Quote: bewareshadows "Again I don't think that was a mistake.
Swift was getting turned around in defence at that time. Had he just left Swift there, more and more teams would have targeted that side and it could have gone from being an issue to being a mental issue. Remember Kevin Penny, a talent going forwards, but left to flounder in defence and had his confidence and abilities blown away, it''s taken the best part of 5 years to turn that around.
Swift was rightly dropped, got time to fix up that part of his game and is now back just as lethal going forwards but more solid in defensive duties.
I'm also very much against having favourites and playing them what ever their performance. Players should always have the pressure to play for the jersey and not feel from day 1 that they are a dead cert to play come what may.'"
I don't think the word dropped is the correct way to describe it. Brown and KC both had talks with Percy when we took him out the other year and explained why he was taken out, what he had to work on and that he wasn't dropped but taken out to fix problems. Both greenwood and swift have had similar chats.
