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It's not even Christmas. Going to be a long offseason
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I think that is actually true. I’m glad you agree.
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Half our team looking fit and hungry on the ropes
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Tmac forward hey
Need someone who can take a grab I guess
The 4 in Grundy , McLean , amartey and McDonald just don’t do enough so I get it
Need someone who can take a grab I guess
The 4 in Grundy , McLean , amartey and McDonald just don’t do enough so I get it
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In regards to the talls situation, I am kinda of the belief that:
If we have three, at least one of them has to be elite (or close to) in the air.
If not, then we have to go with two.
If we have three but none are great at clunking marks then it's just too much mediocrity and a wasted spot.
My (likely unpopular) view:
AFL clubs (including the Swans) have lost the plot when it comes to key forwards.
Full forwards & centre half forwards now are all a similar prototype: very tall, often very athletic …. but not offering much by way of brute force or intimidation factor.
The last “brute” I recall was Jonathon Brown. Tom Hawkins is the only other one even remotely close.
I can’t recall a genuine power forward being a high draft pick in the past decade. In fact, I wonder how the greatest forward of them all (Plugger) would fare in a modern AFL draft. Ditto Jason Dunstall.
Most likely they’d be overlooked in favour of a Rory Lobb type.
Just being tall isn’t good enough. The Kings are proof of that.
My point? We have a forward line full of tall players, but none that cause defenders to crap themselves when having to play in front. None with an intimidation factor. No brutes. And it makes us easy to defend (when the mids arent shooting the lights out).
And as much as I rate Tommy Mac, he won’t change that.
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Whopping training gallery on this site.
96 pictures. 47 of them are of just six players.
AFL 2024 Training - Sydney 031224 - AFL Photos
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Thanks for the link. Could that be Brenna Tarrant in the background of the 10th photo (inside Swans HQ)?
Is it just me or is there a malodorous whiff about this comment? Faint but discernible IMO.
Looks like Brenna.
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Admittedly if you want an exercise to make you look fit, battle ropes is one of them.
They work on your shoulders, arms, back, legs and core. Plus because its both weighted and has blood moving due to the cardiovascular affects of it it causes a brilliant pump.
(They are also just a great exercise in general, I add them regularly to the classes I run and would do them with my fencing regularly).
I had to google what malowhatever means.
Caesar made a joke about Hayward and Florent being in a relationship together, at least that is what I thought he meant. So I also made a joke about the same thing.
If you are offended, get over yourself.
I think you may have missed the sarcasm font.
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I think the lesson here is that big words do more harm than good.
Anyway, back to my thesis paper on antidisestablishmentarianism.
Anyway, back to my thesis paper on antidisestablishmentarianism.
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All these big words and not one “training the house down” srsly… surely someone has trained ones house down by now?
No training houses down due to the cost of Sydney’s housing market Best we can hope for is training a upmarket garden shed down
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Welcome aboard
Surely it would be in our best interests to train houses down to replace them with higher-density construction? Or has NIMBYism now impacted our pre-season?
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I am pleased to offer my first pre-season training report for this season. I can report as follows:
* a substantial group of senior players trained separately from the main group, earlier this morning, to enable them to travel to Melbourne for a funeral. I'm not sure who has passed but it must be pretty significant for so many to go. Maybe bedford knows more? I can't confirm all these players travelled but I think absent players included: Mills, Rampe, T.McCartin, McLean, Amartey, Papley, Florent, Hayward, Blakey, Rowbottom, McInerney, McDonald, Campbell, Hamling. I think Dean Cox may also have been absent. I have an inexplicably anxious feeling about this.
* the players spent much of the time divided into three groups, apparently forwards/defenders/mids. It appears that the line coaches may be Ben Matthews with the mids, Amon Buchanan with the forwards and Spike McVeigh with the backs.
* compared to last year it was conspicuous that the training included way more emphasis on contested work. Lots and lots of drills with them wrestling with each other and fighting for the ball, sometimes starting off from a lying down on the grass position.
* Wicks was training with the backs! As were Bice and Paton and Andrew.
* Kirk was training with the forwards! As were Dattoli and Bowman and Hanily.
* Tramway Oval is out of action until 18 December. Training will return there in the New Year, and maybe just before.
