Autopsy After a slow start a swarm of Swans crush Carlton by 52.

[DeathlyAccurate]

Having mids having to kick a tonne of goals is still not sustainable imo

McDonald and Amartey butchered some really good chances and need to get better

If that changes there is no other side that will come close

This is getting tired. People need to get over the idea of our three talls kicking bags of 4-5. They might not ever be like that and it’s ok. This is our style and it’s working beautifully.


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[momentbymoment]

Grundy waking up this morning …

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

BT and JB just terrible this year, they shouldn’t be allowed Swans games.

BT gets confused about who plays for us

Mark Fine noticed BT thought Cunningham was Brad Seymour at one stage.

 

[Kiama Chris]

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Grundy waking up this morning …

Absolutely 100%, but also Adams and JJ.
It is also looking as if Hayward is sniffing the wind as well. Logan too I hope.

 

[momentbymoment]

Add Sam Walsh as another scalp for Jordon, he dominated Walshy. How hecking good is Jordon, tagging & winning his own footy. He's playing the run with role perfectly.

At the start of the year I was pretty convinced Jordan wouldn’t be around for long.
Now I think he is probably one of the first picked …

 

[Jewelsbon]

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Grundy waking up this morning …

Post of the season

 

[Maddo11]

Found some crowd footage of Cripps and Walsh last night

Spoiler: Spoiler

 

[Wheresbuddy]

Having mids having to kick a tonne of goals is still not sustainable imo

McDonald and Amartey butchered some really good chances and need to get better

If that changes there is no other side that will come close

The days of a Tony Lockett or Lance Franklin kicking 10 are over. The ability of midfielders to roll back and help out has well and truly killed this. Tonight was the perfect example. Look at how much height, weight and even speed our KPD gave up to Curnow, McKay and dK. Initially looked like they were all going to kick bags on us. Then we woke up and our team defence rendered them impotent.

Our talls are doing what is required to allow for the TEAM to kick goals. Yes, Amartey and McDonald shanked a few but if you look at the goal assists, McDonald was certainly up there and both worked hard off the ball. That is what we need from them first and foremost and their individual goals are the icing.

 

[momentbymoment]

The days of a Tony Lockett or Lance Franklin kicking 10 are over. The ability of midfielders to roll back and help out has well and truly killed this. Tonight was the perfect example. Look at how much height, weight and even speed our KPD gave up to Curnow, McKay and dK. Initially looked like they were all going to kick bags on us. Then we woke up and our team defence rendered them impotent.

Our talls are doing what is required to allow for the TEAM to kick goals. Yes, Amartey and McDonald shanked a few but if you look at the goal assists, McDonald was certainly up there and both worked hard off the ball. That is what we need from them first and foremost and their individual goals are the icing.

5 Swans in the top 25 goal scorers.
If there was a team based Coleman we would be all over it.

 

[momentbymoment]

Waiting for his morning macchiato at Bondi beach, Grundy remembers that Collingwood is paying for it.

 

[BloodySwan]

Nick Newman had 22 disposals, 6 marks and 8 rebound 50s in the first half. No Carlton player has ever had those stats (or better) in a half of footy before.

I hate to dunk on Newman but I felt in spite of all his ball use he wasn't hurting us

 

[the hypnotoad]

He left early to go pick up the MIL and then bed

you'll have plenty of opportunity to discuss any parts of the game he might've missed

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Reckon we just saw this year's Premiers in action! And feck we managed to beat youse!
Nuffin better than seeing the Cartoon Brown Bagger Cheats be beaten! Hahaa Crapps Brownlow medalist!

 

[MR0808]

you'll have plenty of opportunity to discuss any parts of the game he might've missed

Don't worry, there's a whole day to do that today. And I think I may just wear my Swans shirt today

 

[MR0808]

Underrated moment but loved cunners goal. Won it at half back, continues the run and goals from arc to arc running

Always been Mr reliable. We really noticed him missing when he was injured

 

[MR0808]

I don’t recall the Swans ever doing stuff like this from the centre bounces, set up on the back of Grundy’s tapwork.

Am absolute team goal. 5 players involved and each one just as important!

 

[Millky95]

Having mids having to kick a tonne of goals is still not sustainable imo

McDonald and Amartey butchered some really good chances and need to get better

If that changes there is no other side that will come close

I'm of the opposite mind. Having 1 or 2 players kick 80% of your score isn't sustainable because what happens if they get blanketed or injured? Having a wide range of goal kickers allows us to be unpredictable when forward and can change things up if something isn't working

 

[the hypnotoad]

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I'm watching the replay, a reminder of where we came from!

yep ... from that point we beat them 116-38

 

[the hypnotoad]

Unbelievable win.

Kinda running out of things to say as almost every week is basically the same two concepts - sticking at it, and everyone playing their role. It feels so repetitive but I really don't know how else to describe our performances. There's an eery consistency between them all that feels unlike anything we've had before. There's not that sense of "good to win ugly", or "phew that was a close one!" or "thank god we had (insert star player) to get us over the line."

It's just great, hard, coherent and confident footy, every half, every week. Making every opponent we face - even strong ones - look lost at sea. There will be a time we fail to deliver that and the instinct might be to panic or feel the doom & gloom when that time comes, but these first ten weeks should be reason enough for us to avoid falling into that trap. We really have set the season up incredibly.

Ps. I have zero time for any media discussion of our midfield that does not begin with the name James Rowbottom.

GO BLOODS

this is a genuine class side ... even our role players have a touch of class about them ... jordon, mcinerney, wicks, cunningham, et al ...
people wonder if we're peaking too early, i'd say this team is still getting better ...

 

[Cadsky]

We haven't lost a game since I started tipping against us. I'm not tipping us for the rest of the year

 

[Millky95]

We haven't lost a game since I started tipping against us. I'm not tipping us for the rest of the year

You seriously tipped WCE?

 

[MR0808]

I'm of the opposite mind. Having 1 or 2 players kick 80% of your score isn't sustainable because what happens if they get blanketed or injured? Having a wide range of goal kickers allows us to be unpredictable when forward and can change things up if something isn't working

So true. Our three talls are working well, even when they aren't scoring, they are decoys or getting the ball to ground for our crumbers, like last night when McDonald tapped it to Heeney for goal

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

this is a genuine class side ... even our role players have a touch of class about them ... jordon, mcinerney, wicks, cunningham, et al ...
people wonder if we're peaking too early, i'd say this team is still getting better ...

Nahhh youse all managed to flex your collective muscle at the same time...fortunately it was agin those Cartoon cheats!
Set the bar for all to see...can only get better! I'm on the Blood's Train for this year's GF! Toot...toot...

 

[Wheresbuddy]

We haven't lost a game since I started tipping against us. I'm not tipping us for the rest of the year

Me too. The one game I tipped us, we lost. Apologies to everyone

 

[Cadsky]

You seriously tipped WCE?

We lost to Richmond the week before, had off field issues going on and it looked like the wheels were falling off.





I may have thrown all the toys out of my cot after the Richmond game.