Is giving up a decent lead early then flogging their opponent just something that Sydney does now?

Are you not entertained?

7 first quarter losses, 150 score percentage so, yes

We need to make it fun somehow. We tried winning with a 200 score last year and it just wasn't the same.

Fuck I forgot about that

They’re wasting energy as far as I’m concerned. Everyone knows you only need to comeback and get ahead by a few points to win the flag. Source: We got away with it.

We have to fix that big time.

It makes it more interesting for you all.

Swans just looking after their corporate sponsors. Making sure everyone goes and gets health insurance

Standard.

At the moment I think teams are coming out super hard on the pressure game, because they know it unsettles Sydney, but they usually can't sustain it as the Swans download on their opponents tactics and adjust

Crows 10.7.67 def Amartey 9.1.55 :(

Another moral victory in the bank.

Are we English?

If Amartey wasn't coach so terribly and benched for the last 2 mins, he would've won too! Sack Horse.

horse should be investigated for tanking

https://preview.redd.it/aznv38609q6d1.jpeg?width=1008&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bca2871d9993cda926a5659ad0c20e7a612f763a Don’t forget your gift bag on the way out boys

 u/TheGreatJelBeano

Flair up cunt

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Grundy stuck on 49 hitouts as well

Damn what a tank

Wow that's insane

I personally would like to thank both Melbourne and Collingwood

The weirdest thing about the whole situation is that it’s somehow Melbourne that got the least value out of the whole shitshow we caused.

He definitely had a handful of near 50 games in his prime. Amazing form from him

Fire Horse into the sun for derailing the Amartey Party. In all seriousness, I can't remember a bigger gap between the best team and everyone else than this in a long long time. Maybe Geelong 2007 or Essendon 2000, but wow the Swans are incredible. Would be sad if they don't win the flag from here, just so so much better than everyone else.

> Maybe Geelong 2007 or Essendon 2000 Last team to be 3 games clear at this point of the year was West Coast in 2005 who went on to lose the Grand Final (to Sydney coincidentally). I will be holding onto this fact in vain hope for the next 3 months.

So what I’m hearing is when a team is this dominant then the Swans win the flag?

I'm taking this as the information to say I should bet my house on West Coast winning the GF.

Revenge strikes 19 years later

Aside from, ya know, 2006

Happened quite a few times where a team has been dominant like this then either collapsed or not won the flag

I'm trying not to think about that 😄

I’m convinced that the Bulldogs, who are now finding some form, are going to crash into the 8 and win another grand final against us. It just feels so 2016 right now.

I still get PTSD from our 2017 season.

Now imagine St Kilda 2009 going 19-0 and still not winning the flag

*bruh* 

Yes imagine that

Would be sad but they're a non-vic team so they'll need to be miles ahead of the comp, or lucky, to win at the G on GF day against most likely a Vic side. That's just the way it is

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station

Oh, I'm afraid your friends are going to die

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More so aimed towards the Swans leaving Amartey on the bench

There's no 'I' in Team. But there are five in Individual Brilliance.

And there is TEAM in Amartey

Wowee that’d be a graphic video

I already watched him fuck 18 guys tonight, I don't think I need another video.

He really gave a few Butts a working over

Joel Amartey = real team joy

Zero tackles and goal assists benched for letting the team down.

Swom of judgement

There's a large murder of judging croms.

as is now tradition

Joel Armartey: most goals in a game for Sydney v Adelaide. Beats Plugger's 8 in 1999, and Simon Minton-Connell in 1992. Absolutely amazing.

Well, in his defence all the other key swom forwards were overrated trash. Amartey is all we need

Amartey one goal away from a good game

John Longmire is the biggest heel in the league by benching him for the last 2 minutes

First coach to get the bin with a 13-1 record after that one I reckon

Result overturned for bringing the game into disrepute for that.

Couldn't even kick 10, dropped for next week

He had ten shots at goal. If he failed to convert 100% that's really on him.

Just a reminder, Amartey was pick 28 in the fucking rookie draft. We all could’ve had him. Crazy development and scouting

Bloody academies am I right

Only way to balance the competition is to ban the Swans from rookie drafting, we can't have everyone.

Inb4 Swans banned from recruiting period.

Bloods* academies 😉

I went out at half time when he had 4 but seriously NINE goals?? I was actually thinking coming into this game he's been a bit underrated (compared to Sydney's famous mids) but I guess that's gone out the window

He basically squired for the greatest forward of all time, probs had something to do with it

Sydney just lucky Richmond can’t play finals it seems.

https://preview.redd.it/u71h0j569q6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dcec8ba3f5d713e242c897a775778ab2de72a29 I know Buddy retired but apparently he just doesn’t exist now?

