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Can we actually beat the swans?

Can we actually beat the swans?

  • YES

    Votes: 63 39.4%

  • NO CHANCE

    Votes: 72 45.0%

  • UNSURE

    Votes: 25 15.6%
  • Total voters
    160

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Thursday Night selection will give us an early indication.....If we choose the right team we are definitely a good chance.
- Harry plays defense just has to happen
- Menzel has to play whether its wet, dry, snowing or cyclone weather
- Motlop should be dropped but if he does play needs to play in the forward line permanently
- hoping menegola has a blinder which in turn would mean that Danger can play in the forward line
- Mackie is due for a good game , this is going to sound crazy But i would have him have shots at Goal from 55m as Sydney woudn't expect that
- Start and finish the game with hunger.......none of this giving opposition a 5 goal head start
- Play keepings off when in red time
 
Sydney are the ultimate professionals. We'd better not let them get out to an early lead because there won't be any coming back against them.
And there in lies the problem........for whatever reason, we don't mentally prepare properly for big games

We talk a big game, but it's all talk........it has been since 2011. After last Fridays game, I'm just not buying Scott's spiels anymore......talk is too cheap with this club.
 
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Gavin Excell said:
My concern is we simply cannot score. Theres no run off half back, no preparedness to take on risks and go down the middle.

If we play that defensive nervous risk free footy we will get flogged
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I've seen plenty of times we have run off half back through Tuohy and Stewart throughout the season. Didn't see it on Friday night, just lots of hoof balls up the wings with dropped marks that were picked up by Richmond's crumbers and the ball going back to a disorganised backline.
 

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Answer is No we can't beat the Swans, however, there's chance Swan's play poorly and they lose to Cats.

Swans current form is above our best. To win we need Swans to drop off 5%, so we can't beat them, they can only lose it.


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Partridge said:
Still have to get past Adelaide first.
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Still not rated on this forum particularly.
Lot was made of their 'weak' midfield during the year. Seems like they can win without their best midfielder which is something very few teams can say they can do.
Sauce Jacobs will destroy Naismith.
 
Turbocat said:
Chris Scott on 360 was his usual spin doctor bland puff to the max talk but tell you zero best ... waste of time listening to him. Hey just lucky I guess.. while the rest of us pay 100's to watch that performance he was getting paid 100's of thousands of dollars to do the same thing.
Considering how well we have been able to change our game plan to cope with the Swans recently ..the odds of being able to be within a bulls raw of them is probably about the same as conception after a vasectomy
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Well funnily enough a mate of mine did manage a conception after a vasectomy. Obviously a bodged job.


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Of course we can beat them, whether we will is another thing entirely. I feel weirdly optimistic about Friday night, the boys have shown time and time again this year (particularly in the last three h&a games) that when their backs are against the wall, they deliver. And plus no bye this week, for some reason they always play shit after a week off so historically, they should be better this week.
Side note: I vaguely remember a few years back us beating the swans, and that year the swans were top 4 and we didn't even make finals. So despite them being our bogey team, we can beat them
 
An absolute must is stopping their quality I50 entries - it's one of the reasons they score so easily against opponents and it's mainly early in the game
They seem to bulldoze the ball around the contest and get it to a free man who has time to spot up a target - their forwards also work well together as they spread and become loose or if it's to a contest they have crumbers who hit the pack hard.
We need to chose who's going at the footy and cover their loose mids to force a less than perfect kick. Defenders also need to cover goalside better and FFS not all fly at the footy - have a man or men down to negate the crumber.
If we do that and have a good game DE wise we're a chance :)
 

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To sort of quote Nakia, these are the types of games we win with this group, last week is exactly the type of game we lose.

When ever we are favourites we lose. When expected to lose we win. Swans are banking on a win with good reason but you never know.


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Showers increasing in the afternoon. 5 to 15mm of rain (that's a lot). Expect another clanger fest. I'm hoping for the best, but expecting to wake up Saturday packing away my scarf and beanie for next year.
 

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The game down in Geelong earlier this year gave me much more hope than previously. Sure we gave them the usual 5 goal start but without Danger and with Selwood on one leg we were all over them in the 3rd and we created plenty of chances although didn't take them. It suggested that we can dominate Sydney and score against them. We just need to hold strong during their initial effort. Of course if we have the same fumbles and panicked ball use as last week it won't matter because we won't get within 10 goals of them.
 
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The game down in Geelong earlier this year gave me much more hope than previously. Sure we gave them the usual 5 goal start but without Danger and with Selwood on one leg we were all over them in the 3rd and we created plenty of chances although didn't take them. It suggested that we can dominate Sydney and score against them. We just need to hold strong during their initial effort. Of course if we have the same fumbles and panicked ball use as last week it won't matter because we won't get within 10 goals of them.
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And they kicked goals out of their arse that game too.
However was at Skilled
 
Nickoo said:
Well funnily enough a mate of mine did manage a conception after a vasectomy. Obviously a bodged job.


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Or a dodgy recipient?
 
Catman said:
Also, if we're given Matthew Nicholls again, we may as well not bother showing up. He played a key role for them last time, and again on Friday.
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Geelong v Sydney
Field umpires: Brett Rosebury, Matthew Nicholls, Simon Meredith
Emergency: Ray Chamberlain
Boundary umpires: Michael Marantelli, Damien Cusack, Jason Moore, Chris Roberts
Goal umpires: Chris Appleton, Luke Walker
Emergency: Daniel Wilson

Who wants my ticket?
 
Turbocat said:
Chris Scott on 360 was his usual spin doctor bland puff to the max talk but tell you zero best ... waste of time listening to him. Hey just lucky I guess.. while the rest of us pay 100's to watch that performance he was getting paid 100's of thousands of dollars to do the same thing.
Considering how well we have been able to change our game plan to cope with the Swans recently ..the odds of being able to be within a bulls raw of them is probably about the same as conception after a vasectomy
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