Tweet
drop him. soooooo unimpressed with his performance this year...
-
-
i agree jessie must go and take jetta and bevan with him.promote anyone who gives a genuine contest at the ballforgotten 1996
2005 a much sweeter memory,2012 even betterComment
-
Not going to give up hope yet.I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
-
Jetta would be in line for the chop before either White or Bevan.
Both White and Bevan have scored handy goals for us on more than one occasion, but Jetta seems to still be trading on his performance in last year's NAB Cup match at Blacktown.
His speed is really not that useful to us on a small and congested ground like the SCG, although it comes in handy elsewhere. It's his accuracy that's the problem. Returns of 8.24 in 25 games overall (and 3.11 at the SCG) suggests he needs a fair bit of time in the reserves working on it.Comment
-
It seems to me from what I've read that a few of our younger players, the club's future, are down on form this season. Its not just White.Occupational hazards:
- animal psychic Amanda de WarrenI don't eat animals since discovering this ability. I used to. But one day the lamb I was eating came through to me and ever since then I haven't been able to eat meat.Comment
-
To me he seems to lack a bit of footy nous.
When he gets the ball he's usually great, but he just doesn't seem to get it enough.
I know he has a basketball background. Did he grow up playing AFL?
Maybe he doesn't know where to go to get maximum ball.Comment
-
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)Comment
-
Please Longmire... drop White and don't play Bevan anywhere but forward...Comment
-
I always hear that about Bevan, but I don't see it in the games I watch or in the statistics.
It's interesting now that they collect "pressure stats", he seems to be quite unremarkable in an area one might have thought he would excel in.
He seems to be constantly behind or giving away frees in defence. Up forward, he at least manages to get space for an easy mark and a few goals, but also goes missing (though not nearly as badly as White).
Nobody could say he doesn't work hard, but I think his physical impact is overstated, and doesn't make up for his decision-making or skills.Comment
-
give bevan one more go next week but never ever use him in the backline, just plonk him up forward. As for white, i dont think its career over, but he needs a kick up the rear and a confidence boost and he can bugger off to the ressies for a month or two and see how he goes. Lets see if players like johnson and currie can play, presuming they are fit, rather than give white 50 games. I most interested in seeing currie have a go. I know you cant hand out games, but surely white is not performing well enough to get a game right now.Theres not much left to sayComment
-
If he does excel at another club (which I highly doubt), then good luck to him but he's had more than his fair share of chances and surely the coaches are as over it as much as we are.It's the tattoos.
Every bit of ink reduced his skills
I'd also say he's gone for a few weeks to build his confidence.
Sadly, I'm worried that it's not just confidence but a lack of skills of a football brain that are holding him back.
He'll be traded unles he is able to do something more for us, and I just know he'll be one of those players who shines at another club and everyone will be saying "what were the Swans thinking trading White?"
I didn't see them, just stuff up after stuff up, intertwined with strutting around like a peacock!Comment
-
Speaking of Bevan, I have until now thought that his efforts in the forward line justify him a place in the team, when they play him there, but on Friday night I was really angry at his efforts in the last quarter down back. His pathetic handball that led to a Blues goal, followed by a couple of inept and ineffectual attempts to stop opposition players, were so much the opposite to what was needed, when most of the others were busting a gut - it was just inexplicable. Looking at the replay, his best effort was to run at a player, not to tackle, just run at him, one was Judd and of course he missed him and Judd goaled. If only he had dived to lay a tackle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn't just drop him, I'd banish him to Siberia.
Comment
-
I was buying a poncho at Friday's game and the person before me bought a Jesse White badge. It was baffling.Comment
-
Longmire seems to think that switching White back and forward between the forward line and the ruck is hindering his development as a forward:
AFL | Sydney Swans coach John Longmire tries to find best fit
Perhaps ominously, he also uses the phrase "when or whether" in relation to Bradshaw's return.Comment
Comment