Is Brett Allison still our goalkicking coach???

[cruiser]

I was at a party and couldnt watch the last half (I taped it but dont know that I'll bother). Kept track of the game on the Net though and couldnt believe our costly inaccuracy in the last quarter. ****ing 1.6!!!!! I'd hoped that was behind us.

I thought Allison was reserves coach. Longmire is forwards coach and I assumed goalkicking as well but I could be wrong.

[wyatt]

I was watching the Swans warm up last week against the Weagles. During the bit when the forwards and the backs match up and then practise leading, I was amazed at how well the ball was being delivered to the forward by the nonchalant runner. Every ball was hitting the leading forward bang on the chest. Upon closer inspection of the runner, I realised that it was none other than the aforementioned Brett Allison. Seeing this brought back memories of how deadly accurate this guy was at delivering the ball. If he is our goalkicking coach, then he certainly has the credentials, but can he impart the knowledge to others? Based on the poor conversion rate this season, I would suggest he has a long way to go!

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by liz
Kicking was ordinary tonight because the legs were tired. Not an excuse but certainly an understandable reason.

Will they be tired in finals too?

[Go Swannies]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Will they be tired in finals too?

No - Hawks the week before.

(And that was a joke - take any team lightly and we'll be in trouble. The Hawks looked competitive against the Eagles at Subi until that last quarter.)

[NMWBloods]

Yeah - remember last time we played Hawks in rd 22...

What about second and third week of finals?

[Go Swannies]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Yeah - remember last time we played Hawks in rd 22...

What about second and third week of finals?

Second week - rest

Third week - let's go for the SCG (and again the 4th week, after all the MCC seem prepared to compromise these days.)

[liz]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Will they be tired in finals too?

Yes, and working through the physicality and recovery is as important a part of the prepartion as match-ups and skills.

As I said it wasn't an excuse, just a reason why our "heroes" are always the supermen we expect them to be as we lounge on the sofa or prop up the bar watching games.

As for the suggestion that they couldn't handle the pressure, that's rubbish. They were playing the second placed team, a team with a defence that has choked teams all year, on <i>their</i> home turf on a surface that was very slippery due to the well-documented dew that settles at AAMI during night games.

They were probably 'making the play' for 3 out of the 4 quarters, but got smashed in the middle for a 15 minute period, during which the Crows were able to convert their control into points on the board. In the end they weren't good enough to come away with the points, but they didn't wilt, panic or just give up.

[Rob-bloods]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
I thought it was general kicking.

As Schwass said - "the tempo went up and the Swans' skills fell away."

When we were on top for long periods we pressured them but did not kick away, they turned up the pressure on us for a shortish time, kicked quick goals and made it count.

Last quarter we pressured them again, lifted our rate, they were looking for the boundary all the time, (guess what, no deliberate decisions) we kicked 1-6.

How can some of you say we were ordinary? A game no-one thought we would win, we threw away in the end? If we had kicked 3-6 we would have won....what about our effort and workrate then?

It was a great finals workout, and we could have had it...hardly a disaster, vs Richmond and Saints earlier, now they were disasters.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Rob-bloods
When we were on top for long periods we pressured them but did not kick away, they turned up the pressure on us for a shortish time, kicked quick goals and made it count.

Precisely. They demonstrated that they can handle finals-level pressure. We demonstrated our vulnerability to it.

Last quarter we pressured them again, lifted our rate, they were looking for the boundary all the time, (guess what, no deliberate decisions) we kicked 1-6.

Yes. Hence my criticism of skills.

How can some of you say we were ordinary? A game no-one thought we would win, we threw away in the end? If we had kicked 3-6 we would have won....what about our effort and workrate then?

Because Adelaide were ordinary as well! We had a chance and blew it! If we're good enough to win a premiership, we would punish Adelaide's performance last night. But no... they just floated along in the hope of getting a lucky goal occasionally.

It was a great finals workout, and we could have had it...hardly a disaster, vs Richmond and Saints earlier, now they were disasters.

We'll see if you feel the same way when we probably end up travelling to Perth for a preliminary final.

[Go Swannies]

It gets really tiring to hear that every team we have beaten this year only lost because they were off their game. Just maybe the Swans made them look that way?

[Snowy]

I still think the delivery into the forward line is just as much an issue as the conversion. The sitter misses such as Buchanan's can't be excused but more shots need to be in the hot spot. ROK has been disappointing in this aspect recently and MOL is reasonably reliable in close but seems to lack depth in his kicking now.