Nothing from Laidler yet but the VFL has a brief wrap of the game and provide some vanilla review at R1 wrap: Swans stun Bulldogs, Cats outlast Bombers
Nothing from Laidler yet but the VFL has a brief wrap of the game and provide some vanilla review at R1 wrap: Swans stun Bulldogs, Cats outlast Bombers
Agree SwanSand
It is such a fine balance
I suppose we will know more thus wknd re dominating in attack which is our no1 defence and how dominant this is vs playing with one or some defensive forwards
My gut feeling is that we are showing enough in attack that increasing this ability has more upside than keeping in a singular defensive forward.
Could be wrong for sure as it has been required to date but I suspect that cycle is changing as all teams do as emerging players start to become impossible not to pick because of their talent and IMPACT in possession of the ball
Apologies if this has already been noted but a Swans supporter I follow on another platform posted the following on Rowbottom:
James Rowbottom after two games is ranked sixth in the league for tackles (14), third for pressure acts (57) and LEADS THE LEAGUE for defensive half pressure acts (32)!
Has anyone been keeping tabs on how many frees Joel Selwood has got for high contact? Would he have reached 1,000 yet? If not, perhaps that's something that could be celebrated at the cattery?
Actually, now that I think of it, celebrating it away from the cattery could be dangerous. Well done, Joel: whack! Onya, Joel: whack! Excuse me, Mr Selwood, can I just a photo of my kid whacking you in the head?
Something that will be examined again this week vs another quality outfit in the Dogs is our current strategy of minimising key player dependency out of our backline attack.
Sometimes we can be looking for patterns that don't really exist but we think they do...
But what I noticed distinctly on the weekend against the Cats was such a diversified approach to our exits which is such a critical part of footy as we know.
Whether it was Campbell, Lloyd, lizard, Cunningham etc our ability to have give and go exits from our kick ins was remarkable.
Seriously lethal and the Cats had to set their defence deeper because of how clean our exits were via uncontested by higher risk short passing by foot predominantly
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