Round 7 Changes V Brisbane

[Ampersand]

Walsh will play out a season in the reserves and probably head back to Ireland.

[barry]

Walsh will play out a season in the reserves and probably head back to Ireland.

Walsh is now one of our most important depth players, since we lost everitt and white.

[Hartijon]

Team cohesion

There is a factor not often recognised in the age of professional footballers called "team cohesion".This is how the "team" works as a unit and only comes from experience of working together on the field under pressure.One gets to know which way a player will turn and how far his kick will go;all the little things that then allow the next player to fit into the team style. It takes time(look at Buddy!) and is not achieved by resting players. In fact our best football has been played when there were hardly any changes week to week. A settled side can play cohesive football,an unsettled side has individuals trying to make a mark. If a player in the top 22 is fit you play them.

[RogueSwan]

It'd be helped along if we beat the Lions and won the week after, too.

And at the start of the year the majority of RWOer's would have thought we would have won the first two games.....

Walsh is now one of our most important depth players, since we lost everitt and white.

What, the depth of RWO whipping boys?

[Matimbo]

It would kind of amuse me if he named his groin area either Leroy or Neville.

Left one is Leroy, right is Neville??

[Matt79]

Buddy and LRT are out.

B Jack and Reid are in.

[Faunac8]

Buddy and LRT are out.

B Jack and Reid are in.

No surprises with the outs hope LRT can make his way back and finish on his terms

[stellation]

Derickx stays, mass controversy!

I can't help but think Buddy would be playing if it was a top 4 team.

[MightyBloods]

Buddy and LRT are out.

B Jack and Reid are in.

I wouldn't be surprised with a late out. We still have some sore bodies in the selected side.

[ShockOfHair]

Gee, when was the last time LRT was dropped? With Tippett due to return could be a long road back to the As.

Good to see Reid back.

[Melbourne_Blood]

Hope Goodes is ready for a full game, he's going to have to play full forward. Hope Jack is the sub, I'd like to see Lloyd get another full game. Reid has played some good games against the lions , he debuted against them IIRC. He also kicked 6 against them one game to I believe. Hope he has another good one ! ( overusing the word hope, I know )

[Matt80]

My reading of the selection is that Lloyd will be the sub. Longmire spent some time talking about B.Jacks pace in the forward line, leading us to believe he will start.

Tom D is ahead of LRT for the second ruck spot. Is LRT contracted for 2015? This is particularly worrying for LRT as the Lions number one ruckman is out!

Hope the key forwards post of Reid and Goodes can get through as they are both short of match practice.

[undy]

My reading of the selection is that Lloyd will be the sub. Longmire spent some time talking about B.Jacks pace in the forward line, leading us to believe he will start.

Tom D is ahead of LRT for the second ruck spot. Is LRT contracted for 2015? This is particularly worrying for LRT as the Lions number one ruckman is out!

Hope the key forwards post of Reid and Goodes can get through as they are both short of match practice.

LRT will be back as soon as one of our bigger bodied backs is out. I think he plays his best football down there, but the Reg and Ted show has been going so well, its hard to crack a gig.

[Ludwig]

Agree that Derickx is ahead of LRT. The thinking would be that Derickx allows Pyke to play forward in lieu of Tippett. Once Tippett comes back, I think Derickx will be dropped. But good to give him as much game time as possible. Hopefully he can improve.

Hard to argue with medical decisions. Looks as if the decision was made to rest the 2 'superstars' for the Hawthorn game. Would have been nice for the forward line to get some practice together.

[stellation]

LRT will be back as soon as one of our bigger bodied backs is out. I think he plays his best football down there, but the Reg and Ted show has been going so well, its hard to crack a gig.

Great point on it being hard to crack a gig with those two, I hadn't really thought too much about how consistent Reg and Ted have been and just had a quick squiz- for the last 5 seasons (including this one) they've only missed a combined 16 out of 104 games- and that's mainly because of Ted missing 10 way back in 2010.
Year/Swans Total/Heath/Ted
2014: 6 H06 T06
2013: 25 H25 T25
2012: 25 H24 T25
2011: 24 H20 T23
2010: 24 H24 T14