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Sydney Swans vs Richmond.

The Sydney Swans awaited the Richmond football club for a big clash, if the Richmond tigers won they would only be one game away from being in the top eight, if the Swans won they would inch that much closer into being a top four side.

The Swans came out of the blocks fast racing to a couple of goals early with Lewis Roberts Thomson often finding space on the wing as the Swans defence keeping rock solid. The Swans spread out their goals with Bucannan Goodes to name a few.

The Tigers had no response before getting a long bomb to the inform Richo who was able to keep of Thomson and take the mark.

He went back on a slight angle fifteen meters out keen to break his recent drought and he set the tone for the Tigers as he stabbed at it and hit the post.

The highlight out of the quater was Goodes getting it out of the middle running away from his opponent side stepping inboard then kicking from sixty for a big goal.

Things got bad to worse for the young tiger outfit who went on to get smashed in their attempts of running out of defence, as Kirk Tagdh and Goodes helping with the run out of the backline. As the Swans took advantage through the corridor before sending it wide where Henry playfair showed that he to can contribute infront of goal kicking a goal from the boundary line.

The Tigers were under pressure and the Swans were capalising with an even contribution all round with ten indidivual goal scores to half time, with the Tigers Trent Cotchin number one recruit kicked a sneeky goal.

Richo kept trying all game chasing hard and things seemed gone as Kane Johnson limped off. The Tigers early in the third quarter had their heads low as they came out and tried to make things look respectable as they lifted their tackling game and bringing it up to the Swans.

Although nothing was doing for the Tigers on the scoreboard with nothing doing for the Tigers.

As their kicking effiency improved but was still a lot lower then wht was expected, the Swans took advantage rushing down the other end and sending it to Everitt who took a strong mark before dishing it of to Micky O who kicked his second.

As the Swans brought their lead out of seventy points. Everything was going against the Tigers as they continued to get beaten at the stoppages as their younger bodies continued to get hit around a fair bit, but they never gave up.

The pace of Tambling side stepping the Swans wasn't enough to help them get back in the third term although it definetely helped.

As Bowden was on the receiving end of a good pass and he kicked the Tigers second. He gave it a fair launch trying to get back involved an increase his efficency of 33%.

As Tambling continued to work hard tearing up the Swans, trying to get something to happen. Nathan Brown was able to get on the receiving end of a rushed kick to play on and snap it home for the Tigers third.

As the Tigers continued to take smidges of the score.

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That's all I've got I was planning on doing this every week and maybe finishing them or allowing others to continue of it.

So what do ya thing, or you can continue....
 

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nice one Pro.. Hanks goal from the pocket was a beauty, was good to the tigs make a better contest of it in the 2nd half..
Keep up the reviews :thumbsu:
 

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Nice summation of the game Pro. Keep up the good work:thumbsu:
 

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The first half was great i but im going to say something most people would probably not say but i was disapppointed with the 2nd half as the Swans made too many mistakes and our forward 50 entry was poor at best. We can take alot of positives out of this game but it was by no means perfect and Paul Roos has to try and get the players to play their best for all 4 quarters and not go too sleep for a quarter or 2.
 

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The first half was great i but im going to say something most people would probably not say but i was disapppointed with the 2nd half as the Swans made too many mistakes and our forward 50 entry was poor at best. We can take alot of positives out of this game but it was by no means perfect and Paul Roos has to try and get the players to play their best for all 4 quarters and not go too sleep for a quarter or 2.


Agree, they did take the peddle off, they seemed to be 'resting', I actually had the thought during the game, that they must have been instructed to 'ease' off a bit, game over etc, it was a dramatic swing in the game, it seemed strange!
 

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Delighted with that game. The pressure we applied to them was fantastic, they might be the teams leading contested possession winner but their contested possessions today were of very poor standard due in part to relentless pressure.

The way we ran for to position and backed our possession game was brilliant and credit must go the coach as he has the team functioning with multiple game plans the team can switch to when needed and there well drilled

Jolly rucked superbly today against someone who was supposed to among the best the best ruck in the competition in Simmonds but i was appalled with him. As Simmonds was getting beaten he started jumping into Jolly's body, or pushing as often he didn't jump. A few shepherding free kicks were paid but from someone of that reputed quality it was poor play.

The second half switching off was also fine with me. There was no point giving it 100% intensity when the game became an irrelevancy as were right in the mix of this season now and after such a tiring game last week the benefit of being able to switch off is great for the future of the season.
 

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The first half was great i but im going to say something most people would probably not say but i was disapppointed with the 2nd half as the Swans made too many mistakes and our forward 50 entry was poor at best. We can take alot of positives out of this game but it was by no means perfect and Paul Roos has to try and get the players to play their best for all 4 quarters and not go too sleep for a quarter or 2.
I kind of agree with you here but I think the weather may have played a part in the tempo and skill of the second half.
It would be nice though if just once we played 4 full quarters of footy and really put the other team to the sword. We should have won that game by 120 today.
 

