Does Swans new blood spell end of Bloods culture?
AFTER one of the Swans’ most dismal performances in his six years in charge, coach Paul Roos made the point that for all the personnel changes and tactical tinkering that might have taken place during that period, the same criteria applied if his usually serially dogged team was to succeed this season. “I think it all goes back to the intensity,” said Roos after his team had scored just two rushed behinds against St Kilda in a 78-minute period of frustrating futility between the 26-minute mark of the first quarter and 15 minutes into the third. “The game just dropped away completely in the first quarter. Everything falls away. “I think that is the history of this team going back to the premiership year and back-to-back grand finals. The history is as soon as the effort drops off we struggle with our ball use, we struggle with our decision making, we lose our match-ups and all those sorts of things. That really hasn’t changed for us as a footy team, it hasn’t changed for six years and t
AFTER one of the Swans’ most dismal performances in his six years in charge, coach Paul Roos made the point that for all the personnel changes and tactical tinkering that might have taken place during that period, the same criteria applied if his usually serially dogged team was to succeed this season. “I think it all goes back to the intensity,” said Roos after his team had scored just two rushed behinds against St Kilda in a 78-minute period of frustrating futility between the 26-minute mark of the first quarter and 15 minutes into the third. “The game just dropped away completely in the first quarter. Everything falls away. “I think that is the history of this team going back to the premiership year and back-to-back grand finals. The history is as soon as the effort drops off we struggle with our ball use, we struggle with our decision making, we lose our match-ups and all those sorts of things. That really hasn’t changed for us as a footy team, it hasn’t changed for six years and t
