R21 Swans V Dogs: Pre-Game Discussion

[Hartijon]

Scoreboard Pressure

Or Bevan. Whichever way I'm guessing our FF line won't line up as named.

Good ins for a couple of tough outs. Our big test - can we mix it with the big boys? We're unlikely to get a better chance. Dogs have a lot of credibility to claw back. Should be a cracking game.

We CAN mix it with the big boys! We have proven that many times.What we have been unable to do is to apply scoreboard pressure (except recently). Our forays into the forward 50 need finishing off and without Bradshaw,with White hot and cold, with McGlynne out, we have one natural forward in TDL who has to kick a bag for us.Goodsey must be a star White has to be Hot not Cold! Otherwise the super accurate never miss forward line of the Dogs will take the game out of reach with their accuracy despite our boys matching them all over the ground.Roosey has to be on his mettle too and act to stop the Doggies having one explosive quarter that sinks us. They are stoppable,they are beatable,our attitude is good and they have a couple of shaky players coming off illnesses. I think we can win but only if the forward line functions and is accurate and applies SCOREBOARD pressure

[UglyDuckling]

love the ins: Rohan, Smith

Hate the Outs: McGlynn, Moore

I think mCglynn has become super important to our forward line functioning, we all talk about our form dropping when bradshaw went out but this coincided with benny's injury. Moore has also been a handy forward with clever kicks into the forward 50

On the other hand its great to see a couple of young natural forward running around together with TDL and Rohan. Add jetta at times and we will have a super exciting young forward line.

Smith will be very handy in shuting down some of the doggies dangerous forwards probably gia since higgins is out. PLay kennelly or mal on johnston cos aker tells us he has no defensive pressure.

[ShockOfHair]

I suspect Lake won't play. Why? Because the Doggies have only named 1 ruckman, who is just returning from that virus and have 2 ruck-capable emergencies in store.

If he does I hope he plays like last week. He gave away some soft goals in Cats' ten-goal quarter.

Hate to see McGlynn missing. Have we won a game this year without him?

[ugg]

love the ins: Rohan, Smith

Had to be, against the Bulldogs.

[Go Swannies]

Had to be, against the Bulldogs.

Very clever. Now all we need to find is if the umpires are Schmitt: Head

[Peace]

man i really hoped Moore would stay in the side.... he is so important to our forward structure at the moment.

good to see smith and the ranga back though

[Go Swannies]

man i really hoped Moore would stay in the side.... he is so important to our forward structure at the moment.

good to see smith and the ranga back though

Me too. I think he might be as big a loss as Ben M. Who is going to organise our disorganised forwards now?

[Bas]

After what happened with Jude and Ryan earlier in the year and their headknocks, there is no way the SWans were going to play him this week.

Hopefully Rohan can doa McGlynn like performance this week.

[cruiser]

Good inclusions. Smith will have the pace to hopefully catch some of the fast WB goal scorers and Rohan will be another fast attacking player (hopefully) weaving havoc around the Dogs defence.

[Triple B]

Smith did a pretty reasonable job on Gia in Canberra, likely to get the job again.

[Bas]

Barry Hall's return to the SCG

I hope we make him cry again.

[AnnieH]

Barry Hall's return to the SCG

I hope we make him cry again.

I hope he does something really stoopid that gets him suspended for the rest of the year.

[dreadom]

I hope that the dogs get a shellacking, and Bary realises he should have controlled his temper and stuck with a winning side.

[Nich]

I hope he does something really stoopid that gets him suspended for the rest of the year.

I hope we make him cry tomorrow and then make him cry again in September some time. That would be pretty fun ; )

[giant]

Wow, where did the Barry love go? Love to see him win the Coleman he should have got with us - he can kick seven tomorrow in a losing side and that will be fine by me.