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  • AnnieH
    RWOs Black Sheep
    • Aug 2006
    • 11332

    #46
    I have it on extremely good authority that the selectors were looking for backmen, in particular.

    That's why we got Spangher. He will be asked to stop the ball (and I'm pretty sure they'll work on his skills on getting rid of it after he has done so) but his first job will be to stop the ball. It's what he does.
    Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
    Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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    • sharp9
      Senior Player
      • Jan 2003
      • 2508

      #47
      Hey we can't get the AFL highlights video stuff in Kiwiland....has anyone spotted any of our guys' highlights on youtube? I did search but got nada
      "I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005

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      • SwanSational74
        On the Rookie List
        • Nov 2010
        • 14

        #48
        Welcome to the best club in the land, guys.
        Red and White Forever.

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        • Matt79
          Bring it on!
          • Sep 2004
          • 3143

          #49
          Originally posted by SwanSational74
          Welcome to the best club in the land, guys.
          ...and welcome to you on your first post on the best fan forum site in the land!!
          Swannies for life!

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          • SwanSational74
            On the Rookie List
            • Nov 2010
            • 14

            #50
            Originally posted by Matt79
            ...and welcome to you on your first post on the best fan forum site in the land!!
            lol. Thanks for that.
            Red and White Forever.

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            • Big Al
              Veterans List
              • Feb 2005
              • 7007

              #51
              Originally posted by SwanSational74
              Welcome to the best club in the land, guys.
              Originally posted by Matt79
              ...and welcome to you on your first post on the best fan forum site in the land!!
              Originally posted by SwanSational74
              lol. Thanks for that.
              Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya;
              Kum bay ya, the Lord, kum bay ya;
              Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya,
              O Lord, kum bay ya.
              ..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC

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              • giant
                Veterans List
                • Mar 2005
                • 4731

                #52
                Originally posted by AnnieH
                I have it on extremely good authority that the selectors were looking for backmen, in particular.

                That's why we got Spangher. He will be asked to stop the ball (and I'm pretty sure they'll work on his skills on getting rid of it after he has done so) but his first job will be to stop the ball. It's what he does.
                Yeh Annie no doubt, but what an admission of failure? Bolton's age has hardly snuck up on us, so why all of a sudden are we accepting the wooden spooner's reject backman from the worst defence in the competition as our next defender? List management should have seen this coming and should be thankful we've seen the improvement we have in Reg and LRT. Personally, if we get into the situation we did last year down to just two talls then I'd prefer to see Reid or Johnston or even Pyke getting a run, rather than a bloke who has demonstrated very very little in his 5 years in the system. Anyway, enuff said!

                On to the youngsters, and who knows what they'll be like but as usual they seem to have great back stories - looks the Swans have a preference for players with strong families. I wonder whether they think that helps with the interstate transition? Anyway, Lamb and Parker may well be in the mix next season.

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                • Auntie.Gerald
                  Veterans List
                  • Oct 2009
                  • 6483

                  #53
                  Originally posted by giant
                  Yeh Annie no doubt, but what an admission of failure? Bolton's age has hardly snuck up on us, so why all of a sudden are we accepting the wooden spooner's reject backman from the worst defence in the competition as our next defender? List management should have seen this coming and should be thankful we've seen the improvement we have in Reg and LRT. Personally, if we get into the situation we did last year down to just two talls then I'd prefer to see Reid or Johnston or even Pyke getting a run, rather than a bloke who has demonstrated very very little in his 5 years in the system. Anyway, enuff said!

