Team Selection: Round 11 v Melbourne

[SwanSand]

Ill discipline is going to cost us games and I am sure everyone is pissed off about it.

Out - Dumb Amartey, Stupid Mcinerney, Unlucky Francis, Corey Warner
In - Lucky McLean, Taylor Adams, Callum Mills, poor Paton/Hanily/Bowman

even though Corey Warner would be stiff to go out, I think there are areas of the game he needs to get better at - poor decision making, and gives away too many free kicks. He reminds me of Dylan Stephens - just doesn’t have it in him.

i think Florent should play back if we get Hanily in.
Mills should not play the entire game, he should come off the bench. Or s Mills should play forward.

We cannot have Taylor Adams, Sheldrick, Mills through the midfield at the same time, that would be an absolute killer in terms of speed. We cut down the speed and the speed of our movement of ball against Melbourne, I am sure Steven May and the other defenders will eat us for breakfast with our very poor front line. Maybe play Hayward in the goal square or even Mills.

Hamling certainly goes back this week.

[Dow]

I think having Amarety and JMac will tip the game well and truly in Melbourne's Favour, I wont pretend to know what the swans are going to do at the selection table but if I am being honest, I would like to see Buller get the next few weeks to make a case to be offered a new contract or delisted.

[ISIBIDBI]

Definitely a terrible time for Amartey to be suspended.

I personally hope the changes are:

OUT: Amartey (susp), McInerney (susp), Francis (concussion protocols)
IN: Mills, Adams, McLean

I'd swing Hamling back and also play Mills in the backline till we get Melican and/or Francis back. Watched Mills in the ressies last week and he still seemed to have those intercept marks in him. I'd also be tempted to play Adams as the sub, but personally Florent's probably best for the role given his agility (and how crap he's been this year).

In good news, Robbie Fox (my fave swan) should be a test for this week. But I'd imagine they'd bring him back thru the ressies.

Agree with those team changes, although I think Mills has to be a fulltime midfielder, his two best seasons were 2021 (av 27.5 disp, 18 Brownlow votes) and 2022 (av 24.4 disp, 21 Brownlow votes, all aus) as a fulltime mid. When fully fit I think he is the best two-way mid in the comp and it was a mistake to ever move him out of the center onto the wing and to hb over the last couple of years. I think having him in there with Heeney/Warner and one of Rowy/JJ/Juzzy/Gus/Adams will be our best midfield mix.

[UUaswan]

Could see Ollie playing and Bice/Corey the sub

A few times Bice missed the first option and went the lower percentage option, prefer to see him up the ground anyway.

Corey similarly made the simple hard by continuously turning into Traffic

[longmile]

Definitely a terrible time for Amartey to be suspended.

I personally hope the changes are:

OUT: Amartey (susp), McInerney (susp), Francis (concussion protocols)
IN: Mills, Adams, McLean

I'd swing Hamling back and also play Mills in the backline till we get Melican and/or Francis back. Watched Mills in the ressies last week and he still seemed to have those intercept marks in him. I'd also be tempted to play Adams as the sub, but personally Florent's probably best for the role given his agility (and how crap he's been this year).

In good news, Robbie Fox (my fave swan) should be a test for this week. But I'd imagine they'd bring him back thru the ressies.

[KSAS]

I can’t imagine any universe where having McLean, Buller and Ladhams in the same team (as well as Grundy) could be a winning strategy.

Cox must be pretty pissed off with Amartey right now. It was such a dumb thing for him to do. I think Melican was a little unlucky. Possibly McInerney too (both times). But I expect a no-exceptions “don’t bump” rule will be drummed into the team.

Read in the VFL thread Buller has looked more lively when he plays as 2nd ruck / key forward. So he's also a possible 2nd ruck option instead of Ladhams, if they think playing 4 big guys is too top heavy, thoughthat is highly unlikely I must admit.

Would like to see Buller get a run, particularly with both Armatey & Francis out.

Yeah, extremely frustrating for Armatey to get rubbed out for 3 weeks after just returning from 4 weeks missing through injury. He did straighten us up a bit with our forward entries.

[liz]

I can’t imagine any universe where having McLean, Buller and Ladhams in the same team (as well as Grundy) could be a winning strategy.

Cox must be pretty pissed off with Amartey right now. It was such a dumb thing for him to do. I think Melican was a little unlucky. Possibly McInerney too (both times). But I expect a no-exceptions “don’t bump” rule will be drummed into the team.

[KSAS]

OUT: Armatey, McInerney (isusp), Francis (conc) and Florent
IN: Mills, Adams, Mclean and Buller.

3 forced changes.The 3 IN's are obvious pending Mills has pulled up ok from the VFL.

My extra change is for Florent to regain form in the VFL after starting as Sub, with Buller teaming up.with McLean as the tall targets up forward. Co Warner as Sub.


Most likely they will only go with the 3 forced changes.

Agree that Ladhams helps Grundy not to run himself into the ground. He'll be more needed v Gawn at the MCG this week.

Hamling down back as the 2nd tall to assist McCartin.