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GAMEDAY: Rd 12 vs Sydney



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5 minutes ago, Yarra Valley Demon said:

Bumped into Tmac at half time.  Surgery this week on the ankle, out for the season.

Mitch you're up!!

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1 minute ago, Webber said:

Meanwhile our forward entries are frankly an embarrassment in their predictability. 
 

This is what stands out in our forward 50 so far. No run, no flair, no imagination. Bomb it to the pocket, hope a tall can get near it to bring it to ground, and then a fight at ground level (which the Swans are thrashing us at). 

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This has been a trend for about a month now. We’ve become extremely weak at contested footy & our decision making has been very poor.

 

Absolute abysmal effort by our fans the last couple of weeks. Defending premiers against two genuine top 8 contenders & we can’t even hit the 40k mark lol

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3 minutes ago, Webber said:

Last week really was the template. Match our pressure and move quickly to spares so we don’t have time to set up. Every Swans forward movement looks likely to score. Meanwhile our forward entries are frankly an embarrassment in their predictability. Unless we change both our pressure and contest rating and our forward speed at the turnover, we’re gonna get done again. And easily. They know they’ve got us, just got to maintain the work-rate. 
 

Only works as May and petty are out, May in particular has allowed us to get away with some bad habits 

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Too many passengers. We look like a team that thinks winning will just happen. Teams come out and go 110% trying to beat us and we have just been going. Our easy first half draw hasn’t helped either. 
Pressure is way off. Forwardline is a complete mess. Defense is depleted and has been all year long. Midfield is not able to sustain dominance for 4 quarters. A lot of improvement. Luckily we are in a good position to reset. 

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17 minutes ago, JimmyGadson said:

Tomlinson is lost at sea. 

Looks nowhere near it. 

Tomlinson can go back to Casey .... reserves

Dreadful!

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1 minute ago, Garbo said:

Only works as May and petty are out, May in particular has allowed us to get away with some bad habits 

Our back line has been masking how badly we have been going up the ground for most of the year.

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1 minute ago, Stiff Arm said:

 

How was the Papley goal not a push in the back to Hunt?????

 

Cos it wasn’t even close to a push in the back. Just out-bodied, out-positioned. 

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4 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

Reading all this I would have thought we were 5. Goals down we are only 2 points down calm the farm

It not the two points it the manner of our play

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Just now, Deecisive said:

we have been here before and we have won well. we have had a lot of bad 2nd quarters over the last year or so. so lets not go giving up hope yet. we have a lot of players down and that can easily turn around.

I would not be surprised to see us lose this

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Just now, dees189227 said:

Ben brown would want to do something this half

Why? We’ve got no tall forwards left to take his place. Our list is unbalanced and we’ve resorted to Mitch Brown. Zero chance Brown loses his spot even with a zero touch game unfortunately.

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1 minute ago, Demon Disciple said:

Our back line has been masking how badly we have been going up the ground for most of the year.

This. 

If we get three to the ball  they get 4.   We are just getting smoked around the ball

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1 minute ago, dees189227 said:

Ben brown would want to do something this half

or what? tmac isn’t coming bk this season apparantly… so weid is next. imagine going in with a weid and mitch brown. dees are in trouble  now. 

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1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

Too many passengers. We look like a team that thinks winning will just happen. Teams come out and go 110% trying to beat us and we have just been going. Our easy first half draw hasn’t helped either. 
Pressure is way off. Forwardline is a complete mess. Defense is depleted and has been all year long. Midfield is not able to sustain dominance for 4 quarters. A lot of improvement. Luckily we are in a good position to reset. 

Seems like we’re flat, second guessing, which will now affect confidence. Bye can’t come soon enough. 15 scoring shots to 8. This may get ugly I fear. 

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11 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

Need to start booing the umpires more Dees fans. They’re atrocious and they react to noise, so let them have it. 

I'll 2nd that....fire up minions!!

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Actually getting sympathetic to Toby Greene, Stevic and co need to earn respect not just be given it because AFL say so. Exhibit 1 Papley clearly shoved Hunt in the back wins unfair advantage, kicks goal and 'behaves' accordingly. Throw the rule book out. Give the people unbridled momentum and a spectacle at any cost. $$$$$$$$$$

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4 minutes ago, Webber said:

Cos it wasn’t even close to a push in the back. Just out-bodied, out-positioned. 

exactly. hunt was embarrassed.

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5 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

Our back line has been masking how badly we have been going up the ground for most of the year.

As it did for much of last year.

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