Braithy wrote:
bondiblue wrote:
Have they got us covered? Nope.
you're gonna sound silly if the swans gets us ... borderline obnoxious even.
thing is, swans are a known finals commodity and will come to play and they will deliver a physically hard at it and well drilled brand of footy, friday night. longmire will make sure of it.
same cannot be said of us. what the occasion does to us ... if we go back and pick the side based on the early season "favourites" rather than balance (which was the primary source of the sack voss vibes - picking the same players who underperform and underwhelm) and we steer too far away from the team which won 9 on the trot, i feel like we won't just lose, we will be picked apart.
there was a radical physical and mental shift in our play mid season, but there was also having the right balance out there. fast, swarming pressure played by smaller more mobile players.
talk of 2 rucks, 2 big forwards, marchbank as 7th defender (when swans have damaging small/mid forwards than talls etc is starting to sound like that horrible stop-start play, slow build up zero handball chains which got us to bottom four.
if that happens, it makes our win streak look almost accidental - bcos voss and the MC would never have dynamically thought to shift the magnets around and go more swarming & mobile.
Obnoxious! OK.
What if we win? What am I then? And what does that make you?
Ive watched the Swans win against us twice this year.
Ive watched the Swans play a lot of games.
If not for the NM interchange debacle let alone the other lucky wins (vs Crows) they would be 10th or 11th.
Preseason GameIn the preseason Vossy was experimenting whilst Swans were making a point folowing the GF loss. Dow was a liability along with other issues.
We had Cripps Walsh McKay Cuningham Boyd Marchbank Williams all missing. Swans had almost a full list.
Round 11We should have won but KPFs missing goals from 15 and 20m in front, let alone easy shots from 30 and stupid stop start game plan...even Swans supporters agreed we gave them the game. Despite playing crap we should have won and our kicking at goal was embarrassing.
We had Martin and Cuningham missing. Kennedy and Cerra playing HB. Young and silvagni were dropped. Kemp and Gov expected to mind McAndrews(203cm) and McLean (200cm) whilst Weiters had Franklin and kept him goalless. Heeny tagged an injured Cripps. Warner was in top form.
I'm basing my selection on what I have seen in our two games against them, and the form of both teams in the last 2 months, and more particular the last month. I know Bloods footy. i know they will bring the heat, but I also know they will fade and don't play 4 quarter footy like they did last year. Warner is coming back from injury, Papley has just started running this week from hammy injury, and Gulden has become their match winner.
You think I'm bordering obnoxious! Mate, I'm confident.
You on the other hand have been hard to convince in the last 2 months we are the real deal. Every week you don't believe and super nervous.
I thought you were going to come up to Sydney to kiss me if I was right about our chance against Saints when I was (similarly AFAYAC 'obnoxious') because you couldnt see it given saints had beaten us easily the previous year.
Swans are well drilled and play well with what they have for it, but its not that much TBH.
Obnoxious? There's 2 sides playing. When comparing the 2 teams game plan and personnel they both have strengths. You seem to look at the oppositions strengths, ignore ours and you shit yourself. We have too many strengths over them to lose. We will not go into the game half hearted, and did I mention both losses against Swans THIS year were in Sydney and this week its at the G with 65,000 Carlton supporters to motivate them as the 24th man.
Now what do you think?
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