Great expectations

[barry]

I might be glass half empty but I think we over rate our list.
I wonder how many of our players would get games with the top sides.
Will our younger players want to stay around if we are not successful?

There is no reason, on paper, why we can climb up the ladder to be vying for a spot in the bottom of the 8.

What is concerning from last year and this year is the absolute dogged determination to always be in the game seems to have gone.

[chuckie]

I might be glass half empty but I think we over rate our list.
I wonder how many of our players would get games with the top sides.
Will our younger players want to stay around if we are not successful?

[Auntie.Gerald]

we won 8 games and came 15th on the ladder in 2019

We get back 4 guys from the game yest next week Kirky said........hmmmm can they bridge 15 goals or so ? bloody unlikely

I said that i was very concerned we didnt try and trade harder as I dont think we have the talent that gives us the greatest probability of getting back in the top 8 in 2020 nor 2021

That will be 3 seasons outside the top 8 most likely........ and Buddy, Kennedy and Rampe on the way out 2yrs from now and a ruck and a midfield just not good enough IMO

Someone made a fair point that GWS didnt have Taranto for the whole game and no Coniglio, and no Josh Kelly, no Greene rolling thru the midfield and no Whitfield and their Captain missing also from the midfield.........6 players missing from their starting midfield rotation !!!!!!

Holy @@@@

I like our guys
great guys
but they are not up to the top6 top8 teams and that is the blend we have gone for which is wrong in my opinion vs other clubs who have rebuilt on the run

We should have and should do make an offer for player like Jye Caldwell as i mentioned last year that GWS cant match and or others like him that can go on and be real 10yr top8 team midfielders

GWS can not with all of their midfield match serious offers for an out of contract Caldwell etc

Players move clubs and we should have and should be doing everything we can to bring in quality and or emerging quality so 2021 we are a serious top4 threat

our current recruitment strategy is not in alignment with a top 4 team come 2021

[stevoswan]

A 7 point difference per game for a single player is a pretty significant difference in my opinion. If you average his salary over it's term it probably comes to about 10% of the salary cap and a 7 point *difference* per game with him in the team is probably about a 10% difference on the field/addition to our score. Plus he offers a lot off the field, one suspects, in terms of membership, sponsors etc etc. I am entirely happy with the deal we gave Buddy and judge it a success. Of course, I'd be even happier if we'd won an extra premiership in 2016.

Ah yes, the AFL's payback for us audaciously recruiting the Bud.....the 2016 'Grand Larceny'.

[bloodspirit]

He may well be, but I don't think the Swans got there money's worth ($1.6m) out of Buddy in 2019, missed half the year and only added 7 points to our scoring when he did play.

A 7 point difference per game for a single player is a pretty significant difference in my opinion. If you average his salary over it's term it probably comes to about 10% of the salary cap and a 7 point *difference* per game with him in the team is probably about a 10% difference on the field/addition to our score. Plus he offers a lot off the field, one suspects, in terms of membership, sponsors etc etc. I am entirely happy with the deal we gave Buddy and judge it a success. Of course, I'd be even happier if we'd won an extra premiership in 2016.