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when was this?Tom Harley and Adam Spencer avoiding fan questions about the Grand Final.
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Clearly just a webinar to satisfy sponsors. Have less confidence about 2025 after it, tbh.
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Last night's members webinar. Absolute shambles.
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Just when I was starting to cool down, the total avoidance of answering any GF related questions got me angry all over again
He's not going to be able to avoid me so easily on the cruise though
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The clubs happy being good enough.
Rolling out Spencer for some CEO fluff says it all.
Rolling out Spencer for some CEO fluff says it all.
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Tom Harley trying to avoid yours and everyone's questions on the shipJust when I was starting to cool down, the total avoidance of answering any GF related questions got me angry all over again
He's not going to be able to avoid me so easily on the cruise though
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He'll have to have the wiles of Tyrian Lannister to avoid me!Tom Harley trying to avoid yours and everyone's questions on the ship
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Game of Thrones
The greatest character from the greatest television show EVER.
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Ummmm his dad would like a word, Jewels!
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AFL Draft Analysis: Sydney Swans
The Swans hold a pair of first-round picks for this month's draft.
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Reasonable effort, show some knowledge of our list and club. Still a bit light weight and no inside mail or goss.
Like the Simpsons , i never watched it
He's good , said we're a New South Wales club and called Konstanty uncappedAFL Draft Analysis: Sydney Swans
The Swans hold a pair of first-round picks for this month's draft.
Reasonable effort, show some knowledge of our list and club. Still a bit light weight and no inside mail or goss.
Got as far as "Best Available" and I almost snapped my phone in half.AFL Draft Analysis: Sydney Swans
The Swans hold a pair of first-round picks for this month's draft.
Reasonable effort, show some knowledge of our list and club. Still a bit light weight and no inside mail or goss.
A month or so back, the Whitlocks and Hynes would have been some of my main targets.
But thinking about who we have, what we need... I think more contested KPFs to challenge McLean and Amartey, like Sims and Gerreyn, are warranted. Likewise, Davis has edged out Hynes for me as more of a target type medium (some have mentioned Josh Murphy and there's others later too), with Chad hopefully spending more time forward as an attacking HFF (before a couple of academy kids next year).
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Regarding the webinar, what kind of questions did people want and what kind of answers? I actually can't think of a question that someone in the CEO role would be able to give me a satisfactory answer to regarding the GF.
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If they don't have the answers (which they probably don't), then tell us straight up and don't take us for fools. Don't trot around this "we played so well during the season and proud of almost all of it" line.
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I don't think the club has any choice but to maintain this outlook. Whilst I understand we as fans are now at the stage where nothing else matters besides winning a grand final, the coaches, players and staff still have 25 odd games to prioritise so they can simply get to a grand final and even have the chance to win it.
As I've said before, this is what makes our challenge so difficult, we can only address the biggest issue stopping us from winning a flag by being in a grand final, and that takes an enormous amount of OTHER work just to make happen. It's not like our issue is, say, goalkicking, or bad fadeouts, that can be addressed and focused on over the pre-season, or corrected with every game each week.
This is also maybe where a better coach would come in handy. If you are having to so often require deep introspections about how to get your team to compete in a grand final, then you're probably not the right guy for the job. The right guy would intuitively and instinctively know what to do and what not to do. I really don't think there is much difference tactically between Clarkson and Horse, but Clarkson's team made five grand finals and were competitive in all of them. Horse's?
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Hmm, never seen it
Because he hangs on to his career by a thread. Yet performs better on the big stage than the big $$$ boys. So perhaps the big $$$ boys aren’t to be trusted on such trips in case they fail. It is away from home after all.
Swans depart for Maningrida to tackle smoking in the Top End
The Sydney Swans arrive in the Northern Territory this week for community clinics and a football carnival aimed at delivering an important health message.www.sydneyswans.com.au
What strikes me about this is the names of the players giving of their limited (and so presumably precious) off-season time to the club and footy. I thought it might be about money, and maybe it is (it's telling that there are no top earners among them), but it's not like any payments would sit outside the salary cap. And clearly it's not only about money.
To me it demonstrates three other qualities:
1. A commitment/devotion to the club.
2. A curiosity about the world.
3. A desire to learn and improve and invest in oneself, which is also sometimes called professionalism.
Fox's name pops up once again. First he goes to Doha. Now to the NT.
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The video of the webinar with Tom Harley on Monday evening.
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I was kinda looking forward to seeing more videos highlighting some individual players, but it would seem the club have stopped at... Brodie Grundy, James Rowbottom, Chad Warner, Isaac Heeney & Errol Gulden.
Well at least they're celebrating the seasons of some of the lesser known Swans players.
Well at least they're celebrating the seasons of some of the lesser known Swans players.
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I don't really care about Spencer as an individual but I do care about his role in that webinar. It should NOT have happened. It should have been a board member or Cameron. Not Longmire - too divisive. Not Pridham - leave the big boss out of it. Big mistake and not well prepared, same as the phone calls.
