Effes wrote:
Synbad wrote:
their mids???
Not household names... but flower GUNS!!!!
Their defence.... wow!!!.... that esseindon reject??? never spoken about as an AA.. but wow!!!.. and how he leads that defence of not overly tall guys as a machine....!!!
their pick #150 ruckmen???(One from Canada growing up riding reindeers)
WOW!!!!!!
Coaching... development.. etc... A +
US????
BIG F FOR FAIL!!!
See the difference???
Their mids - they drafted to supplement what was already a pretty good combination (Goodes, McVeigh, O'Keefe, Bolton) - they added Luke Parker (40s), Hannebery (high 20s), got Kennedy with a 3rd rounder (whilst we used 12 for Brock + lots of $$$$$), McGlynn too, developed a rugby convert Jack into an absolute gun, hard worker, discipline, great kick, speed. Sam Reid with a pick in the 30s, Mumford ruck. Bird another NSW project that no one really wanted...too slow etc.
Defence made up of an Essendon* reject, Grundy (rookie), Alex Johnson (50s), Mattner (reject), Rhys Shaw (reject)
They've had a top pick or two....Rohan pick 6 injured all year. Blown a couple of others on Brown and Johnston.
Smart management, smart recruitment, good development, never thinking that having too many midfielders is a problem. If someone is out someone comes in and plays the same role. If we lose Laidler we're !@#$%&. They lost Goodes and Mumford for 12 combined weeks and sit on top of the !@#$%& ladder! Developed the current senior coach for quite a long time before he got the top job...everyone gets groomed to play their roles.
They are also away from the bubble dont read about themselves each day and dont get recognised walking down the street . Players in sydney dont get ahead of themselves - they slip under the radar
and because they are not recognised there are no long drawn out contract negotiations - no threats of going home so the players become more level headed rely on each other - GWS will go the same way and it is not unlike the Melbourne Storm .
We spend entire seasons trying to sign players like Gibbs and Yarran because they threaten to go home and think they are worth more than they are - Cloke demanding a 1 million a year when he is not a patch on Goodes who has 2 charlies to his name - Goodes would never demanded that sort of coin
Sydney are good because the players know their shit stinks like everyone else - We have players that dish up tripe strutt round like millionaires then 1hr after the game are taking the piss on twitter
Never saw one image in the Sydney papers of what the swans were doing in the preseason - Hardly a day went by where we werent getting images or updates of the players and how hard they were working
I hope soon they close shop stop all the fluff in the media and regroup and just get on with the business of playing football