Mega merged trading thread

[Cardinal]

Chris Dawes would be great (though I don't know how we'd be able to adequately compensate the pies...) and so would Brent Macaffer. His trade price wouldn't be too high and he would surely be seeking some opportunities to regularly play in a starting side.

Hopefully the Pies are running into salaray cap issues and we get him cheap because they see us as no threat

[Dosser]

i guess the point i have been trying to make is that white gets blamed because our side simply kicks high up and unders into the fifty, and it really doesn't matter who you put there for the majority of those kicks (cf friday night for the classic example of it) are simply rubbish kicks. and that is the case for most mid table to lower table teams.

Agree. White cannot take a contested mark and will only mark on the lead. For this reason our delivery into the forward line simply doesnt suit him. It is like our mids got all excited because Reid can take 3 or 4 contested grabs every game, so bomb it in 15 times in the hope that this time will be the one. The only time bombing it in is to our advantage is when ball movement is quick from the middle, so there is no time for the opposition to zone. This means that my point is emphasized - our game plan is all wrong. When we played Collingwood and moved the ball fast and bombed long it worked, but when we dont move the ball fast and still bomb it long, then players like Gibson simply hang back and create records for spoiling stats.

let's get our mids to move it quickly and White will become a much better player.

[GongSwan]

On forward entries, our mark and play on percentage must go up. This is how you move the ball quickly and isolate targets forward. We don't match up well on teams like Carlton and Hawks because they outrun us and their bottom six players our better than ours. Run and spread, if we are recruiting anyone for anything

[neilfws]

Article on Swans web site about our success in "recycling":

The Master Regenerators

Contains a rather ominous sentence: "Some seem to have fallen by the wayside - Mike Pyke, Mark Seaby, Paul Bevan, Nick Malceski."

[Plugger46]

On forward entries, our mark and play on percentage must go up. This is how you move the ball quickly and isolate targets forward. We don't match up well on teams like Carlton and Hawks because they outrun us and their bottom six players our better than ours. Run and spread, if we are recruiting anyone for anything

Exactly right. This is where we get left behind sometimes.

[Bleed Red Blood]

Not going to happen. I think our best option in this area is to continue putting work into Pykey to replicate the kind of options we can see in West Coast and, let it be said after last night, Hawthorn. Mummy had it all over Hale and Bailey but he needs better support than Jesse can give, and Big Mike will make a very useful marking target down forward.
The other thing is the midfield.Hanners was carrying his shoulder and Parker probably should have started, Jack is still getting back into the thick of things and Macca was up and down, but we were beaten by a better outfit last night. We can do better with the personnel we have but my impression is we need to do something about the drop-off in intensity and do more to develop our outside game: we looked vulnerable when the game opened up. Another running mid is what we need.

Agree with all of that. We are going to have a very, very good midfield in a few years, but right now we need a Paul Williams. Someone with pace, who can kick to our forwards advantage.

[goswannie14]

I'm going to blow this place sky high - you heard it here first:

Jetta to Freo...........
Two subs as of next year..........

Ross Lyon wouldn't recruit a player who isn't a defensive tagger. Jetta would be the proverbial square peg in a round hole in any team Lyon coaches.

[Bleed Red Blood]

Ross Lyon wouldn't recruit a player who isn't a defensive tagger. Jetta would be the proverbial square peg in a round hole in any team Lyon coaches.

... weird comment considering the team you support. and i wonder what kind of player you think goddard is? dal santo? strange

[goswannie14]

... weird comment considering the team you support. and i wonder what kind of player you think goddard is? dal santo? strange

I find your comments equally as strange given he didn't recruit either of those that you mentioned.

I have never liked Ross Lyons defensive at all costs mentality.

I have supported the Swans for over 40 years, have seen coaches (and assistants) come and go. Just because they were paid by the Swans and my membership doesn't mean I have to like their style.

[Melbourne_Blood]

Jetta needs to harden up, improve his skills, put on some size, and get an attitude adjustment. He can be part of the solution to our lack of pace/ slow ball movement. As will Rooster, and Lamb ( from what ive heard, not his pace but his ball movement is quick ). We do lack plenty in the run and spread category, it was so frustrating watching at the G on Friday, you could see how Hawks just had free players spreading whenever they got the ball. When we got it, know one would move.

[Gezball]

ok.......... I admit it.............. I would secretly be happy if we picked up fev in the preseason draft..

[Cardinal]

i rekon free agency would help the swans right now even with gws in yje mix

[BSA5]

Ross Lyon wouldn't recruit a player who isn't a defensive tagger. Jetta would be the proverbial square peg in a round hole in any team Lyon coaches.

Lovett, Peake, Ray, Schneider... Most of the players Lyon has targeted in trade week have been outside players.

[hot potato]

ok.......... I admit it.............. I would secretly be happy if we picked up fev in the preseason draft..

Yes. I am willing to give Fev his final hurrah at The Swannies.

[ScottH]

Yes. I am willing to give Fev his final hurrah at The Swannies.

Me too.