Tigers vs Swans game thread

[RollsRoyce]

In the wake of all the superlatives in the press about how the Swans all play for their mates, and Richmond are selfish (which I'm not disputing for a minute),isn't it interesting how nobody in the media ever takes Sydney to task for the type of sludge they continually serve up?
Nothing has changed since Demetriou accused them of playing ugly footy years ago (about the smartest words to ever come out of his fat gob.) Did you notice how every time we tried to mount an attack, there were 18 Swans in our forward fifty arc, with tumbleweeds blowing through the vast desert between the centre square and their goals? Even when we kicked out to the boundary, their whole team would just mass on the tight confines of the wing.
I just reckon if we played on the salt flats of Utah, they'd still  somehow manage to corral us into a broom closet.I reckon it's an ugly blight on the game. It's also where modern footy is at unfortunately.Which is why there's so much backwards-sideways crap. The league doesn't have the balls to implement any rules to stop it. And unlike Collingwood, who owns Sydney as much as Sydney owns us, we can't seem to find a coach (or even an interim coach ) who has any answer for it.

[Tigermonk]

In the wake of all the superlatives in the press about how the Swans all play for their mates, and Richmond are selfish (which I'm not disputing for a minute),isn't it interesting how nobody in the media ever takes Sydney to task for the type of sludge they continually serve up?
Nothing has changed since Demetriou accused them of playing ugly footy years ago (about the smartest words to ever come out of his fat gob.) Did you notice how every time we tried to mount an attack, there were 18 Swans in our forward fifty arc, with tumbleweeds blowing through the vast desert between the centre square and their goals? Even when we kicked out to the boundary, their whole team would just mass on the tight confines of the wing.
I just reckon if we played on the salt flats of Utah, they'd still  somehow manage to corral us into a broom closet.I reckon it's an ugly blight on the game. It's also where modern footy is at unfortunately.Which is why there's so much backwards-sideways crap. The league doesn't have the balls to implement any rules to stop it. And unlike Collingwood, who owns Sydney as much as Sydney owns us, we can't seem to find a coach (or even an interim coach ) who has any answer for it.

nothing has changed ???? they have won a premiership & played many finals who cares how they play. The played good football yesterday.
Demetriou comments  his the most arogant person in the AFL

[RollsRoyce]

nothing has changed ???? they have won a premiership & played many finals who cares how they play. The played good football yesterday.
Demetriou comments  his the most arogant person in the AFL
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I care how they play. I'm sick to death of fronting up to the Swans year after year, and watching them force us into trying futilely to negotiate our way through their constipation. This whole "the end justifies the means" philosophy is what's gotten us where we are today, watching teams kicking every which way but forward, trying to circumvent the mega-flood.

[Tigermonk]

Thats the coaches fault for not being tactical enough to expose there way of playing like many over clubs have acheived.

We have dumb coaches who cannot get through to the players but the players have shown they can have big quarters against big sides.

Geelong we were ripped off,  the Umpires didnot want us to win,  maybe they were betting on Geelong in the quady but it all belongs to the coach

[RollsRoyce]

Thats the coaches fault for not being tactical enough to expose there way of playing like many over clubs have acheived.

We have dumb coaches

Yes, I agree. We haven't had a coach who's been able to counter the Swans style. Other teams like Collingwood have them figured out and it frustrates me no end.Not Frawley, or Wallace, nor Rawlings now so it seems. But my point is, we shouldn't have to be sucked into beating Sydney on their own terms. I'm a footy purist, and I want to see an open, free-flowing, high-scoring game full of one-on one contests, like the game I grew up with. But selfish, win at all costs coaches like Roos and Eade have tampered with the game I once loved with basketball style zone defences,flooding, and rugby tactics. Everyone I've spoken to, every forum I've read,all supporters of all clubs hate all the backwards sideways chip,chip, chip round the peripheries of the oppositions defensive structure.It's a blight on the game, and I lay the blame squarely at the feet of the Swans. It originated at that postage-stamp SCG, first under Eade and now Roos, and has now spread through the competition like a cancer.The reason St.Kilda are so successful now, is that they play a variation on it. It's all strangle, stymie, negate and I hate it. The AFL could and should counter it by cutting back the number of interchanges, and devising a kind of off-side rule that keeps players in their nominal positions. But they don't have the balls or the sense to do it, and just keep coming up with hollow claims like;"the game will evolve through it". But I see no evidence to suggest that the game will evolve through it. And games like yesterdays ABOMINATION are proof that flooding is here to stay.       

[Tigermonk]

its not hard to exploit the Swans style of play.
Our problems are based on BASIC SKILLS & NO GUT RUNNING
The is no commitment to each other,  too many playing to save thier own careers when if they play as a team could call it a team effort at the end of the day & everyone from coach to fan is happy. thats not happening.
Disposals is absolutely pathetic & common sence mistakes, handballing to hot team-mates riles me

[Infamy]

nothing has changed ???? they have won a premiership & played many finals who cares how they play. The played good football yesterday.
Demetriou comments  his the most arogant person in the AFL

I care how they play. I'm sick to death of fronting up to the Swans year after year, and watching them force us into trying futilely to negotiate our way through their constipation. This whole "the end justifies the means" philosophy is what's gotten us where we are today, watching teams kicking every which way but forward, trying to circumvent the mega-flood.
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It's quite similar to soccer now. Players pass between themselves trying to build up the perfect delivery into attack. It works for the biggest sport in the world, so not sure why it can't work in AFL.

Our team balance was out against Sydney. We needed more contested ball winners, all our good ones were playing for Coburg.

[Tigermonk]

its not hard to exploit the Swans style of play.