, this will be the first of many 100+ scores kicked on us this year.

One is cooked and the other has rarely shown any aptitude to actually defend.
 

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We are relying on heeney to much but he is the only one that can get a contested possession.

Rowbottom sorry is overrated as

We still can’t stop momentum at times , still the same group.

Contested marking was a massive issue last year and still is

Probably one of the the worst defensive groups i have seen in a swans side.

We don’t have a contested marking tall in the front half.
 
Game plan
  • Long, high kicks down the line so all our gun contested marking talls can be out marked by Darcy Moore.
  • Play behind your defender. You might get the easy over the back 1/5 times. Don't worry about the rebound, that only happens 4/5 times.
  • Sloppy passes, ideally to people under more pressure, or Collingwood. If they have the ball, there's less pressure on you.
  • Avoid marking in hands. Aim for your chest, and ideally drop the uncontested ones.
  • Hopefully Heeney will do something cool.
  • Hope enough players show up, or it's a bottom 8 side.
  • Let old people play loose all game. They're old and it's unfair to put pressure on them.
  • Definitely don't play front and centre in a contest. It's unfair for the oppo if you always have the ball and hog all the good spots.
But seriously. Our defence is atrocious, our midfield can't win a contest or spread 80% of the time, and we don't have forwards - last year we relied on mids hitting the scoreboard, and that's dropped off monumentally this year.

Hopefully we can get some of our core players back soon as each line is just full of vulnerabilities.
 
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