True, but these days rehabilitation after injury or operations requires players to be doing appropriate training. My point was that maybe Aliir lost a bit of focus during his time out, and is taking time to get back to the intensity required. Just trying to find some sort of explanation as to why he is not playing tonight!
Maybe they just want to keep him grounded. He's still very green when it comes to senior AFL, and the media became obsessed with him a little towards the end of last season to an extent that outweighed his actual performances. Not that he didn't play some good footy last year, and not that he isn't an exciting prospect. But the way some were salivating over him was a little OTT. Maybe the club thinks it's in his best interests to make him really work hard for his opportunities.
I think many players who get a bit of success too soon don't go on to reach their potential, whereas those who have to work their socks off to get a chance, keep that habit up and keep on improving.
Or maybe having (very closely) watched him play, train, recover, develop, prepare and build fitness over a number of years, there is a decision that he is not yet ready to be thrown in for a full hit out of senior AFL. So they've decided to manage his game time again in the twos and will select him when they are confident that he's ready?
Either that or one of the more plausible theories that Horse doesn't know what he's doing or is deliberately selecting an inferior side against the team that beat them in the GF....
I think this team selection is right up there with the Jack Hiscox selection. Not because of the players themselves but because of the incredible mismatches. Newman would give away 16kg to Crameri., Laidler would give away 10cm and 13 kg to to Tom Boyd. Whichever way you cut it those mismatches are going to happen. This is on top of a general situation of Smaller Swans playing on beefier Dogs.
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We have them where we want them, everything is going according to plan!
I agree at a surface level it looks like we could be in for a bath with those matchups in the backline
But I suspect horse is forcing our players into a corner on this one.......he is issuing a challenge to see where we are at re the core of being a blood
He is forcing our guys to win the contests, and win the tackles .......if we do we have the mobility to breakaway and leave their talls in our wake with our smaller backline
But the opportunity cost is if we fail to win the ball and they get to kick to open targets one on one we are stuffed
It's quite clever in a way...no one can hide from the contests otherwise we are gooone !!!
Plan B though is I am sure we will be playing massive players around the ball ie the swans medium defenders will be pushing up and creating massive congestion and or flooding back in numbers..... when u think about it what other option do we have?
With the amount of players we have out for this game we can't take them on one on one.......we have to jam the ball at either end of the ground ie where we can play high pressure contested ball with millions of bodies around the ball in a smaller space
I think horse has chosen the right bodies to execute this strategy...still would have preferred AA in there though
And paps and heeney and Rampe and Robbo and macca and Rohan and and and and and.......
Last edited by Auntie.Gerald; 31st March 2017 at 07:44 AM.
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I think he's already put in the hard yards Liz. Why is he being singled out for different treatment to other players? Sometimes people have a subconscious thing about other people. I was supervising a big function once and one of the waiters, an Indian guy I knew well, complained about the way I treated him compared to the others. I had no idea I was treating him more harshly than the others. It was a subconscious thing. It may not be any of those things but I have noticed that his whole path has been much more difficult than many other players, for example Xavier Richards who really didn't deserve his first taste of AFL or Jack Hiscox ditto.
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I'm sorry but that doesn't hold water. he proved last year he was more than ready. In fact Wayne Carey believes he is the most exciting prospect in footy. He believes Aliir would be All Australian given a whole season. I agree with him.
Maybe he was late to training? Who knows? That's why there is so much speculation.
I don't think anyone here believes it is his ability that is holding him back. We will just have to trust the selection committee.
On that, do you guys think Horse has the final say or is it more of a majority rules kind of thing? Does it come down to the Captain and coach for those tricky selections? And do we know who is on that Committee?
"Fortunately, this is the internet, so knowing nothing is no obstacle to having an opinion!." Beerman 18-07-2017
I don't know, i just think the coaches may know more about it than we do...
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