Round 9: Carlton vs. Sydney Post Game Pain

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When you take into consideration :

- our outs
- traveling interstate
- playing a top 4 team, at pretty much full strength on their own dung heap
- the turmoil of the last 2 weeks.
- new coach for 2 or 3 days
- pre match predictions that we would lose by 100+

It was better than anyone expected. No doubt people will say the Swans took their foot off the pedal, and maybe they did. Nice to see a bit of effort.

Agree, our blokes toughed it out and showed the spirit we were all demanding from them. That's something to build on. We just lack skill and class in enough measure. We have a long road ahead of us for sure but if we develop around our better younger players led by Cripps and we can add in more skilled ones via the trade and draft period things could definitely start looking up a bit next year. It's also critical to retain a few of the right senior guys to add some stability during the transition, Simmo and Rowe being two examples.