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[The King!]

Started 1-3 and it was doom and gloom. I was more guilty than most of being down on the boys , fair enough too to be honest, they were playing woeful footy.

But the response and turn around as we head into the bye has been fantastic

Yup players are back but its not just that, its the spirit, the drive and endeavour that has looked awesome

Time for rest than 3 big weeks

Could be a special season brewing

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

6-3 looked inconceivable after the North loss.

 

[The King!]

There were times we looked like freo might run us over then it was hard to judge melbourne and brisbane

Its just workrate is pleasing

 

[The Swans Blog]

6-3 looked inconceivable after the North loss.

Not really we were woeful and disfunctional with clearly underdone players and out of form players. Not to mention franklin was injures, no tippet, Reid, Goodes, KJ & hanners were unfit and out of form, ROK unfortunately still getting a game and the team was at sea.

We're returning to our 2012 form, just injuries hampered us too much. Look @ the thread I made on the main board a month ago. Pies & North fans eh.

 

[BloodRet]

TBH, after the North loss, I knew this was coming. We've always had that resilience amongst our team to come back after poor losses like that against teams we should normally beat. After the North loss, that must have really sent the last bit of petrol into the fire because we have been near flawless since and I'm loving it. I'm most pleased with the likes of Franklin and Hannebery especially, who have faced intense media scrutiny over the past month and have since been a contributing factor to our on-field success of late.

 

[The King!]

Grundy deserves a heap of credit over the past month

 

[wulfgar77]

^ This. Grundy has been immense in the past few games.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I saw the inklings of a premiership side running around out there tonight. Struggling to think of any weaknesses.

 

[The King!]

I saw the inklings of a premiership side running around out there tonight. Struggling to think of any weaknesses.

If i was super critical

Handballs to flat footed players
Still a lot of bombing over the ground
Goodes/reid will need to do more

 

[Troystenvic]

Its a nice place to be when we win by 7 odd goals.and Reid and Goodes quiet. Bud and Tip sharing the load with both having good halves. Would seriously love AJ down back

 

[Superstar swan]

I hate to say it, but I can easily imagine us winning the flag this year , we need a lot of luck with injuries , but our best can beat anyone

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Its a nice place to be when we win by 7 odd goals.and Reid and Goodes quiet. Bud and Tip sharing the load with both having good halves. Would seriously love AJ down back

Tippett, Goodes, B.Jack, Reid all very quiet so to win by almost 10 goals interstate against a improved Essendon should not be underrated.

Oh and we had McGlynn out who has probably been in our top 5 best players in the last month.

 

[FLYINV]

They're playing quality stuff at the moment. It's so exciting when you're team's playing well as every game against another good side feels like a blockbuster and I can only imagine the Geelong and Port contests are going to be epic. Here's hoping we hold our form coming out of the bye this year.

 

[RW]

It's hard to believe this is the same team that lost to North. I didn't write them off but at 1-3 it had the potential to get ugly if we didn't beat Freo.

Gonna be a fun few weeks after the bye to find out how we go against the early season pace setters.

 

[scaryness]

With all the injuries piling on at Hawthorn, I feel like we are in prime position to win the flag this year the way we are playing right now. Port Adelaide and Geelong are still there, Hawthorn will get their players back later in the year, but we are in a good spot right now.

 

[Chrizzt]

It's hard to believe this is the same team that lost to North. I didn't write them off but at 1-3 it had the potential to get ugly if we didn't beat Freo.

Gonna be a fun few weeks after the bye to find out how we go against the early season pace setters.

Port fans are feeling the same way. Looking forward to a good contest between our sides in a few weeks time. GF preview?

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

It's hard to believe this is the same team that lost to GWS. I didn't write them off but at 1-3 it had the potential to get ugly if we didn't beat Freo.

Gonna be a fun few weeks after the bye to find out how we go against the early season pace setters.

Sorry had to be done

 

[Superstar swan]

Port fans are feeling the same way. Looking forward to a good contest between our sides in a few weeks time. GF preview?

Probably looking forward to playing port more than cats, you guys are the hardest working team going around, a facet of the game we pride ourselves on so it will be a good test to see if we are travelling as good as we think we are

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Port fans are feeling the same way. Looking forward to a good contest between our sides in a few weeks time. GF preview?

Would be my dream final. Even if we lost it wouldn't be as bad as losing to Geelong or Hawthorn.

 

[ak47su27]

If we can beat the Cats.....ooohhh

 

[bungee]

If we can win the GF this year (a big IF still) we would lay legitimate claim to being the most successful club over the last 10 years and perhaps even the last 20 years. Let's do it.

 

[The King!]

Big 3 weeks coming up

Cats and port are the two best sides imho and suns at metricon is tough especially considering ablett always tears us a new one


Massive game after the bye... On a thursday baffling

 

[Punts]

Most respected team for me are the Cats. Massive game , plus they have got the better of us the last 3 times and so has SJ and Selwood.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Port fans are feeling the same way. Looking forward to a good contest between our sides in a few weeks time. GF preview?

A Granny between us and Port would be a pleasure.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

A Granny between us and Port would be a pleasure.

could you imagine another "interstate" grand final!
so much more fun, WA everybody was nice some natured bantering 2012 wasn't the same i don't think it's possible to have a healthy rivalry with a vic team. round 15 06 past the WA parliament was funny as hell seeing the sydney swans fly flying instead of the state flag because of the bet between the premiers the previous year

and even though we lost the granny in 06 i still shook hands with the eagles supporters and congratulated them, like wise in 05 most of them did the same thing (with a few took you long enough digs) 12 just saw the hawkers get up and leave in droves not a single congrats. there was much more animosity.