r/sydneyswans

In: Cleary, Hanily

Out: Cootee, Cunningham

Sydney will take on Essendon in Round 2 of the AFLW season, which will be an SCG double-header for the red and white army, with the men’s team to take on North Melbourne the same day.

Hey everyone,

I've been building an app called AFL Sportslog and wanted to share it here first.

You can already download it on the App Store, just search "AFL Sportslog". Android version is coming and I'm looking for testers if anyone's keen.

What you can do in the app:

• Log games and give 3-2-1 votes to build your own Brownlow-style leaderboard
• Predict margins and tip goal scorers
• Compare your tips with the community leaderboard
• Create a historic log of your footy lifetime

Still early days so feedback means a lot. Drop a comment or DM me if you want to get involved or have questions.

Unavailable:

• Adams
• Andrew
• Campbell
• Green
• Gulden
• Hetherton
• King
• Rampe
• Roberts

Test:

• Bowman

Hi All,

Really gutted that we have had to cancel our first trip ever down to see the boys beat the Cats at the Cattery (well had hoped we would win anyway).

If anyone is on the hunt for tickets, have 2 tickets adult tickets available - Section C5 in the Reg Hickey stand. So in amongst all the Cats locals ha, but great seats on the wing :)

Were $80 each originally, but happy to take a bit less.

So if anyone is keen, drop me a message :)

We won 81 - 75. Last chance for B&F votes

Yes, we are sitting pretty on top of the ladder with 9-1 but we are far from playing perfect football.

This doesn't mean that we can't improve though.

What are our current weaknesses that we need to address?

For me personally, we need to improve on the following:

- Slow starts: Seems to be a common theme over the last few weeks where we give our opponents a head start. Not sure if this is a preparation issue, where the team needs to warm into the game. But our slow starts will come back to bite us against fellow top 4 teams.

- Output from our bottom 3-4 players: players like Cootee and Bice haven't really contributed to our wins, and we need more. Or we need to give some of our performing VFL players a chance.

Given his dominance over the past two years, I am a little bit disappointed with 'The Chad' this year. It feels like he has been a lot less influential around stoppage, especially centre clearance, than in the last two years. He's at his lowest CBAs since 2023 and while I think he is valuable as a forward, I feel like when there are times that we lack a bit of strength at the coal face, he could help with that. Even if he is not the biggest mid, his fight through the contest has always been impressive.

Just a note: With how much our game is based on handballs at the moment, Chad's handball receives is actually down to the lowest since his rookie year. Not sure why or what it says, just an interesting point.

Do you think we should keep playing him 60-40 mid-forward (which might have worked better when Errol was running through the middle as well), or should we look to move him back through the middle a bit more, especially while Errol is out?

We win by 6, B&F votes

Grundy wins the Goodes-O’Loughlin medal