Preview Gold Coast Swans vs Sydney Swans 7PM AEDT 18 Mar 23 @ Heritage Bank Stadium

[Olian]

Same with McLean

Reid must be injured cause he is in before a few forwards imo

Pulled up a sore at the end of last practice game.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

hard to moan about round 1 selections really

let's see

Find something please

 

[The King!]

Find something please

ha ha the pre season games are rubbish

so we have heck all idea who is ready to go imo

 

[swanssince2002]

No big melts since it's round 1 but only a perfect start would prevent a 5 page meltdown at future selections

 

[Punts]

GC will do us by 30 plus r1

They love playing us and love a jump normally

 

[Bloods86]

Find something please

I thought Warner wasn't his usual self in pre season games. Delist.

 

[Punts]

Good to footy back though

 

[Punts]

Thought Francis would have played allowing rampe to play foxes role

Must not impressed enough which isn’t surprising

 

[Bloods86]

GC will do us by 30 plus r1

They love playing us and love a jump normally

They weren't great early on last season, started 2-5, incl a win over the Eagles.

Since 2015, they've gone 3-5 in Round 1, with the wins against the Eagles (preceded by 3 Rd 1 losses), North and Bombers.

 

[Punts]

They weren't great early on last season, started 2-5, incl a win over the Eagles.

Since 2015, they've gone 3-5 in Round 1, with the wins against the Eagles, North and Bombers.

Love playing us and dew has Longmire it seems

 

[caesar88]

Thought Francis would have played allowing rampe to play foxes role

Must not impressed enough which isn’t surprising

If we're to believe the rumours, he wasn't the hardest of workers at Essendon.

Will take a while to get up to our club's standard, if he does at all.

 

[Punts]

If we're to believe the rumours, he wasn't the hardest of workers at Essendon.

Will take a while to get up to our club's standard, if he does at all.

Looks that way

Why didn’t he play practice match you think ?

 

[caesar88]

Looks that way

Why didn’t he play practice match you think ?

I'm not too sure. Hoping his absence from the second practice match was injury-related, cause it's not a good sign if he couldn't even fit into the squad for a practice game.

But then again, he's named as an emergency, so he might not be as far off as he seems...

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Looks that way

Why didn’t he play practice match you think ?

Its pretty silly unless he was injured.

Or they have no plans to actually play him this season?

 

[Bloods86]

I'm not too sure. Hoping his absence from the second practice match was injury-related, cause it's not a good sign if he couldn't even fit into the squad for a practice game.

But then again, he's named as an emergency, so he might not be as far off as he seems...

Who is the alternative KPD? Aren't Melican and Gould injured? Doesn't take much for him to edge out Edwards at this point.

KPF even. We usually name 2 talls in emergencies, so he's beaten out Edwards and Owen.

 

[The King!]

Punts is pumped judging by the alerts

 

[Donza]

Re Francis.

Anyone coming out of the absolute rabble that is the essendon development department needs to be given a fair bit of time in the VFL. Imo.

 

[Dangas]

Ladhams, you have a point to prove son.

 

[caesar88]

Who is the alternative KPD? Aren't Melican and Gould injured? Doesn't take much for him to edge out Edwards at this point.

KPF even. We usually name 2 talls in emergencies, so he's beaten out Edwards and Owen.

Yeah I mean, I really have no idea. Francis is one player I just have no idea how or where to place right now, so just keeping my expectations low with him.

But it's funny, last year when we were basically at full-fitness and we had players like Ladhams, McLean, Cunningham, etc. as emergencies, our depth seemed amazing. It only takes a few injuries for those players to be in the team and the cupboard to all of a sudden look a little bare again.

(No disrespect to this week's named emergencies and everyone below them - they're just a lot more raw and a lot less proven and experienced.)

 

[Jimbo OZ]

Nothing like a bit of Punts optimism to start the season. Only surprise which shouldn't be is that Reid is injured. I'm really looking forward to seeing our young blokes going to higher and higher levels. Expecting huge jump from McInerney.

 

[caesar88]

The Swans fandom is rarely more embarrassing than when they are on Facebook and Instagram spamming team selection posts with "Where's Gould?" comments.

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

The Swans fandom is rarely more embarrassing than when they are on Facebook and Instagram spamming team selection posts with "Where's Gould?" comments.

Gould wow i think you can still find my posts about him from 2020

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

Can’t expect that

So you dont expect them to provide any defensive pressure?

 

[Punts]

So you dont expect them to provide any defensive pressure?

Not all of especially if gulden plays mid

 

[Bloods86]

Yeah I mean, I really have no idea. Francis is one player I just have no idea how or where to place right now, so just keeping my expectations low with him.

But it's funny, last year when we were basically at full-fitness and we had players like Ladhams, McLean, Cunningham, etc. as emergencies, our depth seemed amazing. It only takes a few injuries for those players to be in the team and the cupboard to all of a sudden look a little bare again.

(No disrespect to this week's named emergencies and everyone below them - they're just a lot more raw and a lot less proven and experienced.)

Yeah injuries to the following will do that:

• no.1 ruck
• usual backup ruck/KPF
• best performing KPF in VFL last year
• the 3 backup KPDs that haven't just arrived*

*Fox obviously best 22, but can be a 4th KPD option, or our best sometimes it seems (GF)