Review Dees v Swans: the Good, Bad & Fugly with a plea to Pickett to return

[Biffinator]

Gents, Sydney has had our measure - or thereabouts of late. I have no confidence going into today. Sydney by 30 points. Please share your thoughts after this debacle

 

[Topkent]

If we had ports midfield we'd win this

 

[Johnny Karate]

If we had ports midfield we'd win the next five flags

FTFY

 

[Topkent]

In all seriousness I don't think our forward line puts on enough pressure to stop easy goals for Sydney. I see us dominating large patches but giving up easy goals too often and then they break us late.

 

[The Dr]

I fear we're gonna get belted


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

 

[Daemon]

Gutsy win, just what we needed after last week's abomination.

 

[Johnny Karate]

If we had Izak Rankine we'd just have to fold because anything else would pale in comparison because we’d have Izak Rankine. Izak Rankine.

David King ftfy.

 

[Topkent]

David King ftfy.

David King hasn't seen that game he's too busy trying to get the North bloke suspended for his hip and shoulder for life.

 

[Crusty Demon]

If only we had Sam Powell Pepper!? Swans by 47

 

[Crimson Azure]

If we had ports midfield we'd win this

Martin Luther King had a dream but nothing quite so bold.

 

[Dancing Potato]

If we had Oskar Baker, Luke Jackson and Jayden Hunt still we'd win this by 123 points and also Oskar Baker would do a backflip on the siren and kick a goal in mid-air.

FTFY

 

[Crimson Azure]

Ollie Wines, Clarry ain’t.

 

[Crimson Azure]

Very good: dropping a teams % by 100.

edit: goal by milkshakes after the siren, put us above them on the ladder too.

 

[Crusty Demon]

That was unexpected but beautiful! Finally seen us beat the Swans live!! Let's play like that every week hey!

 

[Scythe94]

Best win since the flag

 

[Scythe94]

 

[Proper Gander]

Yes my hair is blue
For the red and the blue!

Also cats lost so I’ve decided I deserve beers

 

[Scythe94]

The good:

• Outside players (ANB, Spargs, Hunter, Langdon) all terrific
• Best game from Oliver in ages (went at 80% DE!)
• Our new forward line. Petty, JVR, Chandler all had a big impact
• Grundy was much better
• May, Rivers, McVee all good in different ways
• Ball movement
• Subbing out Brown when Swans were getting a run on

The bad:

• Same as last week, Brayshaw and Viney. Both hard as cats heads, but represent everything bad about our ball movement in recent times

 

[Dory_77]

Fantastic win. Fun ti watch, played with dare and got the rewards.
JVR looks fine at this level.
May back in was huge, defence in general seemed so much calmer. McVee, Riv, Hibberd had some good moments back there.
Still some sloppy disposal, and BBB was slow as but otherwise not much to complain about. If you're playing fast and risky footy you're going to cop some the other way, especially against a good team. Glad we kept going with it even as Sydney pushed us.

 

[Tulip]

*. Yes.

So much to like about that game, JVR really did show what a difference a contested marking forward makes. All of a sudden the Swans we’re watching him and gaps opened short.

Thought JJ was bloody great inside too. His pressure is off the chain. He might be ‘vanilla’ (Topkent tagging you my friend) but he’s a water carrier and he knows where the goals are too.

 

[LeverPuller]

Hook that JVR mark straight into my veins

 

[Tulip]

The good:

• Outside players (ANB, Spargs, Hunter, Langdon) all terrific
• Best game from Oliver in ages (went at 80% DE!)
• Our new forward line. Petty, JVR, Chandler all had a big impact
• Grundy was much better
• May, Rivers, McVee all good in different ways
• Ball movement
• Subbing out Brown when Swans were getting a run on

The bad:

• Same as last week, Brayshaw and Viney. Both hard as cats heads, but represent everything bad about our ball movement in recent times

Wow that’s tough on Brayshaw. Was much better this week.

 

[demondavey]

I think one of the best aspects was keeping Sydney at bay when they got within a goal (63-57) and then piling on the hurt GF style. Look so much better when we look to score.

We kicked 140 points in the GF, today we kicked 134. Massive.

 

[Scythe94]

Wow that’s tough on Brayshaw. Was much better this week.

Thought he was pretty rubbish to be fair, but maybe I'm hard on him because he isn't looking overly invested atm.

Ball use aside, he's falling asleep defensively too often and isn't really adding anything going back the other way

 

[mrmonkey]

Not too much to say what went wrong in that game. A few panicked moments in the second quarter but I can't think of many moments of being poor. Brown has been decent so will let a bad game slide. We never got headed which is always fun. Kicking 21 goals is always fun, to bad Pickett wasn't there. To be honest I feel that we actually played really well rather than Sydney playing poorly which is really pleasing, much more satisfying than besting the dogs who are genuinely poo poo.