VFL Round 13: Sydney Swans Reserves v UWS Giants @ Blacktown International Sports Park

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NEAFL 2015 Round 13

Sydney Swans Reserves v UWS Giants

Saturday 4th July 2015
2.00pm
Blacktown International Sports Park

The Reserves will be looking to bounce back from their thrashing by Sydney Uni last week, and will be aided by 4 inclusions in Heeney, Davis, Derickx and Rose but have also lost 4 players in Bird, Towers, Nankervis and Foote.

They have the tough task of facing the top ranked team in the Giants who despite some injuries in their senior team, will be able to field a lineup including 16-18 listed players (depending on the number of emergencies they take down to Melbourne for their Richmond game). Besides last week's lost the Uni, our other 2 losses for the year have occurred at the hands of the Giants.


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Changes
In: Rose, Heeney, Davis, Derickx
Out: Jordan FOOTE (?), Toby NANKERVIS (seniors), Craig BIRD (injured), Dean TOWERS (seniors)

Derickx replaces Nankervis in the ruck with the option of McLaren, Aliir or Davis to back him up. Even though Heeney has been playing as a forward in the seniors, he will play midfield for the reserves with the possibility of limited game time to ease him back into it.

Davis has played both forward and back but impressed most as a tall wingman. However with some height lacking up forward, he'll most likely end up there. Rose, who is our equal leading goal kicker with 14 along with Naismith and Nankervis, will add some goal kicking potency which was missing last week.

Academy Players/Topups
In: Fyffe, Loneragan, Osborne, Prescott
Out: Eli BURTON, Nathan COOPER, Dylan SANDERSON, Mitch WRIGHT


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UWS Giants (listed players in BOLD)
In: Bugg, Kelly, Schulz, Townsend, Wilson, Faul
Out: Tom DOWNIE, Curtly HAMPTON,Mitch FRAIL, Matthew KLEMKE, Mitch MAHADY, Karl MERSON

The 2 Giants who were outstanding against us in our 2 earlier clashes this season are playing in this match. Hoskin-Elliott was dominant across half-forward in Round 2 kicking 5 goals while Josh Kelly shook off multiple opponents to register a game high 39 disposals in Round 5.

Hampton who has been their most consistent NEAFL player has earnt a recall to the senior side meaning the next best players to watch out for are Lamb, Ahern and Barrett.

Although Phillips has been named at full back he will lead the ruck division with Tomlinson as support.

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"the possibility of limited game time to ease him back into it. Same goes with Perris"

Thanks for the great preview Ugg, you quoted the above, is Perris playing this week or still not ready?

You going along to check on how many minutes Heeney plays?

GWS have their usual grab bag of high draft picks running around.

[Doctor]

Gees that's a strong Ressies team the Giants have. I know there are a couple there on injury return but I am very surprised that Kelly isn't in their first team.

[ugg]

Good pickup. Perris was in the initial side I saw but an updated side came out whilst I was writing the preview and that's one part I forgot to edit him out of.

[dimelb]

Thanks ugg - first rate intro as usual.
As I skimmed through the info, one stat specially caught my eye: Cunningham is averaging 8 tackles a game in the ressies. I continue to have hopes for him.

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Live stream

[Mug Punter]

[B]NEAFL 2015 Round 13

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UWS Giants (listed players in BOLD)
In: Bugg, Kelly, Schulz, Townsend, Wilson, Faul
Out: Tom DOWNIE, Curtly HAMPTON,Mitch FRAIL, Matthew KLEMKE, Mitch MAHADY, Karl MERSON

The 2 Giants who were outstanding against us in our 2 earlier clashes this season are playing in this match. Hoskin-Elliott was dominant across half-forward in Round 2 kicking 5 goals while Josh Kelly shook off multiple opponents to register a game high 39 disposals in Round 5.

Hampton who has been their most consistent NEAFL player has earnt a recall to the senior side meaning the next best players to watch out for are Lamb, Ahern and Barrett.

Although Phillips has been named at full back he will lead the ruck division with Tomlinson as support.

OMG the depth in that GWS side is unbelievable

[Scottee]

No stream, buggar!

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Probably a good thing. We are getting slaughtered

[Buffalo]

The live stream is up and still going. My heart goes out to our boys!!

[Ampersand]

Please tell me that score is a typo. Wow.

[rojo]

Unfortunately not!

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Swans 1.0 2.1 2.1 2.2 (14)
Giants 6.3 14.8 22.16 30.17 (197)

Swans Goals: Loneragan, Rose
Giants Goals: Lamb 8 Reid 7 Addison 3 Pickett 2 Phillips 2 Hoskin-Elliott Townsend Wilson Clark Hodgson Schulz Sumner Tomlinson

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That was as comprehensive a beating I've seen at reserves level and I'll include some of the thrashings we handed out to the weaker Canberra teams 10 years ago. The 3rd quarter was paritcularly awful, we probably got the ball into our forward 50 about 2 or 3 times and the Giants just did whatever they liked with the ball. So many of their players had time and space to hit targets and in the rare occasions the ball was in dispute they were tougher, stronger and hungrier than our players.

If I was really pressed hard to name some good players, I could possibly hand out pass marks to Jack and Robinson for most of their efforts but their ball use wasn't great either. Jack in paritcular bombed one great opportunity in the 2nd quarter when he kicked at goal when there was a free top up in the pocket that he should have passed to. Heeney looked good in the 1st quarter including a nice contested mark in the middle but had no impact after that and was rested about midway through quarter 3. With that in mind I very much doubt he will be considered for selection next week.

Rose was also rested around this time. Derickx competed okay in the taps with Phillips but didn't contribute as much as the Giants ruckman around the ground. He suffered a shoulder injury in the 2nd quarter and from then on it was a struggle for poor old Abe Davis, Sean McLaren and a bit of Xavier Richards against the much taller and bigger Phillips in the ruck. I thought Hewett's efforts were pretty poor had no impact whatsoever, seems to have good games when the team is on top but lacking fight when the chips are down. He finished the game not playing in the midfield.

Aliir had his moments with some good one on one bodywork but that was offset by the loose checking on his opponent Sam Reid who kicked 7 in total, with 6 in the 2nd half mostly on Aliir. Some of those goals were the easiest you will ever see with Reid unbelievable having great amounts of space and time despite playing mostly in the forward 50. Marsh fought hard and tried to marshall the defence but in the one on one duels was outpointed by Lamb on more than a few occasions although I wouldn't envy his task given the amount of ball coming into the Swans backline. Newman was sloppy on his kicking today, made poor decisions probably feeling the heat of the Giants players who hunted our players down with ferocity. McLaren struggled up forward as the main forward target, often lead 2nd to the ball, and didn't compete enough in the air to bring the ball to ground.

Hiscox was quite anonymous across wing and half forward and easily pushed off the ball with his slight build. In the 2nd half there were 2 or 3 possible chances for him to break away with his pace but the ball bounced unkindly for him. Rose also no impact across half forward and not much better when injected into the midfield to provide some bite and grunt.

[troyjones2525]

So by the sounds of it we might be hard pressed to find any changes this week other than Buddy and Tippett???