?????? marks on Petracca, Hogan,

....  and our midfielders use of the footy across the centreline.

Wiseblood is obviously on some good Acid today. 

The Swans were 2 men down. We should have smashed them in the last Quarter

Simon Goodwin, i remain unconvinced 

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:07, Wiseblood said:

Kick straight and we win. Bad kicking is bad football, no doubt, but outside of the second half of the second term we were generally a better side. 

It's as simple as that. 

What a relief. Generally a better side. Our next years slogan?

Bad kicking is bad football.

I'm disgusted at the loss today. The optimists can continue their blind hope. I only deal in facts, and the fact is nothing has changed and the club has been a failure for over half a century. It's getting f*cking tiresome watching the same stupid sh*t being served up year after year. You can say we've improved, but so have all the other clubs around us and we're still battling to even make finals. With the playing list we have, we should be a top 4 certainty. I don't know who's to blame, but someone needs to be accountable for the continuous failure.

If anyone knows where umpire Matthew Nicholls lives, please PM me. I've had a gutful of the cheating/incompetent (take your pick) maggot, and I need to carry out justice for the sake of society.

Edited August 12, 20186 yr by Lord Travis

0-5 in games decided by 10 points or less

We will beat the Eagles. I’m going to give them all pink eye.

Edited August 12, 20186 yr by Ethan Tremblay

We should try and squeeze all the currency out of J.Hunt that he has and try and get back into the first round.  He’s like the bloke from Mighty ducks, all speed and no idea.  Cannot hit the side of a barn.  SHow other clubs his 2016 high light package

  On 12/08/2018 at 07:59, Petraccattack said:

The Pedersen selection is one of the worst I have ever seen.  He is not a backman, never was, never will be.

And yes I questioned it Thursday night too.

 

It is so easy to take a potshot at the bloke coming in to pay his first game in about 10 weeks and on base money instead of the Top 10 highest paid players that play every week and continually let us down against Top 8 sides.

 

 

Roos vs Crows + Saints...

Port vs Pies and Dons...

If Roos lose one of those, and Port lose both, we won't need to win either of ours.

 

  On 12/08/2018 at 07:58, stranga said:

Was always going to be a losing battle with Goodwin vs longmire in the boxes.

So many mediocre players on this list and lack of leadership and class is astonishing to me.

Hogan should be ashamed.

Vanders and pedo are barely vfl standard.

Mentally weak club!

 

I honestly believe and said it last year , we should put hogan up for sale. I understand he has had his issues but he goes missing when it gets hard. 

Many clubs especially freo would give a lot for him and I think we cash in now while he has some value. 

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:09, Mazer Rackham said:

What a relief. Generally a better side. Our next years slogan?

It's not a relief, just fact. We kicked very poorly for goal and it cost us the game. I'm hardly happy about that, but that's life. 

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:11, goodwindees said:

It is so easy to take a potshot at the bloke coming in to pay his first game in about 10 weeks and on base money instead of the Top 10 highest paid players that play every week and continually let us down against Top 8 sides.

 

 

Agree - he was far from our worst.

Mentally fragile, weak and when the pressure went up we went bye bye, led by Jones who played his worst game in 10 years if not his career.

no one spread, no one looked to switch, down the line bombs. Idiotic hand balling as always, played with a flair we don’t possess or can’t pull off and got belted by a club with half a bench. 

Our “Stars” poo their pants when it gets tough. 

Our theme for the rest of the season is “so long and thanks for the fish!”

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:12, Dappa Dan said:

Roos vs Crows + Saints...

Port vs Pies and Dons...

If Roos lose one of those, and Port lose both, we won't need to win either of ours.

 

Really. It is over. Just leave the sleeping dog asleep. We will finish 9-11th. Simple!

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:10, Lord Travis said:

If anyone knows where umpire Matthew Nicholls lives, please PM me. I've had a gutful of the cheating/incompetent (take your pick) maggot, and I need to carry out justice for the sake of society.

I want in on this. It is definitely cheating.