                  On to the youngsters, and who knows what they'll be like but as usual they seem to have great back stories - looks the Swans have a preference for players with strong families. I wonder whether they think that helps with the interstate transition? Anyway, Lamb and Parker may well be in the mix next season.
                  hhhmmmm there are a stack of backs even without CBolton, Kennelly, Mattner.........approx

                  Mal, C.Heath, Smithy, Grundy, Teddy, Reid, Alex Johnson, LRT (only 27), Everitt, Bevo, and even Rohan maybe on the HB flank?...........and Spangher for depth
                  "be tough, only when it gets tough"

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                  • laughingnome
                    Amateur Statsman
                    • Jul 2006
                    • 1624

                    #54
                    Originally posted by AnnieH
                    That's why we got Spangher. He will be asked to stop the ball (and I'm pretty sure they'll work on his skills on getting rid of it after he has done so) but his first job will be to stop the ball. It's what he does.
                    This sounds eerily familiar to why we went after SuperTed. He has his detractors sometimes but the guy gets the job done. Wrong to expect more of the same from Spangher?
                    10100111001 ;-)

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                    • Bas
                      Veterans List
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 4457

                      #55
                      Originally posted by Big Al
                      Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya;
                      Kum bay ya, the Lord, kum bay ya;
                      Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya,
                      O Lord, kum bay ya.
                      Big Al, stop roasting those mashmellows soaked in cogniac.
                      In memory of my little Staffy - Dicey, 17.06.2005 to 1.12.2011- I'll miss you mate.

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                      • AnnieH
                        RWOs Black Sheep
                        • Aug 2006
                        • 11332

                        #56
                        Originally posted by giant
                        Yeh Annie no doubt, but what an admission of failure? Bolton's age has hardly snuck up on us, so why all of a sudden are we accepting the wooden spooner's reject backman from the worst defence in the competition as our next defender? List management should have seen this coming and should be thankful we've seen the improvement we have in Reg and LRT. Personally, if we get into the situation we did last year down to just two talls then I'd prefer to see Reid or Johnston or even Pyke getting a run, rather than a bloke who has demonstrated very very little in his 5 years in the system. Anyway, enuff said!
                        Because maybe the selectors didn't see him the way you do. Of the few budgie games I watched last year, the names most called were NicNat, LeCrap, and Spangher up the back - stopping the ball.

                        Maybe we should see how he comes out playing for us, before we hit the OMG what were they thinking button.

                        As I recall, that button was pressed pretty early last year (I think I never took my finger off it for a few months), and I was well and truly proved wrong.
                        Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                        Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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                        • cookie
                          On the Rookie List
                          • Oct 2010
                          • 50

                          #57
                          The way some people are going on you would think pick 73 would get us an absolute gun. Most players around this range dont ever play a senior game, and the ones that do make it often need time to develop and are better off to be rookie selections. So given we wanted a ready made player - Spangher is a a very good selection at 73.

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                          • Jewels
                            On the Rookie List
                            • Oct 2006
                            • 3258

                            #58
                            Originally posted by cookie
                            The way some people are going on you would think pick 73 would get us an absolute gun. Most players around this range dont ever play a senior game, and the ones that do make it often need time to develop and are better off to be rookie selections. So given we wanted a ready made player - Spangher is a a very good selection at 73.
                            My thoughts exactly Cookie....

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                            • Triple B
                              Formerly 'BBB'
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 6999

                              #59
                              Originally posted by cookie
                              The way some people are going on you would think pick 73 would get us an absolute gun. Most players around this range dont ever play a senior game, and the ones that do make it often need time to develop and are better off to be rookie selections. So given we wanted a ready made player - Spangher is a a very good selection at 73.
                              Bingo.
                              Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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

                                #60
                                We have a list of 40 players + rookies.

                                In that list we require forwards, backs, utilities, midfielders, young, old, developing, mature.

                                In 2011 some will be first choice, some will be groomed to be first choice and others will be back-up.

                                If the club feels that over the entire list of 40 plus players that it has enough developing KP talls and wants some futher insurance cover for this year and the next, then so what.

                                It's remarkable that we can spend so much time on her bitching about such a minor decision, when we have just drafted another 3 young kids to the 4 we drafted last year who will have the final say on where our club will be in 3 years time than Spangher ever will.

                                For the record, out of the smalll amount of mature aged players in the country capable of playing some decent back-up football in a KP defender role he was about the best around.

                                DST
                                Last edited by DST; 20 November 2010, 09:49 AM.
                                "Looking forward to a rebuilt, new, fast and exciting Swans model in 2010"

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