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Swans would've been experimenting with a few things in the second half, otherwise it would have been a full-scale massacre rather than just a mild-mannered murder.

Sydney planned well and put pressure on our weak links, and the rest fell apart after five minutes. Nasty reminder about how far off the pace Richmond really are, and how I perpetually underrate the Swans.
 

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Swans would've been experimenting with a few things in the second half, otherwise it would have been a full-scale massacre rather than just a mild-mannered murder.

Sydney planned well and put pressure on our weak links, and the rest fell apart after five minutes. Nasty reminder about how far off the pace Richmond really are, and how I perpetually underrate the Swans.
Credit to Ron

We had some fun before the game along with respect before the game and grace in defeat. Class act and welcome here any time mate.
 

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Credit to Ron

We had some fun before the game along with respect before the game and grace in defeat. Class act and welcome here any time mate.

Yeah agree, Rons ok, he pointed me in the direction of some good 'Captain Blood' stories, a true footy fan!...:thumbsu:
 

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Cheers people, but there's no choice but to be humble after a result like today's.

Can't see a mention of it anywhere else - today marked South Melbourne/Sydney's 1000th win in the VFL/AFL, joining Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon, Geelong, Richmond & Melbourne to have reached that milestone.
 

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Malceski and Everett both played improved games today which is very encouraging. Too many skill errors in the 2nd half for my liking but conditions weren't perfect. We played with our customary discipline and pressure on the opponent and we worked well together around every contest. Richmond looked like a very different team from what I've seen in the last few weeks. Aside from Deledio, Richo, maybe Foley and Bowden, they just fell to pieces. Reminded me a bit of Port in rd2.
 
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Malceski and Everett both played improved games today which is very encouraging. Too many skill errors in the 2nd half for my liking but conditions weren't perfect. We played with our customary discipline and pressure on the opponent and we worked well together around every contest. Richmond looked like a very different team from what I've seen in the last few weeks. Aside from Deledio, Richo, maybe Foley and Bowden, they just fell to pieces. Reminded me a bit of Port in rd2.
I commented on Tambling and I thought in the third quarter he never gave up.
 

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Cheers people, but there's no choice but to be humble after a result like today's.

Can't see a mention of it anywhere else - today marked South Melbourne/Sydney's 1000th win in the VFL/AFL, joining Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon, Geelong, Richmond & Melbourne to have reached that milestone.
There was a bit of talk about it on the board last week but I have heard nothing mentioned of it in the media. I can't really recall if anything was made of the milestone when other clubs passed it (possibly because most of them hit the milestone before I was born :eek:).
 
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I kind of agree with you here but I think the weather may have played a part in the tempo and skill of the second half.
It would be nice though if just once we played 4 full quarters of footy and really put the other team to the sword. We should have won that game by 120 today.
yes, it would've been nice to win by 120 but it's better than so many of those games, even some this year, where we do the business in the first quarter then go to sleep
at least we totally put richmond away by halftime, and after that it is easy against a battling team to lose the hunger a bit
richmond have been okay this year, i think if we'd been asked on sunday morning would we take an 82-point win and keeping them to less than 10 goals, we'd have all said yes
also, you can bet wallace would've really put it up his players at halftime and demanded they step up, so while we mght have been seen to have gone easy, you have to take into account that they'd have been having more of a go

this was a much mroe satisfying win than the one over essendon (as much i enjoy a belting of the bombers)
 

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I've got no problem with the way we played in the second half. If you completely blow away a team in the first half, it's hard to keep it going. I'm sure everyone just wanted to finish the match with no injuries, and that's what we did.

We played fantastic when the game was up for grabs, and that's all that matters I think.
 
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I've got no problem with the way we played in the second half. If you completely blow away a team in the first half, it's hard to keep it going. I'm sure everyone just wanted to finish the match with no injuries, and that's what we did.

We played fantastic when the game was up for grabs, and that's all that matters I think.
yep, my point exactly
 

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Agree, they did take the peddle off, they seemed to be 'resting', I actually had the thought during the game, that they must have been instructed to 'ease' off a bit, game over etc, it was a dramatic swing in the game, it seemed strange!
They really didn't take the foot off the peddle.

6 goals, 7 goals, 3 goals, 5 goals. So we finished off the game and outscored Richmond in every quarter. They tell me rained for almost the entire second half and you would have expected Richmond to at least have a bit more of a go in the third quarter.

Plus it appears Roos gave some of our key players extended time off the ground in the second half, so with your best combos off on more occasions, of course the opposition must make some inroads.

Comprehensive thumping for mine.
 
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