He’s not a named emergency so one wouldn’t expect him to travel with the side.
Given he was listed as omitted (rather than injured) it could be due to a personal matter, or could be disciplinary (which doesn’t have to relate to this week’s hot topic - he might just have been late to training. I...
I’m sure they are happy for him, but have you ever seen a video clip of a debutant announcement where team mates haven’t reacted enthusiastically? Not just at the Swans. At any club?
Ouch (for them).
I really hope the maturity that has been acquired over the past few years leads to a focused, disciplined performance and they don’t get ahead of themselves. There were a few times in the first half last week where they tried to be overly cute and fancy and turned the ball...
Only at the expense of Amartey, surely? And not a change I’d make at this stage.
I reckon Warner retains his spot while Mitchell and Konstanty face an arm wrestle for the final spot.
It’s just sloppy writing, editing and proof reading. Glad it’s not limited to the Swans’ media team.
The AFL published the list of free agents a couple of days ago. Hayward is restricted. Florent is unrestricted...
Last night on the Midweek tackle he put up a list of around a dozen names. I have no idea if he got this from Hawthorn or if it’s just a list of who he thinks Hawthorn should be aiming for. Errol and Logan were the Swans names on the list. I didn’t look at the rest.
Hawthorn are maybe kicking...
Probably more Sam Naismith, than AJ. Except without the multitude of non-ACL injuries that Naismith suffered first.
The plight of Nick Coffield is also a shame. He just can’t score a break.
Except the Dons have, for a while, been good at clearance work but poor at pressure and poor at two way running. Even while they were winning premierships, Richmond weren’t much chop at the clearance stuff. They were great at pressure and causing turnovers. That was their biggest source of...
Or they are trying to stop players breaking the WADA code by not participating while on performance enhancing drugs.
If someone drives to the pub, gets shitfaced, but then leaves his keys with the publican and gets a ride home, we don’t think he’s dodging the DUI law. We think he’s doing the...
But they’ll earn respect from opponents by doing it, not by talking about doing it. Indeed, they come across as even softer if they talk but don’t walk, which is what Papley and Heeney were commenting on during and after the game.
I half watched that silly Herald Sun journalists chin wag that follows AFL360 this season on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Jon Ralph talked a bit about this "Essendon Edge" and how it might tickle the fancy of Ross Lyon. He said that Lyon always expected his players to play with "an edge" - by...
I can’t see him being squeezed out either, but I think his experience in defence is a large part of that. The section of the ground that we will need to renovate soonest is defence because it’s where our biggest concentration of older players is - Rampe, Lloyd, Cunningham. We might have players...
If he's even contemplating Freo, I would point out to him the number of players who have moved to Freo as their second club and then made a swift exit. And these were Western Australians "going home" but they still quickly got out of there. Brad Hill. Blake Acres. Jesse Hogan (and yes, I...
I think we have to remember that players are people too, with lives to live. I imagine it can get wearing if you’re approached all the time, in non-football contexts, by strangers when you’re just going about your business. Maybe the financial rewards that today’s players get put an onus on them...
Roos had at least experienced football at another club, and under other coaches. McVeigh had two coaches during his time - Roos and Longmire. While their coaching specifics would have been different, the overall club philosophy remained pretty constant. So McVeigh hasn't had exposure to a...
Towards the end of last year I think it was widely believed he was off to North Melbourne (as an unrestricted free agent). And yet he elected to stay on a one year deal (and, I'm guessing, modest money) at the Swans. It may just be that he didn't fancy going to a cellar dweller, but it also...
Whoever is the main content producer (writer) for the Swans website has shown over a few months now that they have a modest grasp of formal English grammar. This isn't a one-off, or just a failure to proof-read.
Possibly. But if you believe the media we are going to have to pay Gulden and McDonald in the vicinity of $1m pa if we want to re-sign them. And then there will be Warner in a couple of years time, Heeney and Mills already on good money, Grundy on more than you would normally pay a ruckman...
I don't think this is anything new. Go back two decades and you will find Roos anointing Kennelly as our most important (not best, but most important) player.
Hmmm… bit of revisionism happening there. Go back and watch, say, the Freo game from last season when Parker was in beast mode. Just one of many from last season alone.
I suspect not. I think Longmire was more likely to have given him 4 than McRae.
But I think it more likely still that Daicos was a 2/3 (either way around). I reckon Rowie was probably 4 (Longmire)/1 McRae because we know Horse loves what James does.
He may have been in two minds how to play it. He had a team mate running into goal so was possibly thinking how to gain possession while staying on his feet (ie not lunging to mark it) so he could either pop it over the top or toe-poke it.
And he did get an awkward bounce.
It was a stuff up...
I've no doubt there's a tiny whiff of smoke. Morris wouldn't have made something completely up out of nothing. But I also suspect it was probably just the inevitable pain that a champion player and club go through when they have to come to terms with things being over.
What Horse might have...
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