Game Day Swans vs Cats
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Ha Ha !!! And your still doing it all be it in your best spin doctor round about sort of way but good for you. Everybody takes disappointment differently when it comes to the team they love but it does not mean they love them any less than the chilled out no sweat brother type of supporter. About time everybody respected that on here because regardless of things typed on a stupid computer we are all Red and White to the Core and Bloods till we die.
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Who the baby jebus is going to kick our goals if Buddy is quiet
okay, i've been not so confident against gws and bulldogs but I'm feeling it tonight, think we will surprise a few
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actually I've kind of felt this way all season. my level of posting has been way down this year in part because I'm just not as fussed. my outlook for the team and the season is just to see improvement from the 12-28 players and hope that we can show that we are competitive against the best teams. 2014 still feels like it was our best chance and may well be our only real chance to win a flag with buddy and unless we get buddy some help in scoring i just can't see us troubling the really good teams in 2016. I think gws are as likely as any to win the flag.
Tonight my main area of interest is watching our centre clearance work. it has been a weakness for probably 20 years no matter whether we had kelly cresswell, schwass, ablett, kirk, crouch, bolton, rok, jack, parker or kennedy. we are against the premier centre clearance team and i can see us - as we have against the tigers and the doggies - getting well beaten in the midfield. and if that occurs we will get spanked. so lets see whether there is an improvement there
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genuinely believe that unless towers and rohan kick two each we will struggle to get to 60 points.
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I think we all need to relax a little. Yes it would make the top two/top four extremely difficult and we do seem to be falling back into our 2015 mode (which often felt like being pierced in the eyeball to watch). But is there any shame in being a transitioning team and falling short in a year that's probably the highest quality top eight I can recall? Isn't the fact that we are showing a whole lot of upside to the future while others (such as lolnorf and Hawthorn) can only go down?
This year is just the beginning folks. I'd say it's gonna be our launch pad to be contending for flags with the Bulldogs, Geelong and GWS in a few years. Hawthorn can literally only win when that core group (Mitchell, Lewis, Burgoyne, Gibson etc) stand up. They aren't going to be used to them going missing and losing games. Because our youngsters are being forced to stand up and earn their spot in the side, and are being forced to fill key roles, it'll only make them better. Hawthorn has a young depend on the old or die way. We have a young depend on the old, old depend on the young way, and we'll be better for it.
For the record, I think we'll lose tonight. But I have a feeling our young guns (Aliir, Georgie, Paps, Mills and Jones) are going to stand the hell up and show the older guys a thing or two.
For the record again, I don't think our game plan is out-dated. We've seen this Swans side this year take the game on better than any since 2012. The issue is that when the pressures on, or we're restricted from playing like that, we revert too easily back to 2015. The quest for Horse is to not devise a plan that will change our style too dramatically, but to get this side to cope better with pressure and have confidence in the way they play. Silly handballs to nobody, rushed long bombs and chaos balls shows a distinct lack of confidence from the boys that their plan won't hold up under pressure. That is what we need to work on. No better way to gain confidence and be outside your comfort zone than by facing Geelong in Geelong. Let's go boys!
This year is just the beginning folks. I'd say it's gonna be our launch pad to be contending for flags with the Bulldogs, Geelong and GWS in a few years. Hawthorn can literally only win when that core group (Mitchell, Lewis, Burgoyne, Gibson etc) stand up. They aren't going to be used to them going missing and losing games. Because our youngsters are being forced to stand up and earn their spot in the side, and are being forced to fill key roles, it'll only make them better. Hawthorn has a young depend on the old or die way. We have a young depend on the old, old depend on the young way, and we'll be better for it.
For the record, I think we'll lose tonight. But I have a feeling our young guns (Aliir, Georgie, Paps, Mills and Jones) are going to stand the hell up and show the older guys a thing or two.
For the record again, I don't think our game plan is out-dated. We've seen this Swans side this year take the game on better than any since 2012. The issue is that when the pressures on, or we're restricted from playing like that, we revert too easily back to 2015. The quest for Horse is to not devise a plan that will change our style too dramatically, but to get this side to cope better with pressure and have confidence in the way they play. Silly handballs to nobody, rushed long bombs and chaos balls shows a distinct lack of confidence from the boys that their plan won't hold up under pressure. That is what we need to work on. No better way to gain confidence and be outside your comfort zone than by facing Geelong in Geelong. Let's go boys!
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Right. **** all the worrying.
Sits down. Cranks the heater. Positions alcohol and nibbles.
C'mon Swans!!!!
Sits down. Cranks the heater. Positions alcohol and nibbles.
C'mon Swans!!!!
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To quote , a really great Queen song seems approriate for tonight. Its called in the lap of the gods!
Look it up on youtube.
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If we get off to a s*** start and it's looking unlikely that we'll win, I'd love to see Horse loosen the shackles a little. Maybe move Teddy or Aliir forward, chuck Jones or Rampe in the middle etc.
As far as I am concerned the best single quarter by any AFL player in history.
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I am so nervous lol. Haven't felt like this all year. Don't know if it is a bad or good thing.
Last weeks loss means this is a make or break game. Lose this and we probably won't make the top 4 which means winning the premiership is suddenly a lot harder.
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Don't be nervous. I have faith that if we can really rattle Geelong at home, and have the kids stand up and our mids at least match them in the centre, that we'd be in good stead come September. Especially with Tippett to return.
Looks like the media (at least on Fox) is finally realising that our centre clearance work isn't great, as our clearances always end in random hack kicks forward.
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Early days of 2016 kids stood up. Need them to do it again with no bombs I50
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Almost everyone was. Parker and Jack had stellar starts, Grundy, Sir Dane of House Rampe & co were impenetrable, Tippett was killing it with good support from Sinclair, Buddy was on fire with good support from Heeney and Paps. The only ones that were quietish were Hanners and JPK. Seems the situation has reversed over the last month!
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