Round 22 V North Melbourne @Marvel

[Agent 86]

Melican was OK for a first up. It wasn't his,?fault there was no pressure upfield.

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Maybe. I was cringing at a few wayward disposals - but he was not alone. & it was one worryingly one way traffic out of the middle in Q3 & most of the 4th. Tom Hickey was the one thing preventing an embarrassing loss at that time. So perhaps I was too harsh.

[mcs]

Reid is a funny one. His experience and ability to read play remains good, but his kicking is terrible at the moment, and can't afford to waste gilt edge chances in front of goal come finals time. McLean did his chances no harm tonight - I like him, and Amartey at times has done well.

[Nico]

Thank you Colin O'Riordan. You had 4 telling kicks and were prepared to move it on quickly when the game was in the balance. Clearly a better proposition than the statue no.43. Have to come into the side. Your run and carry and take the game on style suits how we play.

[joeykanga]

I think with ruckman and key forwards we have to defer to Ludwig.

I liked McLean tonight. Great hands.

Does Ludwig feel that McLean should replace Reid in the finals and that the key forward combination should be McLean and Franklin?

So the Chad is you
Rucks and forwards its Ludwig
I’m losing track …remind me again what my specialities are

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Thank you Colin O'Riordan. You had 4 telling kicks and were prepared to move it on quickly when the game was in the balance. Clearly a better proposition than the statue no.43. Have to come into the side. Your run and carry and take the game on style suits how we play.

And a pretty cool handball out of
the square ..he contributed a lot in his short amount of time ..and also that impetus to turn things around along with Hickey

[Bangalore Swans]

Intrigued by Campbell being played as a small forward.

Interested in Barracudas assessment of Campbell’s game as a small pressure forward.

Does Sam Wicks have any danger in Campbell taking his spot for finals?

[wolftone57]

Thank you Colin O'Riordan. You had 4 telling kicks and were prepared to move it on quickly when the game was in the balance. Clearly a better proposition than the statue no.43. Have to come into the side. Your run and carry and take the game on style suits how we play.

Nico Melican is lock down KPP. COR is a half back whose role is far different. Melican was good for a first game back. COR had to come in and play the Blakey role of taking the opposition on. He did well.

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[stevoswan]

Thank you Colin O'Riordan. You had 4 telling kicks and were prepared to move it on quickly when the game was in the balance. Clearly a better proposition than the statue no.43. Have to come into the side. Your run and carry and take the game on style suits how we play.

Natural replacement for Blakey one would think.

Oh and here's all the goals from the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGi7bcrEofY&ab_channel=RilesMacca

[Nico]

Nico Melican is lock down KPP. COR is a half back whose role is far different. Melican was good for a first game back. COR had to come in and play the Blakey role of taking the opposition on. He did well.

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Wolfy, I am not a fan of Melican. He is as slow as treacle and as a lock down back he fails badly. On a lead up player he gets done like a dinner. He only kicks the ball 15 metres and has no want to move the ball on. A stodgy, risky conveyance for mine.

[Ludwig]

Does Ludwig feel that McLean should replace Reid in the finals and that the key forward combination should be McLean and Franklin?

All questions must first be submitted to my press secretary, in writing.

[Markwebbos]

All questions must first be submitted to my press secretary, in writing.

How do you prefer to be addressed? "Ruck-guru", "your majesty" or just "Sir"?

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BTW, how many games have the Swans lost since they started wearing the South Melbourne jumper?

[Ludwig]

Wolfy, I am not a fan of Melican. He is as slow as treacle and as a lock down back he fails badly. On a lead up player he gets done like a dinner. He only kicks the ball 15 metres and has no want to move the ball on. A stodgy, risky conveyance for mine.

We can just add Melican to the list. There's Cunningham, and then there's Hayward, and well, you can just fill in the rest. Melican will draw a lot of confidence from your commentary.

By the way, Melican looked really sore in the locker room after the game. He could hardly walk. He couldn't even keep up with Blakey.

[dimelb]

We held on. Wonderful what fear can achieve at times!

And while I was upset at Blakey's injury I was pleased to see COR taking on the responsibility and assuring us that he knew what to do. He is particularly good at the fast relatively flat kick he does so well. I wish more of our players could instead of invoking Hail Mary.

[joeykanga]

I read a report on the match ..it says that Kennedy had a hamstring twinge toward the end

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We can just add Melican to the list. There's Cunningham, and then there's Hayward, and well, you can just fill in the rest. Melican will draw a lot of confidence from your commentary.

By the way, Melican looked really sore in the locker room after the game. He could hardly walk. He couldn't even keep up with Blakey.

I noticed that about Melican ..he really was barely walking

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I’m the dressing room

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Just learnt a new word.

I want to hear from these people because I believe they are excellent posters and will ad a lot to the discussion. Some have brilliant knowledge of different positions on the football field. Barracuda posts great stuff on small forwards.

I simply thought Barracuda could dissect the Campbell v Wicks small forward discussion and really ad some value to the discussion. Yes I could ask privately, but I believe his response would be interesting to many readers of the forum.

It was kind of interesting Campbell playing that role today

[Aprilbr]

In the end, I was happy enough to come away with the win tonight. We played well in patches tonight although our third quarter was below par. At times we looked a class above but did not convert whereas they did. We need to get better but we can.

I thought that Hickey was back to his best tonight. JMc was great in the first half but seemed to fall away in the second half. The Lizard provided great drive until injured. Fingers crossed on his injury! Parker such a key player. Wilbur was dangerous up forward. Great to see Campbell back too.

[MattW]

Enjoyed seeing Campbell back. He has those fast twitch muscle fibres - extra pop in everything he does. Should stay in.

I think we need to find a way to bring Warner back in next week.

The game was sloppy, but can't really fault them for that playing a dead rubber after months on the road.