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  • swans song
    On the Rookie List
    • Jul 2006
    • 223

    #16
    Originally posted by swans song
    Be very prepared for an era of disappointments and losses on a regular basis Until there is a new game plan to suit our current personel we haven't got a hope of finishing in top 8. If we couldn't do it last year with the team we had, how the hell are we expected to improve in the forthcoming years.
    The coaching staff have for the past 5-6 years have been sticking to one style of play.
    It's time to let Longmire to introduce a new game plan preferably from the start of the season to enable us to quicken our rise in the position on the ladder.
    6 Months Later????????????????????/
    cheers

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    • swansrule100
      The quarterback
      • May 2004
      • 4538

      #17
      geez we dont go for richmond its not all doom and gloom

      We are in the 8
      Theres not much left to say

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      • annew
        Senior Player
        • Mar 2006
        • 2164

        #18
        Originally posted by swansrule100
        geez we dont go for richmond its not all doom and gloom

        We are in the 8
        We were awful yesterday but we were down a few key players, last week well I would never have thought we would beat Geelong at Geelong.

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        • swansrule100
          The quarterback
          • May 2004
          • 4538

          #19
          Originally posted by annew
          We were awful yesterday but we were down a few key players, last week well I would never have thought we would beat Geelong at Geelong.
          yeah we have had 2 rubbish weeks. But at the very least we are still around the 8th -9th best side in the comp, im not going to slash my wrists just yet
          Theres not much left to say

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          • BSA5
            Senior Player
            • Feb 2008
            • 2522

            #20
            Let's compare our team yesterday to that of our game against the Dogs last year:

            Added:
            Kennelly
            Kennedy
            Jetta
            Rohan
            Hanners
            Smith
            Pyke
            Playfair

            Lost:
            Jolly
            O'Loughlin
            Hall
            Bolton
            Moore
            Buchanan
            Crouch
            Ablett

            That's a huge loss of talent and experience right there. If we'd had those ins and outs last year we would have been shot to pieces. Now luckily for us, we have coverage waiting in the wings. Bradshaw is supposed to be right to come back next week. Mumford will miss another game, but will be back after that. McGlynn should be available soon, same with Moore, who has been important for us this year.

            Lets not sharpen the knives just yet. At the moment we are a severely depleted team, with injuries to key players falling all at the same time, at just the wrong time. Let's wait until we get back our best forward, our first ruckman, our best small forward, and our second best small forward, all of which should happen in the next couple of weeks, before we start panicking.
            Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!

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            • Damien
              Living in 2005
              • Jan 2003
              • 3713

              #21
              Well last night Geelong handed Brisbane a bigger thrashing than was handed to us (and it was at the Gabba). Hopefully when we have the full team back, we will look back at the last two weeks with a grin instead of the grimace we (well I) certainly have.

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

                #22
                All the last two weeks have shown is we are not a top 4 side and for the most of us on here that was already known.

                We will be judged on how we go against Fremantle, Carlton, Brisbane, Port Adelaide, Essendon, Melbourne, North Melbourne and possibly Hawthorn as these are the teams we are playing against for 5th spot on the ladder.

                At this stage our record has been good against these teams this year and as long we can get our best side on the park most weeks we look likekly to finish somewhere around there.

                That's a home final and a chance to do something the second week of the finals if we can take a chance.

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

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                • mcs
                  Travelling Swannie!!
                  • Jul 2007
                  • 8162

                  #23
                  +1 for what Auntie Gerald said.
                  I don't think there is anythign wrong with our game plan, I think our major area of deficiency is depth in the squad. In the first 6 weeks of the season, where we basically had everyone fit and going well, you could see we have a very nice team developing. But take an injury or 2 and a pathetic suspension and you can see that we don't have the depth of a Collingwood ro a Geelong or a Western Bulldogs.

                  Building depth in a squad takes time, and we have improved vastly in that sense due to some good trading over the summer. But to build long term depth, you need to get quality young players in and with experience, and we are just at the start of that process. I think in 2010 we will make the eight, but I feel its next year that we can really start to challenge again. It's going to take time, but we are on the right path.

                  To a point, the game plan is irrelevant, and we kicked 100+ for 4 consecutive weeks from rd 2 to rd 5, something that the mighty team of 05-06 didn't do that often (i.e. kick 100+). When everyone is fit, there is no doubting that our game plan is beginning to open up. But when you lose key players to injury, and replace them with people who don't have much experience or are simply no good, its always going to be tough when you are playing some of the best teams in the comp. Especially when the midfield again got absolutely murdered yesterday and the dogs had enough time to sit down, have a cuppa and a fag and then distribute the ball.
                  "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                  • swans song
                    On the Rookie List
                    • Jul 2006
                    • 223

                    #24
                    Originally posted by swans song
                    6 Months Later????????????????????/
                    Another 12 months on
                    Has anything changed?
                    cheers

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                    • swans song
                      On the Rookie List
                      • Jul 2006
                      • 223

                      #25
                      Originally posted by swans song
                      Be very prepared for an era of disappointments and losses on a regular basis Until there is a new game plan to suit our current personel we haven't got a hope of finishing in top 8. If we couldn't do it last year with the team we had, how the hell are we expected to improve in the forthcoming years.
                      The coaching staff have for the past 5-6 years have been sticking to one style of play.
                      It's time to let Longmire to introduce a new game plan preferably from the start of the season to enable us to quicken our rise in the position on the ladder.
                      Sorry make that nearly 2 years
                      Has anything changed?
                      cheers

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                      • BSA5
                        Senior Player
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 2522

                        #26
                        Yep, you know what's changed? We've managed to finish in the top 8 once, and most likely twice, in two years. Yet you said "we haven't got a hope of finishing in the top 8".

                        Why on earth are you bumping such a terrible, terrible call?
                        Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!

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                        • royboy42
                          Senior Player
                          • Apr 2006
                          • 2078

                          #27
                          History is bunk!

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                          • swans song
                            On the Rookie List
                            • Jul 2006
                            • 223

                            #28
                            I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
                            cheers

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                            • wolftone57
                              Veterans List
                              • Aug 2008
                              • 5854

                              #29
                              Originally posted by swans song
                              Be very prepared for an era of disappointments and losses on a regular basis Until there is a new game plan to suit our current personel we haven't got a hope of finishing in top 8. If we couldn't do it last year with the team we had, how the hell are we expected to improve in the forthcoming years.
                              The coaching staff have for the past 5-6 years have been sticking to one style of play.
                              It's time to let Longmire to introduce a new game plan preferably from the start of the season to enable us to quicken our rise in the position on the ladder.
                              If I said this I'd be howled down as an anti Longmire (which I am) but I agree, new game plan to suit the personnel.

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                              • wolftone57
                                Veterans List
                                • Aug 2008
                                • 5854

                                #30
                                Originally posted by swans song
                                I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
                                By the way Swan Song nothing has changed

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