All this pace that we seem to be getting from recruits and pre-season training makes me think of Essendon's game plan last year - run hard straight up the corridor and damn the risk.
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All this pace that we seem to be getting from recruits and pre-season training makes me think of Essendon's game plan last year - run hard straight up the corridor and damn the risk.
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I reckon we'll update our existing game plan. We're still going to apply heavy defensive pressure but now we have the outside runners to break the lines. We haven't had that in the last couple of years.
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Add that to our traditional grunt and we start to look like Geelong.Originally Posted by laughingnome
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
Barry Hall.
The thing I really like is the spread of ages, as well.
The problem with having Crouch, Fosdike, BBBH, MOL, Leo Barry and ultimately Jolly, Buchanan, Schmidt, Playfair & Ablett going all in one hit, is that you can't add 9 18-year-olds to your squad in the one year. Apart from the fact that you'll probably scrape the bottom of the talent pool, it deprives your list of balance and leaves you exposed at the bottom end if there are injuries.
What we've done to this point, through a combination of trades and drafting, is bring in a 25 year old (Seaby), 24 (McGlynn), 23 (Mumford), two 21 year olds (Kennedy, Dennis-Lane), a 20 year old (Jetta) and then 3 18 year olds. And that's leaving aside rookies (where we still have a 25yo on our rookie list, and maybe a 26yo to come!), Bradshaw and the return of Kennelly at the upper end of the age range; plus there's the promotion of 21yo 'rookie' Kristin Thornton.
Now that Reid's on board, and if McKaigue is remotely serious about staying here and making a career of it, we're not even understrength for talls (for the first time in living memory!). It's a seriously well-balanced looking squad.
There are a lot of postings about how brilliantly we have done, and how much better we have "bought" in the quick stakes. The thing is we finished out of the eight this year, and therefore got into the early melting pot of availability for a change, plus a very very worthwhile trade for Jolls (as it turned out, we were pretty dismissive of it at the time). By the time we got to our picks in the past, the high end obvious talent and quicks had been taken up. That's the difference.
All we needed was one nearly crappy year and a fair bit of intelligent thought process. It can't be Just Roosy, or Just Horse. Its come from the Swans team as a whole. So I think we have (perhaps just at present) a pretty good collective "brain" behind the brawns. Seasoned with a pinch of good planet alignment.
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Couldn't be happier
10/10
"It's up to the rest of the players in the room to make a new batch of premiership players next year," Adam Goodes, triple Bob Skilton Medallist, October 7, 2011.
YOU BETCHA!!!!!!
Weekly update
Score after 57 voters - 9.57/10 (534/570)
Leaderboard
9.57 -- Swans Recruiters
8.65 -- 5. Ryan O'Keefe
8.29 -- 2. Rhyce Shaw
8.06 -- 19. Michael O'Loughlin
7.80 -- 6. Craig Bolton
7.78 -- 24. Jude Bolton
7.50 -- 4. Daniel Hannebery
7.24 -- 18. Jesse White
7.22 -- 3. Jarrad McVeigh
7.20 -- 15. Kieren Jack
7.17 -- 16. Darren Jolly
6.52 -- 25. Ted Richards
6.15 -- 14. Craig Bird
5.35 -- 7. Brett Meredith
4.76 -- 21. Leo Barry
4.31 -- 11. Ed Barlow
4.30 -- 27. Kristin Thornton
3.90 -- 1. Barry Hall
3.67 -- 20. Luke Ablett
3.64 -- 13. Patrick Veszpremi
3.28 -- 9. Nick Malceski
1.30 -- 26. Henry Playfair
Seems like we're pretty happy with them this year!
Last edited by BeeEmmAre; 3rd December 2009 at 09:46 PM.
"It's up to the rest of the players in the room to make a new batch of premiership players next year," Adam Goodes, triple Bob Skilton Medallist, October 7, 2011.
YOU BETCHA!!!!!!
Weekly update
Score after 61 voters - 9.39/10 (573/610)
Leaderboard
9.39 -- Swans Recruiters
8.65 -- 5. Ryan O'Keefe
8.29 -- 2. Rhyce Shaw
8.06 -- 19. Michael O'Loughlin
7.80 -- 6. Craig Bolton
7.78 -- 24. Jude Bolton
7.49 -- 4. Daniel Hannebery
7.24 -- 18. Jesse White
7.22 -- 3. Jarrad McVeigh
7.20 -- 15. Kieren Jack
7.17 -- 16. Darren Jolly
6.52 -- 25. Ted Richards
6.15 -- 14. Craig Bird
5.35 -- 7. Brett Meredith
4.76 -- 21. Leo Barry
4.31 -- 11. Ed Barlow
4.30 -- 27. Kristin Thornton
3.90 -- 1. Barry Hall
3.67 -- 20. Luke Ablett
3.64 -- 13. Patrick Veszpremi
3.27 -- 9. Nick Malceski
1.30 -- 26. Henry Playfair
"It's up to the rest of the players in the room to make a new batch of premiership players next year," Adam Goodes, triple Bob Skilton Medallist, October 7, 2011.
YOU BETCHA!!!!!!
Weekly update
Score after 63 voters - 9.38/10 (591/630)
Leaderboard
9.38 -- Swans Recruiters
8.65 -- 5. Ryan O'Keefe
8.29 -- 2. Rhyce Shaw
8.06 -- 19. Michael O'Loughlin
7.80 -- 6. Craig Bolton
7.78 -- 24. Jude Bolton
7.49 -- 4. Daniel Hannebery
7.24 -- 18. Jesse White
7.22 -- 3. Jarrad McVeigh
7.20 -- 15. Kieren Jack
7.17 -- 16. Darren Jolly
6.52 -- 25. Ted Richards
6.15 -- 14. Craig Bird
5.35 -- 7. Brett Meredith
4.76 -- 21. Leo Barry
4.31 -- 11. Ed Barlow
4.30 -- 27. Kristin Thornton
3.90 -- 1. Barry Hall
3.67 -- 20. Luke Ablett
3.64 -- 13. Patrick Veszpremi
3.27 -- 9. Nick Malceski
1.30 -- 26. Henry Playfair
"It's up to the rest of the players in the room to make a new batch of premiership players next year," Adam Goodes, triple Bob Skilton Medallist, October 7, 2011.
YOU BETCHA!!!!!!
Weekly update
Score after 66 voters - 9.41/10 (621/660)
Leaderboard
9.41 -- Swans Recruiters
"It's up to the rest of the players in the room to make a new batch of premiership players next year," Adam Goodes, triple Bob Skilton Medallist, October 7, 2011.
YOU BETCHA!!!!!!
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