The Swans haven't exactly covered themselves in glory in finals over the past four years either. Absolutely blown off the park in the PF in 2013 and the GF in 2014, straight sets in 2015 and beaten by as big an underdog as you're likely to find in another Grand Final in 2016. It's a bit difficult to understand the arrogance, to be honest.
Not sure where you're picking up this perception of arrogance from. Most Swans fans are over the moon about our turnaround, but have both feet firmly on the ground, and know full well that after starting 0-6, every week is a must win for us.
And I think few Swans fans would disagree that though we've got an unbelievable track record for
making the finals year-in, year-out without doing a full rebuild; with
winning finals we're not so impressive.
A few other thoughts - 2103 finals we were decimated by injury. Of course fans always have hope, but in retrospect we were never going to make it with our outs.
2014 GF - who knows? Hawthorn were a truly great team, but not that great. And we were a great team all year. One of life's mysteries.
2016 - people are starting to look at the final margin and forget that the 2016 GF was neck and neck till 5 min from the end. We didn't have an answer in the end, particularly with Buddy hobbled, but we gave it everything and there was no shame in that loss.
But arrogance? Nah. Only Hawks fans are ever arrogant, admittedly with some justification.