Swan came 4th two years ago so is obviously on the umps good side. can't say the same about didak and co which works in his favour.

i still wouldn't count out ablett though...

SWAN, D (COLL) $2.10
JUDD, C (CARL) $4.00
ABLETT JNR., G (GEE) $5.50
DAL SANTO, N (STK) $7.00
SELWOOD, J (GEE) $7.00
MONTAGNA, L (STK) $11.00
GODDARD, B (STK) $14.00
BROWN, J (BRIS) $15.00
CHAPMAN, P (GEE) $16.00
RIEWOLDT, N (STK) $16.00
BLACK, S (BRIS) $21.00
BOYD, M (WBD) $51.00
DIDAK, A (COLL) $67.00
GOODES, A (SYD) $67.00
HAYES, L (STK) $67.00


to lay off or not to lay off...

Well i will be putting everything i have in my bank account, haha not much at the moment, on swan getting top 5 at $1.80. Surely had a better year then last and i think 14 games with over 30 disposals (some over 40) should put him as a big chance to win.

Go west coast

PHANTOM LEADERBOARD
29 – G.Ablett (Geel)
27 – D.Swan (Coll)
24 – C.Judd (Carl)
20 – N.Riewoldt (St K), A.Goodes (SS)
19 – J.Brown (BL), B.Goddard (St K)
18 – L.Montagna (St K)
16 – M.Murphy (Carl), A.Didak (Coll), S.Mitchell (Haw), N.Dal Santo (St K), L.Hayes (St K)
14 – B.Fevola (Carl), P.Chapman (Geel)
13 – A.Sandilands (Fre), J.Selwood (Geel)
12 – M.Pavlich (Fre), B.Harvey (NM), M.Boyd (WB)
11 – S.Goodwin (Ade), R.O'Keefe (SS), J.Akermanis (WB), A.Cooney (WB)
10 – J.Porplyzia (Ade), S.Black (BL), M.Clark (BL), B.Gibbs (Carl), B.Stanton (Ess), S.Johnson (Geel), J.McVeigh

Boy, that was pretty close to the mark with most of the players. Big loser though was Swan. Bad luck, Chuck. Not sure what happened there. Maybe the umps don't like tattoos?

There are certain guys that you can just about guarantee will poll well every time, even if they don't seem to have had such a brilliant year - Judd, Black & Goodes. And Lenny Hayes might be falling into that category now too. I think he's polled pretty well before and last night, he was only about 4th or 5th in betting for the St Kilda team, but managed to get top 3 overall.

Nope.

Ouch.....!

Swan was disappointing, but it's not his fault...umpires are a weird breed.

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Haha, yer well i am a poor uni student so there is never much in there anywayz. It seems like in a couple of games were i expect D.Swan to be called at for 3 votes it was S. Pendalbury

But Beams? has tats of a similar nature and he got a few votes as well, so not sure

was with a few mates on weekend and had a carton with each of them that swan would not be in top 5. If possesions were everything the likes of joel bowden would be winning medals.
The likes of judd, ablett, black, the players that continually run through those lines in packs and still get the high numbers (with huge tags) are the ones that should get the votes. Also, a lot of teams wont even put a strong tag on swan because they dont believe his influence on games is that strong.
my 2 cents anyway, the umps got it right for once!

you do realise that Swan led the comp in direct score assists for a great deal of the season....

Perhaps the umps got 'em mixed up, and Beams got the votes that should have gone to Swan.