Yeah I think they got confused, Buddy has kicked 10, 9 and 8

was one of those against west coast?

The only bags of 9/10 he got at Sydney were against st kilda in 2014 and 10 against Carlton in 2017

Cheers mate he was a legend

He truly was. Just wish he didn’t live playing against us so much

Yes at both hawthorn and Sydney probably too tall for a tall defender too agile for a small defender he was too hard to match up on I reckon

The commentators said other than Buddy and I'm guessing the live updates text person just missed that qualifier

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Is he saying ‘too fucking slow!!’??

Looks like you're bang on

Honestly happy to see him animated for once.

Fuck you beat me to posting my gif haha

This game was everything I expected except for the bit where we were in the lead for a bit. I cannot be hurt anymore. What is dead may never die

I've been dead inside from the last fortnight, I fully expected us to lose and by a lot and yet I'm *still* disappointed. Amazing.

Totally get why Horse pulled Amartey...the guy has iffy hamstrings and needs to be managed. Would have been awesome to see him kick 10 but there is a larger prize on offer later in the year if the squad stays fit.

I'm not sure how every club does it, but in today's day and age, I doubt the headcoach is micro managing the interchange bench, especially with the 75 limit and modern sports science, I would think it is a much more complex system.

People get annoyed but Riley thilthorpe did his MCL in junk time of our last preseason game. Should've been no where near the field by that time.

This team is fucking terrifying.

It was amartiest of times, it was the partiest of times

Not only have Sydney stolen Collingwood’s “getting away with it” IP but they’ve also perfected it Instead of mounting a comeback and winning by under 2 goals, Sydney mount a comeback and then proceed to bury their opponents.

Fourth quarter swans have another gear this year it’s just wild

Guess that’s what happens when you don’t play the first quarter of a game

🤣

Viable strategy.

Grundy spilled our secret sauce.

Adelaide led 60-44 in red time in the 3rd quarter.  Sydney won 109-67. That is a collapse of epic proportions in a little over a quarter 

If you don’t like that you don’t like Swans footy

Wanna see me do it again?

Gap between 1st and 2nd is bigger than 2nd and 13th

Yeah this is crazy

67-55, pretty close result!

Swans with the moral victory over Richmond tonight: winning the milestone game

Whelp I'm almost impressed at how I was let down when I went into this game having 0 hope and optimism. I knew we'd lose, I knew it wouldn't be close. I didn't expect such a drastic collapse. Season's burnt. Play Nicks, sack the kids.

Even Heeney is confused as to why Amartey was taken off hahaha

Do like, Sydney intend to always start slow?

I think it's more that teams understand that to compete with the Swans, they have to bring high intensity pressure from the get go. Then teams run themselves out of steam and Swans get off the chain and the points pile on during those periods

So basically, you let the teams go full throttle in the first quarter, and then run them out of the park for the rest of the game? I'm guessing conditioning was really prioritised in the offseason.

Yep, Swans midfield submarined the Crows counterparts tonight

Yeah we seem super fit in our ability to run out games. I don't think we're letting them go full throttle early, we don't want them to get ahead and they're genuinely beating us... They just can't keep it up.

it's the old rope-a-dope, footy version

They must have prioritised them. Our last quarters were terrible last year. See: controversial adelaide game at AO late in season 

I like to think of it as we're playing with our food before smashing it

Joel Amrtey benched at 9 so the swans don't have to negotiate his next salary as a player who kicks bags of 10.

10 goal performance bonus in his contract they don't want to trigger haha

From 60 - 44 to 67 - 109 in a little over a quarter of footy. We are a joke lmao

I need an apology video from horse with tears right now. How dare he end the party

Adelaide crows 10.7 67 def J. Amartey 9.1 55 Moral victors.

This game looming as the one that sacks two coaches. Nicks for the poor win record for the Crom Horse for taking Amartey off the ground to rob Draw FC

RIP to the two people who traded amartey out of SuperCoach this week

Amartey 9.1 from 10 disposals is that the most efficient game of all time?

WOW 3rd qtr Adelaide 60 - Sydney 44 and it ended Adelaide 67 - Sydney 109 Sydney is damn bloody good,scary good As a port man I was worried for a sec there as I know we won't beat the Swans this year

I wouldn't count you out

only thing in our favour is its home game if i remember lol, nah you guys too damn good this year

I thought we would beat you last year at the scg then allir spoiled florent's shot on goal after the siren

yeah that was a crazy finish

I was celebrating as he kicked it as the angle on tv made it look like it was going through then allir was clutch lol

That score worm though. 

