Scott Mcglone

[footyhead]

Maybe it is time we start to blood some of the long shot players on our list. Give Scott Mcglone a couple of weeks in the firsts I say !!

[robbieando]

Has to be promoted to the senior list first

[motorace_182]

Roos will play him when the times right, he will surely get a run this season. Scooter seems to be a real prospect

[BAM_BAM]

I absolutely love watching Scooter play, I just hope if he is promoted to the senior list he's not crunched. He's a little fella, with a huge heart.

[sharp9]

Originally posted by BAM_BAM
I absolutely love watching Scooter play, I just hope if he is promoted to the senior list he's not crunched. He's a little fella, with a huge heart.

I think this worry is overstated. Wasn't a problem for D. Wells or T. Watson or A. Davey. If he's got the skills we should play him.

[liz]

Originally posted by sharp9
I think this worry is overstated. Wasn't a problem for D. Wells or T. Watson or A. Davey. If he's got the skills we should play him.

Wasn't around to see Tim Watson play but Wells and Davey both have exceptional pace and skills.

From what I've seen of McGlone, he is not particularly quick and his skills are good without being outstanding. The role he plays in the reserves is using moving through traffic in the midfield and there his slight build would be more problematical at AFL level.

The Eade article about what makes a player good at clearances identified lower body strength as one factor because it enables a player to hold his ground while he picks up the ball and disposes of it.

[Go Swannies]

Originally posted by lizz


The Eade article about what makes a player good at clearances identified lower body strength as one factor because it enables a player to hold his ground while he picks up the ball and disposes of it.

eg Wanganeen. To me he always as if they glued a tall guy's torso onto a short guy's legs.

[footyhead]

Originally posted by lizz
Wasn't around to see Tim Watson play but Wells and Davey both have exceptional pace and skills.

From what I've seen of McGlone, he is not particularly quick and his skills are good without being outstanding. The role he plays in the reserves is using moving through traffic in the midfield and there his slight build would be more problematical at AFL level.

The Eade article about what makes a player good at clearances identified lower body strength as one factor because it enables a player to hold his ground while he picks up the ball and disposes of it.

So on the basis of speculation (that he he might find the going tougher at AFL level) you would not give him a go ?? God we need to give anyone a go who is showing anything right now. Regardless of wether or not they fitt Rodney Eades hypothetical profile!

[Go Swannies]

Roos said recently that if you try them too early in the seniors you can scar them for life and they'll never reach their full potential.

And if you think our salvation lies somewhere in the reserves, isn't it time to start planning for next year?

[dendol]

Originally posted by Go Swannies
Roos said recently that if you try them too early in the seniors you can scar them for life and they'll never reach their full potential.

And if you think our salvation lies somewhere in the reserves, isn't it time to start planning for next year?

maybe the planning for next year starts by looking for salvation in the reserves now. If we have kids that play this season and prove they have what it takes, all the better. You wont know if they can play at the top level until you actually play them.

And I dont think you can "scar" a player for life if you send them up and they get belted. A kid like Mcglone wont go into his first AFL match expecting to dominate men twice his size. The coach wont have placed expectations on him either. He will be told to go out and give it a crack, and that the few games that he may play this season wont be the making or breaking of him.

Hes shown hes capable at reserves level, so he will be given time to prove he can take the next step up.

[Go Swannies]

From last December

Swans content with quota of youth
1:49:11 PM Thu 4 December, 2003
Karen Collins
afl.com.au

Sydney Swans coach Paul Roos feels the rebuilding process of his list is complete and the club may trade off draft picks next year for a key position player.

?(In the last couple of years) we have got a couple quality midfielders, we have got a tall ruckman, probably the only thing we don?t have is just a young key position player so we have really got to be careful next year going to the market,? Roos said at the unveiling of the latest draft picks on Tuesday.



?I don?t think we can afford to get another four young kids next year, we have got four last year, four this year which is eight on the list of 38 so it makes up a fairly big part of our list.

?So it allows us now to maybe sit back during the year and see who is out of contract at the end of next year and really possibly target a very good player going out the end of next year.?

Last month Sydney drafted midfielders Joshua Willoughby (selection No.16) and Tim Schmidt (No.29), ruckman Andrew Ericksen (No.47), utility Matthew Davis (No.59) and redrafted Amon Buchanan (No.45).

While acknowledging they lose experience following the departure of several senior players in Daryn Cresswell, Paul Kelly and Wayne Schwass, Roos feels they are filling in the gaps.

?With Cressa, Kell and Schwass (gone) we have (last year?s first round draft selection Jarrad) McVeigh, Josh and Tim Schmidt,? Roos said.

?Now there is no guarantee they are going to develop into AFL players but there is pedigree there in that area we really wanted to address so suddenly we have got three guys in the door over the last two years who we think are going to develop into good midfielders.

?Now we can change our tack a little bit depending obviously on what happens in 2004 in a team performance.

?But certainly at this stage we wouldn?t be looking at bringing in another four kids at the end of next year.?

After losing a preliminary final to premiers Brisbane, the 2003 coach-of-the-year believes there is still improvement in the player list.

?We are still waiting for the draft picks taken last year and the year before to step up to AFL football, like McVeigh, (Joshua) Thewlis, (Nick) Malceski, (Jarrad) Sundqvist, (Luke) Ablett, (Amon) Buchanan who we have drafted back.

?The other ones like (Stephen) Doyle and (Ben) Fixter who haven?t played. Mick O?Loughlin didn?t play the whole year. So we still think there is some development in the list.

?But I think what we have achieved now with this group is sort of rounded off our youth policy in a sense.?

[dendol]

Hmm I cant remember reading that. Thanks for posting it Go Swannies. Can I take it to mean that we are out phasing out of the rebuilding process now? It seems that all we need is a quality KPP and we should have the foundations of solid success for years to come.

[footyhead]

If Roos is serious, he is a fool and we will not win a premeirship under his tenure.

[Go Swannies]

Originally posted by footyhead
If Roos is serious, he is a fool and we will not win a premeirship under his tenure.

Send in your resume - but I suggest you change it to "premiership".

[footyhead]

Originally posted by Go Swannies
Roos said recently that if you try them too early in the seniors you can scar them for life and they'll never reach their full potential.

In thecase of Scott Mcgloane, he is a long shot anyways. It is better to give a shot at the risk of "scarring him for life" than to get to the end of the year and having him still with no exposure at AFL level. Because either way he will be dropped from the Swans list.
Faidinkum some of you idiots think that these coaches always know what tha f.. it is they are talking about.
Beleive me very few of them do .... Mathews does, so does Pagan and Sheedy.
Roos might, only time will tell, but so far the jury is still out.... But with some of the stuff I have been reading and seeing latley,
I am begining to have my doubts. This is a very hard caper : Coaching a successful AFL team very few have ever done it.