Sydneys boring game plan

[footyhead]

What can we do about Sydney's boring game plan?
I am afraid that it is really turning a lot of Sydney siders off AFL football.
Is there anything we can do ?

[timthefish]

Re: Sydneys boring game plan

Originally posted by footyhead
What can we do about Sydney's boring game plan?
I am afraid that it is really turning a lot of Sydney siders off AFL football.
Is there anything we can do ?

yawn

[Benevolent Ert]

Do you ever post anything positive about the team?

Having said that, the point is a reasonable one, there's no doubt that our style of play in 2004 was far from aesthetically pleasant.

We had an attractive, free-flowing game going in 2003, but other sides wised up to it, and tried to lock it down. In response Roos refined the game plan resulting in the ugly scraps we saw this year.

Pretty it wasn't, but there is no doubt it won us games.

The natural evolution process means we will see further developments in the game plan in 2005 - and I'm sure more exciting football will result. Be patient, and I'm sure it will resolve itself.

How good would it be to thrash a team by 100 points again? Now THAT is something I'd like to see!

[NMWBloods]

People may not like Footyhead's continual pessimism (and he is the boy who cried wolf to some degree) but there is no doubt that the Swans are playing some of the most boring football witnessed in many years. Hopefully, we can add some excitment to our game plan such as we saw in 2003.

I have never turned off a tape when rewatching a game before it has finished when we have won the game until this year. I think I did it at least 2 or 3 times this year.

[footyhead]

Re: Re: Sydneys boring game plan

Originally posted by timthefish
yawn

Thats what I am afraid it is doing to the Sydney GP,
If only we played a really attractive brand of attacking football like the lions, saints, melb ect and like Roos promised us.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Ert
Pretty it wasn't, but there is no doubt it won us games.

I just wonder whether it did. Could we have won certain games without using those tactics? Did they really benefit us (except in short periods)?

[footyhead]

Originally posted by Ert
Do you ever post anything positive about the team?

Having said that, the point is a reasonable one, there's no doubt that our style of play in 2004 was far from aesthetically pleasant.

We had an attractive, free-flowing game going in 2003, but other sides wised up to it, and tried to lock it down. In response Roos refined the game plan resulting in the ugly scraps we saw this year.

Pretty it wasn't, but there is no doubt it won us games.

The natural evolution process means we will see further developments in the game plan in 2005 - and I'm sure more exciting football will result. Be patient, and I'm sure it will resolve itself.

I hope your right.

[Benevolent Ert]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
I just wonder whether it did. Could we have won certain games without using those tactics? Did they really benefit us (except in short periods)?

I think there were some games this year where this gameplan got us over the line - The Demons game at the Docklands for instance.

On the other hand, the smae gameplan lost us the Ross game a week earlier - we played three quarters of attacking corridor football to go 40 points clear - only to go the lockdown in the last and blow our lead.
The negative gameplan probably cost us the Geelong game as well.

[Benevolent Ert]

Originally posted by footyhead
I hope your right.

So do I!

[Nico]

Originally posted by Ert
Do you ever post anything positive about the team?

Having said that, the point is a reasonable one, there's no doubt that our style of play in 2004 was far from aesthetically pleasant.

We had an attractive, free-flowing game going in 2003, but other sides wised up to it, and tried to lock it down. In response Roos refined the game plan resulting in the ugly scraps we saw this year.

Pretty it wasn't, but there is no doubt it won us games.

The natural evolution process means we will see further developments in the game plan in 2005 - and I'm sure more exciting football will result. Be patient, and I'm sure it will resolve itself.

How good would it be to thrash a team by 100 points again? Now THAT is something I'd like to see!

Gee ERT, did you finding something exciting about our game plan in 2004? Appears it doesn't take much to get you excited. On a scale of 0-10 on the excitement scale we were a zero. So it wouldn't have to change much to be "more exciting".

I agree it will solve itself, it would want to if we are to be a serious team in 2005.

[Matt79]

Re: Sydneys boring game plan

Originally posted by footyhead
What can we do about Sydney's boring game plan?
I am afraid that it is really turning a lot of Sydney siders off AFL football.
Is there anything we can do ?

Because many Sydneysiders follow the world's morst boring sport...league, most would not care how we went about winning a game of AFL. All they are interested in seeing is the final scoreboard with the Swans in front, whether by 1 point or 100 points.

Roos is simply getting the best plan that he believes can win us the most numbers of games and rightly or wrongly, simply winning brings in the crowd.

[Benevolent Ert]

Originally posted by Nico
Gee ERT, did you finding something exciting about our game plan in 2004? Appears it doesn't take much to get you excited. On a scale of 0-10 on the excitement scale we were a zero.

I'm sorry, I'm having trouble locating the part of my post that states we played exciting football in 2004 - but having said that, watch the first 3/4 of the Kangas game again - we were playing exciting free-flowing football

Originally posted by Nico
So it wouldn't have to change much to be "more exciting".

but if it didn't change at all it wouldn't become "more exciting"

[ScottH]

Spriggs will bring the girlies in to watch the games. That can't be boring.

[floppinab]

I'm hoping it's all a part of the grand plan.

Year 1 : Take the shackles off, let 'em *PlaY* and see how we go (as it turned out pretty damn good).

Year 2 : Put the shackles back on, keep it tight keep it hard, particularly against the top sides.

Year 3 : Switch the shackles on and off at will during games, totally dicate the tempo (thankyou Mr. Walls) to suit the flow on the day. Go through season undeafeted.

[NMWBloods]

That's exactly what I am hoping for too!