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June 28, 2005
Swans beat Magpies - All is right with the world
Ah there is nothing like better Collingwood by a point, its even better when the timekeepers call the game early and thus take away a last possible Collingwood chance for a win. Still for the Swans while the win is welcome the fact they stuggled to put away a weak Collingwood side and allowed them to nearly run away with the game is something of a concern. But I'll take an 8 and 5 record over an 7 and 6 record anyday of the week.
The game started unlike so many of the Swans past few matches with Collingwood taking the game up to the Swans and were unfortante that the Swans kicked stright early while they missed chances that could of put the game out of reach early. For the Swans goals to Davis and Hall had them in the match, but Collingwood to some very soft and crazy umpiring managed to get two goals they didn't deserve and took them to an 8 point quarter time lead.
The Swans needed to settle and settle fast and with the umpires making that task impossible the Swans went back to what they do best with lock down football putting pressure on the Magpie midfield and forwards and held them to one goal. Goals to Magic, Hall and Goodes put the Swans in front at the half by 5 points.
The work the Swans started in the second quarter was continued in the third quarter with a steady bag of four goals, again from Hall and Magic, with Davis and Mathews bobbing up with goals to send the Swans into three quarter time up by 17 points. The last quarter started with the Swans pushing forward quickly to give Barry Hall a shot at goal that he put away to give what seemed at the time a winning brake of 23 points.
However it was then the match turned on its head with Collingwood led wonderfully by Nathan Buckley and Scott Burns kicked 3 quick goals thanks to Burns, Lonie and Woewodin to trall the Swans by only 4 points with still 10 minutes to play.
The Swans managed to control themselves and set about locking down the game and wasting time to get the game out of reach if they could get another goal. This goal arrived thanks to Adam Goodes soccering the ball off the ground for a goal with 7 minutes to play and the lead appeared to be enough until Collingwood got a late goal to but the game in the balance and the two side split apart by 2 points.
This is where the game got interesting thanks to a late late rush forward by Shane Wakelin who bombed the ball long towards goal. For there the ball bounded towards goal and a open goal beakened for Alan Didak, but instead of picking the ball up and slotting it though he decided to chip it in front of himself, only to have it over run for a point and the scores only a point the difference in favour of the Swans.
From the kick in the ball was chipped to Amon Buchanan who held on for as much time as he could. When he held his leg to waste time the umpire called time off to check if he was alright, but that signal was missed by the timekeepers and they blew the siren 14 seconds early with the ball still in the hands of Buchanan. The Swans had won, but it was close and needed a bit of luck in the end
SYDNEY 11.11 (77)
COLLINGWOOD 10.16 (76)
Goals: B Hall 3 N Davis, A Goodes, M O'Loughlin 2 B Mathews, R O'Keefe 1.
Best Swan on Ground: Paul Williams
Posted by robbieando at June 28, 2005 01:58 PM