"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
I think Duncan is a pretty good player and he's had a pretty good season. If it didn't interrupt the narrative around Geelong being a two-player team, I think he'd get more recognition for how he's played this year. But I think he's had far more impact in other Geelong games this year than he did on Friday night. He got a lot of the ball and was probably their best player, but the Swans were very effective in frustrating the Cats' ball movement for most of the night, and lots of Duncan's possessions (and his team mates') consisted of short passes that got their team absolutely nowhere.
To me it appeared like the swans were happier to negate geelongs effectiveness from the clearance so we had an easy ball for our defenders to swallow up then rebound
This sounds a little counter intuitive but if u think about the reverse and we send in hot non directed entries we would have been in serious trouble against a strong defence
Either that or an under strength geelong midfield made our midfield look inferior in clearance work
We do have higher stoppages per game, therefore more clearances, so Joe Blow Lazy Journalist looks at the raw numbers. We are ranked 11th for clearance differential. We are also, interestingly, 16th in tackle differential.
One surprising thing, compared to RWO accepted knowledge, is we have a higher free kick for differential than Hawthorn.
https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/...type=DA&sby=29
C'mon Chels!
Hey nico what I left out was that we could have easily cleared out sideways or backwards but we chose in this game not to play much uncontested and simply play direct in attack from the rebound
We allowed geelong to do this more so but our defence was stacked and still mjmjmed their uncontested game plan which was poorly executed
Ugly game to watch
But effective
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