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March 31, 2006
Team for Round One vs Essendon
Well Round One is finally here and the teams for Saturday Night's clash have been named, so to start this preview here are the team list for both sides:
Sydney
B: Mathews, Richards, Crouch
HB: Barry, Roberts-Thomson, Bolton
C: Ablett, Williams, Schneider
HF: O'Keefe, Goodes, Davis
F: Bolton, Hall, O'Loughlin
R: Jolly, Kirk, Buchanan
I: Chambers, Fosdike, Dempster, McVeigh
EM: Malceski Moore Vogels
Essendon
B: Slattery Fletcher Bradley
HB: Lovett-Murray Solomon McVeigh
C: McPhee Watson Camporeale
HF: M.Johnson Lucas Welsh
F: Monfries Lloyd Hird
R: Hille Stanton Peverill
I: Heffernan J.Johnson Lovett Ryder
EM: Bolton Nash Winderlich
So right off the bat we head into the season with only three changes to to our Grand Final side with Sean Dempster lining up after periously being expected to miss a week. As a result, Vogels misses out on senior selection and Malceski losses his personal fight for a position with McVeigh. Ted Richards has been named to face his old side first up and going by the squad on paper will line up on Lloyd (but we all know what named line ups mean at the Swans).
Eseendon have named James Hird after it looked like he would miss a month of footy a few days ago, but its still expected that he'll pull out late with the "Essendon Flu".
STATS
Some quick stats of interest:
- Sydney have won Five of its past Six matches at Telstra Dome.
- Barry Hall has kicked 7 goals in his past two games at the Dome.
- Sydney have beaten Essendon 4 of the last 5 times the two teams have met.
- Lloyd has kicked 42 goals in 9 games since 1999 against the Swans.
- Lloyd kicked two bags of four goals in the two matches against the Swans last year.
- Sydney are 4/6 in Round since 2000.
- Essendon has lost in Round One each of the past three years
Key Player
Quite simply - Barry Hall.
Has put Essendon to the sword nearly every time the two clubs have met since 2002. He has kicked 29 goals, averaged 17 disposals, 11 marks and received 11 Brownlow vote in the 6 matches the clubs have played in his time at the Swans. To see what impact he can make you only have to look at his effort against Essendon in Round 19 last year with 7 goals in a Best On Ground effort.
Umpires
#9- Matt Stevic
#25- Shaun Ryan
#27- Michael Avon
Clearly you most likely can tell I'm happy that we got this got rather than the normal group of pissweak umps who fuck us up week to week, say for example, Goldspink.
Verdict
Despite the media jumping on the Windy Hill bandwagon, the Swans are in no different a position to where we were 12 months ago with only one major player out with injury and the lost of only one walk up starter to retirement.
Nothing Essendon has done really has impressed me and when I watched the practice match at Princess Park between the two sides a few weeks back it was clear that the Swans were only playing at 75% capacity and lost as a result. However in that same match in the second quarter we played close 100% and outscored Essendon by 6 goals to show that we had plenty in the tank, but clearly didn't want to show our hand with Round One in mind.
Expect a close match as Swans matches always are, but regardless of the media hype the boys should pick up the four points and get our premiership defence off to the perfect start.
Swans by 13 points
Posted by robbieando at 07:58 AM | Comments (0)
March 30, 2006
Why Don't We Get No Respect?
Ah, the football media and most likely the football world as a whole, you just got to love them. If they aren't calling you lucky then they are just plain ignoring you. This pre season has seen some of the media's best work in regards to the Swans, NOT.
To be honest ever since Leo Barry took THAT mark deep in defence all the way back in the September, the whole football world has shown this football club no repect.
Que dragging out the following picture for full effect
Classic example of the shit the Swans have had to put up with this pre season, along with the many misquotings of the Swans preseason record under Roosy is this article which shows two side of the football world when the Swans are involved of late. Swans don't appear on Wallace's radar for high-flyers
Great to know the man us fans rightfully rejected as a coach of this coach to lead us to glory and has never done anything better than lead the Bulldogs to one of the AFL's greatest ever chokes in 1997 against the Crows. How this mans opinion counts of anything, espally his opinion of us after his appointment was knocked back and the man who took his place led us to the promised, is beyond me.
