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I want to go to preseason training Monday. does anyone know what time they will be training? I believe it is early in the morning which would suit me as I have to be at the doctor in Darlinghurst at 11am. So I can have some breaky on the way to Doc's.
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Hard to call the club when they may not be open before training Monday. Office hours are 8.30am to 5.30pm I think. Training sometimes starts at 8am. If that is the case then I would miss it coming from Lilyfield. I am not living next to the SCG, if I were I would be out there every training session and would know the times. Thank you anyway. I thought some of the moderators here might just know.Comment
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I'm going to try.
will depend on how bad the heat gets tomorrowChillin' with the strange QuarksComment
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The big questions for me are :
1. We need a more attacking backline like the Hawks.....so Can Gary Rohan take the next step as the give and go hBF and dominate?
2. We need to emerge a 2nd give and go attacking hbf for 2015 minimum to replace mal....Will this player be Zac jones?
3. Goodes - can someone play his role better ? ie as he describes he is playing the small forward role
4. Can anyone stop heeney from being part of the 22? I don't think so - he will come in as the forward/midfield role ala all the greats in their first season such as Roo, Voss, rok etc"be tough, only when it gets tough"
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B. Smith, Richards, Rampe
HB. Shaw, Grundy, McVeigh
C. Jetta, Kennedy, Jack
HF. Hanners, Franklin, McGlynn
F. Reid, Tippett, Goodes
Rucks. Pyke, Parker, Lloyd
Inter. Mitchell, Bird, Jones, HeeneyComment
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No Cunningham ?"be tough, only when it gets tough"
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B. Smith, Richards, Rampe
HB. Shaw, Grundy, Rohan
C. Jetta, McVeigh, Jack
HF. Hanners, Reid, Franklin
F. McGlynn, Tippett, Goodes
Rucks. Pyke, Parker, Kennedy
Inter. Mitchell, Bird, Lloyd, HeeneyComment
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Not too bad. I'm concerned that Franklin, Tippett, Goodes and Reid is going too tall and lacking in pace. I would bring Cunningham into that forward line and I would like to see Reid switch to defence and Rampe play of the HBF in place of Shaw.
Also close are Towers as he provides some flexibility and Jones for mongrel and toughness.Comment
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IMHO Cunningham is quick but not strong enough at the footy. Not enough possessions for mine. Played a few good games as a tagger but needs to be more than that.
Rohan is dashing but he too doesn't get enough of the footy yet. At HBF right now he is too loose. Showed that he can back up his other backs. This is his season he needs to put it all together.Comment
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Nico I am politely disagreeing re your assessment of Cunningham
We all want players in the midfield to show 8 tackles, 30 possessions and 3 goals and most of all at the bottom of the pack winning the ball but that is not Cunninghams role
HC had a very specific role with our team and that was as a run with albeit probably more tagging on some of the AFLs finest outside players - as an example the game against Stephen hill was fantastic this year in so much that hill barely had impact on the game
this role outside tagging role is so difficult for us common supporters to assess ie how do we score HC performance Indv and for our team ? How do we sit down and assess "did we nullify all outside running opposition players well enough so we can play our attacking structures and execute" ?
And secondly who are the best options at the swans that physically have the speed to play on the best outside players in the comp ?
We don't have many 'genuine' options against the best teams and thankfully our counter punch pagans paddock structure works brilliantly against almost all teams
Yes We were at least one outside tagging player short against the Hawks and we got smashed by their inside players - but also their outside halfback player rotation left our men 10m behind when attacking the ball - even masters of defence like smithy go baked in the sun like a statue"be tough, only when it gets tough"
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