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Demons Forever wrote: Elari was actually more subdued yesterday as was Rogers.
His beef with the former coach not the Club?

From media match reports and IMO, Elari was one of Swans best player!

Agree he played really well
The comment was about his normal carry on after kicking a goal.
And his relationship with our previous coach.

Demons Forever wrote: Agree he played really well
The comment was about his normal carry on after kicking a goal.
And his relationship with our previous coach.

Roger. Maybe also he has matured a tad and just focus on his football.

DD wrote: BH and Mike, appreciate your comments. The big difference in yesterdays game that stood out for me was your talls took control in the air in the last qtr, Notte, Blakey (x2), Howard. And we played 3 ruckmen in Eyres, Leyendekkers and Power plus Deaves and our blokes hardly clunked a handful of marks between them. Where do you find them?

I too appreciate the comments of BH and Mike and I agree in an ideal world you'd be identifying, grooming and promoting youngsters to pathway from colts to league but this club has been absolutely HOPELESS at it for yonks now. Kalajzic and Sinclair are both two notable exceptions. But its only ever one or two. Every other club seems to be able to pathway a dozen kids through to their league side. We're only just starting to do that with some consistency with the last few cohorts of colts.

Go and have a look at our colts team some time. No shortage of endeavour and talent even if they have to punch above their weight because of the way the cohorts have been mismanaged over the past few years in pursuit of flags rather than a club-first approach. Probably one or two kids you'd think could be league prospects in time - Cody Leggett, Hayden Tanner maybe Reid Polak. Let's see if any of these emerge to play reserves/league in the next few years. History to date suggests unlikely.

There is a lot we could learn from Swans starting by emulating the bloke they've got there who scours every league and comp - even gets his mates to spot for him - looking for players. He's the best in the business and he spoke to us a few years ago when he was looking for a job and we said no thanks. Go figure.

Dazzler wrote:

DD wrote: BH and Mike, appreciate your comments. The big difference in yesterdays game that stood out for me was your talls took control in the air in the last qtr, Notte, Blakey (x2), Howard. And we played 3 ruckmen in Eyres, Leyendekkers and Power plus Deaves and our blokes hardly clunked a handful of marks between them. Where do you find them?

I too appreciate the comments of BH and Mike and I agree in an ideal world you'd be identifying, grooming and promoting youngsters to pathway from colts to league but this club has been absolutely HOPELESS at it for yonks now. Kalajzic and Sinclair are both two notable exceptions. But its only ever one or two. Every other club seems to be able to pathway a dozen kids through to their league side. We're only just starting to do that with some consistency with the last few cohorts of colts.

The only players that have been brought through in recent years are Sinclair, Edmonds, Hug and now Kalajzic. I'm hoping to possible see Garstone, Holland, Borrett, Lynch, Chester and Arangio get a game or two before the season is out.

Dazzler wrote: Go and have a look at our colts team some time. No shortage of endeavour and talent even if they have to punch above their weight because of the way the cohorts have been mismanaged over the past few years in pursuit of flags rather than a club-first approach. Probably one or two kids you'd think could be league prospects in time - Cody Leggett, Hayden Tanner maybe Reid Polak. Let's see if any of these emerge to play reserves/league in the next few years. History to date suggests unlikely.

All those you mentioned look promising. I'd like to add Mitch Browne, Brayden Manuel, Trae Phillips, Damian Wright, Mitchell Henderson, Kayle Phillips, Thomas Glasfurd and Jesse Rose to that list as well. Not saying all these will go on and play league football but these are the players that have shown a bit for me. Hopefully with the right development over the next two or three seasons we might see more that the usual 1-2 players come in and play 20 or more games of league football. Also I like the way Scott Doncon approaches his football. Hard at the ball that's what we like to see and is a solid nuggetty type of player.

Over the last couple of weeks Cody Leggett, Mitchell Browne, Trae Phillips have all pushed up from the colts to the reserves.

Dazzler wrote: There is a lot we could learn from Swans starting by emulating the bloke they've got there who scours every league and comp - even gets his mates to spot for him - looking for players. He's the best in the business and he spoke to us a few years ago when he was looking for a job and we said no thanks. Go figure.

In take it you are talking about Phil Smart?

In regards to Swans the people in charge must be commended for what they have been able to achieve this year. Everyone had written them off but they made a stance to invest in there own backyard and trust in the development of their kids. Pretty sure they pushed some colts kids up into the reserves last season and gave games to others in the league. Nathan Blakely played 7 games in the league side, Matthew Jukes has come on in leaps and bounds this season after play 14 games league games in three seasons, Connor Blakely played 8 colts games, then 9 reserves games, then 1 league game in round 23. Ricky Cary played 18 reserves games last year and 2 in the league and is another who has really come in this as has Jarrad Blight who played 25 league games over the previous two years, Adam Faulkner is having a career best season as is Blaine Boekhorst, Brent Latch is another, Aidan Anderson, Alex Howard and you can add about 3-4 others who have played over five or six games this year at league level for Swans.

Don't even get me started on Claremont. Have lost 20 something premiership players between the end of 2012 and the start of 2014. Started slowly this year but have really shown improvement in the second half of the year and wouldn't be surprised if they finish the season with 9 or even 10 wins. They look in a much better position than what we do heading into 2015 and they will get Ian Richardson and Beau Maister back as well.

Why is it that other clubs go down and then come back up after a year, two years or three while Perth seem to stay down the bottom. Frustrates the crap out of me. Sorry Dazzler rant over