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  • ScottH
    It's Goodes to cheer!!
    • Sep 2003
    • 23665

    We must improve slow starts: Kennelly

    Tadhg Kennelly says the Swans need to improve their slow starts to matches and seasons.

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  • stellation
    scott names the planets
    • Sep 2003
    • 9718

    #2
    "The obvious" stated Kennelly.
    I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
    We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time

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    • liz
      Veteran
      Site Admin
      • Jan 2003
      • 16737

      #3
      Originally posted by stellation
      "The obvious" stated Kennelly.

      Yeah. You have to wonder when they're going to stop talking about it and start actually doing something about it.

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      • Sanecow
        Suspended by the MRP
        • Mar 2003
        • 6917

        #4
        Originally posted by liz
        Yeah. You have to wonder when they're going to stop talking about it and start actually doing something about it.
        "We probably haven't not focused on round one the last few years but, yeah, we've spoken about it," Roos said.
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        • Tuco
          On the Rookie List
          • Jul 2006
          • 154

          #5
          The more we talk up slow starts to the season as a problem, the bigger the problem might become. I much prefer the "no worries it's a marathon not a sprint" approach.

          We kicked 3.8 to their 10.2 in the first half. Whatever people say about individual performances, or about the general intensity of our players at the start of the match, that's where we lost the damn thing. Even minimal improvement from our shots on goal and we wouldn't be pulling our hair out this week.

          Going to be an interesting game against Richmond.

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          • liz
            Veteran
            Site Admin
            • Jan 2003
            • 16737

            #6
            Originally posted by Tuco

            We kicked 3.8 to their 10.2 in the first half. Whatever people say about individual performances, or about the general intensity of our players at the start of the match, that's where we lost the damn thing. Even minimal improvement from our shots on goal and we wouldn't be pulling our hair out this week.
            I think it is a bit simplistic to attribute the loss solely to poor kicking at goal. Yes shots were missed that were eminently gettable but few of the attempts ranked up there with the gaffs we saw in the grand final. Many of those behinds came because they were rushed attempts at goal (not necessarily rushed behinds) as a direct result of the lack of space and inability to spot up a forward on a lead.

            In contrast, the speed and directness with which West Coast were able to get the ball into their forward line meant that most of their shots on goal were very straightforward. It is not as if they were dobbing them from 60m or from impossible angles.

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            • Tuco
              On the Rookie List
              • Jul 2006
              • 154

              #7
              Originally posted by liz
              I think it is a bit simplistic to attribute the loss solely to poor kicking at goal. Yes shots were missed that were eminently gettable but few of the attempts ranked up there with the gaffs we saw in the grand final. Many of those behinds came because they were rushed attempts at goal (not necessarily rushed behinds) as a direct result of the lack of space and inability to spot up a forward on a lead.

              In contrast, the speed and directness with which West Coast were able to get the ball into their forward line meant that most of their shots on goal were very straightforward. It is not as if they were dobbing them from 60m or from impossible angles.
              Whilst this is true. I'm just making the point that we could just have easily been talking about how pleasing it was to come away with a rusty win. I find early season pessimism to be very self defeating. Especially when I saw a lot of our boys striving very hard to overcome their conditioning to drag us to the line.

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              • ScottH
                It's Goodes to cheer!!
                • Sep 2003
                • 23665

                #8
                Swans need to improve ball use: Barry

                Leo Barry says Sydney was hampered by below-par use of the ball in their round one loss to West Coast.

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                • ScottH
                  It's Goodes to cheer!!
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 23665

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ScottH
                  Leo Barry says Sydney was hampered by below-par use of the ball in their round one loss to West Coast.

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                  More Rocket Science comments.

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                  • DST
                    The voice of reason!
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 2705

                    #10
                    Originally posted by ScottH
                    More Rocket Science comments.
                    Would you prefer Leo to come out and tell JW how we are going to beat them next time around?

                    West Coast have clearly changed their game plan and structure when playing us the last two times. I would prefer the club to make bland statements to the media and then actually work on a style that will allow us to dictate the game come finals time.

                    DST
                    "Looking forward to a rebuilt, new, fast and exciting Swans model in 2010"

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                    • ScottH
                      It's Goodes to cheer!!
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 23665

                      #11
                      Originally posted by DST
                      Would you prefer Leo to come out and tell JW how we are going to beat them next time around?

                      West Coast have clearly changed their game plan and structure when playing us the last two times. I would prefer the club to make bland statements to the media and then actually work on a style that will allow us to dictate the game come finals time.

                      DST
                      WC have evolved since last year. We are still playing the same, and they beat us, by evolvng their game plan.

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