But I guess regardless of the crap flying around (and there is plenty of it) we are still premiers, still have the team capable of winning the flag and will yet again go under the radars of every football coach, media expect and fan.
Some people just never learn their lessions.
Posted by robbieando at 08:44 AM | Comments (0)
March 27, 2006
Team News For Round One
Well according to the following article in today's Australian "Recruits bolster new-look Swans" it appears that the Swans will head into our first match as defending Premiers without 4 members of the success side from last September.
Swans coach Paul Roos said yesterday he was not expecting Paul Bevan and Sean Dempster to play against the Bombers at Telstra Dome and predicted a round three return at best for Tadhg Kennelly after a shoulder injury. Bevan and Dempster have hamstring injuries.
While the retirement of Jason Ball meant we would always have lost at least one of the 22, pre season injuries to Tadhg Kennelly, Sean Dempster and Paul Bevan has resulted in more senior openings than expected. New recuit Paul Chambers (who beats out the returning Stephen Doyle, who'll be left in Canberra to gain form and prove fitness) will take over the spot left by Ball's retirement to start the season and Ted Richards will play against his former side after impressing in each of the practice matches.
The third and fourth spots will go down to Luke Vogels (who has stood out during the pre season in a key defensive role) and one of either Jarrad McVeigh, Nich Malceski or Jarred Moore to add some extra grunt to the midfield, with Malceski my favoured pick but McVeigh getting praise from the coaching staff making him look just as likely.
Other than those four selection decisions I fail to see any other changes to the Grand Final line up, save a late minute injury during training (touch wood).
Everything is in readyness, lets get this party started.
Posted by robbieando at 10:16 AM | Comments (0)
March 18, 2006
Swans Finally Win Again
Yes, its only a practice match but a win is a win and today the Swans managed to put away the Saints by 17 points to cap off our pre season series of matches which until today had seen us lose 5 in a row to start the season and premiership defense. With most of the senior players available save for the injured Kennelly, Dempster and the Leo Barry who pulled out late the Swans managed to beat the team many predict will take our mantle from us.
Seeing as again I wasn't there and therefore unable to see what happened LIVE, here is the afl.com.au match report:
Swans edge Saints in Newcastle Karen CollinsSydney has won the battle of the pre-season strugglers, overcoming St Kilda by 17 points in Newcastle on Saturday afternoon. The premiers ended their five-game losing streak to run out 12.19 (91) to 11.8 (74) winners for a confidence boost heading into round one against Essendon at Telstra Dome.
Nick Davis booted four goals in a great display with Ryan O'Keefe and Barry Hall adding two apiece, while Fergus Watts, Nick Riewoldt and Stephen Milne landed two goals each in strong performances for the Saints. With most of their senior players having only their second outing for the year, the Swans played strongly from the opening bounce and dominated for three quarters. The score could have been more damaging for the Saints had Sydney been more accurate.
The Swans conceded a minor score before dominating the opening term with 12 scoring shots to two, however, wasteful kicking let them down. Davis (10 kicks), O'Keefe and Hall caused headaches for the Saints defenders, Jude Bolton and Darren Jolly dominated in the middle while Lewis Roberts-Thomson and Ted Richards stifled Nick Riewoldt and Fraser Gehrig.
Davis registered the first goal of the game and could have had another four by quarter time, O'Keefe soccered a beauty off the ground from 35-meters out on the angle to thrill the small crowd before Hall increased the lead to 3.9 (27) to 0.2 (2). Riewoldt shrugged off last week's woes in front of goal by polishing off a 40-metre effort in front, and Fergus Watts could have further reduced the deficit with a set-shot from 15-metres in-front but it was touched.
