Swans star eyes $400,000 deal
biggest thing that young players have to learn.
You are trying to learn your game, and trying to learn the game, but it is the mental side of it and getting yourself up for every contest that is the hardest thing to learn as an AFL footballer.
If you learn that, everything else goes along pretty well, and when you have the experience and you have played a lot of games you know what is expected and what you have to do.
You don’t always get it right but this is where you need some of the older players to demand at every stoppage that the younger guys are switched on and ready, and when they are near the ball to be yelling and screaming at them to be doing the right thing and tackling and pressuring their opponent.
That constant reminder is what is needed sometimes for young players, but they shouldn’t take the blame for the loss last week.
This time last year the Crows were the best team in the competition and because of a horrible preseason and some key injuries, they have not got rolling, but to lose at Adelaide Oval is not as disastrous as some people might make it out to be.
Now, though, playing back at home, the Cats need to turn GMHBA Stadium back into a fortress and have everyone up and about again.
They have four of their next six games at home so they couldn’t have asked for a better run home, but there are some massive challenges ahead.
Any loss is going to put them in danger, so this Saturday is simply a must-win match. SYDNEY could have to stump up as much as $400,000 a season to keep Aliir Aliir as its chase for Darcy Moore stalls.
The Sydney defender captivated the league on Sunday, going forward to kick the winning goal after an enthralling match-up with North Melbourne’s Majak Daw.
Aliir, who is out of contract at the end of the season, had been waiting until he was playing regular football to ramp up talks.
But clubs have been made aware he could be acquired if they are prepared to pay as much as $400,000 a season.
The Swans have been in talks with Aliir’s management, who made it clear he was keen to play regular senior football.
Those talks are now likely to escalate as he has been in excellent form in the past four weeks, averaging 18 possessions and eight marks.
Sydney still believes it is in a good position to re-sign Aliir, as it also works through new contracts for Sam Naismith, Jake Lloyd, Heath Grundy and Jarrad McVeigh.
Moore’s manager Liam Pickering yesterday made it clear he expected him to sign on again at Collingwood.