The most exciting thing about getting Kennedy and McGlynn is.....

**Triple B** · 9th October 2009, 05:38 PM

.....we should never have to see Kieran Jack restricted with tagging duties again.

Along with Jude, Kennedy will do plenty of the close inside work that falls on the shoulders of Kirky at the minute, meaning Kirk can step back to his old role of shutting down an opponent as his career winds to an end.

McGlynn is also capable of a tagging role and with another solid pre-season behind him, expect Nick Smith to get a lot more time in the midfield where he spent 100% of his time in the ressies. Smith was a ball magnet in the 2's, but he will be well suited to a midfield shutdown role as his frame develops further.

We still have McVeigh, Hannebery, ROK and Bird to fit in/rotate thru the middle. There's a topline midfield just there!!

Bottom line is, Kizza can play a full on attacking role and I reckon he will be brilliant at it.

**Bas** · 9th October 2009, 06:22 PM

I thought you were going to say that we got one (or is that two) over that moron pilchard.

**UglyDuckling** · 9th October 2009, 06:53 PM

Agreed! I think Jack will flourish once released from tagging duties a la Jarad McHack

**thesting** · 9th October 2009, 07:48 PM

Top call. I was having this discussion with friends after the Richmond game this year. It seems to be standard procedure that young midfielders for the Swans need to spend time as a tagger before moving into more attacking roles. I can't wait to the the shackles released from Jack, having said that, I think he sill be a better player for his experience tagging.

**The MacDaddy** · 9th October 2009, 07:53 PM

We don't need ablett in the team making up the numbers

**Vonsteinman** · 9th October 2009, 08:35 PM

yeah, good point. but have to agree with all the hawk fan posts on bf that say that it's going to really hurt them watching kennedy develop into a top line mid in the next couple of years.

will really enjoy sitting back and watching that happen...

**Reggi** · 9th October 2009, 09:21 PM

It will be exciting if not pretty inconsistent. Lot's of young players means the gap between best and worst will grow larger. But it will be interesting. Our average age will come down to around 23 or so. I think it will actually be more exciting in 18 months after many of these guys (N Smith, Meredith, Vespi, White, Johnstone, Hannerbury, Mumford, D, O'Keefe and Kennedy) have a season under their belts

Expect Eski, Moore etc will definately start to feel the pressure

It looks like we will have more competitive rotations at least, if still lacking in a bit of pure midfield class. Look forward to seeing Kennedy in the midfield. Be interesting to see in pre season. Given the huge number of players who switched clubs, could also find a few find there way into PSD (Gee, WC and WB must be very close to salary cap)

We need to still draft a few more runners though, lot's of big guys on our list, not enough runners, and a medium forward, so interesting to see what happens there as well. But we may draft one at least who will debute next year

**Swansinger** · 9th October 2009, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by The MacDaddy

We don't need ablett in the team making up the numbers

We don't need him playing MIDFIELD.
Looks better when he is a half-forward.

***SimonH*** · 9th October 2009, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by Swansinger

We don't need him playing MIDFIELD.
Looks better when he is a half-forward.

The last 6 weeks of the year confirmed that if he's going to re-make himself (and that's a big 'if'), it will be as a HFF. Even when playing well (and he has played well before), it's hard to find many appropriate midfield match-ups for NOG.