“You’ve got to be careful when the cameras are around.” He was talking about what happened at Monday night’s Brownlow Medal ceremony, with Chad Warner and that comical viral video, but John Longmire could just as easily have been referring to his latest media stand-up. Because, in many ways, this weekly press conference was indistinguishable from all the others the Swans coach has conducted throughout this AFL season and quite a few before it.
Held at midday on a Tuesday. At Moore Park. Agreeable in nature.
Light on hard news lines. The only perceivable difference was the presence of about four times as many cameras at usual – a dead giveaway that Longmire was preparing to take his team to a fifth grand final from his 14 seasons in charge. Not that the marked increase in attendance had any effect on one of game’s least flappable figures, who all but confirmed key forward Logan McDonald should “get through training tomorrow and be right to play” after spraining his ankle against Port Adelaide but said hamstrung captain Callum Mills will have to press his case on Wednesday.
John Longmire fronted a lot more cameras than usual at Swans HQ in grand final week. Credit: Rhett Wyman “Callum will train flat out tomorrow, that’s the plan,” Longmire said. “He will turn up tomorrow and train at absolute 100 per cent intensity, and we’ll see how we go.
” Will a call on Mills be influenced at all by that fateful decision to play an injured Sam Reid in Sydney’s .
