John Longmire unleashed a Sydney outfit that was “in the moment” however the Swans coach says he wasn’t bothered in regards to the data that tumbled in a 171-point AFL thrashing of a hapless West Coast on the SCG.
The Swans piled on their second-highest rating ever, and best since 1987, within the 31.19 (205) to five.4 (34) conquer an Eagles facet that suffered their heaviest defeat in membership historical past on Saturday.
The last margin equalled the Swans’ largest in membership historical past and is the equal-fourth highest ever within the AFL/VFL, however Longmire didn’t push his gamers to set new benchmarks even when a number of had been inside attain within the last time period.
“In those times, you probably as a coach, you step back and let the players go. I didn’t have much of an involvement,” Longmire stated.
“They were in the moment and they knew what they had to do. So, I think, step out of their way.”
It took the Swans (6-8) simply 26 seconds as well their first aim via Chad Warner in an early signal of what was to return.
The Swans completed with 9.4 to 1.0 on the first change of their highest opening time period rating since 1997 and equal-third greatest ever, then topped that within the third time period with 11.5 to 0.2.
The rampant Swans had winners all around the floor, beginning with Errol Gulden (32 disposals, three objectives), Chad Warner (33, two), Angus Sheldrick (29, one) and co-captain Luke Parker (28, two) across the stoppages.
The Swans had 12 goalkickers with 9 of these ending with a number of majors, as Isaac Heeney stuffed his boots with 5.4 and promising tall forwards Logan McDonald and Joel Amartey each kicked 4.
Hayden McLean booted the aim that took the Swans previous a double ton as they grew to become the primary workforce to succeed in the milestone since 2011.
The Eagles’ (1-13) have now been defeated by greater than 100 factors 4 occasions this season however this was their most humiliating because the slick Swans fine-tuned for what looms as a late season surge towards the highest eight.
Captain Luke Shuey (28 disposals) battled exhausting across the ball together with Tim Kelly (27, one aim), whereas Oscar Allen and Jack Darling had been shining lights within the Eagles ahead line with two objectives every.
The undermanned Eagles had been once more hit exhausting by harm with Jack Williams dominated out with an ankle harm earlier than halftime, whereas Sam Petrevski-Seton was closely restricted for a lot of the competition.
Key defender Tom Barrass additionally hung out within the changerooms being assessed in his return sport after being sidelined with a hip grievance.
“I’m pretty embarrassed about today,” Eagles coach Adam Simpson stated.
“We tried lots of things, but none of them worked.
“From begin to end, we had been on the again foot and we could not acquire any sort of ascendancy in any respect.
“In the end, we got what we deserved.”
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