You lost me completely.
There's a lot of other players that underperform more than Dempster had, are much older, on much higher salary and yet they are staying. I'm not going to name names here (though I've done so elsewhere), but if Roos/Ireland really want to solve the problem they claim that they want to solve, then the trades doesn't make much sense.
There are 4 x 28 midfielders in our side that has underperformed in our side this year. Two have a bit of trade value, two doesn't. It would have made much more sense if at least one of the two that has trade value would be traded and one of the two that doesn't to 'retire' and have his salary spread out over say 5 years to ease our salary cap.
If we do that, then our side would have actually gone younger and not older, which is the case we have now. Not only did we trade away two of our 23 year olds, we traded away two of the quicker ones - to 'make our team quicker'.
There's lot of ways to ease our younger players into the team rather than trading away the younger talent, but he's way too protective of the 'older brigade' even when it's clear that they are underperforming or had been over-taken by the youngsters.
There's a lot of other players that underperform more than Dempster had, are much older, on much higher salary and yet they are staying. I'm not going to name names here (though I've done so elsewhere), but if Roos/Ireland really want to solve the problem they claim that they want to solve, then the trades doesn't make much sense.
There are 4 x 28 midfielders in our side that has underperformed in our side this year. Two have a bit of trade value, two doesn't. It would have made much more sense if at least one of the two that has trade value would be traded and one of the two that doesn't to 'retire' and have his salary spread out over say 5 years to ease our salary cap.
If we do that, then our side would have actually gone younger and not older, which is the case we have now. Not only did we trade away two of our 23 year olds, we traded away two of the quicker ones - to 'make our team quicker'.
There's lot of ways to ease our younger players into the team rather than trading away the younger talent, but he's way too protective of the 'older brigade' even when it's clear that they are underperforming or had been over-taken by the youngsters.
Then why have they been traded?
You guys explain to me how on earth you know more then the bloke that delivered us our first p'ship in 72 years.
How?
What is that you have seen in them that the coach that has a record second to none since he has been a coach hasn't been prepared to see for another year?
The group is stale & if you guys don't know how the team works & selects players yet, then you will never get it.
Roos lets the leadership group contribute to decisions. Hell, they are the ones out there busting a gut alongside these blokes & they would pull no punches when it comes to isolating the weak links in the team. You can bet your bottom dollar that the leadership group helped in making the hard call to move Schneids on. The guy WILL be a very good player at the Saints, not sure about Dempster because he just had no awareness in crunch games. Schmidt has more then likely been picked as the one to take the next step.
It was so obvious that we had salary cap issues when Roos came out & said that some p'ship players would be traded. So obvious! I in fact suggested it in a post earlier on. Get to know how the system works guys. This doesn't mean that in a perfect world we wouldn't have kept Schneids or Dempster, but the fact is that Roos & the leaders had to make a hard call, yet at the same time give the two fellas a chance at playing AFL for more then the year or two years they would have played for us. It has obviously been identified that Schneids wasn't going to get any better at the Swans whilst in the current environment & the change will help his career & if anything, bring him & Dempster more money then if he stayed at the Swans.
The way this has been done by Roos is actually ingenious. He has shown them off as p'ship players in order to give them great value, which in turn gets them more money then at the Swans. Many on BF believe that Schneider is a star. I personally have never thought a whole heap of him. He lacks defensive pressure but is one hell of a goal sneak. But there is only one problem. He hasn't kicked enough goals when it's mattered.
You NEED to kick goals as a goal sneek, but at the Swans, when we haven't got the ball, you need to work damn hard to defend.
You guys need to think back at the two times Roos has sent Schneids back to the twos to hone his defensive skills. He can't keep doing for the rest of Schneids career. If Schneids doesn't get it, then he never will. The guy is a good naturally attacking player but we can't carry any more of these style of players. We have two already....................MOL & Nick Davis. MOL can take a freakish mark & kick straight & Davis...............well he is just Nick Davis & actually keeps us in some games with his highly accurate kicking & in fact, wins us games. Important ones. He can't be left out. Watch the games carefully & you will see that their direct opponents (& the Pies were particularly good at it) run off them creating many attacks that punished us.
The day we started getting flogged by a team like Collingwood missing 5 key players & with a first gamer who was foreign to the rules only 6 months prior, was when the alarm bells started to ring for me. And I'm just a bloke who watches anything Swans.
For christs sake, Paul Roos is the gifted coach of this wonderful team. Do you think for one minute he didn't hear those bells ringing loud & clear way, way before someone like me did.
So come on guys! Open your eyes! We've had five wonderful years in finals under this guy. I'm for whatever decision Roos makes, however unpopular it may look to the hoardes!!
Cheers!

