Auntie.Gerald
20th June 2011, 12:29 PM
We as a club are in an interesting position and an interesting cycle.
I woke up this morning and thought I need a reality check......I need to bring some perspective/context to my short term thinking re the Swans.
I reflected on the long term goals of the Swans (if I was CEO) vs the short term feelings I have re their results and current standing.
KEY OBJECTIVES:
1. ensure the Swans are a club that all fans, employees and players are proud to represent
2. ensure that the club is viable for the long term.
3. ensure that the coaching department and management are constantly striving to develop young boys into great young men. Our club has a duty of care like any organisation to its employees and to set standards for all to follow.
4. ensure that we are competitive in football strategy, development, implementation and execution year after year. ie we were a one team town and we needed to recruit for year after year rather then blips of success every ten years. Hence our recruitment of tradesmen in general vs marque players.....
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As I reflect on the season so far we have most likely over achieved with the level of player talent we have vs other teams. I got a bit excited last week thinking we could beat Carlton..........then I realised wait a minute. We are playing a team that has 8 something draft picks under 10 !! and we are playing a team that is starting to peak in maturity and team balance and we are a team that has no where near the class of Carlton and we are adapting to living without a champion FF nor FB which would create serious pressure on the oppositions game plan.
Look at the difference yest of having a top class ruckman in Kruezer !! he was the biggest difference in mobility and effectiveness.
As one sits down and thinks about what our coaching department could do to beat a Carlton, Collingwood or Geelong etc it is a very difficult assignment.........
ie we dont have the players that can play fast break football week after week......nor can we just play a different game plan every week and expect a perfect result........we nullified their key players very well but that comes at a cost and that cost is we couldnt counter attack much at all.......most of our KPI's were steady but we simply didnt execute goals when we had the chance to.........now our coaching department can only do so much when Goodes, Reid, Mummy and mcGlynn missed easy ones at a critical stage of the game.
The ball from Reid to Bolton summed up the day for me..........Hawks, Carlton, Geelong, Pies dont miss those golden opportunities.......they make them stick as they have the experienced players to rely on week after week
I dont think we can change our general game plan given the player quality we have vs top 4teams..........against teams lower on the ladder we can tinker
our time will come just like it did in 2005/06 !!!.........but the minutes in the sun is a small reward in comparison to what we have week to week, year to year !
I woke up this morning and thought I need a reality check......I need to bring some perspective/context to my short term thinking re the Swans.
I reflected on the long term goals of the Swans (if I was CEO) vs the short term feelings I have re their results and current standing.
KEY OBJECTIVES:
1. ensure the Swans are a club that all fans, employees and players are proud to represent
2. ensure that the club is viable for the long term.
3. ensure that the coaching department and management are constantly striving to develop young boys into great young men. Our club has a duty of care like any organisation to its employees and to set standards for all to follow.
4. ensure that we are competitive in football strategy, development, implementation and execution year after year. ie we were a one team town and we needed to recruit for year after year rather then blips of success every ten years. Hence our recruitment of tradesmen in general vs marque players.....
..............
As I reflect on the season so far we have most likely over achieved with the level of player talent we have vs other teams. I got a bit excited last week thinking we could beat Carlton..........then I realised wait a minute. We are playing a team that has 8 something draft picks under 10 !! and we are playing a team that is starting to peak in maturity and team balance and we are a team that has no where near the class of Carlton and we are adapting to living without a champion FF nor FB which would create serious pressure on the oppositions game plan.
Look at the difference yest of having a top class ruckman in Kruezer !! he was the biggest difference in mobility and effectiveness.
As one sits down and thinks about what our coaching department could do to beat a Carlton, Collingwood or Geelong etc it is a very difficult assignment.........
ie we dont have the players that can play fast break football week after week......nor can we just play a different game plan every week and expect a perfect result........we nullified their key players very well but that comes at a cost and that cost is we couldnt counter attack much at all.......most of our KPI's were steady but we simply didnt execute goals when we had the chance to.........now our coaching department can only do so much when Goodes, Reid, Mummy and mcGlynn missed easy ones at a critical stage of the game.
The ball from Reid to Bolton summed up the day for me..........Hawks, Carlton, Geelong, Pies dont miss those golden opportunities.......they make them stick as they have the experienced players to rely on week after week
I dont think we can change our general game plan given the player quality we have vs top 4teams..........against teams lower on the ladder we can tinker
our time will come just like it did in 2005/06 !!!.........but the minutes in the sun is a small reward in comparison to what we have week to week, year to year !