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Swans NAB Challenge 2015 Discussion Thread
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Fremantle at Drummoyne Oval...my town, gods country
Without a word of a lie, I don't believe there was any set up or structure being used. Was merely start in x position and follow your opponent.
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Every other season I was happy to let the players build for the home and away games.
Not this year.
Yes it is only NAB Challenge game 1, but given the players' efforts in our last game, I wanted to see a hard edge to the team, an understanding that this game had an importance over and above the NAB Challenge.
This was the first game of the rest of their lives.
The players let themselves and the club down in the GF.
They lost respect. This was an opportunity to set down a marker. To define what is expected of them in the upcoming season.
Instead our skills and decision making were woeful, strategies from clearance sets ups to kick-ins were seemingly non-existent, we had no overlap/run from behind and our pressure/workrate was lacking, far far too often there was a lack of players moving to space when we had the ball and we were constantly outnumbered at the fall of the ball.
Exactly what has Longmire been working on in the off-season?
I've heard all I want to hear from Jack, from McVeigh, from Longmire about their efforts in the GF. I wanted to see actions.
This was time for them to start to deliver on their promises.
They failed abysmally.
Not this year.
Yes it is only NAB Challenge game 1, but given the players' efforts in our last game, I wanted to see a hard edge to the team, an understanding that this game had an importance over and above the NAB Challenge.
This was the first game of the rest of their lives.
The players let themselves and the club down in the GF.
They lost respect. This was an opportunity to set down a marker. To define what is expected of them in the upcoming season.
Instead our skills and decision making were woeful, strategies from clearance sets ups to kick-ins were seemingly non-existent, we had no overlap/run from behind and our pressure/workrate was lacking, far far too often there was a lack of players moving to space when we had the ball and we were constantly outnumbered at the fall of the ball.
Exactly what has Longmire been working on in the off-season?
I've heard all I want to hear from Jack, from McVeigh, from Longmire about their efforts in the GF. I wanted to see actions.
This was time for them to start to deliver on their promises.
They failed abysmally.
Comical that the only targets we reliably hit by foot were brisbane players from kick ins.Kick ins? what are those
Glad no serious injuries and good learning experience for the younger player on what not to do. Ended up happy with jettas game(relative to the team), parker, Kennedy, Grundy and rampe our bests
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Spot on.
Midfield still grossly overrated and taking a line through the old saying " Your only as Good as Your Last Game " They had the same amount of intensity as their last game excluding Parker.
Hannebury jogging & If people think Tom Mitchell is going to be some sort of saviour through the midfield maybe they should try live bating him because he is slower than the ******* Melbourne Train System.
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I'm OK with this. If the plan was just to get match fitness then aok. Be very worried if any semblance of structure or strategy in there
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Lol what?
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But.....
How will us gen y's show our appreciation or amusement at another person post if that happens?!
and like 5 year old children plenty of us will now hit the like button for shits and giggles.
Like just being semi serious for a second i kinda dislike the attitude we take into the NAB supporters pay money to go and watch that and we were by far the worst team that has played so far.
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Write them a nice PM saying "Thank You" or "Well Done"
or like Gen X's check for visual gags first
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By now all swans supporters should expect us to be s**t in the preseason
I somewhat agree with this. It is almost like a lot of Swans players have no professional pride. After the performance in the grand final even if this is just the NAB Cup I had hoped they would show more fight and determination than they did today.
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Write them a nice PM saying "Thank You" or "Well Done"
or like Gen X's check for visual gags first
What is this 'communication' you speak of.
How can we stop cancer or Kony or Ebola without the likes!
What's so funny ? Regardless of his rant about the GF everything he said from a game sense point of view was spot on the money.
Before they know it they will be zip and 3 in the regular season and the Claytons Captains McVeigh or Jack will come out and say we are not playing the way we want to play. Well guess what ? Tonight is not the way we want you to ****** play either.
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Being slow and bad kicking have been the knocks on him for some time. Though getting his hands on the ball and getting it out to someone on the same team is elite. Keep his role simple to get the most out of him
I know they don't owe us anything but still :/ its just putrid stuff to go and watch that from a supporter POV i dunno from Roos "go forward but dont kick a goal" seems to be a weird stigma we place on NAB cup matches.
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Understand the sentiment. Is frustrating that every preseason we are still rusty. What erks me the most is how woeful the disposal is. Was a knock on it last year. Why on earth hadn't it improved.
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