Got a good friend who is a mad Swans fan and he is all over
Matty Ling for this season saying he will play a heap of games.
Anyone heard of him or know much about him? Seems to have a good pedigree and was injured in his rookie season last year after the Swans drafted him with their 1st round pick at #14. Played only the 6 games in the 2nds but did well and was on the verge of selection before he had an unlucky broken toe ending his season early.
http://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/2019-01-01/ling-full-of-hunger-ahead-of-2019
123k MID/FWD and the Swans do play kids.
Swans fans thoughts??
Played injured all year, including those NEAFL games.
Not sure he gets consistent game unless we decide to go full rebuild this year. He might come in for a couple and then go back out.
Depends how our year is going, there are some vets that will probably make way for kids if we are having a bad year.
Grundy, Smith, McVeigh are probably still best 22 as of right now, and Horse loves KJ even though he is washed up.
I count 16 players in our list that are absolute locks for best 22:
JPK, Parker, Heeney, Franklin, Rampe, Aliir, Hewett, Mills, Florent, Jones, Cunningham, Reid, Hayward, Papley, Lloyd, Sinclair
Then you have 6 spots which are either older veterans or young guys (Grundy, Smith, McVeigh, Menzel, Ronke, Naismith, Dawson, Melican) and I think right now there are a few that are ahead of Ling.
Ling and Foot are the two sneaky ones to watch though, but I think it's unlikely they will play more than a handful each.