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Viney has had our most tackles with 6. 9 Swans players have had 6 or more. There's the game. Lacking serious leadership today. We just look keen to play the game out not actually do the extra to win it.

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5 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Actually him Wagner and Frost have been good.

The rest are horrible.

Track has been good. Vince has been okay. And um....yeah.

It wouldn't be a Melbourne loss without a no name having a day out. Enter Dean Towers.

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Just now, DavidNeitz9 said:

121-67 tackles

We just don't want it enough. Simple. Too many players hand balling to nothing under pressure, scared to go hard at the contest and are nowhere near their opponent. 

Disappointing that we didn't take our chances. 

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I've seen enough from Jack Watts this year to know that he really has turned a corner as a player. He has no right to be as clean as he was that quarter. I'm thrilled for him. He really tried to lift us.

Cant think of another midfield more suited to these conditions than the swans. We are trying hard but just lack the hard bodies and composure around the ball.

 

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1 minute ago, big_red_fire_engine said:

Viney has had our most tackles with 6. 9 Swans players have had 6 or more. There's the game. Lacking serious leadership today. We just look keen to play the game out not actually do the extra to win it.

Must be happy to lose by 4-5 goals. Honorable loses are still some sort of win apparently. 

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5 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Hunt sprints through the middle only to handball to bugg with an opponent hot on his heel...

Just dumb football club.

ever thought of maybe he had no one to kick it to????? 


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Can't imagine this going any way other than Sydney running out with a 6-7 goal last quarter . Those tackles, Melbourne would be sore and battered. Gonna be a long last quarter.

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2 stats : marks and tackles. Means they're getting a lot of it without pressure, and we're just not up for the competitive physical game. Coupled with some phenomenally dumb football, it's a sorry sorry sight. 

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Sydney is beating us at the SCG!!

Mcveigh is getting a lot of the ball off half-back!!!

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1 minute ago, Moneider96 said:

Who knew Watts was so good at wet weather footy. Was the same with the Hawks game. 

More often than not class prevails in the wet. Petracca makes it look easy at times as well. McVeigh, Ablett jr, Vince, all classy types, all good wet weather players.

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7 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Actually him Wagner and Frost have been good.

The rest are horrible.

 

I'd add Trac, Vince, Viney, Jones and possibly Watts.

The rest a horrible, especiallyKennedy, Stretch, and Jetta who should be getting much more of it in these conditions.

Also Dawes and Hogan have been very average up forward.

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5 minutes ago, Jaded said:

We just don't want it enough. Simple. Too many players hand balling to nothing under pressure, scared to go hard at the contest and are nowhere near their opponent. 

Disappointing that we didn't take our chances. 

I dispute that. We have had a red hot go yet again, but been outclassed 


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McVeigh is a smoker.

The umps felch

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4 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Dermott is [censored] painful.

Tony Shaw is worse.:unsure:

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Not adapting to conditions...simple really but as it's taken us nearly 3 years in the making to develop the current game plan it's difficult for young players to throw it out the window in the space of one game.

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1 minute ago, Generation dee said:

I dispute that. We have had a red hot go yet again, but been outclassed 

You know what GD, if you look at the Swans team, we really shouldn't be getting outclassed. They've got a hell of a lot of no names in that team tbh

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People posting we don't want it enough, are you watching the game?

all I've seen us the players cracking in and putting their body on the line. 

Swans have bigger more experienced players. Invaluable when wet 

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That went the whole of 7 metres to Franklin. He then dictates to the umpire where the mark is who gets sucked in. 

*And a ridiculous free to Franklin.

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