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:12, Dirts said:

I honestly believe and said it last year , we should put hogan up for sale. I understand he has had his issues but he goes missing when it gets hard. 

Many clubs especially freo would give a lot for him and I think we cash in now while he has some value. 

They would be stupid enough to give 2 first rounders for him. If they did, i would take it in a hearbeat.

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:11, goodwindees said:

It is so easy to take a potshot at the bloke coming in to pay his first game in about 10 weeks and on base money instead of the Top 10 highest paid players that play every week and continually let us down against Top 8 sides.

 

 

I am not taking a potshot at Pedders.  I always support him on here and I like him.

I am taking a potshot at the match committee who for some bizarre think he can play as a backman at AFL level and play in the same team as Frost and O Mac.

Garlett can go and get [censored] !! ZERO tackles for a small forward is the reason why we will never be a successful side. I never want to see him in the red & blue again. useless 

Being two men up and still blowing it. Inexcusable today. Sorry but that was yet another pressure test and, like every other pressure test this year, we [censored] blew it. 

We will miss finals. We will set a new record for being the team with the highest percentage to ever miss finals, which seems the cruellest outcome of all after what happened last year. 

[censored] this club. Perennial losers. Loser culture. Pathetic excuse for leadership. Get stuffed. 

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:12, Dappa Dan said:

Roos vs Crows + Saints...

Port vs Pies and Dons...

If Roos lose one of those, and Port lose both, we won't need to win either of ours.

 

As long as Essendon lose one also... likely but for completeness

Poise. Finishing. Leadership.

Those three things got the Swannies over the line.

When opportunities were there they took them. A lot of the time, they took 50/50 chances when we were blowing 80/20 chances.

The other issue is we need to stop trying to make every game a 120 minute highlight reel. Sometimes it's a case of progressing into the fifty rather than trying to smash into it. That's what we are missing. The Swans were brilliant with this.

There are two games to go. I genuinely believe we aren't that far off the pace and we can beat either of the Eagles or Giants. The head needs to be in the game and not up the players' bumholes and we will be where we need to be.

Lastly, Johnson's knee injury was as gutting am injury I have seen. It will take a superhuman effort to get back and whatever way he goes, I wish him all the best.

 

 

 

Edited August 12, 20186 yr by Colin B. Flaubert

So it comes down to beating west coast at home now, lose that and it’s season over if it comes down to playing GWS In the last game to make finals I give us zero chance, we are too mentally weak for that sort of challenge 

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:11, goodwindees said:

It is so easy to take a potshot at the bloke coming in to pay his first game in about 10 weeks and on base money instead of the Top 10 highest paid players that play every week and continually let us down against Top 8 sides.

 

 

It’s not like he’s wrong, he’s a great bloke and playing good football at VFL but with a Sydney side have 2 key forward (counting mccarten is almost a big of a joke) and one ruckman. For us to play 3 tall defenders is ridiculous. the Selection was always one that was going to make it easier for Sydney to score 

 

That doesn’t excuse Nathan Jones, Jayden Hunt, Alex Neal-Bullen, JKH, Spargo for having absolute stinkers

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:12, Dirts said:

I honestly believe and said it last year , we should put hogan up for sale. I understand he has had his issues but he goes missing when it gets hard. 

Many clubs especially freo would give a lot for him and I think we cash in now while he has some value. 

 

  On 12/08/2018 at 08:14, ding said:

They would be stupid enough to give 2 first rounders for him. If they did, i would take it in a hearbeat.

Jezus calm down. Was one of the game's leading ballwinners and was killing them until his ankle went bad. Came back on and played on one leg, as he has been doing for 6 weeks now. There's about 17 other MFC players who deserve abuse more than him.

And two second rounders? You're having a laugh.

Edited August 12, 20186 yr by Dappa Dan

I’m no longer giving a single [censored].

We had to win today but blew it once a bit of pressure was applied.

Our only saving grace is that other game results have fallen our way this round. Still, can’t seeing us making finals.