Changes for Round 3 V Collingwood

[dejavoodoo44]

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?

Yes, it will be interesting to see if Foote plays a lock down role on one of Collingwood's small forwards. I think that this is a role that he'd be definitely suited to, with his pace, endurance and hard tackling. And I assume that he would have got some tips along the way, from Kirk, Shaw and/or Crouch.

[AB Swannie]

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.

I too suspect this is the case. Collingwood pose (on paper at least) far less threat forward than the Power or Bulldogs did. Injecting Dawson may allow less minutes for Hayward and Florent too which is a good thing considering the ToG they endured last week. Don't want to burn them up too early.

[Auntie.Gerald]

Swampy had a lock down role hence hidden

Newman was playing more open in attack role

Right call as finding bud in his little special area out wide of the 50m arc is ten times easier for a left footer sending it in perfectly then a right footer

But having another medium tall left footer over on the opposite side of the arc to bud is super smart. I would be sure Dawson would prefer that side

Bud on left
Dawson on right
Reid in the middle

They are great targets for our entries but also give us more variability getting out of our defensive 50

I'm really liking our continual search for evolving our transitions via personnel and plays

We certainly appear to be trying to Evolve the kicking ability out of the backline more then ever right now

gWS and the Dogs leapfrogged in this area and now we are trying to be much more agile out of our defensive 50m

serious kicking power sneaking into the team......Very long kicks also

Bud
Reid
Dawson
Rampe
Lloyd
Florent
Hayward
Newman
Harry marsh
Heeney

These guys are all strong long kicks

Yes we have others who can kick but these guys appear to be a step above with distance / penetration

[Joel Ridge]

This is the sort of team that the Swans will have for the next couple of years. So much of the salary cap is concentrated on 6 top players and it does not leave much for experienced mid range players (Mitchell, Malceski, Bird, Mumford, Everitte, White,).

We will be relying on rookies and inexperienced players to carry the load that other clubs mid range experienced players do.

We have essentially the same set up as GWS had in 2012 although our top experienced players (Franklin, Kennedy, Parker, Hannas, Tippett, Grundy, Rampe and Reid) are far better than their experienced players in 2012.

[bloodbrother]

we will win this and beat wet toast, giants are a 60/50

[Aaron]

UMPIRES: Sam@Hay@(20),@Mathew@Nicholls@(15),@ Matt@Stevic@(9) . Nothing has changed!

[liz]

I notice that Edwards is named as an emergency, meaning they must have nominated Fox to take over AJ's spot on the list. He was originally promoted for Papley, but he was taken off the LTIL this week. I thought maybe they'd demoted Edwards but clearly not.

[mcs]

UMPIRES: Sam@Hay@(20),@Mathew@Nicholls@(15),@ Matt@Stevic@(9) . Nothing has changed!

At least its not that #16 fool.

[Swanny40519]

Stevic is just as bad if not worse. He has crucified us in the games he has umpired.

[Auntie.Gerald]

i dont agree JR

I see serious young talent coming thru at a rate of knots
I see experienced leaders who will not have 3 bad games in a row. Last week was an improvement and 3 weeks down on form would not be acceptable
I see a middle group of players stepping up and rising to the challenge

[dejavoodoo44]

At least its not that #16 fool.

I'm starting to think that whatever his name is, will always be known on these pages as that number 16 (insert your choice of disparaging term). I did look up his name, but it just doesn't seem right to use it.

[dimelb]

And to put it into perspective, it has become clear that we can't blame him for Callum's error.

[707]

Damning article on the AFL website this morning saying stats show our forward line is a misfiring mess. Reid & Buddy's sparkling form covering up how bad it is. Forward efficiency just 44%, worst in the comp.

So much potential, so little efficiency and method.

[magic.merkin]

Not really surprised, our mids are down and our backs are less experienced than ever. The ball coming in hasn't been clean. We are missing 4 of our top 5 goal kickers from last year.

[mcs]

I'm starting to think that whatever his name is, will always be known on these pages as that number 16 (insert your choice of disparaging term). I did look up his name, but it just doesn't seem right to use it.

On what he showed over the first two weeks, he doesn't deserve to be referred to anything but that idiot #16....

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Stevic is just as bad if not worse. He has crucified us in the games he has umpired.

True Swanny, but its usually been in games against the Wees and Poos or fairypuppies. Nicholls isn't much chop at times either, but at least they are senior umpires, not some unknown.