Recent content by Vin Rogue

At least nobody will be able to mark it.

Stuff of dreams to think of selecting another Goodesie and LRT or Hanners and Parker. But we really do have history in this part of the draft. Rowbottom, the Chad and Gulden may well join the ranks of the Swans Immortals - the draft this year could possibly add a couple more legends. First you...

Rampe in the twilight of his career will only be assured of a game if he finds a new role that his body assets and liabilities will allow him to perform. For this reason I do not like the idea of him being a formal leader. He will continue to be an on field leader when playing, regardless of his...

Not sure our first round draft pick selection has a history of success. However, our second round selections seem to be far more reliable in gaining successful footballers. Solution - Trade everything for three or four second round picks.

Geelong versus Melbourne in 2021. 12 months ago. Flogged the same as us. No implosion for them in 2022. You can write your own history.

Sometimes a football lesson is dealt to you rather than chosen. Geelong were the team we wanted our team to be. They were hard and ruthless. We simply were not able to compete on their level. Perhaps we should be honored. They believed that we would bring the heat and they knew that if they did...

Last year we traded away Dawson and Hewett - two footballers who would have made us a stronger team. Yet without them we beat 16 other teams to win the right to play the last game. What's more, it was not trades which improved us...it was the football growth of our young footballers. Keep the...

Agree on Fox, Warner and Clarke. Did their jobs and either beat their opponent or matched them. Our boys looked overwhelmed and overawed. I just wonder if last week's death rattles in the dying stages robbed them of confidence to take the game on. That their self belief was severely shaken last...

I thought that Clarke broke even with Stewart - and that means that he did his job which is more than most of the swans could even dare suggest. Even Warner and Parker did not eclipse their opposite number, although they did offer resistance and heart. I thought they tried hard enough. Not a...

Interesting remarks, RBBS. I don't like arrogant bullies either. Not a good look. JPK just lets his deeds and effort do the talking. Most of the swans do. The issue with Parker is whether he was reacting to what Shiels had said earlier. No matter really, you dish it out then the time will come...

Why mention that Goodes was not universally loved? Why mention a perception of sooking? Taints the picture. Muddies the water. Leave it out. Just enough to say that he was a champion of the game, and he was ours and we loved him. End of commentary.

You present a new argument. You have not responded to my main point, that generalisations regarding drafting are useless when assessing the potential for players to entertain seeking another Club. What you now say is that as people grow ...they change. So? Does that mean that we do not try to...

I suggest that individuals will have a different perspective and experience of home sickness depending on the quality of their familial relationships and their level of dependency on those relationships. For some players, a cousin or brother or aunt/uncle in Sydney could make all the difference...

You give Van Rooyen the death handshake when you liken him to a Reid type of player. But if we are unable to choose him or Bazzo then I would seriously consider Conway. Lot to like about a lad who is 205cm. No harm in having a friendly rivalry with King if that were to happen.