Now that kick at goal was more Henry like.He even celebrated it ...until he realise he missed.
and then the followup a minute later, which was an aweful kick.
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Now that kick at goal was more Henry like.He even celebrated it ...until he realise he missed.
If only we could teach him to kick straight
We couldn't in the 6 years he was with us.
Playfair does have the right ingredients to be a reasonably decent player but unfortunately his kicking does let him down. Hopefully our coaching staff can succeed where the Geelong coaching staff have failed (though at the moment the Swans dont have a accurate kicking forward at all so it doesnt seem likely).
I think that kick showed us the 50 at the SCG really isn't 50
For anybody with a soft spot for Hank, there was an article in today's Canberra Times (can't find a link though sorry)
Played his first match for Swans 2s vs Eastlake in the ACTAFL on the weekend. Has been injured and this was his comeback
Kicked a goal and took about 6 grabs I think and got a few posi's. Swans lost by 3 goals at Manuka
Quoted as saying that the Cats guaranteed to redraft him if he wanted to stay but also offered to trade him to wherever he could get a game. Looking forward to playing seniors for Sydney now that he is fit
Somehow the Swans 2's are losing their matches in the ACTAFL. that's not a good sign for Sydney's depth!!
BUMP.
Saw bits and pieces of the Swans v Essedon on Sunday, and H looked to be doing okay. Took a couple of nice grabs on the lead and actually kicked straight 3 times. About the only decent thing the Bombres have going for them right now is Ryder at CHB, so it seems H had a quality opponent as well.
Noted GFC scholar Robert Walls even managed to find some praise for Henry in an Age article this morning, claiming it was among his career-best games.
I personally wasnt very excited about Playfair coming to the Swans but i have changed my tune as i think he could be quite a handy player as he is a excellent marker of the ball and his goal accuracy wasnt bad either. I think a Hall, O'Louglin and Playfair forward line could work rather well as Playfair could do quite well being a 3rd tall Forward and having the 3rd defender on him.
I personally wasnt very excited about Playfair coming to the Swans but i have changed my tune as i think he could be quite a handy player as he is a excellent marker of the ball and his goal accuracy wasnt bad either. I think a Hall, O'Louglin and Playfair forward line could work rather well as Playfair could do quite well being a 3rd tall Forward and having the 3rd defender on him.
You must've missed that first shot at goal he had...
No i saw that one. But i also saw the 3 goals he kicked and 1 of them looked rather difficult. When you look at the raw figures Playfair had 4 shots on goal and 3 of them went through the middle sticks. He also l=took a nice mark around 40 out from goals but instead of taking the shot he passed it to a teammate (Jolly i thnk) who was standing 5 metres from the goal posts where he kicked a easy goal.
if that is the same mark then that was uncontested with no one in sight of him so not sure if it could be classified as nice, more a gimme.
career at geelong:
29 goals, 21 behinds = 58%
Possibly as i cant really remember, though i can remember that he did take a couple of good contested marks.
Career in Sydney
4 goals, 4 behinds = 50% (obviously)
Just can't help thinking back to the round 21 game against Port last year when H fumbled the ball in the last 10 secs and they crumbed it and kicked a goal to win the game.
Sydney was playing the worst defensive team in the league right now and he has a 'best game of his career'. Coincidence? I think not! When he produces those stats against the hawks, us, or Bulldogs then I will change my mind about him. But my opinion is he is looks a million bucks when the rest of the side is killing them, but when the pressure is on he just doesn't perform well.
To be fair though if he kicked straight he would have had a very good game against the Bulldogs in Round 7.
deja vu right there. But good luck with it.
With set shots it doesnt matter what team you are playing against so if he can kick straight against Essendon he should beable to shoot straight against harder teams. As you all know his contested marking ability has always been his strength so hopefully he can kick as straight against other teams as he did against Essendon afew days ago.