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38 minutes ago, Bells said:

I am a glass half full person.

At 3/4 time it was within our reach - they had to put in a record breaking tackling effort to take it away from us when we were close. Considering their experience, on their homeground, we did ok.  Until the last quarter - that is where our youth and inexperience kicked in.  They are now 2nd on the table - is it really that surprising that the took the game away?

Agree with most of this but the game was well over at 3/4 time. 

im at the airport on way home from game and I have to say that was one of the ugliest, boring games of footy I have ever sat thru.

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4 minutes ago, deefella said:

We roughed it out for 3 qrts with disposal letting us down were just outclassed by a classy Sydney team what can you do? It highlights we are still slim on experienced players

Disposal should not be letting us down by now

it is a fundamental of the game

That is my point

Freo had a bunch of kids in yesterday 

we are not the only young side

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And Bernie Vince will come under scrutiny yet again

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58 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Sydney 155 tackles, most in a game ever, thats more than 1 per minute.

I don't think our tackling was bad at all. But to be doubled and have a record number of tackles against us, I just didn't notice it. This means we almost had as many disposals and got tackled as we did disposals that we didn't get tackled.

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Just now, mrtwister said:

I don't think our tackling was bad at all. But to be doubled and have a record number of tackles against us, I just didn't notice it. This means we almost had as many disposals and got tackled as we did disposals that we didn't get tackled.

Amazing actually.

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It's impossible to be satisfied with a loss in any circumstances, but going into the game I was hoping for a four quarter contest, and probably expecting a small loss (as per the recent Hawthorn game).  Sadly, we did not deliver on that expectation, and let them play like millionaires in an embarrassing last quarter.  We were out bodied and outplayed by a more experienced team for much of the day, but there are absolutely no excuses for the late capitulation. Too many passengers on the day, but some positives from a few of our youngsters, particularly Hunt, Frost and Wagner.

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1 minute ago, mattjm said:

i love my mum

Unfortunately she's not big on you

Posted
46 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

One thing, i really loved Hunts run and carry......

Much needed In today's conditions where yardage/possession are even more crItical. Something we dont have enough of. H may have been handy although he can also be choppy with the ball In hand.

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46 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

I just want the team to take the next jump. It continues to not do so...

a 9 goal loss in those conditions is horrible

but i am sure many will use the "Kids" excuse again. 

No leadership apart from Bernie & even he lost it

We have taken the next jump... When Goodwin takes the  reins next season we will have a very tough team to  coach . Bleedingly obvious the improvement each year and development of game.

As mentioned we were still in it up to our necks at 3qrt time playing a superstar lineup on home turf yet and they had to play 4q of footy to beat us.

Anyone remember 100+ point loss??

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I liked Jack's game. To go with his game against the Hawks in the wet, I'd rate that as two of his better performances against two of the best, toughest teams in tougher than usual conditions.

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We had the same amount of inside 50's as last week and managed just 11 shots on goal. I think that sums up our game and what is up with Nev that's three poor ones in a row. I expected him to do well in those conditions? Swans have been training in these conditions for weeks!! But that's no excuse, not much to say really disAppointed. The bye couldn't have come at a better time for us- go dees

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Conditions suited the Swans perfectly and we went in way to tall, was a good effort from us for three quarters until we decided it was time to go to sleep.

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Great to see Frost take off and have that shot on goal and Hunt keep taking the game on. We had very little run and carry from others though, a lot of stopping and second guessing when in attack and it looked like a slog for talls to try and create something in the conditions

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18 minutes ago, Hell Bent said:

Agree with most of this but the game was well over at 3/4 time. 

im at the airport on way home from game and I have to say that was one of the ugliest, boring games of footy I have ever sat thru.

Was it raining at the ground? Looked like it was on TV. Not sure if that may have had an impact on the watchability of it.

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6 minutes ago, thesleepinggiant said:

We have taken the next jump... When Goodwin takes the  reins next season we will have a very tough team to  coach . Bleedingly obvious the improvement each year and development of game.

As mentioned we were still in it up to our necks at 3qrt time playing a superstar lineup on home turf yet and they had to play 4q of footy to beat us.

Anyone remember 100+ point loss??

We were not right in it at 3/4 time

we were unable to kick a score!!

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7 minutes ago, thesleepinggiant said:

We have taken the next jump... When Goodwin takes the  reins next season we will have a very tough team to  coach . Bleedingly obvious the improvement each year and development of game.

As mentioned we were still in it up to our necks at 3qrt time playing a superstar lineup on home turf yet and they had to play 4q of footy to beat us.

Anyone remember 100+ point loss??

Arguably only the rain saved us from a similar fate today.

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8 minutes ago, Undeeterred said:

Arguably only the rain saved us from a similar fate today.

 I think we would have done better in drier conditions. We're horrible in the wet.

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2 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

It could be worse, we could be GWS who are losing to that rabble Essendon..

I know, thank God we smashed the Bombers.

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8 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

I know, thank God we smashed the Bombers.

Please dont remind me of that fiasco.

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