Adam Schneider replied with a solid 45-metre major, but then the game turned in the matter of two minutes when Watts booted two goals and Allan Murray a third to narrow the margin to four points. Davis responded with a goal, the Saints hit-back through Lenny Hayes before Davis had the final word, booting his third six-pointer for a 6.11 (47) to 5.7 (37) lead at the main change.
Watts proved to be a strong target up front, Riewoldt ran hard around the ground and provided plenty of kicks into the forward-50 and Troy Schwarze provided plenty of run in a solid effort in the backline. In the second half Riewoldt was rested with Matt Maguire moving forward while the Swans replaced ruckman Jolly with Paul Chambers and Stephen Doyle who spent most of his time at full-forward.
The Swans' inaccuracy continued in the third term as they booted 2.7, with Stephen Powell, Nick Dal Santo and Lenny Hayes kicking majors to maintain a ten-point deficit into the final change. Sydney's accuracy improved in the final stanza, the Swans managing four goals from their five scoring shots to St Kilda's three straight to improve the margin to 17 points at the final siren.
Leo Barry was late withdrawal with a sore shoulder giving draftee Kristin Thornton his first opportunity to play with a full-strength side. Sydney coach Paul Roos said the result was a bonus given what the Swans achieved from the game. "That was pretty much two sides at full strength and we got out of it what we wanted to, and that is what you want with the last practice game," Roos said. "We wanted to play good footy, get plenty of game time into our players and no doubt we got back to playing the style we did last year. That is the style we want to play and that is the most important thing."
SYDNEY: 3.7, 6.11, 8.18, 12.19 (91)
ST KILDA: 0.2, 5.7, 8.8, 11.8 (74)GOALS: Davis 4, O'Keefe 2, Hall 2, Schneider, Moore, Ablett, Williams
BEST: Davis, J. Bolton, Jolly, Richards, Roberts-Thomson
CROWD: 3,203 at the Newcastle
So all in all good signs heading into Round One, with the boy's now having 2 weeks to rest up before confronting Essendon for the third time this year in the season opener at Telstra Dome. Good to see Nick Davis hit some really good form, likewise Ted Richards and LRT who together held down the fort in defense against the likes of Gehrig, Riewoldt and Watts.
Only bad news is the reported injuries to Buchanan's shoulder which forced him to sit out the second half and Ted Richards who from reports did some sort of leg injury late in the game. No comfirmation of these injuries have come though with the afl.com.au report used above not listing them, so God only knows what's going on here
So finally a pre season win to give Roosy a 33% winning record in his time at the club (OK couldn't resist) and the next match finally counts for something.
Bring it on.
Posted by robbieando at 04:45 PM | Comments (0)
March 17, 2006
Gee, I wonder How the Media Figured This Out
Well after proving the media were dickheads only a few days ago, for making up a pre season record of 0-13 for the Swans under the coaching, it turns out the media either read this site and my rant or did the impossible and figured out their own mistake for once. Anyway good to see the afl.com.au match preview for the Swans vs Saints match use the correct record this time, instead of blindly following the rest of the media pack on using a false stat.
Here's the quote
This weekend coach Paul Roos will hope to improve on his 6-14 record in the pre-season when Sydney travels to Newcastle to battle old foes St Kilda.
The wonders of making the media look like fool. Seems something the Swans have a habit of doing.
On a simular note, it seems my fellow posters at RWO.com (Ruckman in particular) spotted a fair few mistakes in Ben Casanella's player profiles.
Some of Ben's handy work
Amongst Ben Casanella's Player Profiles, we have . . .
Luke Vogels ". . . played 11 games but dropped after the finals win over West Coast." LRT "The surprise of the grand final in which he thrashed Michael Gardiner." Darren Jolly "Interesting to see how he performs with Ball alongside."
Play spot the mistake's there. Still should we be surprised at this from the guy who tipped us to win less than 6 games in a bet with Jim Main and never followed though with his side of the bet.
