#AFL Round 6 Weekly Discussion Thread

[Velour&Ruffles]

If you started booing when Scott Pendlebury began speaking to express your disapproval of the performance of a different set of people who left the playing arena 5 minutes earlier, it shows that you are a rather stupid and confused person.

If you started booing when Scott Pendlebury began speaking to accept the Anzac Day Medal as part of footy's Anzac Day commemorations, whether to express your disapproval of either him or the performance of a different set of people who left the playing arena 5 minutes earlier, it shows you are a rather rude and discourteous person who has no sense of perspective and is missing the point of the event.

If you started booing when Scott Pendlebury began speaking to express your view that he got a free kick your team didn't, it shows that you have either forgotten or are simply choosing to ignore the fact that the only reason your team was a late chance at all is because of being gifted a goal by the umpires - that holding free to Mark Baguely a few minutes earlier was a truly awful decision which simply should not have been paid. Without that the Bombers didn't have a sniff.

So overall, my view of any of the boo-ers, whatever their professed motivation, is that they are most likely a stupid, confused, rude person, with no sense of perspective and the intellect of a tropical fish (and, like said fish, probably can be found wandering around with a string of poop hanging out of them because they forgot what they were doing half way through).

[stevoswan]

Geelong doing it comfortably against the Eagles at home. Rohan 6 kicks, 4 marks and 3 goals in the first quarter.....he is realising his potential at his new club.

Carlton were doing it easy against the Hawks but the third quarter saw Hawthorn hit back. They hit the front early in the last but Carlton have just retaken the lead. Go Blues, even if it means they jump over us on the ladder.

Blues just kicked another....8 pts up, 20 odd minutes left.

[Markwebbos]

Rohan's kicked 4 again

[Blood Fever]

Rohan's kicked 4 again

Good luck to him. Swans and him needed a change.

[MattW]

Good luck to him. Swans and him needed a change.

Yes. But I think it is relevant that Rohan's confidence was completely shot when he left us and that a number of our current players are also lacking confidence. Why is that?

I think it's also worth noting that Rohan was played in a number of different positions at the Swans and didn't get a run at the position that seemed to best suit him - high marking full forward leading out of the goal square. That was also kind of odd.

[Blood Fever]

A couple of things. Probably felt the pressure of paying us back for nursing him through as he recovered from horrific leg injury. Also, the couple of shockers he had in the two grand finals probably put even more pressure on him. Weight of expectations can be very onerous. No baggage at Geelong so a lot more relaxed.

[liz]

A couple of things. Probably felt the pressure of paying us back for nursing him through as he recovered from horrific leg injury. Also, the couple of shockers he had in the two grand finals probably put even more pressure on him. Weight of expectations can be very onerous. No baggage at Geelong so a lot more relaxed.

He's also playing (and predominantly played for us) a role that is far, far, far easier in a team in good form and high on confidence. He actually played plenty of pretty decent games for us too, in the exact same position. He has been a little more prolific for the Cats in front of goal than he was for us, but he was still a very useful scoreboard contributor when we were going well.

He seemed to complete substantially all of the Cats' pre-season too, from what I could see from media reports. That's in stark contrast to the Swans, where I'm not sure he ever participated in pre-season. His last two years were late starts due to various hamstring issues, and we know that before then he went through his long rehab from the leg. Who knows if it's just chance that his hammies allowed him to do the pre-season this year, or if the Cats did something different with him, conditioning wise. But I am sure his preparation is helping his form.

[neilfws]

Our ex-players get feature articles when they move to Victoria

Mr Efficiency: Rohan's kicking goals for the Cats

But seriously, I can only wish him all the best when I read that.

[stevoswan]

Our ex-players get feature articles when they move to Victoria

Mr Efficiency: Rohan's kicking goals for the Cats

But seriously, I can only wish him all the best when I read that.

Great article....and I have the same sentiments as you. Happy for him.

[dimelb]

Our ex-players get feature articles when they move to Victoria

Mr Efficiency: Rohan's kicking goals for the Cats

But seriously, I can only wish him all the best when I read that.

It is well worth reading - thanks neilfws. I was particularly struck by the way he described his role at Sydney. It explains a lot I never quite understood. And yes, good luck to him and the coach who has licensed him to do what he does best.

[707]

How about Beveridge complaining about the umpiring. Bit rich coming from a side that won a flag because of gross gifting by the umps!

[stevoswan]

This is General and Swans chat but there is no thread specific to this subject so I'm putting it here.

Stats Files: Is new Bomber the AFL's turnover king? - AFL.com.au

On the subject of turnovers, the above article regards individuals and turnovers. The three biggest turnover players in the league to this point of the season are Andrew Gaff, Jaeger O'Meara and Dylan Sheil...all gun players. Our own 'turnover king' or player who is perceived as such, Jake Lloyd is actually in the top ten on the 'best kick rating' list, with a 'hit rate' of 65.2%, which is apparently a 7.7% improvement on last year.....so, on those stats, he is actually getting better.

However, the article doesn't have team aggregate turnovers, which I'm sure we'd be close to leading but does sum up which teams are conceding the least points per game from turnovers and we sit fifth bottom on this list, conceding an average of 52.5 pts per game and we sit above Richmond (52.7), Essendon (54.7), Brisbane (55.2) and North Melbourne (57.7). However, three of those bottom four score far more heavily than we do and have 100+ percentages.....