Blaming the umpire.......seriously folks take it on the chin. It’s not the umpires I’m afraid.
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Re the naysayers, sure, we are struggling.
But we are without:
* at least six best 22
* nine players over 193cm
* our three starting tall forwards
And we played nine players with 30 games or less.
Do we really think it’s a failure to inject games into the next generation of players?
As I’m not sure the alternative.
'Delicious' is a fun word to say
No one is seriously blaming the umpires.
That doesn't mean that Stevic hasn't had it in for us for a long time for whatever reason. He did his best in 2012 to bend us over and help the Wees and Poos over the line, and was part of the mob that had its way in the 2016 decider as well to gift the premiership to the Fairypuppies. He is a @@@@e umpire.
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
Stoddardt did a few good things, but a couple of times I thought he could have went in harder. Strange that he seemed to be playing forward flank, for most of the game, when last year he was a back flanker and sometimes winger. Should improve if he gets a few more games, though.
Plenty to work on from that showing - I liked the endeavour shown and I think we'll learn a lot from a hard game against the premiers. If we can keep up the effort and get more games into the younger guys, things will start looking up before too long.
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