Spanger played as the second ruck for the resies today & I'd say he was pretty successful going on the figures of goals kicked. Apparently according to the Resie watchers he was BOGOriginally Posted by R-1
Spanger played as the second ruck for the resies today & I'd say he was pretty successful going on the figures of goals kicked. Apparently according to the Resie watchers he was BOG
Get Nick Davis as Goal Kicking Coach. I was told by someone that watches training that there is very little in the way of specialist Goal Kicking training. The other thing I was told was that specialised skills drills were overrided by fitness drills & therefore were either not completed or completely deleted. I haven't been along to look at the training sessions but I am of the opinion we need skills sessions & our forwards & mids need specialised goal kicking practice. Appasrently most clubs don't do concentrated goal practice. But funnily, the Hawks, Cats & Pies do! Funny about that.
Anybody in for Everitt would be my first change. He was never going to do well tonight given the conditions, but he offers nothing as a Sub (again I note he was the travelling emergency so we didn't really have a choice) and he blew 2 massive chances in the last quarter to win the game for us. To me he offers very little indeed.
TDL has to come in, and Spangher might push Jesse hard for his spot as well. Other then that, it'll hopefully be Mummy and Jack back in as well.
If that is correct, then it is utterly ridiculous from the club and in my opinion shows very bad judgement from people that should know better. Our skills have been disgraceful all year, and our kicking for goal has cost us games we should have won, and a few others have been close affairs when we should have won comfortably. Every team suffers from the yips at time, but as a team that doesn't create a lot of chances we can not afford to do so and we should be doing everything to avoid it happening. Especially considering the way you win games is by getting points on the board, and the best way to do that is by kicking goals. Sometimes I wonder if we focus too much on stopping the other team scoring than making sure we know how to score heavily and take our chances when they come.
What a turgid performance...
Changes :
Out - Everitt -Why he was again selected as sub...and on a wet night ???? Mind boggling
Kennelly - Woeful, both his form and talking himself up for a new contract in the papers. After years of "I want to go home" and screwing us by leaving in preseason. Now we have to suffer him looking for his retirement fund.
Bevan - He's just not good enough. We can only hope GWS give us something for him.
White - Like Bevo, he's just not good enough, body work is non existent. I thought he might make it as a defender, I now doubt that.
Jetta - Just doesn't have the body or desire for a hard fought contest, particually in the wet. Maybe a couple more preseasons will give him the confidence to attact the ball harder and take the lazy stuff out of his game.
In - Mumford
Jack
TDL
Spranger
Johnston
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect... MT
I found it hard to tell watching the game on tele, but for those calling for White's head did he actually spend a lot of time in the forward line? I haven't looked at stats (so he probably only got 1 touch!) but I thought his around the ground work in the ruck was relatively involved and okay for a second week in a row.
I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time
Yeah, he did play in the ruck a fair bit and he did get the ball moving forward on occasion. But he didn't take one contested mark all night (that I can remember), and for a guy of his size and skill, he should be far more involved and dominant against a team like Adelaide.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect... MT
I will spew if TDL doesn't get a game.
Agreed completely.
Just to re-inforce the lack of goals so far this season in the Swans matches they have kicked 159 goals and have had 180 behinds which equates to a 46.90% average for goals. Simply not good enough. It's time that Horse puts his foot down and over rules the fitness staff and concentrate on goal and general kicking skills. Let good old fashioned common sense rule over the scientific fitness gurus for the players are not machines and can't be programed like robots.
McGlynn certainly shouldn't go - he may be down on form, but he's still better than most.
Bevan was actually decent for a change.
Swap them for Kennelly and Jetta, and I'd agree.
I don't agree at all with the drop Jetta calls.
I thought his first half tonight was the best half of footy he's played all year. He certainly tapered off in the second half, but overall I thought he was much improved and look forward to seeing him on a dry track again.
Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09
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