RSS: Goodes trying to find way back to top

[ScottH]

Adam Goodes is banking on Sunday's successful tagging job sparking his form.

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[Jeffers1984]

I was more concerned about this

"Meanwhile Tadhg Kennelly, who starred on Sunday in his return from a dislocated knee, showed up at Monday's recovery session at the SCG with significant swelling around his troublesome knee."

Thankfully the game is on Sunday.

[liz]

Meanwhile Tadhg Kennelly, who starred on Sunday in his return from a dislocated knee, showed up at Monday's recovery session at the SCG with significant swelling around his troublesome knee.

Uh oh.

Guess it is not surprising, but brings home the fact that there may be a price to pay for the surprise early return.

[ROK Lobster]

Uh oh.

Guess it is not surprising, but brings home the fact that there may be a price to pay for the surprise early return.

I know it is partly because of his absence that we have had a poor start to the season, but this is the point I was making a few weeks ago - when I thought we were not going to have a poor start to the season. It puts too much pressure on us in areas like this. Ah well, all's well that ends well, hopefully this ends well.

[stellation]

There was one point in the 1st or 3rd quarter where Tadhg had the perfect sit for a high bomb into the back line and he looked very, very nervous putting his knee out and going up for it- I am pretty sure it was bothering him enough to have him spill a relatively straight forward mark.

[liz]

There was one point in the 1st or 3rd quarter where Tadhg had the perfect sit for a high bomb into the back line and he looked very, very nervous putting his knee out and going up for it- I am pretty sure it was bothering him enough to have him spill a relatively straight forward mark.

We noticed that one too but interpreted the drop to him being nervous about how he was going to land.

Players returning from injury quite often have a very good game first game back but then struggle a bit in subsequent weeks. Will be interesting to see how the next few weeks pan out but it would be naive to expect him not to struggle with it for a bit.

On the other hand, just having him out there seems to buoy the rest of the team up so even if he's unable to sustain yesterday's level of output, hopefully the rest of the team will benefit from his presence.

It does seem a bit daft that a team is so dependent on the presence of a half-back flanker, regardless of how exciting he is to watch. But then I suspect the Swans aren't alone. The Crows would probably struggle more with the loss of McLeod than the loss of an Edwards or Goodwin, and definitely more than if they lost any of those forward targets of theirs.

[NMWBloods]

Bulldogs the same with Gilbee and Collingwood more so now with H Shaw.

[Triple B]

Along the same lines, Jason Gram is as important to the Saints as Kennelly is to us for exactly the same reasons.

The fact they looked so poor the other night was because they had no run with Gram out, as we have looked poor without Tadgh.

When Bevan came back unexpectedly for the Saints game, I felt sure that Roos was just going to put a hard tag on Gram to stop his run. It didn't eventuate. Dunno whether that wasn't the plan or if it was, Bevan wasn't up to it, but either way, we paid the price.