Unofficial Preview Round 4 Early Thoughts: Western Bulldogs v Sydney Swans @ Etihad

[The King!]

Crowd only turned down for scg games

 

[Big Blood]

No.

The single most important player right now

is Sinclair.

Because if he gets injured.

That leaves

Towers

to do the rucking.

Sinclair got 8 coaches' votes on Saturday. Rated by both Cameron and Horse as best on ground. Never seen him mark so well. Having Sinclair and Reid taking marks was the big difference for us last week, letting Buddy roam up the ground and GWS trying to figure out how to deal them.

The Bulldogs will take a lot of confidence out of their win over Essendon. They've got a bit of their mongrel back so this will probably a hard-fought game.

We've won six out of our last seven at Etihad. The loss was against Bulldogs in round 2 last year (during the Dark Times so maybe it doesn't count).

If there's no injuries and Zak is fit you'd think he'd come in for Cunningham.

 

[The King!]

Hewett 3 votes, tagging job appreciated

 

[BloodySwan]

Tell me another tall who could handle the number one ruck position.

We don't have one outside but Amarety looked a hell of a lot better than Cameron did in the reserves on the weekend. Cameron in the ruck isnt going to be any better than Sinclair, but Amartey around the ground is going to be better than Cameron around the ground

 

[The King!]

Tell me another tall who could handle the number one ruck position.

Cripps

 

[Superstar swan]

This game has me really worried

 

[Superstar swan]

Jonea should come in and im hoping aliir...think he could do with the confidence boost and i think he will make the most of it this time...remember how hood he was in 16

 

[hairy biker]

aliir......remember how hood he was in 16

 

[swansfan51]

This game has me really worried

The Bulldogs are mediocre anyway, plus have a massive injury list. And this is a regular season game so our midfielders will turn up.

We'll win extremely comfortably

 

[Superstar swan]

Kennedya back this week for wce, could easily jag 10 against gold coast..bud needs to put a few more on the board

 

[CD__]

The Bulldogs are mediocre anyway, plus have a massive injury list. And this is a regular season game so our midfielders will turn up.

We'll win extremely comfortably

Last weekend was a regular season game and our mids barely turned up...

 

[Number37]

Our best mid turned up at the Hawks game, but 42 of the best possies eva still wasn't enough to get them home.
Next week he will get 57 and they might win by a point.
Why did we let him go. waa waaa waaa

 

[mtooler]

Our best mid turned up at the Hawks game, but 42 of the best possies eva still wasn't enough to get them home.
Next week he will get 57 and they might win by a point.
Why did we let him go. waa waaa waaa

You clearly have difficulty getting past his possession count and unable to appraise his overall contribution to the Hawks team. He's one of the top Brownlow favourites for a reason.

 

[momentbymoment]

We don't have one outside but Amarety looked a hell of a lot better than Cameron did in the reserves on the weekend. Cameron in the ruck isnt going to be any better than Sinclair, but Amartey around the ground is going to be better than Cameron around the ground

I'm an Amerety fan as well but realistically, he looks better up forward. Cameron can play ruck now and Sinclair can play Reid's role.

I think it is 100% certain that Amertey is going to play but it makes sense to leave that till later in the year (when the inevitable injuries hit).

 

[SlingshotFooty]

Anyone else think it's good the Dogs won last week? I think they might have come out with their hair on fire if they got blown away again this week. Kind of like they did against the bombers after two blowouts. We'll never know, but I think they'll be less dangerous with less outside pressure.

 

[SlingshotFooty]

Far to many injuries to really challenge us

We are very good at Etihad

Will win

I think we have one of the best % at Etihad. We seem to win there a lot. Some great matches against the Saints in recent times.

 

[SlingshotFooty]

Is Reid our most important player after Buddy?

Kennedy imo

 

[Kirkswan]

Just finished the game day thread. Talk about bitching whinging blokes... for some reason today I didn't laugh. It just made me cranky, might give it a miss next week, or perhaps try the main board.

You guys are the campaigners not the commentators, umpires or the crowd. Just so you know, the crowd are turned down so that you can hear the umpires and commentators. The pressure in that game was enormous, causing errors from both sides. GWS were beaten although they came back at us time after time. They were out-played by all those players you dismissed, demeaned or derided.

I'm apologising for this today. You are not campaigners, you are Swans supporters who are unable to get to the game and are stuck withe the sometimes incredibly poor coverage on tv. I'm under stress and doing a bit of crusading just lately (was going to take on Samsung last week). Just try to lay off the crowd....

 

[stevie26]

Zaire Cordy outed for a week. Wood will go to Buddy but they will have trouble matching up on our second tall forward. Shame Reid is out. Sinclair to spend more time forward this game?

 

[BruceFromBalnarring]

I would have thought Fox was first in if Melican's out. Probably Jones to the midfield and Heeney up forward if Reid is hurt.

If Rohan is out Newman.

 

[Jewelsbon]

Anyone else think it's good the Dogs won last week? I think they might have come out with their hair on fire if they got blown away again this week. Kind of like they did against the bombers after two blowouts. We'll never know, but I think they'll be less dangerous with less outside pressure.

Yep agreed, much rather play them this week than last.They were under the pump by the Vic media last week big time and had they lost against the bombers the pressure would have been immense this week.

 

[Punts]

8 weeks Reid

2 weeks melican

 

[Jewelsbon]

Reid has torn the tendon

Isn't torn the tendon more like 12 weeks? If not the usual then I reckon it will be for Reid.
At least he'll be fresh for finals

 

[Punts]

Play McCartin

We have to look forward now

 

[bungwahl]

Damn that's not great news. Who would've thought Reid would have transformed so quickly from "whipping boy" to "structurally crucial"?

Big opportunity for a younger player to put their hand up - McCartin, Cameron, Amartey etc.