Autopsy Sydney Swans vs Port Adelaide

[DavyRed]

Yep, felt that way very early. We just looked as flat as a tack all day.

"As flat as a tack". On the first game of a new season. At home. After having lost the previous year's Grand Final. Not disagreeing but good God!!

 

[LukeParkerno1]

"As flat as a tack". On the first game of a new season. At home. After having lost the previous year's Grand Final. Not disagreeing but good God!!

Hopefully this is the one Barry Crocker performance of the season.

Not sure how you can turn up and not expect to put in. Honestly the midfielders might as well have been at Bondi! They did nothing, dare I say were soft.

Only one that got a pass was Kennedy.

 

[Tedeski]

How exciting is it seeing big Lance running around in a Swans jumper.

He's taking too much of Tom Mitchell's money Skip!

 

[zyzzbruh]

Saw it coming a mile away, sometimes you can look at the team sheet and just know who's not up to standard. Foote, marsh, robinson, towers, naismith could all play a role in any side but will never win you a premiership, thats the difference between teams that show promise but never get anywhere (eg richmond) and ones that actually do the job. Dont mind naismith and towers as back ups, towers can have odd flashes of brilliance albeit once in a blue moon, and ollie has the potential to be our next jetta but no where near ready no idea why he was given a start. Newman and brandon jack are a long way infront of any of these guys.

Aslong as marsh, foote and robinson keep getting games ill ride it off as a 2013 repeat. Why wasn't sinclair started! everyones forgetting how beast he was before he got injured. Looking forward to Aliir coming back hopefully for marsh instead of laidler, but how come talia isnt being given a run??? I thought he was brilliant in his pre season and rnd 1 last year before his injury.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I'm always a bit behind.

Really though, every game is a new game and it still excites me seeing the Swans play and fills me with expectations for what the next game will bring. Every time Franklin runs out in a Swans jumper is still a buzz. The season seems to go too quick and is too hard to cope with if my concerns are the big picture, ie finals, salaries, DE% etc etc. I just want to enjoy the Swans each week and seeing a superstar in our jumper is a big bonus.

Absolutely with you on all that.

 

[MarkP]

Haven't seen it yet so this will be fun.

At least GWS are running last. And Hawthorn lost.

Can't be all that bad.

 

[The Gong]

Haven't seen it yet so this will be fun.

At least GWS are running last. And Hawthorn lost.

Can't be all that bad.

I must admit that put a little silver lining on an otherwise dark cloud for me.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Getting the quaddie was some consolation but I felt like drinking all night long to forget the game!

 

[connolly]

I'm not really very sure about this. All last season we came out of the gates in matches like a steam train and then held on in the second half. I'm not sure we showed any great attacking flair in this game at all, other than lob it on sam reids head and we certainly werent swarming all over the ball and getting it forward. In part this was a function of the complete dominance of the port rucks but i think it was also a result of a backline which was just struggling with ways of freeing up our only good kick back there (rampe). smith butchered the ball, grundy was under pressure due to match up issues, mills when thrown back was outpointed repeatedly in the contest, marsh and laidler tried hard but neither have great kicks or hands (in particular) under pressure. Our midfielders were leaning backwards i think because they knew they needed to get back but it was a really good game in terms of showing how dominant rucks can force you to always been on the defensive.

I thought there were a lot of worrying signs in the match. our usual suspects in terms of fringe players demonstrated yet again that they are fringe players and will have occasional cameos but are simply not good enough to step up where our prime movers are down. Our prime movers other than the faultless kennedy were awful. rather than playing well they were bit players and had moments of good. we need to have parker, hanners, jack firing, particularly since the next tier of hewitt, towers, cunningham, foote simply struggle at the level. I include hewitt not because i dont think he can play (he can) but because he really hasnt shown that he can step into the breach when others are struggling.

i dont like the way we are travelling. I thought towers looked really poor in the jlt and wouldnt have played him in this game - and im one of the few who thinks towers still offers something. I think our list management is coming back to bite us. too much money has been spent all talls at our club and unless o riordan steps up we really are a running defender short.

I guess time will tell whether it was a slow start or something of a slide. I agree about Towers we should have played Edwards. I think the trend this season is towards tall forward lines in attempt to beat GWS and Bulldogs which have smallish backlines. I really hope Riordan get a go soon - he runs straight and hard.

 

[Number37]

I guess time will tell whether it was a slow start or something of a slide. I agree about Towers we should have played Edwards. I think the trend this season is towards tall forward lines in attempt to beat GWS and Bulldogs which have smallish backlines. I really hope Riordan get a go soon - he runs straight and hard.

Yes, give O'Riordan a go.

 

[caesar88]

Saw it coming a mile away, sometimes you can look at the team sheet and just know who's not up to standard. Foote, marsh, robinson, towers, naismith could all play a role in any side but will never win you a premiership, thats the difference between teams that show promise but never get anywhere (eg richmond) and ones that actually do the job. Dont mind naismith and towers as back ups, towers can have odd flashes of brilliance albeit once in a blue moon, and ollie has the potential to be our next jetta but no where near ready no idea why he was given a start. Newman and brandon jack are a long way infront of any of these guys.

Aslong as marsh, foote and robinson keep getting games ill ride it off as a 2013 repeat. Why wasn't sinclair started! everyones forgetting how beast he was before he got injured. Looking forward to Aliir coming back hopefully for marsh instead of laidler, but how come talia isnt being given a run??? I thought he was brilliant in his pre season and rnd 1 last year before his injury.

what

 

[sataris]

I genuinely believe the biggest issue is our coaching mindset.

Horse hates conceding points.

To quote Arsene Wenger

"Everyone is some combination of wanting to win and hating to lose, your forwards generally love winning more than they hate losing, those who hate losing more than they like winning usually end up as defenders"

Different sport, but I believe this to be true. I also believe that horse falls into the hates losing more than he loves winning.

With this in mind, his decisions to move Sam Reid back during the game makes a little more sense.

I honestly think he doesn't know what to do with Buddy, or our forwards. The entire game plan is geared towards not losing (rather than winning).

We have such a potent forward line, it may be time to switch the mantra from locking down opposition scoring to you score six we'll score seven.

 

[DavyRed]

I genuinely believe the biggest issue is our coaching mindset.

Horse hates conceding points.

To quote Arsene Wenger

"Everyone is some combination of wanting to win and hating to lose, your forwards generally love winning more than they hate losing, those who hate losing more than they like winning usually end up as defenders"

Different sport, but I believe this to be true. I also believe that horse falls into the hates losing more than he loves winning.

With this in mind, his decisions to move Sam Reid back during the game makes a little more sense.

I honestly think he doesn't know what to do with Buddy, or our forwards. The entire game plan is geared towards not losing (rather than winning).

We have such a potent forward line, it may be time to switch the mantra from locking down opposition scoring to you score six we'll score seven.

Interesting that as a player he was a forward then.

 

[connolly]

Interesting that as a player he was a forward then.

John Kennedy played him for a season at fullback. He actually played a game on Plugger and did ok on him