Sydney Swans vs. Collingwood Magpies Match Report
7.10pm June 25, ANZ Stadium

Now I’m probably one of the more optimistic Swans supporters and tip the Swans every week but even I didn’t have the greatest hopes for the Swans against Collingwood. The Swans went into this match with three changes to the team that was thrashed by Carlton – Bevan, White and Everitt recalled for Mumford (suspension), Jetta (dropped) and Johnson (injury). The Pies got Swan ...

Swans v Carlton

I was overseas during the early part of the season and had watched the swans play Carlton at the scg via the afl website. that's an interesting experience as you get a bit of a delay, you know ball kicked by number 5 to number 3 to number 4 who goals. this meant I approached the swans Carlton game without the preconceptions of those who had watched that game.

However I have managed most of the subsequent games and must confess to being pretty apprehensive as I boarded the train to docklands. I think the league ladder flatters ...

Well last week was yet another heart-stopper from the Swans and after well and truly handing in their Get Out Of Jail Free card against North, Swans fans were hoping for a less stressful evening this week. Ominously for Sydney though, Brisbane had shown signs of life in the last two weeks, with successive wins following the return of Jonathon Brown, a player who has burned us before. The selection panel, in a move no doubt designed to both simultaneously delight and vex RWO members, picked fan favourite ...

Sort of forgot about the report until Sunday morning. I usually take a note pad and get my PA to take notes for me. However, my PA is doing VCE, and chose not to come. Which was a good thing for all around us, as she is chocked up with cold at the moment.
Many thanks to the people who chose to spend the afternoon with me. It made for some light entertainment from a rather frustrating and stressful game.
The game:
We started bad, North could not capitalise on it, missing some relatively easy shots. 7 scoring shots to zip, and they only led by 22. I don’t ...

Reality Bites

It’s never easy revving up the motivation levels required to pen a match report after a loss, especially one as emphatic as Sunday’s loss. I also empathise with prospective readers the difficulty experienced ...

Swans Short Circuit the Power

It's a daunting task to write up a report after the stellar efforts of our previous report writers but here goes.

On a night so cold at the SCG I swear I saw penguins huddling around a heater , the Swans got the job done to the tune of 62 points. While the margin (our biggest in 3 years) was indeed impressive the manner in which it was achieved was less so.
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The second round clash between the Swans and Bombers was all about the new boys going head to head. The Golden Boy vs The Longtime Apprentice. James Hird had thus far enjoyed a dream start to his senior AFL coaching career, guiding his Bombers ...

** Pictures by ScottH

It’s been a terrible off-season. The Socceroos lost in extra-time; the Victory were anything but; and Punter and his pals sank without trace. Never mind: a new AFL season and hope springs eternal.

I drove up to town from Gippsland with my daughter - it took a couple of hours, so I had plenty of time to reminisce - plenty of memories from past Demons’ confrontations. Schwartz and Dunkley going head to head, more intent on whacking each other than winning the ball. Dermot Brereton marking over top of Jim Stynes and triggering one of those glorious come-from-behind victories that the Swans became famous for. Magic needlessly tearing his hamstring when the game was won. And the day that Adam Goodes almost single-handedly got us over the line, only for Russell Robertson to kick a late brace and snatch the game. I can still remember the sad sight of Goodes on hands and knees, vomiting from exhaustion, while the Melbourne players celebrated.

My daughter and I carefully did not discuss what happened the last time these teams met.

We got a ...

When I put my hand up to write this week's match report, it was with the knowledge that it could turn out to be a eulogy to the football coaching and playing careers of Roos and Kirk. On the other hand, there was a good chance it would turn out to be a celebration of yet another pounding of the Blues on home turf. There were times during Sunday's game where I had started to write both versions in ...

The Swans routinely fall short in milestone games, but their performance at the SCG on Saturday night showed not even the most malevolent spirit could overcome Kirk’s karma.

