Anybody give us a chance of an upset on the weekend?
Going to be tough coming up against a team that is likely to get double the number of inside 50s than Swans on the back of a dominance in the midfield. They will also be smarting after last weeks loss. Their capacity to kick goals is a lot higher than ours. 10 or 11 goals will not win games like this as Swans found out last week. Who is going to kick the extra 5 or 6 needed?
We are going to have to find a way to shark a fair share of Jones’s taps and then use the ball better when we have it.
Probably too early to tell Viper. First indications didn’t look great but we need to get some key players back and allow the new guys a bit of time to settle in. The style of play doesnt seem to be a lot different and the skills don’t seem to have improved. But its only one game and it was against the premiers
Lets just hope the footy dept have at least done SOME opposition analysis this week as opposed to last week, get the match ups and personnel right on the Thursday night first even before bounce down on Saturday!
Graham, Freitag, Middleton, Kuek plus Medhat & Schofield (if both play) are all tall forwards, playing the likes of Stephens, Fitzgerald, Lynch etc on them is yet another disaster waiting to happen especially if they have the ruck/midfield dominance the same as we faced last week!
Did you guys listen to WAFL World last night? According to Jacob Landsmeer Nathan Ireland, who apparently hadn’t played a game of football for over 900 days rolled his ankle in the warm-up and no-one from the reserves was available to replace him and he was forced to play and his stats were 0 possessions and 2 hit outs. Unbelievable.
So I just checked your game start times from last Friday. Your reserves played at 9.45am and the women’s game was the league curtain raiser. How fucking stupid. Who is responsible for this bullshit?
Can hardly expect reserves players who have been up since probably 6-7am preparing themselves from the night before for a football match at 9.45am to hang around all day in case there is a late out. Just farsical.
And as Jacob said, hopefully Nathan Ireland has pulled up ok and not further aggravated his ankle further. In hindsight you did well against the reigning premiers being effectively one player short and only 17 fit men on the ground when Ireland was on the ground.
Not too many Swannies Supporters impressed with the break in normal routine,though you could only really say that if you attend earlier games on a regular basis,not when you rock up with the League game about to start.
Thats just poor planning by the club and football department. Exactly why emergencies are named and those players should have been asked to come back an hour prior to the start of the league game just in case this sort of thing happened. Amateur stuff
Fitzgerald and Lynch dropped from last weeks team. Sadly Ireland with another injury, hopefully not too serious, this guys career has been cruelled with injuries.
In comes Impey for another go at his debut, Bright who will add some desperation and intensity and 18 year old draft prospect Leo Steed who was promoted after a 31 possession game in the colts last week. Steed impressed in a couple of pre-season games with the league team and gets his chance early in the season. Good luck to the lad.
Probably not a bad time of the year to play East Perth as they have a few of their best out at the moment but we will have to improve on last week to be able to compete with them. My main concern is how we are going to be able to kick enough goals with our forward line, particularly as the supply will likely be limited by the expected dominance by Edwards and the rest of the East Perth midfield.
Weather is looking very warm for Saturday which will test both sides fitness
Hi Grump, good to see you still posting. You are right, Swans and East Perth always seem to fight some good battles no matter where they are on the ladder. Maybe its our turn for an upset
Because we carried Blakely and he could only go for 5min at a time before blowing up and being exposed Ireland had to stay on the park so Blakely could spend 10min on the bench.
I can not believe that Lynch has been dropped. In the first half last week he was one of the blokes that kept us in the game and provided run and carry from D50. Yet we continue to carry Kelly, Chipper and Stephens. At very worst Lynch could provide us with a goaL kicking option up fwd.
This game might be a narrow margin but it will only be because we will set the game up to be a slug fest and try to restrict them to under 12 goals from 50+ i50.
We havent kicked more than 9 goals in a game (including pre season) for so long its ridiculous.
I look at the line up each week and wonder how on earth is that going to kick over 100 points? In fact the last time we kicked 100 points in a game was May 10 last year, 11 months ago, also the last time we kicked more than 12 goals in a game, just putrid footy!
And thats even before factoring in our dreadful skill level, poor match ups etc etc!
On another point the great JT was always big on versatility in our footballers in being able to play different roles, be it midfield, forward or back. If it wasnt working in one position be it full back he would move them forward try them there and vice versa. Why do we continue to play the same players in the same positions week in week out without making any changes? You never know we might find out more about these guys if they are tried in different positions instead of our own SD version of insanity!
At the risk of banging on about the same old stuff again I will just say this, 5 goals in the first quarter, 5 goals in the last 3 quarters. 10 goals is just not enough to beat a quality side like East Perth. Swans footy is just so predictable and frankly boring. Some positives out of the game from the newbies. Provest looked a likely type and Impeys debut was promising, also young Steed, otherwise apart from the first quarter, yet another mediocre performance.
The problem is theyll all be slapping each other on the back saying good effort against last years grand finalist, so they will continue to encourage the aforementioned mediocrity.
Mike sad to say but we are an amateur club running around in the WAFL.
Amateur coaching, amateur leadership, amateur skill level, amateur decision making….yet another game there for the taking and they folded like a camp chair yet again!
I know easy for me to comment after EP won but I was still hoping we would come through even into the last quarter. I think your game plan is run, run and run to space which worked great both in the league and reserves.
The trouble is that after a while it comes apart when you are against a stronger team with a couple more B+ players.
Not sure that I would be playing Miller in the twos, he is to me a B player who will develop in your structure, he along with one or two others in 2’s would be worth a shot!
