Round 15: Sydney Swans Reserves v Queanbeyan Tigers

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Done

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The team list has been amended. Bird, Johnston and Thornton are no longer in the squad. Two more top ups Weston and Pearson have been included. See original post for more details.

Johnston's withdrawal would be consistent with what Mr Magoo reported was in the Daily Tele yesterday (hip injury?) although that article also reportedly said that Rohan was out as well but he has been named.

We're now down to 12 listed players on the day. Queanbeyan have a good shot at winning this now.

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For those in Canberra, they are broadcasting it on QBN FM 96.7

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Added jumper numbers and one more top up Lambert

Queanbeyan

1. Mark Armstrong
2. Ryan Quade
3. Jordan Longmore
4. Sam Jensen
5. Jason Satchell
7. Paul Franchi
8. Neil Irwin
9. William Griggs
10. James Kavanagh
11. Chris Haddock
13. Roy Jaques
15. Mitch Daniher
17. Timothy Cook
18. Andrew Lieschke
20. Toby Conroy
24. Todd Dickinson
30. Kristoffer Thompson
31. Matthew Liddle
33. Michael Wescombe
34. Andrew Swan
35. Paul Slater
39. Simon Mackie
43. James Nancarrow
?. Sean Kelly

Em: 50. Ryan Price

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Tough game for the bubs, Currie didn't play and I believe Meredith was rested rather than injured meaning they only had 10 listed players.

Swans 4.3 9.4 11.5 14.7 (91)
Tigers 3.7 10.8 14.15 19.18 (132)

SYDNEY SWANS Goal Kickers: G. ROHAN 6, P. VESZPREMI 4, D. MCNEIL , C. MCKAIGUE , S. PEARSON , B. MALCOLM
Best Players: C. MCKAIGUE, G. ROHAN, S. REID, P. VESZPREMI, D. MCNEIL, M. THOMPSON
QUEANBEYAN Goal Kickers: M. ARMSTRONG 6, J. KAVANAGH 4, M. DANIHER 2, M. WESCOMBE 2, J. SATCHELL , T. COOK , C. HADDOCK , W. GRIGGS , P. Franchi
Best Players: M. DANIHER, J. KAVANAGH, T. Conroy, R. QUADE, C. HADDOCK, M. ARMSTRONG

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"Tough" would be an understatement, but would hardly describe the actions of some of the Queanbeyan "snipers" who went out there with no other aim but to physically intimidate a clearly much younger and smaller opposition.

Seeing Campbell Heath laying face down motionless at the feet of Mark Armstrong, before the first bounce, was frankly sickening ... I thought that crap went out of the game in the last millenium!

The umpires did little from then on to protect the Swans players from the cheap late shots from a number of the Queanbeyan "heroes" ... you tend to overlook the umpiring when the team is winning easily, but it is far more obvious in games like this one.

All a bit of a shame really, because it was always going to be a contest, with the majority of the top ups, and all of the scholarship players 1st year u/18's, and a very young, short roster of listed players giving the Ressies probably the most inexperienced team they have fielded in a long time ... and no ruckman didn't help either! (top up 26. Tim Lambert did a manful job for a lot of the day, but i'm pretty sure that he doesn't even ruck for his club side!).

Predictably, age and experience eventually told, the Swans were not intimidated, but Campbell Heath was still at a loss to explain why he had to come off under the blood rule, and when asked what happened, he couldn't remember!

The "usual suspects" played well for the Swans - couldn't argue with the official list of bests - but the "rookie" mistakes (over using, burning leads) seemed to spread to the listed players as the game went on. Potter (48) and Guthrie (47) - mixed them up again ugg! - had some good touches, as did a few of the top ups. Could be a couple of injuries out of today too (soft tissue only, hopefully).

Overall, a good tough hit out and wake up call, but probably best to forget and move on - can't see Queanbeyan doing much more based on that either.

[Primmy]

I cornered Andrew Ireland about the ressies game (me and him, we are like That!), first to ask about Cambo and he said they have recorded vision on what happened, and they are not impressed, someone is going to be sited. I think some of the Queanbeyan bullies think they were playing in the local paddock, they had no idea the game was being recorded. They will shortly.

There were only 10 Swans this game.

Next I gave a wrap to 26 Not Henry and he said he was a toppy who was ok with rucking the whole game, and they chose to play him rather than Sam Reid as their rucky was a bit of a unit and Sam isn't, just a backup one when necessary. I thought he was terrific, and should be given a very positive wrap. I forgot to mention that Curry was out due to calf injury picked up at last weeks game when he rucked the whole game, A.I. was impressed with him.

The umps are shameful, including that female who they replaced at an earlier game up here as she was so incompetent, and they did little to protect the kids, and I mean the toppies, one of whom may have topped 15 yo but not going to put money on it. At one point a Q player had one of our toppies pinned to the ground and straddled him in monster mode for an extended period. Nothing was done. Nothing. There must be a lot of jealousy against the Swans boys - apparently they have done the unforgiveable and are professional players - but to target underage toppies is just weak.

I must say that for the first half I saw, that Vez is turning himself around and producing some good play. Sam Reid is so reliable. Gary Rohan is a class above. Gilly is still honing his kicking in and still looks like Marty Mattner on the run. MOD worked, and worked. I do believe there may have been some sting that stung.

