Could be a big challenge for Rowbottom next week to keep him quiet.Originally Posted by Mel_C
Could be a big challenge for Rowbottom next week to keep him quiet.
No, he didn't and the guinea pig went off injured. We've got the job ahead of us!
They are relentless for sure.....but Freo aren't us. We are even more relentless.....but yes, we will have to be 'on'.
I'm confident we will be.
Bloody Darcy....."there's such a magical story unfolding this year with the Magpies".....I'm getting vibes of 2016.
I bet we get Stevic next week, "one of the best in the business" as Darcy predictably said again tonight to satisfy his 'contractual obligation'. Gee he's a plonker.
Please I hope not. Doesn't seem right that he would umpire two matches in a row with the Pies, and both Swans finals, when they could put him on the Cats-Lions match where he has umpired neither.
Captain, I am detecting large quantities of win in this sector
It's bizarre, he literally says 'best in the business' every single time Stevic umpires, without fail.
The best way to silence these biased nutbags is to bring the heat. Have faith in our Swans. If we play our best, we'll be in a granny.McLaughlin: "The Magpies fairytale season continues." That word is getting mentioned too much.....piss off!
Time to give them a nightmare.
I hope the boys are ready for next weekend.... pies will be one @@@@ing tough task.... they had a free hit at the scg 3 weeks ago and will be well prepared for our game style.... what worries me is cox was abale to kill richmonds 3 peat with a game he has never replicated since.
We deserve to be in the big dance, but we dont always get what we deserve.
I know im glass half full, but after what Gill and his cronies did to us in 2016, i find it hard to think he wont @@@@ us again in his last year in charge.
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I reckon Mills will get the job, at least to start with. He's taller and has more wiry strength. And will require De Goey to pay him some respect. Then it will be over to Rowbottom, Parker and Warner to win the clearances themselves, because when Freo did win the ball out of the middle, the Pies' defence didn't look so robust. And hopefully we learn from last week against Melbourne and bring the ball in messily and get it to ground so that our smaller guys can go to work.
Yes, last week at one stage I was almost hoping Longmire would tell the mids to deliberately kick the ball to open ground.
Tall defenders like May or Lever are never going to win a footrace against Papley or Gulden....
Last edited by KTigers; 11th September 2022 at 06:52 AM.
This. Plus watching the Pies mark and rebound out of defence all night, it’s easier to do against Jay Amiss and Lachie Schulz and Rory Lobb than it will be against Paps, Heeney, Reid, Buddy and co.
'Delicious' is a fun word to say
The hyperbole in full swing about the length of the SCG from the Victorian journos.
This was in an article today in the Age online version:
"The smaller dimensions of the SCG mean the ball can fly from the centre to full-forward in one kick, bypassing the typical need for a contest at centre half-forward."
I never knew 2.5 metres had such a profound impact on kicking ability as it obviously does at the SCG.... the old wives tales die slow in the VFL world.
The article hardly improves however, with this gem:
"In the Magpies’ favour on Saturday is that the clash will almost certainly be a sellout - and playing before huge crowds is something this side has become accustomed to, particularly in recent weeks."
Maybe I'm imagining it, but wasn't our game against the pies a month ago basically a sellout, and wasn't there 70+ thousand at the G when we played Melbourne....
Meanwhile, the bloods machine just keeps on keeping on in the background, ready to rip some magpies to shreds come Saturday.
"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."
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