I once travelled down on a 2pm flight with the team, but that was back in the early Eade days, so take it with a grain of salt....
I once travelled down on a 2pm flight with the team, but that was back in the early Eade days, so take it with a grain of salt....
Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09
Being stats mad I was really interested in looking into the recent history of the Swans conceding more than 15 goals a game. The reality is that since season 1996 when Sydney started to consistently play finals, there has never been one season where they did not concede 15 plus goals in a game. Witness:
1996: 2 games
1997: 4 games
1998: 6 games
1999: 8 games
2000: 9 games
2001: 5 games
2002: 5 games
2003: 2 games
2004: 7 games
2005: 1 game
2006: 1 game
2007: 3 games
2008: 7 games
2009: 4 games
2010: 3 games
Fingers cross 2011: a fat zero!
More pointless stats, of the 3 games in 2010 that we conceded more than 15 goals, 2 of them were Geelong (the other was the Demons!)
I've heard from a pretty reliable source that 86.2% of all statistics are fabricated anyway.
I wonder if a week off will affect their performance as it did to Collingwwod when they played us. On League Teams last night they all thought the week off would give the Cats to give us a real thrashing.
Hard to say how much this week will affect the Swans mentally.
Cats have to lose sooner or later down there but probably not tomorrow.
In memory of my little Staffy - Dicey, 17.06.2005 to 1.12.2011- I'll miss you mate.
Speaking of stats - Last time they met Sydney racked up over 100 tackles - but found it hard to generate pressure on the scoreboard. So...... if we can keep them to under 15 goals - convert our tackle count onto the scoreboard then .........could be close
If we play with the intensity that we maintained for the whole of last week's game and kick straighter I think we have a chance for a win. But if the boys are off after a traumatic week or we kick the same ratio of behinds to goals we'll get creamed. Simple enough.
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