Please, please, please drop Tadhg

[bondy]

Umm, last week?

Haha

[giant]

Umm, last week?

Yes, I did think of Mal but that was unquestionably injury/sub related. Richards was probably more a balance thing. Ablett & Mal in 2009 are closer to this. It doens't happen very often at the Swans and significantly less than happens at other clubs I would think.

[Big Al]

Yes, I did think of Mal but that was unquestionably injury/sub related. Richards was probably more a balance thing. Ablett & Mal in 2009 are closer to this. It doens't happen very often at the Swans and significantly less than happens at other clubs I would think.

Wouldn't have though there be too many senior players dropped at other clubs. Still, happy for a stat guru to prove that wrong.

Senior players get to be a senior player for a reason and it would take sustained form issues to be dropped.

[Hartijon]

Wouldn't have though there be too many senior players dropped at other clubs. Still, happy for a stat guru to prove that wrong.

Senior players get to be a senior player for a reason and it would take sustained form issues to be dropped.

"COLLINGWOOD coach Mick Malthouse has warned there will be changes to his team after the hot-and-cold Pies struggled to see off the 15th-placed Brisbane Lions on Saturday night".

My impression is that it happens quite a lot in Malthouse coached sides.Maybe not having a Gold Pass system and having to earn your spot each game and being picked on form explains their success?

[Big Al]

"COLLINGWOOD coach Mick Malthouse has warned there will be changes to his team after the hot-and-cold Pies struggled to see off the 15th-placed Brisbane Lions on Saturday night".

My impression is that it happens quite a lot in Malthouse coached sides.Maybe not having a Gold Pass system and having to earn your spot each game and being picked on form explains their success?

I don't get that impression. In fact keeping the nucleus of a side together seems to be one of the characteristics of the good sides. From Rd10 2005 I think the Swans only made 2 changes to the side. Still as I said, happy for a star guru to prove my impression to be incorrect.

[BSA5]

I don't get that impression. In fact keeping the nucleus of a side together seems to be one of the characteristics of the good sides. From Rd10 2005 I think the Swans only made 2 changes to the side. Still as I said, happy for a star guru to prove my impression to be incorrect.

I think you may be confusing cause and effect. The good sides don't NEED to drop their senior players, because their senior players, the nucleus of their side, is good, which is why they're a good team.

Think of Collingwood last year. They were ruthless from the start, getting rid of senior fringe players like Medhurst, Davis (who was still on the list and got a few games but wasn't given senior roles), etc, and BUILT a good senior nucleus. That is what Horse needs to do, and in fairness to him, I think a lot of this year has been about determining which players will make the senior nucleus and which players won't. I think Kennelly has been finally sorted into the latter, which means job done, really. Bevan and Moore similarly.