Sydney coach John Longmire says Chad Warner can turn into an much more potent attacking menace after booting a career-high 4 objectives on Thursday evening.
The star midfielder has kicked 9 objectives in his final three video games and is equal second on the membership for each objectives (19) and aim assists (11) amid the Swans’ blistering 10-1 begin to the season.
Longmire stated the mid-season bye had come on the proper time after the Swans have been pushed to the road by the Western Bulldogs of their 14-point win.
He praised Warner’s “improbable” second-half efficiency after he was subdued early when the Bulldogs seized management of the midfield battle.
“He’s studying. He’ll continue to learn, he performed nicely final week. He performed towards a gun midfield tonight, I assumed at halftime they have been actually good, the Doggies. The Doggies’ mids have been throughout us,” Longmire stated.
“Actually Chad performed a bit bit in another way within the third quarter. He performed a bit extra ahead and he was in a position to hit the scoreboard and was fairly dynamic, and that’s an affordable signal that he’s in a position to change on like that and get himself going like he did in that second half.
“Hopefully the gamers are studying that like we’re each week that opposition groups are good, and we have to discover a manner once we’re not at our greatest, each individually and as a crew.”
Warner managed to plant a knee on Brodie Grundy’s shoulder to reel in a hovering mark and kick his third aim in an electrical passage of play in the course of the third time period.
Longmire smiled when requested concerning the leap and stated “it wasn’t dangerous”.
“We’ve been speaking about it for a bit bit, pushing (Warner) ahead, and we’ve been doing it an increasing number of,” he stated.
“We’ve had a little bit of a (dialog) sooner or later (about) going ahead to take a mark and again your spring in … it was an affordable bounce.”
Longmire stated the Swans coaches have been “kicking ourselves” once they selected to ship James Jordon to Bulldogs halfback Bailey Dale as an alternative of Ed Richards within the first time period.
By the primary break, Richards had 11 disposals and three aim assists, however was dominated out of the sport shortly after halftime because of a concussion from a head conflict with Ollie Florent.
“We have been tossing up with Richards in the course of the week. We have been most likely kicking ourselves across the 25-minute mark of that first quarter, we thought we would have made a little bit of a mistake,” Longmire stated.
“As coaches typically you get it proper, typically you don’t essentially nail it in addition to what you can’ve, so we determined to make the change (transferring Jordon into the midfield).
“We additionally needed to vary the combo across the ball … we have been getting nicely crushed within the contest, we needed to do one thing else in that house.”
