Match thread, round 2, Swans v Hawks.

[dejavoodoo44]

I like Rowie, but I thought his last quarter and a half were poor. He didn’t convert those into clearances which he often does.

I haven't convinced myself to watch the replay yet, so, no comment.

[KSAS]

Interesting to read Dr Peter Brukner is no doubt the increase in the speed of the game has led to more hamstring injuries already this season. He particularly points our game against Hawthorn on Thursday night.

Brukner said the first quarter of that match, as both sides moved the ball at lightning pace, was the fastest quarter of AFL football he had watched in his 50 years of experience.

He said it was the most frenetic game of football he's ever seen and was exhausted just watching it. Saying. It is completely different to five years ago. The intensity has gone up and the pressure on players has gone up.

I also heard Kane Cornes say Riley Bice had ran a total match distance at top speed (2km), which was 4 times greater than the previous average (500m), which staggered him.

[dejavoodoo44]

Coaches votes for the game:

9 Jai Newcombe (HAW)
7 Tom Barrass (HAW)
6 Dylan Moore (HAW)
6 Jack Gunston (HAW)
1 Jack Ginnivan (HAW)
1 Brodie Grundy (SYD)

Seems a but one-sided, for a game that we still had a chance of winning until the last minute or so. But I suppose that does make it clear that Cox was generally unhappy with the performance.

[imuninformedtwo]

Coaches votes for the game:

9 Jai Newcombe (HAW)
7 Tom Barrass (HAW)
6 Dylan Moore (HAW)
6 Jack Gunston (HAW)
1 Jack Ginnivan (HAW)
1 Brodie Grundy (SYD)

Seems a but one-sided, for a game that we still had a chance of winning until the last minute or so. But I suppose that does make it clear that Cox was generally unhappy with the performance.

Probably also reflects that if they kick straight, the Hawks could have won by 40. (And I know, if the umps hadn't chosen to kick us in the nuts every chance they got, the match wouldn't have bent so far one way either.)

[Nico]

We get beaten by 17 points and we only had one good player.

[MattW]

Coaches votes for the game:

9 Jai Newcombe (HAW)
7 Tom Barrass (HAW)
6 Dylan Moore (HAW)
6 Jack Gunston (HAW)
1 Jack Ginnivan (HAW)
1 Brodie Grundy (SYD)

Seems a but one-sided, for a game that we still had a chance of winning until the last minute or so. But I suppose that does make it clear that Cox was generally unhappy with the performance.

I try to predict Swans votes before reading the week's vote tally. This week I could only come up with a vote for Grundy. The dude battled so hard all night. He had 19 possessions and 18 of those were contested, which is kind of incredible.

Chad tried hard and Sheldrick was pretty strong at clearance. When the momentum was tipping against us in the last I was looking for Sheldrick and was surprised we didn't turn to him. He had 1 centre *bounce attendance in the last after 3 centre clearances from 9 CBAs over the rest of the game. He only played 61% game time, which seems low to me.

[111431]

I just watched the ‘inside Sydney’ video from the Hawks game. I thought our coach was pretty underwhelming

[stevoswan]

I just watched the ‘inside Sydney’ video from the Hawks game. I thought our coach was pretty underwhelming

Hardly a great 'sample size' in that video to conclude that....but he does swear a lot.