We take a look at the five burning questions for John Longmire’s side ahead of Friday night’s showdown with Collingwood at the SCG.
There’s never a good time to find yourself in “crisis mode” as a football club. But early-to-mid August, approaching the business end of the season, when you should be starting to peak?
, a most ‘un-Swans like’ performance, and one which suggests something isn’t quite right within the playing group. So befuddled was Longmire by their embarrassing capitulation at Adelaide Oval, and their lack of competitive edge, that he gave his players two days off to clear their heads. It can’t all be pinned on the absence of personnel, but that was certainly a factor: without Dane Rampe and Lewis Melican, their two most reliable key defenders this year, their structures were basically non-existent.Melican is still recovering from a tight hamstring, but Rampe’s return is significant. The defender is a renowned director of traffic and organiser who tends to bring the best out of the players around him.The young forward is in danger of being classed as a one-hit wonder.
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