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AJ pulled the plug? Or just not getting selected?
 

Time For a Flag wrote:

AJ pulled the plug? Or just not getting selected?

 

Plug

Goodbye Jane lol

2024 recruits games missed so far.

Schlensog- missed first 3.
Constable- missed 6 and 3/4 of a game and counting
Simpson - missed 7 and counting
Clarke- missed 5
and add to that 
Avery- missed whole season so far - playing reserves tomorrow.

And we’ve had 3 byes in all of this including the state game so you can add 3 weeks to all of those except Schlensog.

By contrast Swans two big name recruits Rokahr and Chalcraft have played all 9 games and represented WA in the state game. Swans sit in fifth spot, we are last yet we defeated Swans when near full strength only missing Schlensog and Avery. Went down hill from that game. Lost Clarke and Simpson from that game and Constable the week after against EP.

DD wrote:

2024 recruits games missed so far.

Schlensog- missed first 3.
Constable- missed 6 and 3/4 of a game and counting
Simpson - missed 7 and counting
Clarke- missed 5
and add to that 
Avery- missed whole season so far - playing reserves tomorrow.

And we’ve had 3 byes in all of this including the state game so you can add 3 weeks to all of those except Schlensog.

By contrast Swans two big name recruits Rokahr and Chalcraft have played all 9 games and represented WA in the state game. Swans sit in fifth spot, we are last yet we defeated Swans when near full strength only missing Schlensog and Avery. Went down hill from that game. Lost Clarke and Simpson from that game and Constable the week after against EP.

Have we even had Clarke, Simpson and Constable play in the same team yet? Don’t think so. 

We get the Cameron Loersch-Damon White-Braydn Ainsworth Award every season. All over before it began.

Swans do it well with interstate recruits. They get Smart. If only we hadn’t rebuffed Phil when he offered to join us.

Dazz pretty sure Clarke, Constable and Simpson have.

Is our recruiting due diligence and selection being questioned here?
These guys shouldn't have been recruited because they're injury prone??  

has Phil Smart's recruiting prowess won them a Premiership yet?

Demons Forever wrote:

has Phil Smart's recruiting prowess won them a Premiership yet?

Lots of things contribute to premierships. True though, no premiership (yet) on Phil's watch.

Phil Smart is par excellence when it comes to WAFL recruiting. Name me anyone at any other club that comes close to his ability to get quality recruits to Swans?

You may be right, our recruits might have been together for the EP game but we have had no luck getting our best on the field. What's new I guess?

Dazz it seems to me that having recruited these good players, we have simply been cursed by bad luck.
I may be wrong.
If I am wrong, it would seem that we have again recruited injury prone players.