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They're a good side the Pies

Turn and face

Is this a poor performance for Melbourne or did we simply run into a good team that put it all together and possibly even outplayed us on the night? I thought the Suns did a lot of things right, they have a lot of skill through the middle and when they had possession it was not easy to get it off them, this was the best game I've seen Noah Anderson play. We weren't at our blistering best for 4 quarters and there were some below par performances but I still see this as a good win early in the season away from home I hope I'm not alone here.

I just think the most dangerous thing to do following this sport is go into a game expecting to win with a minimum margin in mind. I never do it, it will just sets up the hard fall of disappointment and the competition is just too level to say that a team on their day can't bring a performance like the Sun did last night. Bank the early wins, I want us playing our best in August/September.

Why be a goal umpire if you need to go to the review 4 times?

Not looking too bad!

I thought the idea of football was to kick through the big sticks? Not the small or nothing sticks

I turned away thinking that shot was missing.

One more vintage Buddy performance please.

Collingwood are the favourites, don't even think about putting money on Sydney. You'd be better off going down to Port Melbourne pier and throwing your wallet into the ocean.

Did Chris Johnson just call it the 'Ponsford St' end?

Well what a game that was. First time in a while I had maybe a few too many bevies to process what happened, I don't usually watch replays in full but I put it on around 11 , fell asleep and woke up with 2 mins to go in the game so that was a useless exercise. This morning I tried my best to do it. There does seem to be a lot of mixed opinions on this one, I thought we probably played our best footy in that first quarter and laxed off a tad but let's not take away from this opposition. Their midfield bossed ours and they have a lot of skill running through there, when they had possession it was pretty darn hard to get it back. I thought they were cleaner around the stoppages where we were quite fumbly. After Richmond took it to us with the 'blueprint' I personally thought North missed a trick with this quite often skying balls forward and allowing us to cut off as we pleased, not the case with GC. They were running in waves and making options forward of the ball everywhere. The surge mentality and ping ponging it around and getting it to ground worked in their favour. Especially late in the game when it looked like those last 3 goals they kicked were pure luck with the ball bouncing the right way for them, but you make your own luck when you play the way they did. Best game I've seen Noah Anderson play, he was everywhere, I can really see Anderson and Rowell being their Trac and Oliver in future. Rosas played a great small forward's game, Witts battled admirably against Grundy and Gawn. He really doesn't get the credit he deserves in this game as a ruckman. The main worry is when teams move it fast and they manage to get it out the backside of centre. I felt the Essendon game was that all day long and something we need to be looking at closely. To our performers: Thought Max was the one that won it for us in the end. Seeing a lot of people say Viney and while he was immense in the last quarter I thought he was a little down on his ripping last few weeks and hacked it a bit when he had it. Gus was impressive all game I thought and Sparrow cracked in. Trac and Clarry contributed but I thought Dew coached this game really well and nullified a lot of our strengths. Backline wasn't brilliant and did have marks taken on them, Petty would be handy back there but can understand why he's not. Forward pressure was probably the one thing I thought we really lacked, the ball just came out far too easily at times when we really needed some repeat stoppages in there. It was the rebound that allowed GC's gameplan to get rolling. So while I wouldn't say it was terrible performance, I did think we lacked a little in pressure and execution. It is frustrating that Fritta couldn't bin that straightforward shot in the last to seal the deal. But we also played a better side than most think and without Touk Millier it was a good performance. We got the points, take it to the bank. Who cares how you win at this point of the season just win baby. Did we get out of jail, well we did on Mcpherson's set shot that's for sure! Everyone gets one..

Game over, 5.9 wont do it

You can take that to the BANK

Swans need to kick the next two goals.

Getting paid in excess of hundreds of thousands of dollars to kick like that

Unmitigated primetime garbology

Haven't seen garbage like this for a while.

We need a much better Sydney Swans in this

Ginnivan on the sidelines wearing what looks to be a sleeping bag. Harden the *blank* up

Windy conditions at the MCG

Would be flabbergasted

They do take up a fair bit of wardrobe real estate. I never got a premiers scarf either, the members scarf from that year does it for me as well.

We love a good conspiracy theory on this program Mr Leg. The JVR moment was way over the top. Would have liked to see the touch ball early in the game again considering one umpire called it.

It really always has been about post clearance. High pressure and score on turnover. When we do win clearances and contested ball in the middle it's the ultimate having your cake and eating it too scenario. But gee we came up against a decent midfield performance last night. Best game I've seen Anderson play