Autopsy 8 point loss to Essendon

[Jimbo OZ]

Was that the Port Adelaide game on replay?

 

[RUNVS]

Sheldrick looked like he belonged, really did some nice things and actually took his opportunity to put it on the board. Play him in the 22 pleaseeeeee

Nope. Best Cox can do is drop him to the reserves next week.

 

[Kapers]

Sheldrick was really good imo.

 

[TasSixer]

Well that sucked. Why do we even watch this sport. It's all suffering.

Didn't turn up to half time, Sheldrick should be the first picked mid next week, can't believe he was sub today.

Then the false hope second half that if they actually gave a shit when the game started we wouldn't been facing an uphill climb.

Umpiring second week in a row was horrendous, genuinely this season is the worst the game has been officiated.

 

[TheGoatBaron]

Nice of the Swans to give us false hope in the end

 

[Swansujelly]

play the kids!..Edwards in, Buller, in, stuff it, Kirk in!

 

[Citrus22]

McCartin I thought was excellent, Robert’s had just about the worst 26 disposal game I’ve ever seen!

 

[Jack Lord]

You couldn't get a more frustrating spectacle than that.

Awful first half of football
Awful umpiring
Awful conversion.

 

[SwansLifer]

Put a fork in us for this season

That is all

I'm super, super upset with everything Swans right now. BUT I still think we will finish in the 8. Maybe even a home final. We're not even halfway through the season. It's hard to keep hope and the effort, or probably more so the game plan, was simply not good enough today. When the replacements come back they haven't had the long grind of a season, they're starting their season basically. Just got to be within 3-4 games of the top 4.

 

[RilesMacca]

Chinese water torture. Drip, drip, drip, point, point, point. Effort and pressure better late on but the game was lost with a horrid second term. Dons just walzted their way through with little to no pressure.

TMac was brilliant on Wright. Rowy and Grundy stood up around the ball in the second half. Juzzy's disposal was a killer but his physicality was huge in that last quarter. Sheldrick took his chances well.

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Weak zone defence for most of the game.

A senior coach who was weak at the selection table & panicked during the game.

Some players who can’t hit the side of a barn.



And if Sheldrick doesn’t start next week, I’ll fair dinkum start the Sack Cox thread myself (mods: fair warning!)

 

[Spamburger]

Essendon's job is to keep other teams out of the bottom eight.

 

[Wheresbuddy]

JMac got us back into the game with his running, attack on the ball and that goal he slotted from 60 was sublime. Then he proceeded to trash our comeback with a couple of rubbish options........

 

[Citrus22]

Nope. Best Cox can do is drop him to the reserves next week.

I really doubt it given how bad we were elsewhere but we’ll see, he’s sub at worst but should be in the 22

 

[TasSixer]

I know we got spuds up forward right now but do players legit ever practice goal kicking? It's actually not that hard to kick straight once you learn how.

 

[caesar88]

 

[SwansLifer]

McCartin I thought was excellent, Robert’s had just about the worst 26 disposal game I’ve ever seen!

So Robert backed up the worst 25 disposal game ever last week. Becoming predictable.

 

[31400]

This is the year to properly tank - before the compromised Tassie draft kicks in.

Finish bottom six, hopefully draft two good kids, have a long off season to properly prepare and hit round one healthy and on the angry pills.

This season is officially a write off.

 

[Day_night_honourer]

Yuck, yuck & YUCK! Not upset we didn't pinch that at end as we didn't earn it.

One week we only play a half, next a full, then just one quarter today. Never know how many quarters of effort (& skill) we are going to get. So random, like our tactics and selection.

Get your butt back from over in Hawaii please Roos and instil that bloods spirit back into this rabble.

 

[Wheresbuddy]

Weak zone defence for most of the game.

A senior coach who was weak at the selection table & panicked during the game.

Some players who can’t hit the side of a barn.



And if Sheldrick doesn’t start next week, I’ll fair dinkum start the Sack Cox thread myself (mods: fair warning!)

If he picks Sheldrick, most probably give him 50% ToG, sub him off then drop him the next week.

 

[smeggaz]

Jmac, warner and Heeney combined for 1 goal 5 behinds, 1 no score.

Francis and hamling combined for 0 goals 3 behinds.

Sheldrick to start next week. Heeney stays forward until we get actual forwards back.

Hope Blakey doesn't miss a week. No Blakey and melican will be rough. Watch merrett get off cause fox said he has eyes for the ball.

Turned up for half a game, 30% accuracy for goal, gave away 7x 50s (resulted in 3 goals), and a number of contentious decisions went against us.

Good teams win these games when hit by injuries. To be fair, we should have won by 30 if we could kick straight. 3-6 in q3, 3-5 in q4.

 

[Jack Lord]

Cleary has a go. I like him.

Put Sheldrick in the 22.

 

[SSwans2011]

**** we need Amartey back. I honestly think he has become one of our most important players.

If he played today and Hamling didn't, we would have won despite all the other outs.

 

[Downhill Skier]

None of our players outside of Rowy want to actually win the ball .

They all run away from the ball wanting to get the outside easy ball expecting someone else to go get their hands dirty and win the hard ball

 

[Jeffers]

I'm glad we didn't have the margin to under a goal because the Francis miss will be rued for an eternity