Match thread. THE GRAND FINAL!!! Swans v Cats.

[stevoswan]

It was such an unusual result, something must have been up in the swans camp.
I know grand finals can blow out because once a team can't win, the give up a bit, and the team winning is riding a massive shot of euphoria. But we're we blown out of the game by 1/4 time. Totally against all expected form.

Something was up.

A real thorough review of our grand final prep needs to be done, and general season planning to be at maximum performance in September.

If anything was up, it may have been player confusion/sadness at the Logan dropping and at Reid being selected and as such, the feeling that we didn't have every base covered and were vulnerable going into the match. Also, the squad was divided into separate accommodation in the lead up.....this seemed strange and was a departure from normal preparation.

I fit ain't broke, don't fix it.

Also agree with your last sentence.

[stevoswan]

Well hope they are happy with their not bad effort as we are now trying to come back from a GF humiliation and history shows they take years to come back from . So hope our shot at a flag with a botched midfield was worth it .

Stuff history.....we are talking about the Swans. We were back in a GF two years after a 64 point GF humiliation in 2014.....and we would have won that GF with decent umpires.

Geelong were humiliated just last year in a prelim by 83 pts and won the GF a year later. As I said, stuff history.

[barry]

Cannot believe what you are saying. Have been to many Grand Finals and without doubt Robbie Williams was way and above any previous pre match entertainment at a Grand Final. Well done by the AFL.

Meatloaf is the benchmark.

[Jimitron5000]

I'm with Royboy. The side is a good one. We just need to do a few things better like recognizing that young and old players will need to be rested at certain times and we need to spread the load better. I wonder where the swans sit on the list of number of players played in a season..

You don't make a grand final without doing a lot right across the season. We were fortunate with injuries this year, which whilst undoubtedly helped our season may have impacted our performance on grand final day.
There is also plenty of room for improvement and natural growth of our younger players.

[barracuda]

I'm with Royboy. The side is a good one. We just need to do a few things better like recognizing that young and old players will need to be rested at certain times and we need to spread the load better. I wonder where the swans sit on the list of number of players played in a season..