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When Malceski and Sunny got injured.
They are (from the limited time I saw them play) more skilled dosposers of the ball than all the midfielders who played on Sunday (on current form). williams was (again) an embarrassment for a former champion....
You know you are really in trouble when the ones who used toi be considerd the battlers (Kirk and Crouch) are the only ones you want to see with the ball in hand. They look positively silken compared to Williams, Maxfield, Bolton, Buchanan, Ablett and Mathews. McVeigh seems to be the only one with above average skills and he is either not getting a game or not getting the ball.
Sheesh! Now we have to seriously consider playing McGlone or Willoughby just so that if a Swan gets the ball he might actually get it to a mate!
it seems (from reports) that Thewlis suffers from the same disease (really willing but can't kick the bloody thing).
Good God, maybe we have to bring back Nicks....he was never quite this bad was he?
I counted (at one point) 14 entries into the fifty by the Swans of which 9 or 10 went to the defender UNCONTESTED. Plus a couple which Richmond took contested, a couple of spills and ONE Swans possession inside the 50. It is difficult to believe that it is possible to play worse than that.
We did not have a real possession for more than ten minutes in the final quarter (that is to say a disposal wher it goes from one Swan to another). Actually it may have been more like 15 minutes.
We did, however have the ball in hand (but fumbled) on at leat ten occasions. Williams and Ball were again the worst.
It really seems like Willo doesn't give a crap anymore. "Oh, I don't think I'll bend right down and actually take possesion....oops I've kicked it OOBOTF....Oh, how funny, that one went along the ground/straight on to the chest of an opponent....oh, well, C'est La Vie!"
We have to face the fact that Richmond are more skillfull than us. We didn't have a bad day....by which I mean we are always worse than every other team at picking up the ball, kicking it to a team mate and catching it before it hits the ground. We were terrible last year as well for the majority of the time...Adelaide, Hawthorn, Port, Freo......however, our willingness and run overcame it....it allowed a bigger margin for error in the actual disposal.
Anyway to get back to my original point I was so wrong to think that we would not need our fringe midfielders this year and that we had the luxury of another year developing them.
BTW Fixter is available. We should play him, if only to wake Fossy up.
They are (from the limited time I saw them play) more skilled dosposers of the ball than all the midfielders who played on Sunday (on current form). williams was (again) an embarrassment for a former champion....
You know you are really in trouble when the ones who used toi be considerd the battlers (Kirk and Crouch) are the only ones you want to see with the ball in hand. They look positively silken compared to Williams, Maxfield, Bolton, Buchanan, Ablett and Mathews. McVeigh seems to be the only one with above average skills and he is either not getting a game or not getting the ball.
Sheesh! Now we have to seriously consider playing McGlone or Willoughby just so that if a Swan gets the ball he might actually get it to a mate!
it seems (from reports) that Thewlis suffers from the same disease (really willing but can't kick the bloody thing).
Good God, maybe we have to bring back Nicks....he was never quite this bad was he?
I counted (at one point) 14 entries into the fifty by the Swans of which 9 or 10 went to the defender UNCONTESTED. Plus a couple which Richmond took contested, a couple of spills and ONE Swans possession inside the 50. It is difficult to believe that it is possible to play worse than that.
We did not have a real possession for more than ten minutes in the final quarter (that is to say a disposal wher it goes from one Swan to another). Actually it may have been more like 15 minutes.
We did, however have the ball in hand (but fumbled) on at leat ten occasions. Williams and Ball were again the worst.
It really seems like Willo doesn't give a crap anymore. "Oh, I don't think I'll bend right down and actually take possesion....oops I've kicked it OOBOTF....Oh, how funny, that one went along the ground/straight on to the chest of an opponent....oh, well, C'est La Vie!"
We have to face the fact that Richmond are more skillfull than us. We didn't have a bad day....by which I mean we are always worse than every other team at picking up the ball, kicking it to a team mate and catching it before it hits the ground. We were terrible last year as well for the majority of the time...Adelaide, Hawthorn, Port, Freo......however, our willingness and run overcame it....it allowed a bigger margin for error in the actual disposal.
Anyway to get back to my original point I was so wrong to think that we would not need our fringe midfielders this year and that we had the luxury of another year developing them.
BTW Fixter is available. We should play him, if only to wake Fossy up.
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