* I sighted all the 6 new players. They were all joining in (not quite everything) except for Blake Leidler who seems to be being held back on account of some injury issue.
* Ben Edwards (VFL) was there, and Matt Lloyd has been there (which is a boon for our reserves) but Charlie McCartin is going to play VFL with one of the Victorian sides (probably one of the stand alone teams).
That's all I have for now - but it's a fair bit to be going on with!
* a substantial group of senior players trained separately from the main group, earlier this morning, to enable them to travel to Melbourne for a funeral. I'm not sure who has passed but it must be pretty significant for so many to go. Maybe bedford knows more? I can't confirm all these players travelled but I think absent players included: Mills, Rampe, T.McCartin, McLean, Amartey, Papley, Florent, Hayward, Blakey, Rowbottom, McInerney, McDonald, Campbell, Hamling. I think Dean Cox may also have been absent. I have an inexplicably anxious feeling about this.
* the players spent much of the time divided into three groups, apparently forwards/defenders/mids. It appears that the line coaches may be Ben Matthews with the mids, Amon Buchanan with the forwards and Spike McVeigh with the backs.
* compared to last year it was conspicuous that the training included way more emphasis on contested work. Lots and lots of drills with them wrestling with each other and fighting for the ball, sometimes starting off from a lying down on the grass position.
* Wicks was training with the backs! As were Bice and Paton and Andrew.
* Kirk was training with the forwards! As were Dattoli and Bowman and Hanily.
* Tramway Oval is out of action until 18 December. Training will return there in the New Year, and maybe just before.
* I sighted all the 6 new players. They were all joining in (not quite everything) except for Blake Leidler who seems to be being held back on account of some injury issue.
* Ben Edwards (VFL) was there, and Matt Lloyd has been there (which is a boon for our reserves) but Charlie McCartin is going to play VFL with one of the Victorian sides (probably one of the stand alone teams).
That's all I have for now - but it's a fair bit to be going on with!
Charlie is training with Geelong
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Horse mentioned at his farewell presser that Tom Harley was absent that day to be with his seriously ill father. Don't know any more than that but possibly connected.
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Excellent suggestion but 1. Tom comes from Adelaide not Melbourne; and 2. not sure so many of the playing group (including most of the forwards, rather conspicuously) would be travelling to Melbourne for that.
Guess I’m a nimby and I like it
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Elite reporting Callipygian! Especially the stuff re the possible line coaches.
Re the funeral situation, I think you could probably do a process of elimination to get a fair idea of what's gone on.
The players you mentioned are all from different backgrounds, states, cities etc., so the only way they could all be mutual acquaintances of the deceased is through the club.
The club usually posts a statement or acknowledgment of the passing of pretty much anyone associated with the club, be it a member of staff, administration, former player or even noted member. There hasn't been anything shared like that to the Swans site, so I think we can rule any such people like that out.
It really only leaves a family member or friend of a player, who might've just become really well-acquainted with the playing group through social functions, family events etc.
That the funeral is in Melbourne could narrow it down to one of the Victorian players, though it's quite common to have family spread around the country, so it's not necessarily a certainty to involve a Victorian player.
Regardless, whilst it is a sad and peculiar situation, it's not necessarily our business, so I suppose all we can do is hope that all the effected, whoever they are, are OK, and given the support they need.
Re the funeral situation, I think you could probably do a process of elimination to get a fair idea of what's gone on.
The players you mentioned are all from different backgrounds, states, cities etc., so the only way they could all be mutual acquaintances of the deceased is through the club.
The club usually posts a statement or acknowledgment of the passing of pretty much anyone associated with the club, be it a member of staff, administration, former player or even noted member. There hasn't been anything shared like that to the Swans site, so I think we can rule any such people like that out.
It really only leaves a family member or friend of a player, who might've just become really well-acquainted with the playing group through social functions, family events etc.
That the funeral is in Melbourne could narrow it down to one of the Victorian players, though it's quite common to have family spread around the country, so it's not necessarily a certainty to involve a Victorian player.
Regardless, whilst it is a sad and peculiar situation, it's not necessarily our business, so I suppose all we can do is hope that all the effected, whoever they are, are OK, and given the support they need.
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