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Swans must not stand still: Schauble
3:00:37 PM Tue 27 January, 2004
Karen Collins
afl.com.au
Sydney defender, Andrew Schauble believes the Swans must improve on the form that took the club all the way to last year?s preliminary final just to be competitive in 2004.
Despite failing to pick-up any experienced players through the draft and trade periods, Schauble feels the Swans will continue to surprise.
?We will take a similar approach to last season in that people will probably have different expectations this year to what we have on ourselves,? Schauble told afl.com.au.
?We only lost three experienced players in ?Cressa? (Daryn Cresswell), Brad Seymour and Daniel McPherson, but we have a big group of middle guys who are all around a similar age group and they are showing a lot of leadership and experience.
?Last year was a reasonably good year, but things are only going to get harder and teams are going to be chasing us a lot harder, so obviously we have to improve a lot more.?
Tipped by the experts to finish with the wooden spoon prior to last season, Sydney now find themselves one of the benchmarks for other teams hoping to defy the odds.
?Every team is obviously going to study the successful ones more than the other ones, but as Brisbane have showed in their consistent success, we have to at least improve if we want to stay where we are.?
For the 27-year-old, who met up with Matthew Nicks and Adam Goodes in Buenos Aires before continuing his off-season holiday in Bolivia and Peru - this also means improving as a player and leader.
?I often get the role on the main forward and I think it is always important I continue to have a role in the backline of helping to sort out how we set up and how we do everything. So in a way it is just keeping everything organised down there.
?Last year the backline worked pretty well together, so apart from obviously my own job what is important is to keep the guys at the back rotating and working well as a group.?
Sydney?s best-and-fairest winner of four years ago considers Stuart Maxfield?s debut year as captain - taking over from club stalwart Paul Kelly - to be one of the highlights of last year.
?(Stuart?s captaincy) was fabulous. I think what is really good is we have quite a reasonably sized leadership group and he heads it up and runs everything well. The other guys like working around.
Schauble enjoys the responsibilities of being part of the leadership group and thinks the group ?allowed the young guys to step up a lot faster? last year.
?The load gets spread a lot more, there is a lot more avenues for player involvement from all the players. I mean, by the time you have around ten in it then it makes up a big part of the list.
?Every player on the list will have a pretty strong relationship with at least a couple within that group, so therefore it filters through, whereas if you have one captain and maybe a vice-captain it may not work as not everyone gets along.?
Swans must not stand still: Schauble
3:00:37 PM Tue 27 January, 2004
Karen Collins
afl.com.au
Sydney defender, Andrew Schauble believes the Swans must improve on the form that took the club all the way to last year?s preliminary final just to be competitive in 2004.
Despite failing to pick-up any experienced players through the draft and trade periods, Schauble feels the Swans will continue to surprise.
?We will take a similar approach to last season in that people will probably have different expectations this year to what we have on ourselves,? Schauble told afl.com.au.
?We only lost three experienced players in ?Cressa? (Daryn Cresswell), Brad Seymour and Daniel McPherson, but we have a big group of middle guys who are all around a similar age group and they are showing a lot of leadership and experience.
?Last year was a reasonably good year, but things are only going to get harder and teams are going to be chasing us a lot harder, so obviously we have to improve a lot more.?
Tipped by the experts to finish with the wooden spoon prior to last season, Sydney now find themselves one of the benchmarks for other teams hoping to defy the odds.
?Every team is obviously going to study the successful ones more than the other ones, but as Brisbane have showed in their consistent success, we have to at least improve if we want to stay where we are.?
For the 27-year-old, who met up with Matthew Nicks and Adam Goodes in Buenos Aires before continuing his off-season holiday in Bolivia and Peru - this also means improving as a player and leader.
?I often get the role on the main forward and I think it is always important I continue to have a role in the backline of helping to sort out how we set up and how we do everything. So in a way it is just keeping everything organised down there.
?Last year the backline worked pretty well together, so apart from obviously my own job what is important is to keep the guys at the back rotating and working well as a group.?
Sydney?s best-and-fairest winner of four years ago considers Stuart Maxfield?s debut year as captain - taking over from club stalwart Paul Kelly - to be one of the highlights of last year.
?(Stuart?s captaincy) was fabulous. I think what is really good is we have quite a reasonably sized leadership group and he heads it up and runs everything well. The other guys like working around.
Schauble enjoys the responsibilities of being part of the leadership group and thinks the group ?allowed the young guys to step up a lot faster? last year.
?The load gets spread a lot more, there is a lot more avenues for player involvement from all the players. I mean, by the time you have around ten in it then it makes up a big part of the list.
?Every player on the list will have a pretty strong relationship with at least a couple within that group, so therefore it filters through, whereas if you have one captain and maybe a vice-captain it may not work as not everyone gets along.?
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