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July 04, 2005
Missing Swans Turn Up Too Late To Win
An astounding thing happened on the weekend, the Sydney Swans football team missed their flight and did not arrive for the game against Richmond until three quarter time, forcing look-alikes plucked from the ground to play in their place.
At least, I assume that’s what happened
The boys looked thoroughly disinterested until late in the third quarter, when they realized that if they wanted any chance of four points out of this game, they’d better get their skates on.
The last quarter was all Swans – Richmond couldn’t get a hand on the ball, and the question must be asked – why didn’t this happen earlier The end result is, regardless of their spirited last quarter, the Swans fly back without the points, the late charge falling agonizingly short in the end. Much the same way Collingwood’s last quarter charge did last week.
Had the Swans actually managed to pull off the shock comeback, it would have been a very undeserved victory – plus I think there is some kind of AFL rule that only allows a team to come back from the dead once in a season, and we already used ours against the Lions earlier this year.
So hopefully next week – and for the remainder of the season – the Swans will have learned their lesson, and play four quarters of quality football. It’s high time we pumped a team, I can’t remember the last 100 point win we had.
And against a top 4 aspirant would be the perfect way to do it.
A man can dream can’t he?
Posted by ert at July 4, 2005 07:38 PM