Sydney Swans leaders have owned up to the team being “overawed” in an “embarrassing” AFL grand final defeat to Geelong. 7NEWS
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“It’s an absolute journey to get to this moment and to get that opportunity. To not even fire a shot at all was pretty disappointing, it hurts,” he told 7NEWS. “We messed those little things up at the start - free kicks, missed tackles, a few little structure things and just our shape in general, we were probably just drifting through a little bit and unfortunately they got off to a good start and continued to put the foot down and we never really fired a shot.”If that assessment wasn’t damning enough, Isaac Heeney eventually found the words after walking shell-shocked into the club rooms.
“I’m confident in this group, we’ve got a really good, hard-working young group. We’ll bounce back, we’ll be right, but it’s a tough pill to swallow.” Mills and Heeney were two of several Swans to play below their level - perhaps none more notable, however, than Lance Franklin just days after announcing he had re-signed for 2023.Beautiful scenes as Levi Ablett runs through AFL Grand Final banner with Geelong
“Clearances, I’m not sure what we lost there, but I felt like they were running out of stoppages and putting people like Hawkins on a silver spoon.
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