2021 trading, drafting and list management: players and personnel
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Nice interview with Will Gould on Swans website. I hope the coaches give Will games next season as he is part of our Next Gen. Given 2 tough seasons honing his skills during Covid with the reserves. It's his time to break out. Go WillComment
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Jones the only midfield success we had in the first 2 rounds over the last decade , and he wasnt that great . F'd off to St kilda. Mitchell , Heeney, Mills etc dont count as they are academy or father son selections No talent identification involved there , just matching bidsComment
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Jones the only midfield success we had in the first 2 rounds over the last decade , and he wasnt that great . F'd off to St kilda. Mitchell , Heeney, Mills etc dont count as they are academy or father son selections No talent identification involved there , just matching bids
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He needs a big pre-season, that is for sure. Want to see a lot more from him in reserves (i.e. being a dominant player) hopefully early next year, but he certainly hasn't been helped by the horrendous mess reserves has been. But big deferences nearly always take time too, and we can show some more patience yet."You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."Comment
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Van Rooyen has been the one I've been touting for a while. Even if we recruit Paddy M, I wouldn't mind adding Van Rooyen due to his versatility to play both ends of the ground. We have a lot of KPP prospects, but only McDonald and Tom McCartin are solid long term high level players. If we end up with too many KPPs, we can always trade them off.
We have a strong young midfield group with Sheather looking a promising prospect. We might rookie draft Academy prospect Angry Anderson. And we can use picks 31 and 39 on midfield types; there are plenty of good mids to come from that part of the draft.
I see that Campbell Chesser and Leek Alleer are the 2 picks before our 2nd pick. Both are players we would be interested in. Chesser is a chance with our 1st pick too. He was rated in the top 10 at one time.
Cal Twomey is the one who usually gets the closest to what goes down on draft night.Comment
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Not talking about player development , talking about talent identification . Finding mid sized talents at the draft , we are shocking inside the top 30 , Jones is our best . and our record with mids is boosted by the academy players and our later draft steals such as Chad and Jmac and most famously Luke Parker ! hopefully Stephens or Florent changes that . Last one frustrates meComment
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This is what I meant by dressing down:
Barassi spray - YouTube
I think your thinking of something else.Comment
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Not talking about player development , talking about talent identification . Finding mid sized talents at the draft , we are shocking inside the top 30 , Jones is our best . and our record with mids is boosted by the academy players and our later draft steals such as Chad and Jmac and most famously Luke Parker ! hopefully Stephens or Florent changes that . Last one frustrates me
Think Towers, Ling, Florent (ok), Lamb, Johnston, Rohan (a number 6 pick!), Vespremi, Willougby, O'Keefe.
Jetta was a star whilst with us, and it is early days for Logan and Campbell, but really we have done far far worse than 50% success rate with our 'live' first round picks.Comment
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This is what I meant by dressing down:
Barassi spray - YouTube
I think your thinking of something else.
Focus on the group as a whole, and even though there were always a handful of players who did ok, I let the whole team know that they were playing like girl guides, though you couldn’t say that today! ????????Comment
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Agree. So disappointed with our first round picks that are not academy or F/S since McVeigh.
Think Towers, Ling, Florent (ok), Lamb, Johnston, Rohan (a number 6 pick!), Vespremi, Willougby, O'Keefe.
Jetta was a star whilst with us, and it is early days for Logan and Campbell, but really we have done far far worse than 50% success rate with our 'live' first round picks.Comment
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Not at all Bangalore, but my sprays couldn’t make it on YouTube due to the xpletives (impossible to bleep out) apart from the colourful content- though I was always careful not to target any specific player, unlike friend Ronald Dale.
Focus on the group as a whole, and even though there were always a handful of players who did ok, I let the whole team know that they were playing like girl guides, though you couldn’t say that today! ????????
Did the whole grand stand start shaking like it was 7 on the Richter scale?
Did you walk out of the dressing room, look up at the crowd and see the grandma’s and older ladies doing high fives because finally a real man had stood up to the misguided youth of today? Did the assistant coaches avoid you like your were Darth Vader in a bad mood?
Did the runner hide in the urinal, scared that they were next?
These are all the KPI’s of a great local spray.Comment
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Did you get your veins to pop out of your neck and your face to be as blood shot as Barneby Joyce’s?
Did the whole grand stand start shaking like it was 7 on the Richter scale?
Did you walk out of the dressing room, look up at the crowd and see the grandma’s and older ladies doing high fives because finally a real man had stood up to the misguided youth of today? Did the assistant coaches avoid you like your were Darth Vader in a bad mood?
Did the runner hide in the urinal, scared that they were next?
These are all the KPI’s of a great local spray.Comment
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A bit of a write up about Angry Anderson on the AFLNSWACT site:
Elite 2km run.
Sent from my SM-T865 using TapatalkWe have them where we want them, everything is going according to plan!Comment
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Did you get your veins to pop out of your neck and your face to be as blood shot as Barneby Joyce’s?
Did the whole grand stand start shaking like it was 7 on the Richter scale?
Did you walk out of the dressing room, look up at the crowd and see the grandma’s and older ladies doing high fives because finally a real man had stood up to the misguided youth of today? Did the assistant coaches avoid you like your were Darth Vader in a bad mood?
Did the runner hide in the urinal, scared that they were next?
These are all the KPI’s of a great local spray.
And BS: you are a funny bugger, whether you intend to be or not. That grandma image is seriously vivid.'Delicious' is a fun word to sayComment
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A bit of a write up about Angry Anderson on the AFLNSWACT site:
Elite 2km run.
Sent from my SM-T865 using Tapatalk
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Yes, the beetrooter: a head like someone's thrown blood at a gargoyle.Comment
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