I flew up from Melbourne for this game, and midway through the 3rd quarter, I was thinking to myself, what the hell am I watching? 2 goals to this point? What I cant believe is how does Collingwood make us look so foolish, so second rate, i dont mind losing and playing well, but losing like this is sad, and only collingwood is able to this to us, we have actually played the same way against them in the previous 5 losses. I'm sorry to say this but, until we beat them, I will not be tipping the swans in the office tipping comp anymore when we play Collingwood, I really do believe it psychological for the boys against the pies, its all in their heads. Thats my 2 bobs worth.
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Haven't seen much of Hawthorn this year, but both their 'cluster' (if they played it) and their entire game vs the Weagles was pretty unimpressive last-up.
The thing that struck me on Sat night was that 'flooding' (in the 2003/4 sense of the word-- dropping large numbers a kick behind the ball carrier) works very poorly against a side like Sydney. All it does is create space for our defenders to make options, transfer the ball sideways, then run forward and put the ball over the flooders. What the Woods have worked out is that where your bodies should be 'flooding' is actually the 15-20 metres around and in front of the ball carrier, so that even if a man gets free to receive a handpass, he'll have nowhere to go, and ultimately will have to either take on multiple tacklers and probably lose, or do what the Swans hate doing: bomb it long to a one-on-one contest further up the ground.
No matter how you define Hawthorn's 'cluster' it seems to involve the movements of their back 6. Who pretty much by definition are incapable of stopping our run from HB (unless they move a truly absurd distance up the ground). So it probably won't be terribly relevant to who wins the game.
Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."
Meh....
We played @@@@ and were beaten.
But just looked at the ladder. We've played 14, Won 9, lost 4 and drawn 1. That's a hell of a lot better than I would of expected at the start of the year....
Next....
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Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."
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