Match Day Thread Rnd 20. Geelong V Sydney. Simonds Stadium 19.50 pm.

[Auntie.Gerald]

To me it appeared like the swans were happier to negate geelongs effectiveness from the clearance so we had an easy ball for our defenders to swallow up then rebound

This sounds a little counter intuitive but if u think about the reverse and we send in hot non directed entries we would have been in serious trouble against a strong defence

Either that or an under strength geelong midfield made our midfield look inferior in clearance work

[Markwebbos]

To me it appeared like the swans were happier to negate geelongs effectiveness from the clearance so we had an easy ball for our defenders to swallow up then rebound

This sounds a little counter intuitive but if u think about the reverse and we send in hot non directed entries we would have been in serious trouble against a strong defence

Either that or an under strength geelong midfield made our midfield look inferior in clearance work

I suspect a bit of both.

[Nico]

To me it appeared like the swans were happier to negate geelongs effectiveness from the clearance so we had an easy ball for our defenders to swallow up then rebound

This sounds a little counter intuitive but if u think about the reverse and we send in hot non directed entries we would have been in serious trouble against a strong defence

Either that or an under strength geelong midfield made our midfield look inferior in clearance work

1. We do that every week it appears.
2. When we do get a centre clearance it is generally scrappy.
3. Happens most weeks. Our centre clearance work is normally poor. Even the worst midfield does us on centre clearances.

[Meg]

3. Happens most weeks. Our centre clearance work is normally poor. Even the worst midfield does us on centre clearances.

Yet we are often described as having one of the best midfields in the comp.

Please explain?

[penga]

Yet we are often described as having one of the best midfields in the comp.

Please explain?

We do have higher stoppages per game, therefore more clearances, so Joe Blow Lazy Journalist looks at the raw numbers. We are ranked 11th for clearance differential. We are also, interestingly, 16th in tackle differential.

One surprising thing, compared to RWO accepted knowledge, is we have a higher free kick for differential than Hawthorn.

https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_team_rankings?year=2017&type=DA&sby=29

[Auntie.Gerald]

1. We do that every week it appears.
2. When we do get a centre clearance it is generally scrappy.
3. Happens most weeks. Our centre clearance work is normally poor. Even the worst midfield does us on centre clearances.

Hey nico what I left out was that we could have easily cleared out sideways or backwards but we chose in this game not to play much uncontested and simply play direct in attack from the rebound

We allowed geelong to do this more so but our defence was stacked and still mjmjmed their uncontested game plan which was poorly executed

Ugly game to watch
But effective