Some things never change
Posted by robbieando at 04:51 PM | Comments (0)
Squad to Face St Kilda
Well finally the final practice match has come and finally we can start to put behind us the crappy efforts of the pre season so far. I still don't expect to win but at least I expect the boy's to put in a greater effort and get a desent warm up for the season proper under their belt. Anyway the game is in Newcastle at 1.45pm against St Kilda and here is the squad for the match, with pretty much the entire available senior squad playing
Squad: Luke Ablett, Leo Barry, Craig Bolton, Jude Bolton, Amon Buchanan, Paul Chambers, Jared Crouch, Nick Davis, Stephen Doyle, Adam Goodes, Heath Grundy, Barry Hall, Darren Jolly, Brett Kirk, Jarrad McVeigh, Nick Malceski, Ben Mathews, Jarred Moore, Ryan O'Keefe, Michael O'Loughlin, Ted Richards, Lewis Roberts-Thomson, Tim Schmidt, Adam Schneider, David Spriggs, Kristin Thornton, Luke Vogels, Paul Williams
Posted by robbieando at 04:33 PM | Comments (0)
March 12, 2006
Proof the Media are Dickheads
Well reading the two quote's below it really makes one wonder how most of the media get their jobs. Not only do they fail to even predict Premiership winners (in some case tipping them to miss out on the finals altogether), but they get easy facts wrong. Why you might ask??? Well I think in this case it makes a story sound better and heck bothering to check whether the fact is correct or not isn't even worth it because of that fact.
The quote's in question well here they are
The Swans remain winless during the 2006 pre-season and remarkably have now lost 13 pre-season matches under Paul Roos since he took over the coaching job in 2002.
and
The Swans have lost their fifth match this year 13.11 (89) to 7.7 (49) and have plummeted to a shocking 0-13 record in pre-season games since Paul Roos became head coach in 2002.
The first gem is from afl.com.au's Andrew Browne and the second is from the AAP's Daniel Pace which ended up being used in today's Sunday Herald Sun and no doubt News Limited's Sydney papers as well. You really have to question the media when they get simple facts like this wrong.
You might be asking yourself why I know this or why I'm bothering, well I'll you. I like pointing out mistakes of others and I think this warrants calling out. I didn't stand on the outer at Victoria Park in 2004 copping abuse from Collingwood ferals after we beat them for no reason and I'm sure that the 21 pre season games we have played under Roosy doesn't help the journo's case or believability.
So for the record I have gone to the trouble of checking out all the results of the pre season games the Swans have played under Roosy and here I can show them to you:
2003
Exhbition Match vs Essendon at North Sydney (WIN) 127-119
Wizard Cup Match vs Brisbane at Telstra Stadium (LOSS) 61-93
Wizard Regional vs Carlton at Coffs Harbour (LOSS) 79-39
Wizard Regional vs Melbourne at Canberra (WIN) 91-56
Wizard Regional vs Richmond at SCG (WIN) 103-62
2004
Exhibition Match vs Essendon at North Sydney (LOSS) 69-80
Wizard Cup Match vs Carlton at Telstra Stadium (LOSS) 48-150
Wizard Regional vs Collingwood at Victoria Park (WIN) 80-47
Wizard Regional vs Kangaroos at Optus Oval (LOSS) 71-94
Wizard Regional vs Essendon at Newcastle (WIN) 116-64
2005
Exhibition Match vs Essendon at North Sydney (WIN) 96-64
Wizard Cup Match vs Bulldogs at Telstra Dome (LOSS) 70-90
Wizard Regional vs Brisbane at Telstra Stadium (LOSS) 33-89
Wizard Regional vs Adelaide at AAMI Stadium (LOSS) 61-62
Wizard Regional vs Collingwood at Newcastle (LOSS) 103-105
2006
Exhibition Match vs Kangaroos at LA (LOSS) 38-86
Exhibition Match vs Essendon at North Sydney (LOSS) 71-89
NAB Cup Match vs Kangaroos at Canberra (LOSS) 37-68
NAB Regional vs Essendon at Optus Oval (LOSS) 53-85
NAB Regional vs Richmond at Cararra (LOSS) 49-89
NAB Regional vs St Kilda at Newcastle (????) ???-???
