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June 02, 2005
Swans Lose - Worst effort for many a year
Well as promised here is the match review of the Saints loss last weekend and well all I can say is that we deserved what we got. I knew we were gone the second LRT lined up on Riewoldt, but being the Swans fan that I was, I wasn't going to get up and leave before the end of the match so I sat though 120 minutes of the worst football I have ever seen a Swans team play and thats saying something as I had the lucky honor of seeing Paul Atkins play for the Swans in the early 90's and that period saw loss after loss.
On;y difference between then and now is that we have a team with TALENT, but isn't allowed to try. At least in the early 90's the talentless Swans were given permission from their coach to try and play something that looked like football. Problem is with both approaches we were/are lucky to ever win games and thats what makes being a Swans fan so hard at the moment.
We can see the talent, we can see the ability, but for some unknown reason the coaching staff expect the side to play this lock-up tempo style of play that just bores the hell out of the watching public and makes me want to slit my wrists to find something interesting to do. On Saturday Night, I sat in my seat and predicted everything that happened. I predicted Swans misses at goal, I predicted Saints goals from stopages, heck I even predicted the stupid free kicks were about to be given.
That wasn't fun and I won't be until Roos has the ball to free up the side and take the lumps that come with it. If we don't have the talent, stop trying to hide it by playing football that limits the thrashing.
As for the match as you can tell from a Swans point of view there was nothing really of note and as such a blow by blow account of the match is needed because basically it was 120 minutes of the Swans forcing stoppages and the Saints winning them.
ST KILDA 15.11 (101)
SYDNEY 8.10 (58)
Goals: Hall 3, O'Loughlin 2, Crouch, Nicks, O'Keefe 1.
Best Swan on Ground: Barry Hall
Posted by robbieando at June 2, 2005 04:56 PM