Perceptions

[ScottH]

Annie has the other one.

[goswannie14]

Agreed - thelook on Monty's face when he kicked "that" goal is worth a portrait.

I spoke to Monty about kicking the winning goal at the Melbourne Family Day. He was actually quite humble about it, talked about "not kicking it properly" etc etc. I was really impressed by him.

[connolly]

Glad you clarified the use of the doll!

Yes we wouldn't want it to go down on him.

[Robbo]

Last night, after Christmas shopping I flopped on the couch and decided to delete some recordings from the Foxtel IQ. The first thing I came across was the Swans-Freo game (R18?) this year. That was the one where Goodes kicked eight - and that was all we heard about afterwards.

This week I was reading here how players like Jude Bolton were unlikely to improve - and that's from what most regard as a low base. In the game I watched Jude did at least as much as Goodes to win us the game. Other impressive performances were Hall and Bevan. A lot of our talented kids were erratic or crap.

It's started me thinking about how perceptions. To most of Melbourne the Swans are a bunch of pensioners led by that thug Hall and that sniper Goodes. But there's just as much ignorance on here. Buchanan won us the Premiership as much as Nick Davis did but the threads on that would be 90:1. As Brownlow votes show Jude can be one of the Swans' best players but who dares say that here? Bevan can be the equal of Craig Bolton (and that's praise indeed).

Who do you think has an under- and over- inflated reputation amongst Swans fans?

You're basing your judgement of our youngsters on one random game?

[Go Swannies]

You're basing your judgement of our youngsters on one random game?

No -that's why I didn't mention them by name. I left the specifics to the many senior players I praised.

The point I was making was that the argument is consistently made that the senior players mentioned are unlikely to improve but many of the kids are just about to become stars. On objective replay we malign players who are already good and play at a standard that we can only hope the kids will meet or surpass.