Carlton – 10.8 (68)
Sydney – 16.11 (107)
In probably the most important match of the week at Etihad Stadium, Sydney has outclassed Carlton by defeating them by 39 points and has secured themselves in the top 8, sitting equal in sixth spot with Hawthorn.
The Swans dominated the Blues from the outset by kicking 6 of the opening 7 goals of the match and setting up their lead, which was 33 points at the main break.
From then on the Blues were forced to play catch up footy. Despite the Blues improving their contested game in the second half and matching, if not beating the Swans in the last two quarters, the Swans opening quarter pretty much secured their big win.
Key Players for Carlton
Marc Murphy – Murphy was Carlton’s best player for the afternoon and ran hard the whole match. He ended with 25 possessions (12 contested), 6 uncontested marks, 4 tackles and clearances, 7 inside 50s and 1 goal.
Jordan Russell – Russell was the other impressive player for the Blues. He was tagged by Jude Bolton and managed to beat him despite Bolton also having a great match. He finished with 26 disposals (16 kicks), 6 marks, 4 tackles and 3 inside 50s.
Key Players for Sydney
Adam Goodes – Goodes has had his consecutive great match for the Swans and was extremely influential in the Swans great start with 11 opening quarter possessions and a few clearances. He continued to dominate for the remainder of the match and finished with 25 possessions (18 kicks), 7 marks, 5 tackles, 4 clearances, 12 contested posssions and 5 inside 50s and 1 goal.
Shane Mumford – The Swans big ruckman dominated this match and overall ran all over Sam Jacobs and Shaun Hampson. Despite Mumford only having 7 more hitouts than Jacobs he was a bigger influence around the ground and at the stoppages. He finished with 33 hitouts, 15 disposals at 93% effective, 6 marks, 7 tackles and 5 clearances.
Musings from the match
- Lewis Roberts-Thomson was a late withdrawal with a hamstring injury and was replaced in the side by Jesse White.
- Kane Lucas and Nick Smith both seemed to sustain hamstring injuries during this match.
- Jarrad McVeigh spent the majority of the last quarter off the ground with what appeared to be a calf injury.
- Carlton now sits in eighth spot on the ladder, only having won 4 of their last 5 matches and is hanging onto that spot by 1 game.
- Rhyce Shaw was used as a small forward for the Swans and kicked 3 goals.
- Andrew Walker could be in trouble with the match review panel, for making front on contact on Ben McGlynn.
- The Swans had 14 inside 50s to the Blues 7 in the opening term and 41 contested possession and 17.
- The Swans dominated all the statistics bar tackles (which were 82 apiece) and inside 50s, which the Blues surprisingly won by 7.
- The Swans had 72 more possession and 40 more kicks.
- They also had 22 more marks and 8 more clearances.
SuperCoach Points – Highs & Lows
The Swans had 9 players over 100+ points this week and as a team scored 534 more points than the Blues. Their big scorers were lead by big ruckman Shane Mumford (124) and followed by Adam Goodes (121), Jude Bolton (112), Ryan O’Keefe (107), Ta Kennelly (106), Heath Grundy (105), Jarrad Moore (105), Nick Malceski (100) and Kieren Jack (100).
Malceski and Bolton are the highest averaging Swans players with an average of 105 and 106 points respectively.
There weren’t many disappointing performances for the Swans apart from Nick Smith (11) but he injured his hamstring in the second quarter.
Only 2 Blues players scored over 100 points and they were Marc Murphy (115) and Jordan Russell (108).
Skipper Chris Judd (86) and fellow midfielder Bryce Gibbs (83) scored well below their average scores which now sit at 122 and 105 points respectively.
Lachie Henderson (17), Michael Jamison (20) and Kane Lucas (5) also scored very very low, however Lucas re-injured his hamstring in the second quarter.
Tags: Adam Goodes, Jordan Russell, Marc Murphy, Shane Mumford
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Outstanding result for Swannies, if they can do that every week they will give the competition a shake.
Why are the Swans so hot and cold?
Brett Ratten the players had lost confidence. That begs the question. In who did the players lose confidence? My answer to that is that Brett Ratten should look in the mirror.
For Carlton to win, Judd needs to have had 35+ possessions, with high efficiency and kicked a couple of goals. Too much reliance on one player for a whole season.
They wont make the 8.
Great wrap up Christine….even sweeter with a WIN
In response to your question MARK -> “Why are the Swans so hot and cold?”
Lots of new faces: In Round 1, Sydney played 6 club debutantes (7 if you include Kennelly). Takes time to understand the game plan, get to know their team mates (and the club song).
Crippled by injuries: Best KPD, KPF & Ruck out for the best part of the season (doubt Bradshaw, CBolton & Seaby will all line up together again this season…if @ all).
They’ve been forced to use ~35 players so far this year, which makes it extremely difficult to be consistent + the big gap between AFL and the ACT competition the Reserves plays in, makes the transition to playing Senior footy very difficult for incoming players (except Hannebery…he’s just a freak!).
You could also throw in a bit of uncertainty within the playing group and experimentation by the coaching staff during the Roos > Longmire transition period. Whilst on the surface the transition period appears to have been relatively painless so far, no doubt internally, it hasn’t all been plain sailing.
It’s remarkable that they’ve managed to win enough games to still be in finals contention.
Still, it’s been an enjoyable year. Lots of new blood to make it’s mark over the next few years
I was at this match and was astonished at how easily the Swans were able to bring the ball from the midfield to their forward line and score. It seemed during the first half that as soon as the ball started moving towards the Swans forward line a shot on goal would follow. It really looked quite easy.
I’m a Swans fan, and I was disappointed with Carlton.