A blog that celebrates the virtues of the back pocket and carries proudly on it's title page an evocative snap of a totally empty back pocket prompts me to raise a topic for discussion with your gentle readers.
With our Swans fumbling and tumbling their way into the 8 I think it is time for us all to reflect on the critical issue of the forward line. Horse needs us all to get our heads around this and come up with a winning formula. Currently we are kicking an average of 11.4 goals per game, that is 10 minutes of football for every goal scored. Compared to Collingwood's 17.8. With all deference to the Roos legacy we will not win in September with 18 players in the back pocket.
Post Locket, post Hall it seems our football brains opted to follow the tried and trusted path and buy another one. This time the one we got was broken and in the AFL there is no refund on second hand goods. We saw glimpses of what might have been with Bradshaw's mighty goal from outside 50 on the siren, a kick that has now grown in my imagination to something in excess of 75 metres.
But there was a plan B and that was to grow our own forward line. I recall boastful claims of how Jesse White would be better than Fevola ever dreamed, how hollow is that boast now, or perhaps how ironic! And so the hunt goes on, each week a new 20 year old thrown in with the hopes of 20,000 fans riding on his young shoulders. Each week the miracle fails to materialise. I hear tell that Omar is being groomed for centre half forward and may make his debut before the finals.
Come on tipsters of the Swan's faith, let's get our brains in gear and sort out a forward line that can kick 18 goals a game. Fame on the backpocket page awaits the selection of a match winning forward 6.
Clinging to the top and about to tumble by playing it safe.
Nigel
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Post Locket or Lost Pocket? The Tailender Speaks.
ReplyDeleteComing last or there abouts is hardly a strategy, but it has had its moments for us at tigerland with great draft picks.
Don't spose tassie has any more Riewoldts knocking around?
Stick with White - he CAN do it again.
Goodes, Okeefe, Kennnedy
McGlynn, Seaby, White.
I hereby invite all relevant ridicule.
But really, work out your halves and the rest will fall into place.
Rich
Well done Tiger.My comment on the tumble referred to my place in the tipping comp, which I fear I will lose soon.
ReplyDeleteMy friend John used to claim Mike Pyke would never be an AFL player while he (John) had hairs on his arse. Now that he has had his Brazilian I will go further out on a limb and put the big Canadian down there.
Horse may have been listening in to our discussions, this week his pick is:
Kennedy, Reid, McGlynn
McVeigh, Goodes, O'Keefe
Looks a good mix to me but I would get the big fish down there as soon as his quad gets better. There is nothing to put the fear into a full back like a 103kg, 200cm forward charging the pack.