spirit of norm smith

Watched the game and then had a painful look at the highlights of the game and also watched Jake Levers comments post match. We cost ourselves and gave up goals which hurt us. Yes looking back there’s a lot of work to do and composure is critical under pressure. We slipped last night but we get up and go again. 1. Lever stumbles and slips and doesn’t take the option to Brayshaw. Drops it when trying to kick. 😭 Goal to Hayward 2. Forward stoppage. swans clearance. Goal to Rowbottom (he was very good all night) 3. Umpires 🤮hang your heads in shame.🤮 Soft free to swans for a May elbow to Franklin then 50 penalty for Franklin running at May and getting bumped 4. Gawn trying 9-iron chip in back 50 to Hunt. 😭 Turnover and papley goals. 5. Jackson 😭taps it down to Mills to goal 6. Rivers panics 😭and kick OOB on the full. Stephens is a gun and slots it from 50 on a45angle 7. Mills tries to break free, tackles by Oliver …🤮umps no free? 🤮… picked up by Papley good goal 8. Harmes - love ya but you can cost us. Split section too slow in disposal. 😭Grubber ball to 50. Lloyd omg kicks a great angle goal. 9. May error trying to access corridor from defence. 😭Turnover. Reid marks. Kozzy 😭gives away a soft 50 (🤮umps !! ) 11. Reid - good mark and kick from 50. A good goal. Fair enough. 12. Warner to runner Mills to put perfect kick to Hickey who marks 15 metres out (simply outsmarted Maxy ) 13. Harmesy 😭😭😭😭flattens Lloyd unnecessarily and 50 and goodnight 14 . Overlap run by swans chaos ball - row bottom to Heeney - its over!!! Some very costly mistakes. Simply last night hurt but we can fix it. I’m sure we can respond.

ANB had a very poor year and yes gone backwards. He seemed to click in 2022 but somehow reverted to fumbling, turnovers, missed shots at goal and missed tackles. If he kicks the two shots last night, we were back in business. Goal accuracy is poor … 7 goals (16 behinds) in 22 games as a permanent half forward. He’s endurance is his strength but that’s not enough when you’re footy basics are below average. Dees outs ANB Melksham ins Bedford JVR/Tmcd Lions IN - Rayner Answerth Fort out. BigO (concussed) Ahchee Robinson/Wilmot Dees In- 1. composure with the footy (we miss him in games of pressure v pies v swans ) 2. Ability who can kick the footy to find a target inside 50 (played the first qtr v swans than strangely disappeared) 3. a heartbeat and intensity … you’ve got to show a walking on glass mentality in finals. Some of our players were simply folding under pressure 4 , winning clearances (surely a tap down by out dominant ruckman is useless when the players are stationary or use butterfly handballs) - who’s on the move? out. 1.- get rid of reckless ill disciplined footy (teams suck us in ) 2. risky kicks in back 50 … strangely brought in and must go immediately 3. ; fumbles fumbles fumbles ; 4. KICKING TO THE POCKETS ALL THE TEAM. MUST BE DROPPED. Hes been in all year and is symbolic of a poor conversion rate ( we do it to reduce opposition rebounding and scoring … ffs you have to score yourself) . 5-6 good scoring opportunities were wasted but stupid kicks that actually on 3-4 occasions went out of bounds on the full… ffs drop this kicking to the pockets;

ANB had a very poor year and yes gone backwards. He seemed to click in 2022 but somehow reverted to fumbling, turnovers, missed shots at goal and missed tackles. If he kicks the two shots last night, we were back in business. Goal accuracy is poor … 7 goals (16 behinds) in 22 games as a permanent half forward. He’s endurance is his strength but that’s not enough when you’re footy basics are below average.

Lions IN - Rayner Answerth Fort out. BigO (concussed) Ahchee Robinson/Wilmot Dees names are just names it’s our style that was lacking and Longmire simply outsmarted us and his players “owned us” again In - composure; someone who can kick the footy to find a target inside 50; a heartbeat for some players, ; winning clearances out. - reckless ill disciplined footy; risky kicks in back 50 ( Gawn 🤮🤮🤮) ; fumbles fumbles fumbles ; kicking to the pockets;

Sorry to earlier posters - I love Gus Brayshaw but tonight he was in the bottom “poor” category 11 turnovers!! And fumbled it and didn’t create any real movement probably his worst game of 2022

Christian Petracca alteady a champion of the game love him MFC premiership player norm smith medal bull of a midfielder but two things … 1. stay hungry … looking like his playing fancy little delicate handballs and tackles being missed 2. He must must must sort out your goalkicking. It’s a huge knock on him and imv stops him from being elite … he’s not confident and his routine is poor. Straights and simple levers are the key !!!

78,700 fans 30,000 swans 35,000 Dees 13,700 casual observers!!

Really ?? Yes should have kicked 4 or 5 Melksham 🤮 Melksham🥔 slips and stumbles and Spargo🥔 stops and has it smothered Sparrow hits the post Gawn 🤮 Trac running inside 30 and … misses 🚑

Still believe it's the kicking into the forward linethat hurts us.