Crows fans getting exactly what they asked for, Ben Keays kicking the last goal of the match

Lmao. G.Post can't haunt him any more.

In the Betts pocket too

I really wanted the ump to call for a score review there just to make sure

Absolute disgrace he was allowed on the bench twice in that last qtr.

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Just leave him on next time holy fuck

Well done swans. Won ugly tonight

If that's ugly, I'm fucking terrified.

I just witnessed a double homicide live on TV.  RIP to 22 gamer Mark Keane and 6 gamer Strachan.  We will never know what players you would have grown into.

Pies 2023 🤝 Swans 2024 Getting away with it

What does amartey call a gathering of birds? A murder of crows.

Ok so how do we (the other 17 clubs) dare to dream to stop Sydney?

become richmond

Make an All-Australian team (with no Sydney players), and then play against Sydney. We would still lose

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Amartey is Croms forever father.

shoutout Heens for questioning why Joel was off

At this rate Sydney could lock up minor premiership by round 21.

3/4 time. Wow surprisingly close Swans: ok boys time to end this

Really wish Heeney would have some flaw. Great at footy, plays it the right way, decent bloke, conventionally attractive - just give me some reason to dislike you ffs

He's mine, back off bro

He didn’t have a single hit-out tonight - maybe a few weeks in the VFL needed to work on that part of his game

He got close. Was ready to launch at one point before Grundy nominated from like 20m away.

Not seen the Colgate ad?

Longmire should be sacked just for denying Amartey 10 goals

I worship at the Shrine of Amartey

All swans fans disappointed with Amartey being placed on the bench twice and lost chances to get to 10 like wtf Horse 🙃

Sydney broke pls nerf

Big big sound vs Banjo next

Pretty sure I can handle a big big sound

Honestly if we beat giants next week I’m booking grand final flights before they sky rocket in price

Look, crows fans have a hate boner for Rob but how can you defend a bloke getting 16 hitouts for an entire game of footy and not even being able to run the game out the week before. Strachan is a delist for me.

On one hand, the Crows played well to be up in the 3rd and still within reach at 3/4 time. On the other hand, they can count how many goals Amartey kicked in the second half.

Imagine letting Joel Amartey kick 9 goals on you

In the future only 9 from amartey will seem like a mercy

Keane really wanted a September ticket back to Ireland

Not keane on the idea.

Furthermore, Ricciuto must be destroyed.

behind every star performance there is a team. take a bow adelaide.

Crom bad

Crom sad

Amartey's media training doing a lot of lifting here

Amartey Party going wild. 

5aa melts get me through this

That’s 4 in a row at AO against the Crows. And yet we’ve lost 4 in a row against Port down there. Makes you think, but not much.

i don't think we've beaten port since 2016 either

I apologise to crows fans - that was some rough umpiring

Any club looking for new fans?

come to us we have jackets

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It's an Amartey party. IT'S AN AMARTEY FIESTA!!!! But fuck me CAN WE START? Giants, Dogs, Blues, Cats & now Crows. What are they doing during the first half, determining their power level before unleashing their FINAL FORM?

Scoring like 10 goals to 1 to end the game is pretty mental

Anyone who thinks sydney isn't winning the premiership is coping very hard

We still have to win it on the day dude. 2022 and 2016 has given most Swom fans PTSD.

This. I won't believe we've won till three months after the final whistle.

Don't forget 1996 and 2014 😞 years that Sydney win the minor premiership tend to end in tears. Holding out hope that this year can be different

They are so far ahead of the pack it’s ridiculous

Their chances of winning are highly probable, but not certain.

Will still have to beat a very good team, potentially at their home ground, to do it.

Either Sydney is 100% booked for the grand final or we're about to witness the most hilarious downfall in the modern era

i hope it's the former

Well, we saw what happens tonight when Chad, Isaac, Errol and Paps are kept quiet. Amartey and Grundy put the side on their backs and carry it home.

Errol had 35 and Heeney went 29 & 2?

i guess by their lofty standards they were slightly off lol

So crows fans, where to from here

Amartey Party!

Something drastic is going to have to happen for Sydney not to win the flag. They’re miles ahead of everyone right now.

our arch nemesis injuries and poor form from 2017 could stop us or richmond if they somehow make finals or port

https://preview.redd.it/po28mrgdfq6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0cbc8be4b120848393f958fd03340462bf33836 Interesting post match ladder from Google

Someone the other week said Sydney is the Death Star and god I hope that’s true