Review JLT Community Series game 2 - GWS V Sydney @ Blacktown

[caesar88]

Harsh on Laidler imo

IMO it's harsh on Marsh.

s**t i just giggled aloud at work

 

[bungee]

Harsh on Laidler imo

Agree, he's a pretty good intercept mark and a pretty good player in a defence packed with stars.

 

[bungee]

Looking forward to seeing Hayward in action. Also Buddy-Reid combo should be interesting.

 

[GotTheGoodes]

Leonardis has done utterly nothing to show he deserves any game time ahead of the named players

This.

Give him the year to earn his stripes. At this stage he's not 1st or 2nd backup to the EMG listed players IMO.

He needs to dig in & do the hard yards and prove he deserves to be even thought about.

 

[6yearsold]

Harsh on Laidler imo

he's slower than mcveigh.

 

[6yearsold]

IMO it's harsh on Marsh.

s**t i just giggled aloud at work

his kicking is atrocious and he is slow.

 

[6yearsold]

This.

Give him the year to earn his stripes. At this stage he's not 1st or 2nd backup to the EMG listed players IMO.

He needs to dig in & do the hard yards and prove he deserves to be even thought about.

he was in the squad against north so is obviously being thought about and he wouldn't be being thought about if he hadn't 'dug in and done the hard yards'. further, he was a senior emergency three times last year so must be doing something right. his 2016 compares well with lewis melican who some would say has done nothing to deserve a spot but i thought was really sound against north and definitely preferable to marsh whose 10 metre chip kicks miss by 5 metres.

 

[GotTheGoodes]

he was in the squad against north so is obviously being thought about and he wouldn't be being thought about if he hadn't 'dug in and done the hard yards'. further, he was a senior emergency three times last year so must be doing something right. his 2016 compares well with lewis melican who some would say has done nothing to deserve a spot but i thought was really sound against north and definitely preferable to marsh whose 10 metre chip kicks miss by 5 metres.

I guess we will see this year won't we?

I think Marsh is yards ahead of both. Easily. No comparison IMO.

 

[J_Moore]

4. Daniel Hannebery, 6. Jordan Foote, 7. Harry Cunningham, 8. Kurt Tippett, 9. Will Hayward, 10. Zak Jones, 11. Jeremy Laidler, 12. Josh Kennedy, 13. Oliver Florent, 14. Callum Mills, 17. Darcy Cameron, 18. Callum Sinclair, 20. Sam Reid, 21. Jack Maibaum, 22. Dean Towers, 23. Lance Franklin, 24. Dane Rampe, 26. Luke Parker, 27. Daniel Robinson, 28. Nic Newman, 29. George Hewett, 31. Harrison Marsh, 35. Sam Naismith, 38. Colin O'Riordan, 39. Heath Grundy, 40. Nick Smith, 42. Robbie Fox, 43. Lewis Melican, 44. Jake Lloyd

i'd be happy for leonardis to play a trial match ahead of any of these players bolded. laidler, marsh and robinson are nothing more than backup waiting around to be delisted.

O'Riordan made the NEAFL team of the year in his first season of Australian Rules.

Leonardis, in presumably his 11th or 12th, did not.

Why wouldn't you persist with O'Riordan?

 

[6yearsold]

O'Riordan made the NEAFL team of the year in his first season of Australian Rules.

Leonardis, in presumably his 11th or 12th, did not.

Why wouldn't you persist with O'Riordan?

it was leonardis' second season... 11th or 12th???

i don't mind giving o'riordan another go even though he struggled against north and seemed off the pace (he did cop a knock at some stage).

 

[CD__]

It is such a shame as I think Dawson shows some real potential. From what I have seen he is our best kick on the list.

The bloke that wears #23 is our best field-kick by the length of the Flemington Straight.

 

[SwansProudly]

Harsh on Laidler imo

Hmm there is a GWS player named "Harsh" that will play on Laidler

 

[J_Moore]

it was leonardis' second season... 11th or 12th???

i don't mind giving o'riordan another go even though he struggled against north and seemed off the pace (he did cop a knock at some stage).

Leonardis has been playing Australian football since he was a child. O'Riordan had never kicked a Sherrin in anger until last year, and he made the team of the year of a reasonably high level league, playing in the same position that Leonardis does.

 

[6yearsold]

Leonardis has been playing Australian football since he was a child. O'Riordan had never kicked a Sherrin in anger until last year, and he made the team of the year of a reasonably high level league, playing in the same position that Leonardis does.

leonardis was moved forward quite often last year and kicked a few goals on a couple of occasions...

 

[GotTheGoodes]

Really looking forward to seeing Hazy/Wayward/Willward/Haze/Hazzah get a crack if he's fit and ready to roll.

 

[RUNVS]

Really looking forward to seeing Hazy/Wayward/Willward/Haze/Hazzah get a crack if he's fit and ready to roll.

If we connect training wheels to all the Swans players from the hips, or perhaps just under the arm pits, I wonder if it would stop the players falling over.

 

[PVF]

"The Sydney Swans will become giants in a bid to wrest harbour city bragging rights from GWS in Friday night's pre-season clash at Blacktown."

"The Swans are desperate to beat the Giants, who won two of the clubs' three showdowns last season, including the qualifying final GWS won by six goals."

Two quotes for an article in the Age. Someone might want to tell them it's a pre-season game.

 

[RUNVS]

"The Sydney Swans will become giants in a bid to wrest harbour city bragging rights from GWS in Friday night's pre-season clash at Blacktown."

"The Swans are desperate to beat the Giants, who won two of the clubs' three showdowns last season, including the qualifying final GWS won by six goals."

Two quotes for an article in the Age. Someone might want to tell them it's a pre-season game.

Don't care. I want the Swans to make GWS bleed.

 

[doona]

Don't care. I want the Swans to make GWS bleed.

I want us to build up for round one. Couldn't give a rats about a pre-season result even if it is verse GWS like the same with the kangaroos last week.

 

[SwansProudly]

Would you play Buddy if the conditions of heavy rain are predicted? I think I'd put him in cotton wool.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Would you play Buddy if the conditions of heavy rain are predicted? I think I'd put him in cotton wool.

Yes he needs a hitout.

 

[Punts]

Gonna piss down

 

[BloodySwan]

Would you play Buddy if the conditions of heavy rain are predicted? I think I'd put him in cotton wool.

Manage him, he doesn't have to play the whole game.

 

[dazdoggy]

Do you think Hanners and JPK will actually try this week? Who do you see as your wet weather specialists ? I'd imagine Foote would be a good contested player.

 

[caesar88]

Do you think Hanners and JPK will actually try this week? Who do you see as your wet weather specialists ? I'd imagine Foote would be a good contested player.

Hanners and JPK always try. When they have a rare lazy or off moment, they will always force themselves to do better. See: the first JLT game against North when Hanners made a sloppy error in the last and then bounced back with a few great bits of play. Wet weather specialists are the usual suspects in our engine room but in terms of skill, no one really shines. Foote's a good contested player but against North it was his type of match and he still couldn't really find much of the footy. My money is on the exact same four who shone in the first.. Heeney, Jones, Mills and Hewett.