The Daily Telegraph’s annual footy bible hits the shelves in Sydney tomorrow, featuring star forward Lance Franklin on the cover.
The magazine includes 132-pages of player stories, analysis and SuperCoach tips. Here’s a snippet:
By David King
The Swans are in the premiership race, largely because they have the best players aged under 23 in the competition, and by a sizeable margin.
Errol Gulden, Braeden Campbell, Chad Warner and Justin McInerney were all nominations for the NAB Rising Star last season, while James Rowbottom, Sam Wicks, Nick Blakey, Logan McDonald and Tom McCartin continued to learn their craft.
The Swans exposed these nine players to 145 games between them last season. Only injury denied them more game time, except for McDonald, with whom they are being patient.
Their game style has undergone enormous change in recent seasons. They are no longer a “park the bus”-style defensive outfit.
They now have ball movement assets that allow them to challenge the very best teams, recording a six-win, three-loss ratio against top eight teams last year.
Footy22 is on sale for $7.95 from Saturday, Feb 26 at participating newsagents with the Daily Telegraph.