Yes must have had gastro through the club They looked tired and swans could have won by 7-8 goals

Jackson was terrible. Dropped marks and fumbled all night. Just didn’t try which is harsh but physically got pushed aside by Hickey and then tossed it in. Freo… I’m selling now if you want him !!! Your 1st & 2nd round 2022 draft picks Plus your 2023 1st round pick FOR Luke Jackson and MFC 2022 2nd round pick

He’s part of the coaching team but couldn’t work out how the mids should kick the footy into fwd50. They need Yze’s skill but the up and under kicks !!

Agree. Three times he looked awful and got the other one !! Who thinks he’s a forward ??? He’s our ruck who can 15-20% forward. Grundy to Dees is a 🤮🤮🤮

Gawn - had little influence and wanted to continue to tap the ball down to his feet where the swans win the clearances!🤔 Viney - disappeared after first… fumbled too much and lost his feet often 🤔 Oliver - inspirational and prolific… bloody champion… kept us in the match then wore the blood and bandages of a warrior ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Petracca - injured before injury…🚑 yes injured … but could have kicked four goals and his lack of confidence in goalkicking is very very odd 🤮 Jackson - head was elsewhere … ffs … he’s a champion then he’s a spud … no footy intelligence and fumbled 🥔🥔🥔 Brown - was absolutely useless … soft tonight 🥔🥔🥔🥔 Langdon - disappeared after first… great start then went wider and wider ⭐️ Spargo - disappeared after first… pushed aside easily … kicked one great pass and three absolute dogs 💩 Brayshaw - limited by injury… love him but tonight was poor 💩 Pickett - a total failure … omg lost total awareness and was chasing tails 🥔🥔 May - one fateful mistake BUT overall was a champion We would have been destroyed without him ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Petty - seemingly no mistakes… bloody champion and gave 100%! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fritsch - ten minute game … was dangerous but his one miss was very poor from 25 metres out ⭐️⭐️ Hunt - poor under pressure … but at least tackles and ran and did a lot very well 👍🏻 Neal-Bullen - tried but failed… EMBARRASSING AND JUST AWFUL … new captain fumbles 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔6-star spud tonight award winner Harmes - disposal was poor and tried and failed and fumbled and looked confused 💩 Hibberd - needed sick bed.. bloody gave 100% and won his battles ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sparrow - had little involvement … another NEARLY NIGHT … one good goal … he fumbles were costly 🥔 Salem - seemingly avoided pressure and looked unfit on occasion strange to think he was nearly BOG in “21 GF … now could be dropped … terrible left foot helicopter kicks 💩 Melksham - the bad Melkshy… from gold to dog-shizzen …. 3 costly missed shots when usually reliable 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 Rivers - was rarely sighted- tried but failed but tried 🧐 Lever - couldn’t get involved-did his best 👍🏻

1st change. Anb. Out. Was terrible all night. Bedford. In. 2nd change Salem out. Bowey in 3rd change Melksham out Tmcd in. Have to risk him. If not, it’s JVR

600 Oliver 5 May 4 Petty 3 Hibberd 2 Fritsch 1 Langdon Pass marks - Lever Viney Gawn Hunt injured Trac (calf) award -6 anb -5 kozzy -4 brown -3 Melksham -2 sparrow -1 Jackson and could have added Salem (surely he was not fit) Spargo Harmes Brayshaw Rivers that’s 1/2 the team as shockers tonight

🥔🥔🥔🥔award 6 anb 5 kozzy 4 brown 3 Melksham 2 sparrow 1 Jackson and Spargo Harmes

How bad is ANB? Worst game of the year

3rd Oliver 🔥🔥May ✅hunt hibberd petty Brayshaw Viney ANB 🥔🥔🥔 ?? Trac injured 🤮🤮Melksham brown Jackson Kozzy all very poor Harmes captain fumbles but Swans too smart. pressure and clearances… Run and overlap and delivery !!!

Absolutely. Nibbler had two chances and two misses. He’s had 4 missed tackles in 1st half.

12 fumbles !! Love his attack but captain fumbles tonight

1st half ✅May Petty Hibberd Langdon 🥔Jackson Brown ANB Melksham Riv ?? Kozzzzy 🤮🤮🤮umps - the 50 !!! Ffs need to lift … yes Trac (sore) Gawn Brayshaw Clearances 12-20. Poor so far

Stats from Dees v Swans round 12 Dees 348 possessions- 205 kicks 143 handballs Swans 305 possessions- 218 kicks 87 handballs Swans run and kick a lot more than other teams. Their ball movement needs to be slowed, shutdown or pressed. They want to run run run. We won in the ruck where Max dominated hitouts but broke even in clearances Swans won in the pressure count and tackles (75-53)

Hibbo probably gets the job on Papley. If he’s unavailable, then Hunt or Rivers. Need to quell their v fire power (May, Perry, Lever v Franklin,Reid, McDonald) (Hibbo, Salem, Hunt, Rivers v Heeney, Hayward, Papley)

Yes I Loved it !! Kinda had it ready to go for tigers win. Tom Lynch 🥔🥔🥔🥔 3 tigers defenders trying to punch it through and all collided with ball going to Joe Daniher 🤮🤮🤮