RWO #AFL Round 3 weekend discussion thread

[MattW]

Bummer that Liam Ryan is out for an extended period: High-flying Eagle grounded for 'extended period' - AFL.com.au. I have really enjoyed the bits I have seen of him in the first three rounds - future star.

[Swansongster]

Was chatting with a Pies fan mate at hockey training last night. He reckons Sam Murray is a gun and that we got reamed in that trade last year.

I think those points will come in handy when we draft Blakely but he has started with a bang for them.

Good luck to him.

* Edit: Blakey

[liz]

Was chatting with a Pies fan mate at hockey training last night. He reckons Sam Murray is a gun and that we got reamed in that trade last year.

I think those points will come in handy when we draft Blakely but he has started with a bang for them.

Good luck to him.

* Edit: Blakey

LOL. Even if Murray turns out to be a good player for the Pies in the longer term (and I don't think you can judge any player by their first three games), we hardly got reamed in a trade where we got a second round pick for an uncontracted player yet to debut. Impey moved to Hawthorn for a pick 33 and some late pick swapping (of little net value). Nathan Wilson moved to Freo for a future second and some loose change - pretty similar value to Murray given where you'd expect Collingwood and Freo's second round picks to be.

[mcs]

Really footy commentating apart from actually calling the game is al about perpetuating a series of club myths. The myths that perpetuate about the swans is that we are the best contested team in the Comp and that the scg is drastically smaller than any other footy ground. Yes we do play contested footy but so does everyone. And yes the scg is smaller but it?s wider than most grounds.

If only the commentators would just call the game !!

The drastically smaller SCG garbage gets on my nerves so much - the way they crack on you would think the ground is 30 metres shorter than the G and substantially narrower too! The difference these days is relatively negligible in terms of length to most other grounds.

[aguy]

The drastically smaller SCG garbage gets on my nerves so much - the way they crack on you would think the ground is 30 metres shorter than the G and substantially narrower too!

Here here.

In fact the scg is the ground most similar to the mcg in shape and size of all grounds used for afl. Most other grounds are longer and narrower than either mcg or scg

[Sandrevan]

If Melican isn't fit for next week against the Dogs, it might actually work for us given the Dogs's small forward line. Newman or Fox in would be better than another tall such as Aliir.

Ed Richards, another half back flanker that we were linked with before the draft is playing well for them.

Ed Richards looks a lot like Gary Rohan

[stevoswan]

Yea true. Thus far Nick has been pretty good. I think it?s because he?s only just retired and he is still close the the players currently playing that he offers good insights into the way they?re thinking and playing. I suspect that diminishes the further from their playing days that those ex player commentators get as they still relate things to the game in their day but the game moves on so they start talking about other things and get caught up in the commentator speak

Cameron Ling was a breath of fresh (and sensible) air when he started in the media but now he's just another Channel 7 knob........we'll see how long Nick hangs in there.