2023 List Management

[SCGonasunnyday]

Ha - Two premierships in 90 years is too much for the Vic media

[ugg]

There is an article on the Herald Sun with the headline "Beware the Swans: free agency, trade at Sydney's mercy". If anyone has access to the Herald Sun, what is this article about?

A bit of everything and all over the place

- Says we’ve been ahead of the curve in the past two decades when it comes to trades
- we are ”circling” a tall, such as TDK or Himmelberg and perhaps a “big-bodied clearance winner”
- buddy retiring will clear up half a million in the cap
- mentions Dusty but then shoots down its own suggestion by saying nothing has suggested Martin would consider leaving Richmond (and then adds unless Hardwick’s departure becomes a factor?)
- TDK would be our number 1 ruck, but hard to see the club fork out $800k/year for him
- houses are 30% more expensive in Sydney v Melbourne, means our contracts have a premium on them
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[707]

TDK would be our number one ruck? Where is the evidence to back up that statement? Can't even overcome journeyman Pittonet at his own club!

Looks like another grab bag of Vicmedia manure

Some media apparently reporting we are interested in Tarryn Thomas

[longmile]

Ha - Two premierships in 90 years is too much for the Vic media

That made me really sad after thinking about what 2016 could of been

[Maltopia]

That made me really sad after thinking about what 2016 could of been

I was so disgusted I gave up watching AFL for a couple of years after the 2016 final.

[i'm-uninformed2]

There is an article on the Herald Sun with the headline "Beware the Swans: free agency, trade at Sydney's mercy". If anyone has access to the Herald Sun, what is this article about?

Nonsense, and all Vic media erogenous zones.

“Buddy” blah blah “cashed up” blah blah “TDK” blah blah “once got Plugger” blah blah “let’s mention Dusty” blah blah.

Seriously, it was ChatGPT on the piss and with a tabloid twist.

[Dow]

Regardless of how it turns out for the McCartins filling both there spots in the 22 has to be a priority? We just can’t leave ourselves exposed like this each season and trusting them to be available each week would seem a bad move maybe we just need to cut them lose (with support out of football)

[KSAS]

As well as KPDs, we're also in the need of a tall big bodied midfielder, in the mould of JPK. They don't grow on trees & not aware if there any potential prospects in the upcoming MSD?

Our injury plight this year has exposed deficiencies in our list we perhaps didn't expect to happen so soon.

Hope we can snare HH & draft gold nuggets!

[longmile]

As well as KPDs, we're also in the need of a tall big bodied midfielder, in the mould of JPK. They don't grow on trees & not aware if there any potential prospects in the upcoming MSD?

Our injury plight this year has exposed deficiencies in our list we perhaps didn't expect to happen so soon.

Hope we can snare HH & draft gold nuggets!

Paddy Dow?

[waswan]

Paddy Dow?

Luke Parker, Chad Warner ?

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We beed midfield method not a big bodied mid

[Maltopia]

Luke Parker, Chad Warner ?

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We beed midfield method not a big bodied mid

Luke Parker has had some big games recently, but he is getting on in age too, and 2025 is his last contracted year. He may decline next year and in 2025.

[Nico]

Luke Parker, Chad Warner ?

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We beed midfield method not a big bodied mid

Precisely.

[Auntie.Gerald]

need both and then some

but it is how we set up to maximise turnovers from these centre clearances that count most when it comes to minimising the opposition scoreboard hurt and our ability to go back the other way

We have massive deficiencies we are dealing with right now in our backline and we are vulnerable with out our 3 best talls in the backs

very vulnerable and somewhat brittle

we are truly liable to break easy in the backline with enough smarts and skill from the opposition

thats just reality right now and bloody hard to reverse until we gather the forces back into the best 22

[Auntie.Gerald]

Ps that is not me backing away from feeling we should have had a great balance between trades and drafting last two years

I have been quite vocal on that last few years and that strategy has challenged quite strongly but some of the most vocal on this site

But at the same time I never ever would have thought Chad Warner would achieve what he has from year 2 onwards

I have been sitting in the fence with Roberts and sheldrick and Konstanty also

So they could surprise……..either way

And another Lloyd, Rampe, Paps, Fox etc could be unearthed outside of the big time draft picks etc

It certainly is possible with McAndrews as his trajectory could surprise us all and could become a force to be reckoned with

Maybe Stephens who has showed a few hints of being dominant and or should who is getting a taste could leapfrog also after enough time

[Aaron]

A closer look at how injuries to Sydney's key defenders in 2023 has exposed its midfield strategy (Bloods run cold: Numbers reveal what's ailing Sydney Swans midfield in 2023?) Some numbers to show how our recruiting reflected our mid field performance.