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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.

I like the idea of choosing players for a variety of roles. We need a KPD, but they might also be a possible KPF or even a ruckman. Conway is a cousin of McCartin's and is already 205cm - any possibility of him becoming a KPD or KPD. He is touted as the best available ruck prospect, but if he is...

I agree with you, just havin a lend of the way you expressed it.

Can't see the crows giving up 4 talls for Dawson.

I remember that it was televised. Goodes was a seventeen year old and we exercised the last possible seventeen year old selection. As we were last we could have left it till the third round or later, because nobody else could have selected him. That's how i recall it, so it could be faulty like...

If history continually repeats itself, then trade in our first rounder for two second rounders at every opportunity. Double the value or halve the cost - whichever way your glass is best described at the half full/empty mark.

Not sure that is right. All scores in the last were ours...... we rushed the behind which ultimately beat us. We were in a winning position for half the last quarter. If we execute our goal kicking...we win. Can't see that as being Longmire's fault.

Great, so to whom do I send my barcode? Anyone in Tassie wanting a membership barcode to get a ticket? Mine is available. #ad

Don't know if it has already been done, but could mods be sent members bar codes and Tassie swans members access them via the mods to take their friends and family?

Let me know if you want my membership bar code details and you can have my ticket.

Playing on a rampaging bigger than gettout Texan? He was always going to be undersized. Not fully fit and probably filthy as hell that he can't quite do what he's always been able to do. Play Rampe in the pocket or as a flanker and give the bloke a break. Let him reacquaint himself with the...

Not if he has marked the ball as the interceptor. He reads the play well. It's a strength in his bag of tricks. Have no fears. Reg was never the quickest bloke down back and neither was Ted.

Makes that Geelong effort highlight the true depth of talent we now have. Fitting Big Bud into the team may not be such a high priority any more. Who'd ever have thunked that?

So true. How McDonald was available for us to "steal" in the draft - just lucky that Dogs, Crows and Roos were happier to pick others.

The game against Geelong was a truer indicator perhaps of where the team was at late in the 2020 season. Add Campbell, Gulden, McDonald and Hickey to that team and BANG.....we is coming.

Limited viewings of Warner. I like his hardness and attack on the footy. If he continues his trajectory he will be in the mix. Opportunities will be rare - just so many with claims. I really like that we have a mid field mix that is still in flux. I don't like the real reason for that which is...