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July 09, 2005

Swans Tear Apart Injury Hit Cats

Well things finally clicked for the Swans tonight as we ran away with a comfortable 54 point victory over a Cats side that was hit by injuries before, during and after the match, leaving them unable to even match the Swans across the park. That being said the Swans did manage to run away with what must go down as the Swan’s best win of the season so far.

A cagey start to the match from the Swans must have had people thinking we failed to turn up for the second week running. But thanks to Geelong’s piss poor set shots at goal the Swans managed to stay within 3 points at quarter time despite only kicking the one Nick Davis goal for the quarter, but that wasn’t for a lack of trying. Despite the low scores the match was played at a fast pace with the game going end to end with the defense of both sides holding up very well to the extreme pressure placed upon them. Looking at the scoreboard one wouldn’t be blamed for thinking the Swans had gone the flood.

Having said all that, it was a matter of time before one side’s defense fell apart and it was no surprise to see the Cats just fall right away in the opening first 15 minutes of the second quarter. What was the surprise is that the Swans for once took full advantage of this and kicked 7 quick goals started off by two majors from O’Keefe in the first minute of the quarter followed quickly by goals from Crouch, Kirk, Goodes and Hall who ended up kicking 4 goals in the 9 goal second quarter romp. Most of this good play was set up by the hard and often inspiring work from Amon Buchanan (who has become quite the handy rover in the past two months), Adam Goodes getting back to his Brownlow winning form and Luke Ablett who was playing it both ways to great effect. Even two quick goals from the helping hands of the umps could spoil the quarter and at half time the Swans had the match all wrapped up.

But the Swans being the Swans couldn’t help but try and allow the Cats a chance to play their way back into the match and gave up three quick goals to have the Cats back within 22 points and on the charge. But no sooner had the third goal gone though the Swans swung back into action and kicked a steadying goal to Barry Hall and a quick goal from Kirk had the Swans back on level pegging for the quarter before Luke Ablett took advantage of the lack of Cats in the goal square to bomb though a goal right on 3 quarter time and gave the Swans a 41 point lead going into the last brake.

The Fourth quarter was used just to add icing to the cake and allow the Swans to gain some valuable percentage points, which we did thanks to early goals from Magic, Davis and a third for O’Keefe to see the Swans run out quite easy 54 point winners.

Sure the Cats were injury hit and that had a huge impact on the outcome of the match, but at the end of the day you can only beat what’s out there and do so in a manner that doesn’t make you look worse off than the losers. We did that tonight thanks to outstanding matches from Hall, Buchanan, Goodes in his 150th match, Barry, Davis, Kirk and Jude Bolton. We are hitting form and we are coming into a tough few weeks, but if we can keep on winning by playing the way we did tonight we should be able to put up a huge fight in the race for the Top 4 and beating for the first time a team that was above us on the ladder and doing so in a manner that would beat ANY side sends the message that we are the real deal if we can hit our straps in the coming weeks.

Sydney 16.9 (105)
Geelong 7.9 (51)

Goals: B Hall 5 R O'Keefe 3 N Davis, B Kirk 2 A Goodes, L Ablett, M O'Loughlin, J Crouch 1.

Best Swan On Ground: Amon Buchanan (Most will say other's on the team played better tonight, but Amon was the REASON why we kicked away with the 9 goal second quarter)

You are the weakest link GOODBYE: In a first for "It's Never Rains, But It Pours" I have to say that after his game tonight, LRT has finally earnt his return ticket to the Magoo's.

Posted by robbieando at July 9, 2005 11:46 PM

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