The Swans Blog

31/05/2025

🤨 can't get much worse can it? Giving 2020 a fair shake of excrement bottle 🍼

25/05/2025

Cracking performance. Not by the Swans. Opinions on why Warner spends so much time playing forward the last month.

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10/05/2025

It's been 9 games (current) what's the record for a team going from GF to bottom 4 with a new coach?🤔

This game = 💩

Season done. Cox done?

04/05/2025

Shades of LRT. A few of us were a bit harsh on him.

27/04/2025

Unbelievable individual moments today, but undoubtedly a lot of concerns Dean Cox and co has to work through, especially with Paul Roos' "Harlem Globetrotters" comments ringing in his ears

From injuries opportunities arise and we've seen that time-again, even now with Riley Byce. But bloody hell, the least experienced players were far from the worst.

When the game was on the line, McInerney put in his usual 2022/24 GF s**t (off to the magoos with ya and stay there), McCartin made errors you don't see in the AFL and Blakey took on far too much risk.

I thought the 2nd quarter against Collingwood was below average for an AFL team, the 3rd quarter today was abysmal and deserving of an all time spray.

The best and absolute worst of the Swans rolled up in one game.

16/10/2024

With any luck Sydney will stop recruiting midgets and weeds

01/10/2024

Paul Roos finally spoke up and reflected on the impact of the '06 GF loss and the aggressive list changes they contemplated. Years later they turned over their list for any draft and trade capital they could get their hands on to set up for a decade of dominance.

It's your turn sitting in the list management chair, what changes do you make and what do you set your team up for?

29/09/2024

Sitting at the ground watching the game, it struck me the level of apathy and dejection from the crowd midway through the second quarter.

There really wasn't a level of anger you'd expect after that performance. More a reflection of how bad the Swans are in grand finals.

29/09/2024

Where do the Swans go from here?

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. We're all feeling it. The club, the players, the staff, friends, family, members, fans alike.

We've been spoiled the last 25 years. We've made more Grand Finals than any other team yet have 2 flags to show for it. Longmire's done a great job rejuvenating the list on the fly, giving the club chance after chance to win a flag. But one must wonder if being punished in their last two swings is enough to put an end to it all.

Port Adelaide took years to rebound after their 2007 smashing, almost going broke and pe***ng up tarps across the stands.

Sydney's gone from strength to strength despite the harrowing performances, surpassing 75k members this season.

Can Longmire get the club his 2nd premiership? I don't think so. I've always been a fervent Longmire supporter, and I've felt vindicated from 2020. But how do you explain yesterday? The preparation was not right, despite what the players and coaches say. How could it be when the players don't even show up for the 3rd time in a decade.

2022 could be excused by the opposition, apparent youth and inexperience of the side, injuries, etc. But this was a debacle. Solid favourites, best team by a mile all year, were 4 games clear at the top mid-round multiple times.

What change can we make? Is it time for Longmire to step away from the club, shake hands and concede his best isn't good enough to push them over the line. He's famous for his occasionally ruthless and unemotional approach, but then you compare that with someone like Chris Fagan who approaches the club like a family.

It's easy to waggle the finger after this one, but the game was lost before Saturday. Change is needed, it has to start at the top.

28/09/2024

Stinging press conference from Longmire. Angry, disappointed, barely held it together. Laid the blame at the feet of the players.

Team selection let them down, efforts let them down, disposals let them down. No winners in a game they were expected to win.

28/09/2024

28/09/2024

Is it too early to say there's always next year?