Changes for Round 3 V Collingwood

[Mug Punter]

I'm happy with that, it won't hurt Darcy at all to do his time in the NEAFL for a bit but I'm sure he will get his chance this season

[bungwahl]

Jordan Dawson to debut

Whispers..

[Sandrevan]

Interesting melting pot of issues for this game.

- A week of umpiring controversy where the club has been in contact with the AFL Umpiring Dept.
- Home game for us hopefully with a vocal crowd
- Both Swans and Collingwood are 0-2 for the year
- Friday night game with a massive TV audience in Melbourne
- How much is Eddy Maguire paying the umpires - just joking.

out: Tippett - I think Sinclair will get the spot if only from an experience pov.
Cunningham - I think he has used up his 9 lives

In - don't know but would like to see Jordan Dawson get a run.

Harri Marsh was hardly sighted last week but deserves another shot

[wolftone57]

Hayward has that X factor doesn't he

He is seriously exciting for a baby faced assassin

i also started to wonder whether he could rotate thru the HBF

he sure has the X factor and I don't know why anyone would suggest he play back. His value is forward as he is a goal kicker ate junior level. Kicked 9 in the SANFL U18 prelim. As Leigh Matthews says players don't do much differently in the seniors as they do in the juniors it just depends on their head space, demands of the game and confidence keeping them in the game. He says that in most cases a good junior translates into a good senior.

[ugg]

In Sinclair Foote Dawson
Out Tippett (ankle) Laidler Cunningham (both omitted)

[bloodspirit]

you're back.

exciting times. another debutant. interesting they have excluded laidler and not replaced him like for like. I guess Jones and Lloyd will share the 7th defender role.

[Scottee]

Foote??? Gobsmacked.

Dawson a forward Laidler a back. Who goes back?

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[Billericay]

I don't know much about Dawson - what position is he likely to play?

[bloodspirit]

or is whoever suggested dawson may play back right?

[liz]

Not according to his interview. He expects to play forward.

Collingwood doesn't have a tall forward line, which may be why Laidler has been deemed to be expendable. Not that he's that tall, but he tends to play on taller opponents.

Is this the least experienced Swans team ever? Or at least in the last decade or so. It will line up with

Dawson 1st game
Fox, Hayward, Newman 2nd game
Florent, Foote 3rd game
Marsh 10th game
Aliir 15th game
Naismith 16th game

Then the veterans - Mills, Hewett, Jones each between 25 and 33 games.

[ugg]

We had 9 defenders last week

[Ludwig]

Happy to see both Newman and Dawson in the side, 2 players I've been looking forward to breaking into the seniors. I'm not too pleased about our injury situation, but at least we get to see the future. It would be nice to see Hayward and Dawson kicking a few monster goals (chip shots for Buddy).

We had the 3rd youngest side playing last round and we're not getting any older. That list of players with 33 games or less that Liz posted is quite astounding.

There's been some criticism of Jordan Foote, but he does go in hard, which is more than can be said for Harry C. It is only his 3rd game and I think he'll pick up the pace of the game soon enough.

Collingwood are not a big threat with tall forwards, but they do have a number of smaller players and midfielders that they rely on for kicking goals, so I can understand dropping Laidler although I was surprised nonetheless.

I'm still not clear on the Fox situation and the LTIL. It was announced that Papley came off the LTIL, the spot Fox was elevated for, so I wonder how that works, given that Edwards was elevated in place of Rohan. Is Fox taking the place of Edwards or AJ?

[Billericay]

We had 9 defenders last week

Including Jones? Lloyd? Mills?

[dejavoodoo44]

Not according to his interview. He expects to play forward.

Collingwood doesn't have a tall forward line, which may be why Laidler has been deemed to be expendable. Not that he's that tall, but he tends to play on taller opponents.

Is this the least experienced Swans team ever? Or at least in the last decade or so. It will line up with

Dawson 1st game
Fox, Hayward, Newman 2nd game
Florent, Foote 3rd game
Marsh 10th game
Aliir 15th game
Naismith 16th game

Then the veterans - Mills, Hewett, Jones each between 25 and 33 games.

Might be another rebuilding year, where we're genuine premiership contenders.

[rb4x]

I like this side. Sinclair for Tippet is forced, Foote will be a little harder at it than Cunningham while Dawson for Laidler means that we have another avenue to goal. Not too worried abou defence as both Jones and Lloyd can drop back if required and all going well we will be playing mainly in our forward half. Optimistic about winning this but if the result is otherwise may have to consider slitting my wrists as the season will be effectively over with two much harder matches to follow. If we can't beat the Pies we will not beat the Eagles in Perth or the Giants.