Pre-season record under Roosy = 6 Wins and 14 Loses
So there you are proof the media are dickheads and more reasons to ignore what the predict of us this coming season.
Posted by robbieando at 09:57 PM | Comments (0)
March 11, 2006
Swans Go Down Again
Come on fess up, this is the one result that surprised even the most optimisic fan, we finally had our best possible squad out there and even Magic got a pre season start, so we must of been shoe in's for a win, right???
WRONG
For the second week in a row the Swans failed to put up a fight in the second half after braking even in the first half with what seemed to be only a 80% effort. Sure its clear we are keeping something back, but gee its starting to get down hearting (which for me is a bad thing considering I'm due to put in an appearance at the first three matches of the season).
As for the match itself, I clearly wasn't going to make the effort to make the trip to Cararra, so in place of my own match report here is the AFL.com.au match report:
Tigers defeat Swans comfortably Andrew BrowneRichmond has continued its positive build-up to the premiership season by easily defeating the Sydney Swans by 40 points in their NAB Challenge match at Carrara on Saturday night. Following a slow and inaccurate start, the Tigers - through their tall and more effective forward line - eventually overcame a slightly disappointing performance by the reigning premiers to triumph 13.11.(89) to 7.7.(49) with spearhead Matthew Richardson booting four goals and big man Greg Stafford two.
The Swans remain winless during the 2006 pre-season and remarkably have now lost 13 pre-season matches under Paul Roos since he took over the coaching job in 2002. The Tigers established a 16-point lead by half-time courtesy of two quick goals to Richardson - who proved a handful for former Essendon player Ted Richards - at the top of the quarter and then late goals to Kayne Pettifer and Nathan Brown gave them the momentum at the main break.
An even third term saw both teams score three goals apiece before the Tigers broke away to a six-goal lead at the start of the final quarter with three goals in as many minutes to Coughlan, Stafford and Richardson to put the game beyond the Swans' reach. Brown would be pleased with his form in his second game back since breaking his leg last season with coach Terry Wallace confident enough to give him a bit of time on the ball as well as around the goals underneath the taller forwards Richardson, Stafford and young improver Daniel Jackson.
Besides Richardson and Stafford up front, the Tigers were well served by players such as Kayne Pettifer, Shane Tuck and Richard Tambling who were amongst 25 players and an interchange bench used like a revolving door by Wallace in the confidence-boosting hit-out. The Swans had few players who stood out, especially after half-time but Luke Ablett, Ryan O'Keefe and defender Craig Bolton could hold their heads high.
Michael O'Loughlin, playing his first game since last year's grand final, was given a solid work out by Roos by spending all but a few minutes of each quarter on the field. He at times ventured away from the goal square where he picked several touches up the field and will no doubt benefit from the run. Besides the Tigers' poor kicking for goal, the opening term was marred by a sickening collision between Swans utility Nic Fosdike and Tiger young gun Brett Deledio on Richmond's half-forward line just prior to the break.
Both players showed tremendous courage as a high ball was kicked from a centre bounce after second-year player Adam Pattison had finally shown his more experienced Tiger teammates how to kick straight following six behinds - all from set shots. Fosdike ran in from the wing with pace and Deledio from the forward line when the players met heavily. The Swans player was momentarily knocked out and with blood streaming from a broken nose, was carried off on a stretcher and took no further part in the game.
Deledio showed no ill effects from the clash to stay on the ground and be useful contributor along with fellow youngsters Brent Hartigan and Nathan Foley who displayed plenty of dash and Andrew Raines, who no doubt enjoyed kicking a goal in the final term in his return to the Gold Coast in front of family and friends. For their final tune-ups before the premiership season, the Swans will attempt to regain some winning form against St Kilda in Newcastle next Saturday while the Tigers meet Essendon in Mildura on Friday night.