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Potter (48) and Guthrie (47) - mixed them up again ugg!

I'm afraid you have caught me doing a dodgy cut and paste job. I have fixed the OP.

At one point a Q player had one of our toppies pinned to the ground and straddled him in monster mode for an extended period. Nothing was done. Nothing. There must be a lot of jealousy against the Swans boys - apparently they have done the unforgiveable and are professional players - but to target underage toppies is just weak.

That topup was Lambert, and the Queanbeyan bench weren't happy either. They were shouting to their player to get off him quick smart while that female umpire just stood and watched. I missed the first few minutes and so didn't see the Heath-Armstrong incident and besides that Lambert incident I didn't think Queanbeyan did too much wrong. They knew they had the size advantage and they used it well. I feel sorry for the young toppies, some of the will be feeling mighty sore this morning, but I don't expect Queanbeyan to go easy on them either.

Interesting comment you made on Members function Primmy about Longmire praising Vez and others. Longmire actually called out to the runner midway through the second quarter and told him to get Vez further up the ground. I'm not sure what the actual reserves coaches would have though of that as they were watching from the box. Very strange as Longmire and the other senior coaches are content to just come out and watch in silence but today Horse took on a hands-on role.

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Looks like he may be formulating his 2011 team ugg. Getting excited maybe.

[liz]

Interesting comment you made on Members function Primmy about Longmire praising Vez and others. Longmire actually called out to the runner midway through the second quarter and told him to get Vez further up the ground. I'm not sure what the actual reserves coaches would have though of that as they were watching from the box. Very strange as Longmire and the other senior coaches are content to just come out and watch in silence but today Horse took on a hands-on role.

I noticed that too, sitting right behind where Longmire and some of the injured and senior players were sitting. (In fact, I wondered if you were sitting just across the isle from me in the first half because I noticed someone who looked like they were twitting away vigilantly.)

Very difficult outing for our boys yesterday. In the end it wasn't just weight of numbers that told out - it was weight of inches too. The loss of Currie was huge, because gallant as the guy who came in and rucked for the Swans was, he struggled to keep his feet at times. Our midfielders, used to having silver service from Currie, were much much less effective at clearances. But in defence, too, we were mightily outsized and the Tigers are probably the worst team to be outsized against. It wasn't the same level of disappointment that the Ainslee game was a few weeks ago because most of our guys still put in all game. But they were up against it.

In terms of individuals, Rohan's class shone out like a beacon. Wonder whether his role almost exclusively in the forward line was because he is still lacking a little match fitness or because they wanted a genuine marking target up there - he would certainly have been useful elsewhere on the ground. He missed a couple of gettable shots but his conversion was still pretty reasonable. And his pace and the timing of his marks were a delight to watch.

I thought Vez was good, rather than great. One of his goals came from a Dicky Navis type conversion from tight on the boundary, where he made the ball dance in the air to curve in at the perfect angle. There were other moments where no doubt the coaches were saying to themselves "Oh Patty!" as he tried to do too much on his own. I doubt it is a game that will get him recalled to the seniors but it was solid, nonetheless.

Reid's game was a little odd in how he was used. I was wondering why they weren't playing him in the ruck, but Primmy has answered that. He was in defence in the first half and did reasonably well. In the second half I thought he had gone off as a senior emergency but then saw him meandering around CHF. He took one nice mark up forward (but missed the conversion) but didn't really have much of an impact up there. It seemed curious that they would move him away from defence given he was the only player we had over 192cm tall. Maybe he was a bit sore and they didn't want to subject him to any more battering??

Sumner was OK but nowhere near as lively or effective as he was last week. Last week it was when he went on the ball that he became a livewire but he didin't spend so much time there this week. There were a few moments where he burst through traffic at top speed but overall he lacked the zip of last week.

The mid-sized defending trio of McCaigue, Gilchrist and Heath bore the brunt of the onslaught. They battled away manfully but there was little they could do against some of the Queanbeyan monsters.

Gordon and McNeil I thought were just OK - some nice moments but they've both had far more impact on other games.

MOD looked lively but also a bit rusty.

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That was me. Another RWOer giant also manage to work out who I was via my incessant tweeting. He was attending his first ressies game for 12 years so we can put the full blame for the loss on his shoulders. Not a good one to turn up to

[liz]

So was Giant the bloke you were chatting with?

I almost came to introduce myself but thought "you" might think me a bit odd if it wasn't actually you.

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Yes that was giant. (Gday if you're reading this). For some reason I've always had it in my mind that you sit on the opposite side on the ground.

I've only begun to sit there lately as you can pick up some tidbits from the watching players and coaches. So do come over and say hello at the next game if you're around.

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Yes that was giant. (Gday if you're reading this). For some reason I've always had it in my mind that you sit on the opposite side on the ground.

I've only begun to sit there lately as you can pick up some tidbits from the watching players and coaches. So do come over and say hello at the next game if you're around.

I do. My official seat is up in the O'Reilly stand. But I like watching the reserves from ground level and like to wander around and watch in different spots. I have started watching the first half of the reserves game from that spot, especially if I come in via the Driver Avenue entrance, rather than Moore Park. For starters, you can get to a seat before the game actually starts!