I like that idea, too. Two ruck combo, play the resting ruck forward to help Reid and try and keep what's left of our forward and backline structures.
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It'll never happen. Horse and Rose have a blood feud going back years. It's the only explanation.
Do feel sorry for James and hope he gets a crack elsewhere. Think he could be handy in a more attacking team, but he's just not really suited to our pretty stubborn game plan.
He's actually cracked the team in a year when we've moved away from the dire grind out playstyle and we're actually looking to move the ball quickly. He had 3 or 4 pretty good games for us and I liked him on the wing. I'd still consider him a fringe player and if we had a full list to choose from I still don't think he would've cracked the firsts. I suspect we might delist him as he's hit the ripe old age of 23. He's getting past that age bracket for a young, developing player. If he hasn't made it yet he's probably not going to.
That's the thing though. We dropped him and immediately went back to a more defensive gameplan not long after. That was pretty telling to me.
We didn't change the gameplan. We got smacked in hitouts and clearances so were constantly on the back foot, defending. I've seen all season the intent to try and move the ball quickly through the corridor. Some times that's worked brilliantly with some beautiful ball movement. Other times it's caused numerous turnovers and we are getting heavily scored against on turnovers. But the intent is there and the young players will get better.
Agree to disagree, but I thought we reverted back to the incessant chipping it around the backline strategy which drove us mad for years. Maybe it just seemed this way because the standard of football was so low, but I thought our intent really dropped off until the Geelong game.
All good. I tend to see that as the players going away from the gameplan rather than a conscious change of the gameplan. If they're under the pump they go back into their shell a bit and tend to revert to chipping it about.
Bit harsh. He looked at times like he very much belonged but that particular game did him no favours.
Wow a player makes a couple of mistakes. No other Swan has ever done that.
He also had 56% TOG that game. Like Bloodied52 said, and this is admittedly all speculation, but he looked like he knew he was on the way out and the coaches had no confidence in him by the time the GWS game rolled around.
Aliir couldn’t hold a mark last week. Should he be dropped?
He fluffed 1 opportunity after taking 4. Dawson fluffed his first opportunity this year. Should have dropped him, yeah?
He's not trolling. Rose has played 4 solid to good games this year and one poor game. You choose to ignore those 4 previous games and only consider the one game where he had 56% TOG.
Your argument was that Rose played one poor game and should have been dropped. Before that he had played 4 solid games this season.
Shocking? You're kidding right. He had 11 touches and a goal playing predominantly forward with (again) very little TOG. We missed plenty of sitters that day and he kicked one from 40 on a sharp angle. No clangers and almost perfect efficiency. 3 tackles, which doesn't sound like much, but was more than most - we only had 39 that day and they were breaking tackles everywhere.
