Sydney Swans 2014

[woodublieve12]

Didnt think he was that special Woody.

regards,

REB

fair enough mate. Obviously going to disagree with you. Like i said i thought he was pretty good and i thought he did his job very well. You are the first person i've spoken to who has thought that. Even the commentators mentioned they thought he was good.

[woodublieve12]

Put your money on a Sydney v Port GF this year

lets not get carried away

[The Dark Knight]

Put your money on a Sydney v Port GF this year

I agree. With the team the Swans have now and the way I watched them dismantle the Hawks on Friday night anything less than a GF will be underachieving IMO because the more they play together the better they'll become and that's a scary though for opposition teams.

With Port up and about playing a great brand of footy and having the ability (being in my view the fittest team in the AFL) to pull away from/run over the top of their opponents in the last quarter I see no reason why they can't play in the GF this season.

[woodublieve12]

Tom Mitchell had a lazy 64 touches in the reserves!!!

[Johno6]

wow!

[woodublieve12]

Some stats

[bennymacca]

Tom Mitchell had a lazy 64 touches in the reserves!!!

Wonder what the record is. Wouldn't be far off...

[woodublieve12]

Tom Mitchell had a lazy 64 touches in the reserves!!!

Wonder what the record is. Wouldn't be far off...

It is the record.

[bennymacca]

Nice. Reckon tim Schmidt got over 60 a few years back in the same league

[heater31]

Tom Mitchell had a lazy 64 touches in the reserves!!!

The last bloke for the swans to do that never played a game for them and ended his career about 5 years later in the amateurs with a horrific knee injury.....

[stan]

That NEAFL is bit questionable at times. In saying that Tom Mitchell is a good young player and after the bye will probably find his way back in the team.

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[bennymacca]

Seems to be some weird results. Just looking through them now. Lots of inconsistency. Like the 11th team smashing then 13th team.

Or 6th placed aspley beating NT by 125 points, despite it being NTs only loss for the year.

[Jim05]

The team the Swans played, Eastlake, has been a complete on-field basket case this season, having said that Sydney regularly belt the old Canberra sides by over 100pts so it wouldn't matter even if they weren't a basket-case. Even last season when Brisbane won the premiership most QAFL sides were generally competitive with them, to at worst losing by 10 goals. The NEAFL is a weird league in any case, they amalgamated the north and south divisions into one 14 team competition ditching 5 teams in the process...the press release stated this was aimed at strengthening the competition but due to politics I presume, they only allowed 3 spots for old QAFL teams so Morningside who finished top 4 in the northern league were booted - 4 of the 5 boots came from the northern division, Broadbeach could've stuck around to give an even amount of teams as they won 7 games, the other 3 boots all only won 1 game each so those were perfectly valid, particularly the Canberra boot, Tuggeranong, who was flayed by over 200pts last season by the Swans.

So in this political hybrid, you have a 14 team "league" that has scrapped its divisions on paper but kept them at the same time...oh and where nobody plays every team. They can't have a true league because the Canberra sides need to play each other so they're not regularly belted off the park and the reserves teams need to play each other regularly to best provide a competitive game for their sides each week. So, each team plays 19 games, but with the exception of NT Thunder which is competitive enough to be given defacto AFL reserve side status, no non-AFL reserve side will have to play an AFL reserve side from its opposite division. Extending that to the inevitable absurd conclusion and in a 14 team league, Brisbane & Gold Coast play 19 games but only against 7 teams...so they don't play half the league. On the flip side, whilst they're parroting best competition each week, they failed to take into consideration that one of the AFL reserves sides could be a basket-case (Gold Coast who haven't won a game) so the Swans get to bully Gold Coast 3 times this season but won't play Southport, Redland or Aspley (2 of which are in the top 4) at all who would be vastly more competitive than Gold Coast or any of the Canberra sides.

[bennymacca]

thanks for that jim. didnt know how it worked now they dont have a conference system. seems weird.

that is even more compromised than the SANFL, maybe we should thank our lucky stars haha.

[stan]

Hmm that doesn't sound like a mess at all.........

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[gossipgirl]

thanks for that jim. didnt know how it worked now they dont have a conference system. seems weird.

that is even more compromised than the SANFL, maybe we should thank our lucky stars haha.

makes no sense

[woodublieve12]

didn't see that happening last night

[Dogwatcher]

thanks for that jim. didnt know how it worked now they dont have a conference system. seems weird.

that is even more compromised than the SANFL, maybe we should thank our lucky stars haha.

Yes, we should be thankful that the SANFL hasn't been f*cked up beyond all means.

[woodublieve12]

interesting read...

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-05-30/i ... their-best

[bennymacca]

For you maybe haha.