AFL Autopsy RND 20: Done By The Swans

[Dave]

Great effort to go with them in the second half.

They kicked 13 straight after half time. 13 ******* straight.

And Razor can go and get ****ed.

 

[mike ross]

3 votes umpires.

But seriously top effort by the boys. We are still competing and that's what matters. I think some people have forgotten where we are at again.

Bring on next year

 

[Lore]

 

[Schnitzengruben]

All in all, we did a lot of things great offensively. The consistently poor part from our game all day was the ball skills and complete inability to defend their transition. It was training drill stuff.

 

[Zach Package]

Attention to detail less than non existent

 

[JT_the_Man]

Can’t complain, we were beat by a better side. I thought we played well all things considered.

 

[Pweter]

Our forward 50 entries are arse.

Good effort but were definitely beaten by the better side. Sydney's ball movement is deadly

 

[bomberlegend2007]

EVERY ******* TIME.

Swans are the better side, no doubt. We still have a lot of work to do, but * me dead, it just amazes me that the umpires just drag the Swans over the line, every single time.

 

[YEMOC NAYR]

Effort was there, but our overall defensive setup gets exposed every week.

 

[Shane Heard]

Swans were better all day with a lot of good ball movement

Tippa going missing all day once again is a liability in our forward line

he adds nothing and has been out of form for many many weeks now

 

[rumply]

Great effort. However

Stewart is a forward
Francis is a defender

Probably was the difference today when it comes down to it.

 

[BomberTime]

Lose by 7 points.

Franklin kicks 2 goals…

AFL’s love child up there.

 

[Halftimehero]

Great effort. However

Stewart is a forward
Francis is a defender

Their both rubbish wherever they play, Stewart literally gave them 2 goals and Francis was a laughing stock up forward.

 

[SydneyBomber]

campaigners. I ******* hate them only a smidge behind carlton

 

[Mercurial89]

Fun game.
Good to end without any controversy.

Great fight shown, bit more weight and running ability into the group will go a long way.

That will be a Friday or Saturday night game next year.

Stringer was incredible.
If we can get this forward line sorted we will be competitive.

 

[MightyDon]

Would rather this forward line with Jones back in there, hookers time is done

 

[Jobe Watson]

Apart from Laverde our defence was a disgrace. Stewart was putrid. Ridley uncharacteristically bad. Cutler had no decent matchup. Redman ineffective.

Francis was lost as a forward. Smith is hanging by a thread.

 

['51 Bewick]

Well done Bombers. Very hard to win when the opposition has 3 extra players.

 

[Halftimehero]

Lose by 7 points.

Franklin kicks 2 goals…

AFL’s love child up there.

And one of them was an absolute joke of a decision

 

[eth-dog]

Their both rubbish wherever they play, Stewart literally gave them 2 goals and Francis was a laughing stock up forward.

Stewart is a solid if unspectacular forward. He isn't a defender
Francis is a good defender. He isn't a forward.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Dropped too many sitters (especially inside 50). Mentally switched off when we heard the whistle and those play on advantages hurt us. And 2nd week in a row the opposition got 2 50m penalties in the first qtr. Makes it hard.

 

[Koopa]

Pretty entertaining second half, they fully capitalised on our defensive side turnovers and had the poise, class to punish us with a more efficient forward line.

Walla, Perkins and Francis in particular had their colours lowered. Pleasing that we hung around in the third in an intense, contested quarter. Hopefully take a top 8 pick to the draft from here on in.

 

[The Donners]

2 losses to Swans by a total of 10 points. 57 frees to Swans, 40 frees to Dons across those 2 games.

I’m not sure if it’s possible to find the stats to show the biggest disparity in frees between 2 sides? I reckon there mightn’t be a game between the sides in 25 years that Essendon has won the free kick count. If there is, you could count them on 1 hand.

 

[Beerfish]

Great lead in to next week's flogging.

 

[TheGrizz]

Positive: we can score lots

Negative: we cant defend at all.

10th place is about right. We beat ourselves in the second half by turning it over and not being able to defend it, like at all.

Also, we might need someone to sit down and explain the advantage rule to our players. Three soft goals from just stopping at the whistle whixh ended up being the difference