TBH I always thought they would win but the way that Q3 was heading it was only going to be by a couple of goals but I was feeling the same as the doubters but I don't need to told "told ya's, told ya's". We have seen the Swans play absolute crap footy for too many periods this year to be blindly confident that they can always turn it around. Luckily for us, more often than not they do turn it around, but when they don't it can be costly.
Agreed, he looked like he belonged and really contributed. He seems to be an actually footballer rather than an athlete playing football. If he can continue to develop a forward line of Reid, Towers and Rohan will look very dangerous in the next couple of years. Thats if Gary does't blow out his hamstrings chasing down a tackle in "junk time" of a game already won. It is great to see that never give up chase of his but he needs to be told to choose his chases better.
Laids copped a couple of hits to the back of the head so I am not surprised his kicking was a little wobbly.
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Reid too. He finally seems to have decided he's not a youngster any more, but needs to be a key part of the team. He's always been able to do the things he does. He just didn't do them often enough. But he's another who's put together a pretty good last month or so, and should be full of confidence moving into September. Yes, his goal kicking lets him down at times, but his marking is so good that I can almost forgive him. Of course, Buddy in the team, even far from full fitness, demands the attention of the opposition defenders, leaving Reid with more opportunity to bob up as he did yesterday.
That was a very sloppy performance. It seemed that they had difficulty adjusting when Jack got injured. That doesn't bode well for finals footy. The second and third terms were terrible in terms of disposal and effort.
I hope they play better next week.
It's difficult to say who played well and who didn't last night because the opposition was worse in terms of skill than we were. Next week will be an interesting test.
Reid has really hit his straps and has almost come of age. Looks like he could an elite goalkicker like Buddy if he nailed the easy ones. There are simple mental techniques to overcome this.Hope the Swans are aware of these.
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There were quiet a few times we had the kick around the shallow end of CHF and... where's Heeney? Not at the top of the square but trotting back from CHB. Not his fault I'd guess, just some last minute tinkering maybe. Apart from the rubbishy handling errors which affected almost everyone, it looked like the instruction was to run at 75% but maintain control when necessary. Rocket said in his presser that he'd "heard conflicting reports" we wanted to rest players but the AFL wouldn't let us, hence starting Jetts in the vest and not a lot of "vital" chase downs.
I felt like we went hard for a quarter then just went through the motions, ramping it up again in the 4th when they tired. We were also missing Parker, McVeigh and (for most of the game) K. Jack so I don't think we have too much to be worried about. Having watched the replay this morning it looked like we were trying a few positional things too.
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