I had the great fortune of receiving the 2005 Swans Collectors Pack of DVDs over the weekend (birthday) and watched the season highlights disc last night. I got a bit depressed. To see the skill level in 2005 and compare it with now showed me that we are still a long way off, however the BIG difference for me was in the freakish skills of our forwards. Hall was taking grabs and just pushing defenders out of the way, Micky O was snapping from anywhere and outmanoeuvring his opponents, and Nick Davis was roving the packs and slotting them from the boundary.
The more I watched, the more I realised that we are light years away from this and have nobody in our forward line capable of these things at present. What do you think?
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