They footy gods answered all of the expectations of the Swans faithful – and then some – as Sydney despatched the self-declared premiership contender by 44 points, ending a run of five losses against the Dogs and making a down payment on a home final.

The Swans took control of the game halfway through the first quarter and remained on top for virtually the entire game, kicking another 14 goals to the Bulldogs’ paltry five. ...

Sydney Swans 5.4 10.10 13.12 19.15 (129)
Hawthorn Hawks 1.1 3.5 9.6 13.7 (85)

Super Swans, frantic fans and Jetta’s jubilation make this victory one to savour.

A sunny Saturday afternoon at the SCG and the rowdy crowd were anticipating big things from their Swans who had suffered two of their worst defeats in recent history, losing the previous two weeks by a combined margin of 126 points. The Hawks were coming off a narrow loss to Port ...

It started at 9.50 that morning. The reserves were strutting their stuff, big Jesse White, who in the seniors had been unable to buy a mark, was plucking the ball from the air as if his hands were lined with velcro. He finished with 8 goals in a dominant display up forward. The reserves had a mammoth win in a dominant display all over ...

Port Adelaide 4.0 6.2 8.5 8.7 (55)
Sydney Swans 3.2 10.4 11.6 14.9 (93)

After securing a tight win against Essendon on the back of four straight losses, the Swans went into this game needing a win to go into the mid-season break in positive figures on the win-loss scale. Port Adelaide had been faring worse, if possible, and were coming off five straight losses with both teams perched precariously around the bottom of the eight. This was a true eight-point ...

"A game the Swans had to win to keep their season alive." "A tightly fought contest that went down to the wire." "A match were the "old blokes" finally stood up." All are true but a bit passe. Jude's record for contested possessions has already been gushed over, McVeigh's clearances delighted in. The weather remarked upon, the umpiring ruminated upon. What else is there to say about this game? I thought I would approach this match report a little differently, and write about a few of my favourite things. (Timings are approximate and refer to the count ...

Another year, another RWO match report.

In hindsight, this was a bad one to pick. I try to snare Freo at home because we are usually guaranteed a win, and the Dockers give me a giggle in a "they're so inoffensive, it's hard ...

ROUND 8 – Manuka Oval, Canberra


Western Bulldogs 4.4 9.6 14.10 14.17 (101)
Sydney Swans 3.2 4.7 6.9 9.9 (63)

Swans lose spark as Hall fires.

The Swans struggled for the second week in a row as they went down to the skilful Bulldogs by 38 points in the Nation’s Capital.

The Swans were hit hard even before arriving in Canberra, losing Moore to an ankle injury and Mumford to suspension as a result of a bruising encounter with the Cats. It only got worse for the Swans with Bradshaw ...

The word on the street was that the Geelong Cats were still upset at the Sydney Swans for poaching their up and coming Ruckman, Shane Mumford, and the proceeding game on Sunday May 9 was case in point.

After a solid first half effort by the Swans, the Cats pulled away after half-time piling on 12 goals to four in the second half in a 19.12 (126) to 9.5 (59) percentage boosting win for the reigning premiers.

Before the match, I had hopes ...

Scorers:
Sydney: Bradshaw 6.2, White 2.1, Goodes 2.0, Kirk 1.1, McVeigh 1.1, Jack 1.1, Shaw 1.1, Mattner 1.0, J. Bolton 1.0, Jetta 0.1, Seaby 0.1, O'Keefe 0.1, Rushed 0.3
West Coast: Kennedy 3.1, ...

Swans Break Adelaide Drought in Dashing Display

It seemed like an ordinary Sunday in Adelaide, hot, sunny and dry. 36,000 fans lined up outside AAMI stadium so that they might see the next instalment in a long running series of Swans defeats at the hands of the Crows in the stronghold of AAMI stadium. This is, at the very least, what the fans were expecting, and it seemed that even the idea of a ...