Pick your Best 22, but in order of preference

[ScottH]

As the title says.

Who would be your first, second pick, etc??

It's hard enough to pic a best 22 without choosing the order.

[Dirtyburt]

As the title says.

Who would be your first, second pick, etc??

It's hard enough to pic a best 22 without choosing the order.

You mean the 21 after LRT?

[Dirtyburt]

LRT, Goodes, Mumford, JPK, jack, Ted, hanners, Reid, Bolton, jetta, rok, Mcveigh, shaw, mattner, Grundy, AJ, pyke, mcglynn, bird,smiff, malcescki, Everitt

[RogueSwan]

1. Kennedy
2. Jack
3. Teddy
4. Jetstar
5. Goodes (not on current form though)
6. Jude
7. Mummy
8. I lyke myke
9. Smiffy
10. Sam
11. Reg
12. Shaw
13. The Hyphen
14. Hanners
15. Bird
16. Benny
17. TDL
18. Parker
19. Super Marty
20. McVeigh
21. AJ
22. The Eski
23. Pebbles

You are right Scott, it is bloody hard. For me anyone below the first half dozen are all equal and I just listed them as I remembered them.

[Dan]

1. Goodes
2. Mumford
3. Richards
4. Kennedy
5. Jetta
6. Jack
7. Bolton
8. Hannebery
9. McVeigh
10. O'Keefe
11. Grundy
12. Shaw
13. Reid
14. Smith
15. Mattner
16. Roberts-Thompson
17. McGlynn
18. Johnson
19. Pyke
20. Rohan
21. Bird
22. Malceski
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23. Parker
24. Armstrong
25. Everitt/Dennis-Lane

[Dirtyburt]

22 guys, twenty two

[DamY]

What's tough is that if someone doesn't have a really good game, someone as steps up. For example, Jetta had a couple of quiet games, and Jack stood up. Kennedy was getting tagged like crazy, and then Hannebery and ROK stepped up. Richards got outdone by Jack Riewoldt and that was one of a few losses. I guess if it was on up to now form is have my top 10 but anymore and they'd probs all be similar

[Captain]

1. Mumford
2. Kennedy
3. Jack
4. Richards
5. Goodes
6. Grundy
7. Smith
8. Reid
9. ROK
10. Jetta
11. McVeigh
12. Shaw
13. Bolton
14. Hanneberry
15. Mattner
16. LRT
17. McGlynn
18. Johnson
19. TDL
20. Pyke
21. Malceski
22. Bird

Would definitely have Rohan in top 15, but he is out for the year so am not considering him.

[BSA5]

I'll leave out Rohan because he's out for the season and in development, so it's impossible to guess where he'd be right now anyway.

1. Teddy - we have the midfielders to cover Kennedy, Jack, etc, but we don't have anyone who can cover Richards
2. Mumford - provided he's fit
3. Kennedy
4. Jack
5. Jetta
6. Mattner
7. Grundy
8. AJ
9. Smith
10. McVeigh
11. ROK
12. Goodes
13. Hanners
14. Shaw
15. Jude
16. Pyke
17. Reid
18. Bird
19. LRT
20. Malceski
21. McGlynn
22. Everitt

Forwards are generally lower than defenders because I feel our success has been much more due to, and therefore rests upon, our defensive group. Pyke has jumped well and truly out of our bottom 6 over the last two weeks as well.

[Doctor]

I tried a list and then found I couldn't rank my Swannies like this!! It's also hard because a level of indispensibility is determined by the alternatives you have available. For example, we can do without Parker at the moment because the other mids are fit. We can afford to rest Mummy because of the emergence of Pyke. The one guy we can't replace in the short term IMO is Richards, so he'd be my undisputed no. 1 on this list. The others can be covered to some degree but I think we'd really miss Ted. My 22 is the current team (that played St Kilda) with TDL in and Everitt out.

[RogueSwan]

consolidated from the lists given so far:
Kennedy
Teddy
Mummy
Jack
Goodes
Jetstar
Jude
Reg
Smiff
Reid
Shaw
Hanners
TDL
McVeigh
Pebbles
The Eski
The Hyphen
Pyke
Marty
Benny
AJ
Bird

[ScottH]

1. Kennedy
2. Ted
3. Mumford
4. Jack
5. Jetta
6. Goodes
7. Shaw
8. Hanners
9. ROK
10. Smith
11. McVeigh
12. AJ
13. Mattner
14. Grundy
15. Shaw
16. Parker
17. Pyke
18. Reid
19. Rohan
20. LRT
21. Malceski
22. McGlynn

Glad I'm not a selector!!

[Captain]

Wow Scott, Grundy at 14 is low. The guy is a gun defender and has to be top 10!

[liz]

AFL Insider had a segment last night about the most important player for each team. Brad Scott covered the Swans, and settled for Jetta. (Discussion centred around Jack and Goodes as also being possibles.)

That got me thinking about who the player I'd least like the team to lose right now for an extended period. Traditionally the answer would have been an easy "Goodes" because he was clearly our most potent matchbreaker. But half a season without him playing (or still searching for match fitness) has taught us that the team can well and truly win without Goodes firing.

Mummy is definitely important, though at least we have some competent stand-ins. Collectively our midfield is critical to ongoing success this year, but if we lost any one of Kennedy, Jack, McVeigh et I'd hope the rest could stand up and cover that (with the aid of Parker returning). Reid is important structurally but his direct contribution right now isn't great enough for him to be close to the most important player.

In the end I decided my answer was Ted. While I think the whole defence has worked well together, and each one has performed well on both an individual level and collectively, it is hard to ignore Ted as the conductor of the whole affair. We already get to witness a few moments each game when some combination of Mattner, Smith, Reg or Shaw loses their minds for a while and create goals out of nothing for the opposition. But generally Ted has been there to steady the ship. And when the defence has been bombarded by an opposition run-on, it has been Ted taking intercept mark after intercept mark after intercept mark. I therefore fear not only the loss of Ted for his own contribution, but also for the calming and organisational effect he appears to be having on the rest of the defence.

[swansrule100]

im presuming mummy is available parker is on the way back and rohan is out for the season

on current form

1- shaw- when we are in trouble in defence he kicks in, he provides run, if jetta is held he is even more important as he takes the game on, how many players mark and handball to shaw
2- kennedy
3- richards
4- jetta
5- mumford
6- goodes (form is a bit patchy at the moment)
7- grundy
8- jack
9- okeefe-
10- reid structure pick not performance

11- johnson
12- pyke
13- smith
14- mattner
15- hanneberry
16- bird
17- bolton- feel bad him being low
18 johnson
19 mcglynn
20 lrt
21 malceski
22 everitt or parker whoever is playing