Sydney V Richmond pre game thread (with teams)

[Blood Fever]

Re Bird, it was a poor match up with Shaw. Bird is excellent in traffic and his ability to extract the ball in some tight situations in the latter part of the match is part of what got us going again. He can and should be included as part of our midfield rotation.

Re Vez, he seems to have the unhappy nack of getting injured at the worst times.

As part of plans for the future, Bird should spend more time in midfield - use Kirk up forward a bit - he was a good forward before his stellar rise as a defensive mid fielder

[caj23]

Am I only the only one who thinks we might actually lose this game? Scary thought.

nervous nellies were predicting we'd lose to port and the bombers a few weeks back as well.

we will beat the tigers comfortably, we are a class above them

[sWAns63]

IN: Bradshaw / TDL / Kennelly/Meredith/Ves
OUT: Bevan, White, Jetta, Bird, Kirk (Coaching)

[Dalai Lama]

Hoss has to weild the axe - Out - The Rhesus Monkey Shaw - In Lucy Bradshaw

[sWAns63]

Hoss has to weild the axe - Out - The Rhesus Monkey Shaw - In Lucy Bradshaw

That's weilding the axe........ more like the butter knife!

[Dalai Lama]

exactly - Hoss has to take charge of the utensils - "you can lead a horse to water - but can he use a butter knife"?

[Brettb]

If Currie doesn't offer more than pyke as a back up ruck then why are we keeping him. He showed in the NAB cup that he can at least take a mark up forward even if he can't kick straight.

Agreed, we cannot continue to go into games with only 21 players, Pyke offers absolutely nothing around the ground at all.

[sWAns63]

Agreed, we cannot continue to go into games with only 21 players, Pyke offers absolutely nothing around the ground at all.

I wouildn't mind that change as well see how he goes

[sWAns63]

Really we should win at least 3 out of the next 4, Tigers, Kangas, Demons, Blues so long as Bradshaw & Kenelley are back and our bullocking midfield seems to work against those teams.

[ernie koala]

Agreed, we cannot continue to go into games with only 21 players, Pyke offers absolutely nothing around the ground at all.

Agree with this. His lack of productivity around the ground is a serious handicap.
I know it wont happen..but
OUT : Pyke, Bevan, White, Jetta
IN : Bradshaw, Vespa, TDL, Kennelly (LRT can do some relief work in the ruck)

Couple of 'Roosy's classic comments' ..."We 've still got 9 or 10 rounds to go, so we don't want to bring Bradshaw or Kennelly back early and have them out for another 2 or 3 weeks".....ke....so why did they play kennelly against Port, especially when we had the bye the next round?....and..."Jets probably needs to go back to the 2's and kick a couple of goals to gain some confidence"....ke...The horse has well and truely bolted, should of happened 3 or 4 rounds ago.

[AnnieH]

Tiggers can rip us a new one if we're not turned on.

[RogueSwan]

In: Bradshaw\TDL
Out: Jetta\Bevan

Move Goodes out of the forward and into the midfield in place of McVeigh. McVeigh can take the midfield/wing position. May even convert a few chances.
Bevan out still leaves us with a back line of Eski, LRT, Shaw, Smith, Grundy, Mattner. Rohan can switch between HB and HF as required.
That will give us a line up of:

Backs: Mattner, Grundy, Smith, Eski, LRT, Shaw

Mids: Goodes, Kirk, B1, McVeigh, Jack, Mummy, Kennedy, Pebbles (push one/two fwd if you want more fwds.)

Fwds: Bradshaw, White, McGlynn, TDL

Int: Hanners, Bird, Rohan, Pyke

[wearebloods]

Depending on injuries from Saturday's game, would like to see TDL & Thornton seriously considered this week. These two gambles might relish the opportunity to play seniors and show some of the passengers how it's done.

[rojo]

Lose to the Tigers? Surely not. I know they have been playing some good footy lately but they are one team that our game plan seems to work against!

Outs for following game: Any of Shaw, Mattner, Malceski, (Kennelly if he plays) whose kick-ins do not lead to the ball getting over the centre line! Also the talls who do not find space and make a viable target.

[hammo]

Looks like White will be joining Jetta in Canberra for a few weeks:


Attack needs a re-think, admits Roos - Official AFL Website of the Sydney Swans Football Club

"We need to do something a bit different this week," Roos said on Monday.

"[White] will probably go back and play in the seconds and get some confidence and kick some goals. I'm confident enough in him that in two or three weeks' time, perhaps, he'll be back up playing senior footy.