Sydney coach John Longmire admits his aspect must tweak its strategy to last quarters after being chased down by an opponent for the second time this season.
GWS piled on 4 consecutive targets to consign the Swans to a heartbreaking one-point defeat within the Sydney derby final weekend, and Longmire stated the identical points that popped up within the shut loss to Port Adelaide had been once more partly chargeable for the late-game stoop.
Longmire stated premature drops in depth and an absence of on-field expertise had been contributing elements to each losses which have left the Swans a sport out of the highest eight.
“We’ve had a couple of times where we’ve been 20 points up halfway through the last – on the weekend there was different things at different times,” Longmire stated.
“We dropped away in our contest and on the weekend we gave some simple goals away and we weren’t efficient going forward – that’s been a bit of a pattern.
“Part of that is player availability, part of that is youth, part of it’s to keep learning and systems that we have to keep teaching our players.”
Round 8 opponent Collingwood looms as a stern check of the Swans’ resilience late in video games, with the Magpies using a wave of perception following two emphatic shut wins over Essendon and Adelaide, booting 10 targets to 1 throughout the ultimate quarters in these video games.
“They’ve got a system, but they also have belief. Their record of being behind at three-quarter time and coming over the top of teams stands out,” Longmire stated of the Magpies.
“There’s no question about that. They’ve reinforced that over the journey and they did it again last week.
“That’s a credit to way they play and the way they’ve been coached, so we’ve got to be mindful when you play Collingwood, like every team, that we play to the 120-minute mark. We can’t afford to play to the 100-minute mark.”
Longmire stated defender Robbie Fox was an opportunity to play on Sunday after lacking final week with concussion, lamenting that the Tasmanian would have been a “great” direct opponent for matchwinning Giant Toby Greene if accessible for the derby.
“We’re out to win and learn, we don’t want to lose and learn,” Longmire stated.
“We looked at the last three or four minutes of the (GWS) game that we didn’t get right. “When Rampe and Fox are not there we still have an opportunity to get things done.”
Longmire stated he would think about bringing ruckman Tom Hickey again into the aspect to play in tandem with Peter Ladhams, who he thought was “terrific” on his personal towards the Giants.
He stated there was no replace on luckless key defender Paddy McCartin besides that he was “progressing and improving every day”.
“He’s coming into the club every day and is feeling better every day,” Longmire stated.
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