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Bottom line is I can't believe the club is not going after Merrett who sounds available! Our time is now and if we lose either a Reg or Ted for any length of time we have no proven back up now that LRT is gone. Merrett is a beast and will add some hardness and mongrel to our backline to play on the gorillas like Hawkins and Roughead and a few of the up and coming kids in GWS and GC. Adding him will instantly make our flag chances improve! Sign him up for 3 years Swannies!
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Rance & McKenzie both weigh less than Reg. Reg had the chance to do a lot of strength work to fix that side of his game but nothing improves. He is also dumb in his positioning & therefore gives away too many frees. We need one of those defenders who are smart mate LOL. I think Aliir is one of those in the making. He doesn't body as such, normally keeps a metre back and then springs, he has great spring and leap and gets a fist on most ball. I can't wait to see him at senior level.Comment
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I rate Merrett about the same as Reg. A few years ago he was a good defender and then he lost his touch. He then moved forward and hasn't been the same since. He also seems to have lost a metre. I don't think he is the answer. Troy we have two young defenders in the Twos and a new one to develop in Abe Davis. Xav is a good player and will be a very good senior player. Aliir showed before he got injured he is a very talented young defender and is very hard to play on. He has a monumental leap and I could see him taking mark of the year one day. But the main attribute to that leap is his ability to fist the ball 30 metres out of bounds, for a point or back the way it came.Comment
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I hope you're right re: Aliir! Haven't seen much of him and didn't notice his name being talked up all that much in the 2's before he went down with injury but time will tell! All I'm saying is that our time is now and if those kids are the answer then I hope they fast track their development cos if injuries hit we may need them!Comment
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Pretty sure I watch different games with towers involved than most of you. From what I have seen he is too composed for our backline. Most of the time from what I have seen he has taken the mark and looked up, didn't like what he saw and kicked over the man on the mark.
Not like reg who managed to kick into the man on the mark in the gf from twenty metres, or nick smith who kicked into hodge in round 18, or rohan who also kicked to hodge or ted and reg doing their handball to each other regime against North and conceding a goal....I could go on for ever. Man everyone turns the ball over from our backline. But they don't do it too often. And I am yet to see evidence of towers doing it too often in the 1s.
Towers is forever going to be regarded by swans fans as a bust because he was a mature age draftee in the first round. Never mind that his actual pick made him a second round pick nor that he was a very very late bloomer and wasn't really seen as afl material as an 18yo.
I'm happy to regard him as a skinny outside player. But that was what Malceski and tadgh basically were for the majority of their careers. I'm happy to say that his skills are not what those two are. But how many of them have been put into the ruck for us.
From what I have seen of him he has improved each game and the reserves watchers clearly noted how when he went back into the reserves at the end of the season he had lifted a fair bit.
Keep an open mind on our players and coaching staff.Comment
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