\n Sydney Swans senior coach Dean Cox has made one change to his side, ahead of the huge Friday night Sydney Derby against the Giants.\n <\/p>\n
Sydney Swans senior coach Dean Cox has made one change to his side, ahead of the huge Friday night Sydney Derby against the Giants.<\/p>\n
Hard-working midfielder Angus Sheldrick returns from suspension, while veteran defender Dane Rampe will be managed.<\/p>\n
Sheldrick was in a rich vein of form before his suspension, notching up 25 disposals in the 128-point win over West Coast in Perth.<\/p>\n
277-gamer Rampe, who has played 5 games this season, takes a well-earned break.<\/p>\n
Director of Coaching & Performance, Simon Goodwin said it was always the plan to rest Rampe early in the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re obviously pretty open and honest with Ramps at the start of the season. We want to sustain a full season and obviously hopefully go pretty deep\u201d, Goodwin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe spoke about making sure he wasn’t going to play every game and obviously we’ve got two six-day breaks coming up that we wanted to make sure that we managed him in the right way, that he could continue to perform to a higher level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goodwin, who arrived at the Sydney Swans in the pre-season, will be take part in his first Sydney Derby in what is expected to be in front of 40,000 fans at the SCG.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love being a part of Derbies,\u201d Goodwin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously as a player being in Adelaide with the Crows and the Power, I experienced that, but to come to Sydney and experience this one, I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s one our supporters I’m sure look forward to every time it comes around in the calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goodwin went on to say the Giants are always a tough opponent.
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\u201cThey got back into some really good form last week. Clearly their offence is something that is a highlight of their game when it’s up and running,\u201d Goodwin said.
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\u201cSo that’s something we’ve really honed in on within the four walls, but you know the intensity of the derby we’re looking forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kick off your weekend early by heading to our VFL curtain raiser from 3:35pm and enjoy everything the Sydney Swans HQ and Driver Avenue has to offer ahead of the main event at 7:50pm. For more information on getting to the SCG, visit the Match Day Hub here.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Swans senior coach Dean Cox has made one change to his side, ahead of the huge Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-610900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}