A couple of injury concerns to Swans Fosdike (concussion) and premiership hero Leo Barry (bruised shoulder) - who came off in the third quarter - has given Paul Roos something else to think about as the Swans try to find some winning form in 2006. "Leo (Barry) would have come back on if it was a game for premiership points and Fossy doesn't know where he is but he looks OK," was Roos' relaxed way of viewing the injuries and left it to the medical staff to decide if Fosdike would be available next week.
"There is an obvious difference in fitness and how advanced you are in your game plan, but that does make the next two weeks quite important." The coach also conceded that O'Loughlin played more of the game than planned but had little choice following the injuries. "That does throw your plans a little bit," said Roos. "He (O'Loughlin) got through really well though which is a bonus and he looked sharp and fit so he looked further advanced than what we thought."
So all in all not a good result, once again and a few injuries to boot. Seems like we can add Fosdike to the list of outs from our Premiership side, leaving 4 spots open sure to be taken by Vogel, Richards, Chambers and Malceski.
Well one more match before the real stuff begins.
SYDNEY: 2.1, 3.3, 6.4, 7.7 (49)
RICHMOND: 1.6, 5.7, 8.10, 13.11 (89)
GOALS: Hall 3, O'Keefe, Ablett, Malceski, Davis
BEST: O'Keefe, Ablett, Hall, C.Bolton
Posted by robbieando at 11:53 PM | Comments (0)
March 10, 2006
Usual Headline, Different Content
Well Mike Sheahan's Season Preview of the Swans has given first reference to the Swans "ugly tactics" in his headline. However upon reading the article I found it to be pretty much spot on in content and pretty much a fair and reasonable preview of what to expect this coming season.
Swans still ugly ducklings of league
Now I know the media are always quick to a) bag us and b) label us ugly, but I think we have to admit we are somewhat ugly in our style of play at times, but can light it up when and how we want to. Mike's article basically points that out. So does the fact we road our luck with injuries late in the season and abilty to win the close match but I think that was a given anyway.
What Mike does point out is that we are going to stuggle to live up to those standards again this year and even if we do we have the ruck department's loss of Jason Ball to cope with. Still with those points raised it was nice to see him acknowledge our squad depth, something most of the media refuse to believe we have due to the 8 retirements/delistings/trades.
Michael O'Loughlin kicked 52 goals last year and didn't finish in the top 10 in the best-and-fairest. That's depth.
Your right Mike, that is depth and thanks for noticing that fact. Also the prediction of 4th to 6th is pretty much spot on.
Posted by robbieando at 05:27 PM | Comments (0)
March 09, 2006
All hands on Deck for Tigers Match Up
Well this week is the week we let loose our entire senio playing group that isn't isn't against the Tigers in the build up to Round One. The big news is that Michael O'Loughlin will play his first pre-season match since 2002 and basically its the Grand Final side minus Kennelly, Ball, and Bevan, with Richards, Spriggs, Chambers, Doyle, Malceski, Vogels and McVeigh added.
With Richmond going all out, this should be a real good test to prepare the squad. Anyway here is the squad for this week:
1. Barry Hall
2. Nick Davis
3. Jarrad McVeigh
4. Ben Mathews
5. Ryan O’Keefe
6. Craig Bolton
8. David Spriggs
9. Nick Malceski
10. Paul Williams
12. Nic Fosdike
13. Adam Schneider
15. Stephen Doyle
16. Darren Jolly
19. Michael O’Loughlin
20. Luke Ablett
21. Leo Barry
23. Paul Chambers
24. Jude Bolton
25. Ted Richards
26. Sean Dempster
30. Lewis Roberts-Thomson
31. Brett Kirk
32. Amon Buchanan
37. Adam Goodes
38. Luke Vogels
Posted by robbieando at 05:09 PM | Comments (0)
March 08, 2006
Holy S@#%
Well at least we now know why Tadhg didn't play against the Bombers last weekend. Turns out he injuried his shoulder at training and the club forgot to inform anyone about it until yesterday.
