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Re: Swans V Bulldogs - Round 20, Sun 28/7/24 SCG 3:20PM AEST
Mighty team effort today. Everyone contributed, everyone played TEAM football. The pressure all over the ground was sustained and intense.
So proud of the players, coaches and all match day staff. Go Dogs![URL="http://journals.worldnomads.com/merantau"]http://journals.worldnomads.com/merantau[/URL]
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Re: Swans V Bulldogs - Round 20, Sun 28/7/24 SCG 3:20PM AEST
Wow. What a win.
Team performance was emphatic and the way we structured up behind the ball had them all sorts of trouble. Our pressure was immense.
Outside of THAT run in 2016, this is the best we've looked.W00F!Comment
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Re: Swans V Bulldogs - Round 20, Sun 28/7/24 SCG 3:20PM AEST
Also, how good is Bramble? I was critical of him a few months ago but he has been huge in the second half of the year. Big again today. His run, composure, skill and decision making has been seriously elite.W00F!Comment
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Re: Swans V Bulldogs - Round 20, Sun 28/7/24 SCG 3:20PM AEST
Before his 1 year extension, he was ok, good in patches but a bit iffy in patches too, maybe that re-signing was the catalyst for confidence in his game as a player always on the fringe, he's been great, love it when he takes the game on and hits his targets more often than not.Comment
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Re: Swans V Bulldogs - Round 20, Sun 28/7/24 SCG 3:20PM AEST
Jeenak always says the guys that leave clubs at the margin usually end up similar players at their new clubs too. Bramble was tracking with this ‘rule’ (which is usually right). But something has clicked and he seems a far better version of the Hawks player and early season player with us. I’m seriously happy with how he’s tracking. I think JJ’s body is cooked and he’s a great replacement.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Swans V Bulldogs - Round 20, Sun 28/7/24 SCG 3:20PM AEST
Brilliant win! Great start and possibly the best quarter we have played all season in that first, but was weary as Sydney quite often start slow but claw their way back, seems to be their mantle this season, but our pressure against the best was first class.
Our structure now looks good, think we can now start to be confident in Lobb as a strong key defender, up forward we obviously have the height but we really only had Jones as our big key back, it's now up to Khamis, JOD, Buss and possibly (although he played today) Coffield to fill that 3rd key defender, that's healthy, although thought Buku looked a bit shaky today for whatever reason as he played a great game last week, it was as though his confidence was down a bit, even that double fist punch in the goal square rather than taking an easy grab was a strange decision and that of a player without confidence.
A lot of the players looked spent, hopefully all get up with a quick turnaround against the Dees.Comment
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Re: Swans V Bulldogs - Round 20, Sun 28/7/24 SCG 3:20PM AEST
Feels like a (low) key plank in this late season build is the evolution of our last six picked from maddening fillers of swear jars to helpful, even reliable contributors in roles of genuine use.
Our guns are playing well but they're also being complimented with valuable support now.
Do we have ... depth?BORDERLINE FLYINGComment
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Re: Swans V Bulldogs - Round 20, Sun 28/7/24 SCG 3:20PM AEST
Went today. That was great.
Sydney crowd never got going, halfway through the second I thought it was remarkable how different the feel was than if it had been say a Victorian side. There was definitely some frustration about dicking around with handballs and not getting frees going their way but not the simmering discontent and frustration bordering on anger I would've expected from any other crowd. And they were far to positive when they started kicking junktime goals at the end, just clapping away like everything was dandy.
Our intensity was incredible, there were so many ground balls where we had multiple players desperate to knock it our way, or try and run through and carry the ball with them, or do just enough to disrupt Sydney getting clean hands. Our pressure was immense and they didn't reciprocate at all.
Naughton was super impressive in that first quarter, felt like he was in everything, and Jamarra has really turned this season from being a really solid one where he was consistently good without ever really breaking things apart to 3 outstanding games which make him look like the threat we hoped. A lot of his defensive work rate today was really good as well.
Watching Bont was a pleasure and truly one of the few things I've regretted about moving to Sydney these last 5 years has been not seeing him live week to week. Just an observation, and unsure if this is something we often do as it is hard to spot on the TV, but multiple times today at centre bounces Bont would start in our defensive 6 at the top of the 50 and then run in to join the contest. It never really amounted to anything, and i assume it was to either have him at the back of the contest as an extra to feed the ball out to or guard a clean breakaway, or alternatively it was to take advantage of Sydney pushing a spare mid up and using that as an opportunity to try and expose it with Bont.I should leave it alone but you're not rightComment
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