Autopsy 31 point loss to Collingwood

[Heeney2Franklin]

Night to forget terrible defence and never really looked like it even when we closed within 12.

Heeney was BOG for us by a mile, nobody could take a mark for some reason did we run out of Gecko Grip?

Long week in football for Bice

 

[Jeffers]

It's OK, Brisbane were bottom 4 at round 13 and won the premiership. I'm sure we can do the same.

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Melican’s absence was always a risk of killling us.

Tonight it did.

Back 6 thrashed.

Tall forwards incapable of taking a mark.

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

But at least a couple of them will get scapegoated at the selection table.

 

[strauchanie59]

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.

 

[SSwans2011]

It's OK, Brisbane were bottom 4 at round 13 and won the premiership. I'm sure we can do the same.

Lid's off!!!

 

[LukeParkerno1]

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

 

[tombomb]

Be awesome if we could play North every week.

Ned Long making our midfielders look like u16s. WTF.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Campbell, Corey Warner, Sheldrick i feel we will be saying every week they will breakout.

I just dont see it good depth if you are flying but if your expecting the above to have a massive influence in a game you are in trouble

 

[Jeffers]

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

 

[GreyGooseGuy88]

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.

 

[TheGoatBaron]

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

 

[Jack Lord]

Good to get more game time into the fringe players.

Bice again showed what a good user he can be.

Hanily hit the scoreboard. He looks pretty good.

Corey goes hard at it, just lacks a bit of polish.

Sheldrick was decent.

I thought Cleary was really good.

 

[The Gong]

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.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Be awesome if we could play North every week.

Ned Long making our midfielders look like u16s. WTF.

Who the **** is Ned Long is what i was saying

 

[Citrus22]

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.

 

[Swansujelly]

Dissappointing stuff. Sidebottom always tears us a new one. Still, plenty of water to go under the bridge.

 

[SSwans2011]

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.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Good to get more game time into the fringe players.

Bice had some good moments.

Hanily hit the scoreboard. He looks pretty good.

Corey goes hard at it, just lacks a bit of polish.

Sheldrick was decent.

How is Sheldrick decent tho? yer he gets the ball but pointless if he cant do anything good with it

 

[strauchanie59]

Be awesome if we could play North every week.

Ned Long making our midfielders look like u16s. WTF.

Wouldn't get a game in our midfield, he's far too tall and strong!

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Cleary was so good, he got mentioned twice

Ha - apologies to Corey.

 

[Punts]

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.

 

[smeggaz]

Game plan

• Long, high kicks down the line so all our gun contested marking talls can be out marked by Darcy Moore
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  Darcy Moore

  Age

  29

  Ht

  203cm

  Wt

  100kg

  Pos.

  Def

  Career

  Season

  Last 5

  D

  11.1

  3star

  K

  7.0

  3star

  HB

  4.1

  3star

  M

  4.8

  5star

  T

  1.6

  4star

  MG

  169.1

  3star

  D

  13.9

  3star

  K

  7.3

  3star

  HB

  6.6

  4star

  M

  4.9

  5star

  T

  0.7

  1star

  MG

  182.0

  3star

  D

  6.8

  2star

  K

  4.2

  2star

  HB

  2.6

  3star

  M

  2.6

  3star

  T

  1.8

  4star

  MG

  87.4

  2star

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• 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.

 

[Punts]

IMO the list isn’t in the greatest shape forward and back

 

[GreyGooseGuy88]

Be awesome if we could play North every week.

Ned Long making our midfielders look like u16s. WTF.

We made Ned Long look like Chris Judd tonight....

 

[tombomb]

How is Sheldrick decent tho? yer he gets the ball but pointless if he cant do anything good with it

So far from our problems tonight.

Actually had an impact in the midfield which most senior players didn't besides Heeney.