I was at the game and what really impressed me about the swanetts is how smart of a football team they are.I was telling my wife they are to smart for us and we are dumb team.Once again bombing the ball long TURNOVER(5goals)kicking to a contest,moving the ball to slow, to me its the same excuse in all our losses the same pattern.Mick has to change our game plan watch how syd ,haw cats do it.One e.g port v coll a coll player had amark wing/hf and in between him and there fwd of cloke i counted 6 port players feeling all the caps . Why flower we do this that is y we have to change our game.
At least i didnt get wet.

Yarran to half back with walker then that's some elite run and carry

Finals are over port will win min 12 and no way we win 7 of 9

After 2E's goal we lost virtually every 50/50 contest and a lot of contests when the odds were in our favour. If they had converted opportunities it could have got even more ugly.

Whether this was due to fatigue, Swans upping their intensity or a drop off in our's, I'm unsure.

Have another look at the last 20 minutes (if you can bring yourself to).

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It took our players until "half time" to work out it was time they needed to play wet weather football. AFL players!
It took our coaches the same time to drum this very fact into them. A premiership coach.
It took me 5 minutes into the game to realise we had no idea how to play wet weather football and more importantly were not prepared for it.
End of game and tells me all about were my club is currently at.

We were actually all over Sydney for the first ten minutes of the game, but we didn't hit the scoreboard at all.

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Winston Churchill

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... dont interrupt

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All Sticks fault, why oh why didn't he tell them it was raining......silly me. Nothing to do with our players or coaching staff, as you were all it's all good Malthouse has it all under control. Thank goodness Ratten wasn't in-charge.

sticks is a gun!!!

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Same old same old. Can't take our chances early. Not without hope at 3/4 time, only to have the opposition out score us in the last quarter. We just keeping losing/stuffing up pivotal moments; lack of confidence and/or belief.

What worried me was this loss didn't hurt at all. I watched with the resignation of the supporter who has lost hope, who knew what was going to happen and then watched it unfold. At three quarter time a non Carlton supporting friend said to me "they could win this". I told him, "no, the Swans will pull away in the last quarter". He couldn't understand my negativity, I told him I was only being realistic. Then we watched what I had predicted occur.

So to 2014. This must be how Richmond supporters have felt for decades.

It did go according to script.
We really need to tweak our gamplan to make sure we actually get some score on the board when dominating our opposition. Right now its too easy for the opposition.
We are all too pumped up on keeping the ball in our half and winning that stat that we fail realise this doesnt help us score and infact we give up score on the 20% of time it is not in our half.
Perhaps we should experiment with giving up some ground then tightening up , stealing the ball back and using the space infront of us to create more realistic scoring opportunities because trying to score with 36 players packing into our half is too hard for our 22. It is a waste of energy.
Oppositon coaches would be just sitting back counting the minutes until we are done banging our head against a brick wall.

Gameplan is too 2010 and so far there is no b plan.

Deja vu all over again!

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Actually, I think it was Pagan's fault. The players weren't sure if it was raining or if it was someone pi$$ing down their backs.

Coaches' Votes
Sydney vs Carlton

10 Bird (Syd)
6 Henderson (Carl)
5 O'Keefe (Syd)
5 Parker (Syd)
2 Simpson (Carl)
2 Tippett (Syd)