Well we all know this side needs to turn it around quick, so if you picked the team who would you pick for next weeks game?? and who would you chuck back to the ressies?
Well we all know this side needs to turn it around quick, so if you picked the team who would you pick for next weeks game?? and who would you chuck back to the ressies?
Theres not much left to say
Longmire
reserves
mcveigh
j.bolton
crouch
in
schmidt
brabazon
laidlaw
B - Richards, Barry, Jack
HB - Crouch, Bolton, Malceski
C - Buchanan, O'Keefe, Kirk
FOL - Jolly, Goodes, Fosdike
HF - Bolton, Davis, Schneider
F - Everitt, Hall, MOL
IC: Ablett, Schmidt, Phillips, Mathews
IN: Phillips, Schmidt
OUT: Bevan, McVeigh
I'm sticking with Mathews as I think he's getting better with every game.
We need some goals sneaks - Phillips and Schneider at HF.
Stick with Jack.
Captain, I am detecting large quantities of win in this sector
Port are an interesting challenge because you look at them on paper, with two Burgoynes, Pearce, Rodan and Krakouer and think "how are we going to match them for speed?" There's a temptation to think you need all the taggers in the world in the team to stand a chance.
But the other way of looking at it is that they are untaggable from a pace point of view so there is no point going down that route. Quite simply, if the Swans can't get their hands on the ball first at stoppages - and especially centre bounces - they are going to get slaughtered. And Port have possibly the only other ruck combination in the competition (based on current fitness of players) with two strongly built, highly experienced and skilled rucks. This won't be like Jolly and Spida going up against the gallant but lone, inexperienced McIntosh, or part-timer Koschitske and raw Rix. Lade is about as good as it gets, and Brogan ain't bad either.
Schmidt should never have been dropped and needs to come back in. He needs to spend a considerable amount of time in the centre, not stuck in a pocket, and instructed to focus just on getting those clearances.
I'd also bring in a tall marking target- be it Grundy, Vogels or Doyle (though the collective scarcity of goals this afternoon from those three is a bit perplexing) to see if some of the Baz-focus can be addressed, and allow Davis to play his HFF role along the O'Keefe lines, as he did yesterday.
I'm not going to name outs. We all know who we want and we all know its probably not going to happen.
I just hope that the Swans football department has as much respect for your opinion as we do Liz
RO'K has been playing tremendous footy, but I think that he needs to drift forward occasionally to mix things up. He is probably the best overhead mark in the team, is not short, is good below his knees as well, and an OK kick for goal (just not in traffic). Although he is better value further towards the middle, he is someone that could provide a good option forward at times during a match.
I think it's time to plonk the Donk.
And Schmidt's recall goes without saying. That was the most disgraceful decision in Roos' tenure so far.
"As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk
Agree with that. I wonder whether Hall's recent injuries and inferred loss of mobility is one reason why he hasn't been doing so as much this year. Certainly Hall seems to have been wandering up the ground far less and hopefully this will change soon as it might help free him up from the attention he's been getting.
Two goals from each of ROK and Davis yesterday was one of the few pleasing aspects of the game considering the work both were doing up the ground. As I said in one of my other rambles this afternoon, if we got that every week we'd be pretty happy.
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