Preview R24 | Sydney vs Adelaide | SCG - Sat 24/8 @ 7:40PM AEST | We need to prove a point (unlike last year)

[liz]

I like Horse but I don't trust him to not make the same glaringly obvious mistakes long after they've been proven to be so.

Braedon has been serviceable as a small defender. We might have a glaring need for a small defender in a future game. Would playing him there be a mistake?

Or he’s playing wing/half forward but struggling to have any impact. Would switching him with, say Ollie, be a mistake?

Longmire talks a lot about the value of positional flexibility. I think he has a very good point.

 

[caesar88]

Braedon has been serviceable as a small defender. We might have a glaring need for a small defender in a future game. Would playing him there be a mistake?

Or he’s playing wing/half forward but struggling to have any impact. Would switching him with, say Ollie, be a mistake?

Longmire talks a lot about the value of positional flexibility. I think he has a very good point.

I think if it's a mistake depends on how 'serviceable' one thinks Campbell has been playing in defence.

I personally think 'not very.'

Positional flexibility is still dependent on players actually being able to contribute in the positions they're supposedly flexible in.

(This sounds like we're no longer talking about footy...)

 

[Donza]

Mccartin rested.

 

[Donza]

Adams sub imo

 

[JZ_Skitzo]

In Francis Warner
Out McCartin Warner

In before shock they didn't rest the whole team. Which was a silly idea.

 

[Kbroome]

Should have rested Rampe and Grundy as well

 

[caesar88]

Happy with those changes.

Lloyd as sub would be nice.

Looking forward to seeing Cleary the centre half forward.

 

[Punts]

Adams should have been dropped

Grundy and Hayward rested

 

[Donza]

Good to see CC consolidate his position

 

[KingV23]

I would have liked to see Grundy rested.

 

[GoodesStuff]

Terrible timing for Fox to go out injured last week. I don't see how he gets back with the troops returning, he's just outside the Best 23 now imo

 

[Punts]

I would have liked to see Grundy rested.

Horse will cook them

 

[Adnico26Parker]

I still suspect a couple of potential late changes on Saturday

 

[RampeRobe]

Mark Keane out for personal reasons.. Amartey apprehension?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Caiden Cleary at CHF lol

 

[Donza]

I still suspect a couple of potential late changes on Saturday

Fox for Adams as sub

 

[caesar88]

I'm currently re-watching the Bombers game and in the first quarter Adams is the only mid doing anything.

I think we sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that one player got us over the line while everyone else was carried, the way we were talking like Parker, Heeney, Florent etc won us the game. But they all lifted together and when you have a handful of blokes on song it is far more productive than when just one guy is left do to the heavy lifting.

It was the same with the Collingwood game, Rowbottom the lone soldier for a dismal first half then everyone else comes to the party and it's all 'look how they got us the win!'

And I'm not exempting myself from this either as last week I criticised Adams and said I'd drop him.

The whole team is guilty of only showing up in patches here and there. They need to work together as a group to get more than one or two good quarters out of themselves.

 

[RilesMacca]

Bit discouraging to see Gussy not even make the emergencies again but given the current stage of the season its understandable. Happy to see Cleary starting again, TMac injured or managed? Adams for sub I reckon too.

 

[The King!]

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Adams should have been dropped

Grundy and Hayward rested

If he drops Adams who will you bitch and whinge about ?

 

[The King!]

Just here to see how happy people are he only rested Tommy

I wouldn't mind seeing Hamling before Francis

 

[Donza]

Just here to see how happy people are he only rested Tommy

I wouldn't mind seeing Hamling before Francis

You know what you're going to get with Francis.





..it isn't very good

 

[swanssince2002]

We all its only going to be a 1 game rest for McCartin and he will come back for finals but understandable for him

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Exec summary for those who can’t watch the game:

* there’ll be no significant team changes. Nobody will be rested.

* at 1/4 time, Swans 14 points down

* by 3/4 time, Swans 26 points up

* bruise free final quarter, Swans win by 16

* Horse answers every question at the post-match presser by talking about “the contest”

Update:

Previous exec summary still applies, except that T.McCartin will be rested.

 

[Punts]

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If he drops Adams who will you bitch and whinge about ?

Hopefully he doesn’t get a finals gig

Been a terrible recruit let’s be honest

Hasn’t done a thing

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Bit discouraging to see Gussy not even make the emergencies again but given the current stage of the season its understandable. Happy to see Cleary starting again, TMac injured or managed? Adams for sub I reckon too.

Managed, they said it and it’s on the team sheet