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Chapter 1: Why does Tim Watson believe Fremantle is better than Sydney right now?
You've got Sydney a rung below Fremantle?
Yes, I have, Gary. Yes, I have got Sydney below. Are we back on here, are we? Yeah. I think they play a different brand of football, and I think that what they're capable of doing, Fremantle, is play in different modes at different times of recognition within a game, and they can flip the switch. I think Sydney want to play in a... One style way, which is speed on the ball at every opportunity.
They want to run. They want to create. They do it as well as any team in the competition with their forward handballs. I don't think they've got the forward structure and or the understanding of their forwards the same way that the Fremantle side has.
If you look at their three forwards, their three key forwards, I think that they've got more X-factor probably in a couple of players, Sydney, in Warner and
Chapter 2: What different styles of play do Fremantle and Sydney employ?
and maybe also Heaney. They've got superstar talent in those two. But I think there's a greater mix and a greater proportion of players that are capable of doing that in the Fremantle side. And I think they've got a better defensive unit too, Fremantle, than what Sydney have got.
And, you know, like they've given up ā Sydney have been pushed by some sides that you and I might just classify as middling type teams in the competition. I think Fremantle have shown that they're ā They're more powerful. They're more a powerful team than what Sydney are. And I think they are clearly, right now, I think they're clearly the best side in the competition.
I think they're the best. I think between now and the end of the year, Sydney, we're going to have to develop some gears and some plan Bs along the way, which I'm sure they will. Why haven't they done it to this point, though? Well, I think they've adopted a really aggressive mindset right from the word go that this is the way they're going to play.
And underneath that, there would be, I'm sure, work in progress about what they can do if it's not quite working. Because the way St Kilda played them on the weekend... There's a template. You're talking about Melbourne pushing them. You're talking about North Melbourne pushing them, Collingwood pushing them. Clubs are just ruthlessly going to work on them, as you would.
And the way St Kilda came up at them, and just frontal pressure, if that's what you want to call it, that is what they're going to be confronted with from now until the end of the year. And they'll work out... Whether they can continue in this manner and get away with it or whether they need to perhaps be a little bit more selective in where they go and when they go.
Have they got the players capable of doing that? I think so.
I think they've got a smart group, yeah.
How, if, McCartan went off with a head injury the weekend.
Yeah, that's one of the biggest the weekend.
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Chapter 3: How do Fremantle's forward structures compare to Sydney's?
We'll take a break and talk about some of the challenges that are confronting some of the, I mean, we've got a long way to go in this footy season yet, but Tommy McCartan out of that side would change things a bit for the Swans and let's hope it's only a week or two.