Preliminary Finals Integrity | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (06.07.26)
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Whitely on SEN. Tom Morris filling in for Gerard Whateley alongside Adam Simpson. PFI preliminary finals integrity. Before we get your thoughts, let's have a listen to Dean Cox on the handballs meters gained conversation on the weekend.
It's just about trying to get out of some contests at the time. It doesn't have to be forward all the time. So the ability to use numbers to get shoulders out and to get looks with our players is really important. We're still trying to educate the players and they're still trying to work out at times in games what the opposition have given us and we're just saying take what they give you. There'll be times where it's a kick mark game, we've got to control the ball, there'll be times where we've got to go long and take territory and then there'll be times where we can get in handball chains.
More than one trick pony is the swans. Yeah, absolutely. And, um, you know, they all take what they give you. I'm a bit delusional. I thought, I actually thought I started that. And then surely I didn't. They all take what they give you because it was, they can't defend everything. You know, we want to go through the corridor. Oh, they take that away.
What insights does Adam Simpson share about the Sydney Swans' recent performance?
Well, we'll go around you. Oh, they take that away. Well, we'll go down the line. And it was, that's the offensive mindset of take what they give you. And you can't defend everything is the attitude. So I just think it's Dean's second year as a senior coach. And I think we've got to tip our hat a little bit. And the PFI conversation is mainly around the people that just think they're a one trick pony. This forward meters gained by handball, they average 700 meters gain. So that's, you know, you run your handball, you run your handball, then eventually you kick it. And they only had 340 on the weekend. So I just think they're, they're starting to develop a well-rounded style of play that stands up against anyone.
How do handball strategies impact the Sydney Swans' gameplay?
And so I'm not sure how that you do your PFI, um, whether it's a team that's already there or, uh, I'm just doubling down on, on the fact that, um, they had 35 forward 50 stoppages. I don't think I've ever heard that before. So that's an intent to get the ball played in your front half. So they're the number one team in the comp. for time and forward half. They're the number one team in the comp from scores from the front half. Number one team scores from stoppages from the front half. The third for turnovers in the front half and the second for defense points against. So we can't say it's just a handball meters game game. Can we? It's a front half game. Absolutely. Then the number one front and I'm a front half guy.
You are. Yes. And. The back half stuff will compliment you in particular early in the year when there's speed and there's overlap and there's run, the ground's quicker. And so I think that's important to be part of the game, but it can't be all of your game. We'll talk about the Giants later. So I just think, you know, and what they did to the dogs on the weekend, Hamling played and I think they lost a few players late. that allowed Kernow a bit more room and the talent they've got there as well. So, and they're missing some players and we've heard some coaches talk about, oh, we've got injuries and that sort of stuff. You look at, uh, Sydney, they've lost three games for the year, maybe two. So, um,
Yeah, I just think that they're the real deal. They're so beautifully set up, but the challenge or the question marks around the Sydney Swans, essentially, can they do it on the last Saturday in September because of what we've seen over the past 15 years? It's unfair on this group because many of them didn't play in many of those games.
Great. Someone said to me about, oh, we'll talk about some style of play coming, but that won't get you to the grand final day. It might get you to a grand final.
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