Swans coach Ken Hinkley spoke to the media post game.
Ken, is it a case of better team winning tonight?
I think simply, yes. Unfortunately. They deserved to win, they deserve to play next week, they were the best team. Tonight they made us pay off turnover. It was a game of efficiency, they were to clean when we they had their chances and we were very much the opposite. We didn’t have enough weapons to cause them problems in the front half.
Willem Drew of the Power in action.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty Images
So many goals from turnover in that first are in particular.
We gave them great looks, to me looks, against the Sydney Swans team were dominant when they are running like that. They are a high-quality term, we accept they were the best team in the competition and finished on top of the ladder for a reason. We knew we would have to be absolutely at our best. We just went.
How final line between that playing through the corridor, playing away but also helplessly giving them those opportunities?
We made the adjustments with the way we were using the ball at certain times. We know the challenges of playing here in Sydney on a quick deck. Some of those turnovers happened early in the first half, when the game was won and lost, they happen. They look like a really polished team with different phases in the way they controlled the ball, took a lot of marks.
What do you say to your group and it is raw for the group and will for you?
Right now, it is really disappointing because we came here with optimism around qualifying for a grand final. We know how hard that is to do, we more than any know how hard it is to get through that final step. It is disappointing. I thought as a club, we stuck together pretty well through the whole year and gave ourselves a chance again right to this point of the season. I understand that the story will be that we failed to get there. I think we had a decent crack at it.
This is your fourth attempt at a preliminary final, will you be changing the approach?
They are quite spaced out, the preliminary finals, and this team had 11 different players than our last team. So many things that are different that you do whether that be personnel or style of football you play. There are lots of things we prepared, did a lot of things different through the last four to six weeks of the season to make sure we gave ourselves a different look and feel to get to this game and then try and execute a game that could win.