The ladder leaders’ Big Three were in exquisite touch against Geelong but their shutdown defenders played an equally crucial part at the SCG
Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Imagesydney loves winners,” David Marr wrote nearly 30 years ago. “Horses, shows, writers, painters, football teams, politicians, lovers and crooks. When the Swans are on a winning streak, we’re fans for life – unless they start losing.” Under a tangerine sky, nearly 45,000 people packed the SCG on Sunday, the biggest home-and-away crowd at the ground this century.
But it’s the Big Three that bring the swagger, the singalongs, the full houses and the headaches for opposition coaches. Heeney, Gulden and Warner were all in exquisite touch. Heeney always seems to have more time than anyone else on the field. He never looks like he’s labouring. Footballers like Patrick Cripps play with a grimace. Everything about his teammate Nick Blakey looks wrong, and utterly ridiculous. Heeney looks like he was made in a footballing lab. He’s perfectly pressed.
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