Kennelly withdrew virtually unnoticed from last Friday's practice match against Essendon at Princes Park and is not named on Sydney's injury list. Coach Paul Roos confirmed the Irishman sustained the injury at training last Thursday."He definitely won't play round one or two. Maybe he will be back for round three," Roos said. "Until he has the surgery we won't be 100 per cent sure.
Well seeing the club's usual standards when reporting the length of injuries, expect him to be out until midseason.
Damn it.
Posted by robbieando at 04:20 PM | Comments (0)
March 07, 2006
Newcastle Match 18/3 vs St Kilda
Reports are that next weeks NAB Challenge match will be against St Kilda in Newcastle as already reported (the venue, not team) so I guess this comfirms the remainer of our pre season.
Posted by robbieando at 04:25 PM | Comments (0)
March 04, 2006
Well We Lost....
But come on, did any of you expect any different??? I sure as hell didn't, yet I still made the trip out to Princess Park anyway and spent most of the time wishing I hadn't. In anycase it was good to see the Swans in action once again, but it sure wasn't good to see the lack of polish in their skills (must have Spriggs teaching them all) and we had three or four easy misses at goal from the likes of Hall, Goodes and O'Keefe.
Lucky then we took the game as another match to prepare slowly into the season.
I won't say much more as I spent to much time paying out on those players unlucky enough to be in our area, but the only quarter we seemed to take seriously was the second quarter when we kicked 6 goals to 2 and really put the Bombers to the sword. The rest of the game was the Swans playing at eith 80% capacity because of the heat (which was the case in the second half) or finding their way into football after the summer brake (which was the case in the first quarter).
Anyway personally I will say Hall is still as imposing as always, Nick Malceski and Jarrad Moore found their way around the ball alot and the senior players who did play lived up to their usual standards.
SYDNEY SWANS: 1.2 7.5 7.5 8.5 (53)
ESSENDON: 4.3 6.6 10.10 12.13 (85)
GOALS: Hall 3, O'Keefe 2, Mathews, Schneider, Kirk
BEST: Goodes, Mathews, Kirk, Hall, Buchanan, Malceski
CROWD: 2000
Adopt-a-Swan Update: Well McVeigh didn't play again because of injury and I barely noticed Nic Fosdike save for one contest in the forward line in the third quarter. As I said before I bearly had eyes on the game for most of it.
Posted by robbieando at 02:03 PM | Comments (0)
March 02, 2006
Squad for Match vs Essendon Mk II
Here is the 27 man squad listed on the AFL website. Note that Tadhg isn't listed to play in the following squad, yet the club name him as one of the returning premiership players in an article on the club website.
1. Barry Hall (c)
2. Nick Davis
4. Ben Mathews
5. Ryan O’Keefe
6. Craig Bolton
8. David Spriggs
9. Nick Malceski
10. Paul Williams
12. Nic Fosdike
13. Adam Schneider
16. Darren Jolly
21. Leo Barry (c)
22. Matthew Laidlaw
23. Paul Chambers
25. Ted Richards
31. Brett Kirk (c)
33. Jarred Moore
34. Ryan Brabazon
36. Tim Schmidt
37. Adam Goodes
38. Luke Vogels
39. Heath Grundy
41. Ed Barlow*
43. Stefan Garrubba*
46. Sam Rowe*
48. Kieran Jack*
49. Adam Prior*
Giving Doyle, Jude, Dempster, LRT and Ablett a rest this week because they have played all the pre season matches so far. Should be another match to give the senior players a light hitout (before cranking it up for Round 1 with reported matches against Richmond on the Gold Coast on the 11th and a match on the 17th in Newcastle against a side to be named.) and the young kids one of the last chances to get full gametime before heading back to the reserves.
As I said earlier in the week I'll be heading out to Princess Park and will report on the match at some point during the weekend.
Posted by robbieando at 04:08 PM | Comments (0)