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I reckon this is a pretty good article on the Swans style, the challenges of coming up with an approach that is effective, and why sometimes it gets ugly.
Ugly stain can't be wiped easily - realfooty.com.au
"We're paid to win games. Having said that, a lot of what you do is based on the personnel you have to work with."
"You do have an opposition out there," says Roos. "You'd like Goodesy and [Tadhg] Kennelly and your best players to have the ball in their hands all the time and to be running and scoring, but they don't let you do that."
"We're probably a team that prides ourselves on winning a contest rather than relying on an opposition turnover and having one [player] loose back [to receive the ball]," he says.
"It's just too simplistic to say high scoring equals exciting and low scoring equals ugly," Roos said. "With Geelong, their ball use is exceptional and this season we've probably emphasised that with the players we've brought in. Martin Mattner, Ed Barlow, Craig Bird, Jarred Moore - they can all run with it or use it pretty well."
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