When Will Hayward kicked his first goal for new club Carlton, eight minutes into the first quarter of Thursday night’s AFL season opener at the SCG, the former Swans favourite turned to the crowd and gestured at them to be quiet.

They hardly needed to be told. A silence had already fallen over the home supporters, as everything that could go wrong for the Swans did.

Isaac Heeney had taken an accidental knee to the head........

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