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Yesterday the team discovered that playing with lots of effort can produce and unexpected win. It's gone full circle from the lazy Swans that Eade coached at the end of his time in Sydney through the Swans that would fight to the very end, no matter the score, - that has marked most of the Roos era.
Everyone here says we should do something differently. I'd say we should just mark each player on his effort, not skill or luck or whatever. That working for each other turned us from a lazy team to Premiers - and took the Cats from an inept team to near legends. If you just look at effort I think the team would look quite different. Obviously Jude would be at the top of the list and Mummy and LRT and Reg. I think Tiger and Mal would be looking dodgy but Shaw would be safe. So would Kirk.
Adam? Do you judge him as a normal player in which case he was okay yesterday or as a skilled player who was awful and cruising. Few would be comparing him with Judd or Gaz these days. If we wanted lazy skillful players we could have gone for Fev. Bring back Rohan as the kid really tries - and tell Jet to go and run and have fun (the way Roos told the whole team when he first started). McGlynn and Kennedy have both been good for us. ROK has been pretty good. Pyke and TDL should be told their errors will be forgiven as long as they make the effort and have enthusiasm.
The Swans used to win because they battled and played for each other. If they have stopped listening to the coach and he's stopped caring then maybe he should go back up to the box where his body language isn't a hindrance to the team. Bagging Roos whole career because he seems to have lost the faith of the team is as unfair as judging Kirk or Kelly on their final year in the team. But I'd like to see something new and that's saying "play hard, have fun and the only thing that will have you dropped is if you look like you'd rather be somewhere else'>
The sad thing about yesterday's game was that the Tigers played the way the Swans used to play. And the Swans played the way the tired teams that we unexpectedly beat used to play.
Everyone here says we should do something differently. I'd say we should just mark each player on his effort, not skill or luck or whatever. That working for each other turned us from a lazy team to Premiers - and took the Cats from an inept team to near legends. If you just look at effort I think the team would look quite different. Obviously Jude would be at the top of the list and Mummy and LRT and Reg. I think Tiger and Mal would be looking dodgy but Shaw would be safe. So would Kirk.
Adam? Do you judge him as a normal player in which case he was okay yesterday or as a skilled player who was awful and cruising. Few would be comparing him with Judd or Gaz these days. If we wanted lazy skillful players we could have gone for Fev. Bring back Rohan as the kid really tries - and tell Jet to go and run and have fun (the way Roos told the whole team when he first started). McGlynn and Kennedy have both been good for us. ROK has been pretty good. Pyke and TDL should be told their errors will be forgiven as long as they make the effort and have enthusiasm.
The Swans used to win because they battled and played for each other. If they have stopped listening to the coach and he's stopped caring then maybe he should go back up to the box where his body language isn't a hindrance to the team. Bagging Roos whole career because he seems to have lost the faith of the team is as unfair as judging Kirk or Kelly on their final year in the team. But I'd like to see something new and that's saying "play hard, have fun and the only thing that will have you dropped is if you look like you'd rather be somewhere else'>
The sad thing about yesterday's game was that the Tigers played the way the Swans used to play. And the Swans played the way the tired teams that we unexpectedly beat used to play.
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