Dockers matchday thread

[Daisi]

Easy. Introduce a new team... let's call it GWS... pay a rugby player a million bucks to cross codes, give them heaps of 1st round draft picks to ensure they will have talent for decades to come, let this new team pillage uncontracted players from other clubs, and finally offer no support to the current Sydney club so that it is less competitive. Oh... wait, that might not do it... so hold the NAB draft in the Western Sydney region and then get an ex-Swan champion and captain on board the new franchise. Yup, that should do it!

I have no doubts that this is their strategy, however, how are they going to defeat the NRL in Western Sydney? . Will anybody from the East, inner west or North, the current AFL heartlands, travel to Blacktown to see GWS? I wont, neither will my Swans supporting friends..

[AnnieH]

chamberlian is a *&%^. Bottom line.
He doesn't like us. We don't like him. Never have.

I think we may have some more serious things to worry about, i.e. the "mellee" - happened right in front of us ... and play STILL went on!! (Maggots.)

I foresee some "please explains" at the MRP this week.

What a crap day!!

[aardvark]

I have just listened to interviews of Hanners and ROK after the game. They are shattered, not by the umpiring decisions but by the lack of a 4 quarter effort and ill-discipline of some of the team members. They are in no doubt as to reasons for the defeat and seem at a loss to understand the lack of intensity shown when it was needed, in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. I was almost in tears as they expressed their great disappointment.

For me it is not so much the players but the totally predictable game plan, the lack of or inability of runners to break the lines (Micky O's comment), and of course a forward line that is structurally deficient. The players can play their hearts out but are at such a disadvantage. When an opposing team has more runners than can be shut down, the Swans are exposed. Especially when the few Swans runners seem to be too easily shut down.

Bigger picture, I fear that we are going to struggle bigtime to get past mediocre despite the young guns coming through.

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[Dosser]

Don't you just love the footy?

[goswannies]

How do the AFL expect to promote the game in Sydney or even to encourage the current supporters to continue their support when the umpiring is so one sided?

Easy. Introduce a new team... let's call it GWS... pay a rugby player a million bucks to cross codes, give them heaps of 1st round draft picks to ensure they will have talent for decades to come, let this new team pillage uncontracted players from other clubs, and finally offer no support to the current Sydney club so that it is less competitive. Oh... wait, that might not do it... so hold the NAB draft in the Western Sydney region and then get an ex-Swan champion and captain on board the new franchise. Yup, that should do it!