Daniel Kerr

[tombomb]

This is one Swans supporter who wouldnt be grovelling over him. He's not just a dickhead, he's a lowlife and I would hope the Swans stay well away from him.

I really think we need to get rid of this 'holier than thou' attitude to our players. Our players are not perfect. I want to see my team play in grand finals not wonder what it would be like to go out for a beer with them.

[connolly]

I wrote that a fair while ago but I still wouldn't have any issue with him coming to the club. I don't know him and I suspect you don't either, so how you can call him a "lowlife" is beyond me.

He plays football well and I like seeing my team win matches - that's why I'd look at him.

There are limits. I would have thought being recorded by the police whilst talking about possessing Ketamine to a drug dealer suspect would be over that limit. Just for the record Ketamine is used in the horse racing industry as a sedative. It is also a notorious date rape drug.

[jono2707]

There are limits. I would have thought being recorded by the police whilst talking about possessing Ketamine to a drug dealer suspect would be over that limit. Just for the record Ketamine is used in the horse racing industry as a sedative. It is also a notorious date rape drug.

Ketamine aka Special K is also a popular party drug reasonably widely used in nightclubs, often in combination with ecstacy, ice, coke etc. Don't necessarily assume that it is always used as a date rape drug - there's a bit of media hype with that sort of tag.

Anyway I agree that a professional footy player caught up in that sort of stuff is well worth keeping away from.

[tez]

Forget Kerr. Good player, when he is on the ground. Make allowance for injury and a couple of suspensions per year and whats left ?

If he can get into the trouble he does in my home town, what can he do
in the real big smoke.

[Lucky Knickers]

Big Cox on OTC last night said it was a matter of contract term so this might be another case of the Aker school of contract negotiation - start the "I'm going to Sydney rumours".

[Big Al]

I really think we need to get rid of this 'holier than thou' attitude to our players. Our players are not perfect. I want to see my team play in grand finals not wonder what it would be like to go out for a beer with them.

Absolutely spot on.

[swantastic]

All the talk around town is that the Swans are very keen on Kerr,and that they will make a big play for him as he is only 25 and has a possible 100 to 125 games left.

I dont like Kerr as a person but as a player i rate him better than Judd even at his best at WC.

[Wazza]

All the talk around town is that the Swans are very keen on Kerr,and that they will make a big play for him as he is only 25 and has a possible 100 to 125 games left.

I dont like Kerr as a person but as a player i rate him better than Judd even at his best at WC.

Ditto he is a game breaker and will probably win a brownlow before he is finished - Players of this calibre do not come up for a trade chance very often, the Swans should offer whatever it takes to get Kerr .

Cheers

waz

[Bas]

The '"No DH"" policy is ridiculous. You do as what women do.... find the spunky guy and then spend the rest of you life changing him!

[bodgie]

Sadly, I think the Kerr option is a realistic necessity. Post Willo and Maxfield we desperately need a creative and skilled centreman. Our lowish picks and recycles need careful development. He may help keep us in the top half while that happens. It seems earlier options like Tadgh and Mal can't be released from rebound roles and physical decripitude. The Swans have a selective view about dickheads.

[swanage]

People often say that one bad apple can spoil the bunch, but I think people forget that a good bunch can repair a bad apple (assuming we're not talking fruit here). A bad boy getting further into his 20s could well be ready for a positive lifestyle influence from people such as Kirk, Roos etc...

Forgetting his obvious benefits on the field if we got no other bad boys in the off season than Kerr I wouldn't be too worried. If we got Kerr, Didak and Cousins in one hit you could be looking at a change of culture, but how likely are ALL those deals?

I'd love to see Kerr in red and white.

[Bloodmaniac]

Sadly, I think the Kerr option is a realistic necessity. Post Willo and Maxfield we desperately need a creative and skilled centreman. Our lowish picks and recycles need careful development. He may help keep us in the top half while that happens. It seems earlier options like Tadhg and Mal can't be released from rebound roles and physical decripitude. The Swans have a selective view about dickheads.

Well, this is my first post here. I agree with you bodgie. We have been sadly lacking since Willo and Maxfield departed. Willo was hugely instrumental in our glorious 2005 premiership.
I still have glimpses in my mind of him running the ball out of the pack, with elusive speed and determination and he always disposed perfectly.

Many here sell the player group short. Kirky and co., would be well aware of Kerr's reputation and it's better that it's been exposed now and they know what to deal with. If Kerr comes to the Swans he would be told in no uncertain manner what was expected of him. Look at the way Bazza was dropped from leadership group and has done himself irreparable damage.
Although Davis proved to be 'unfixable' he still played a pretty important part in 2005 success.

The thing is, would you rather have Kerr on your side or playing against you?

[Yakety_Yak]

Kerr is contracted.

Roos made it very clear yesterday Swans will not approach any contracted players unless their club keen to get rid of them (doesn't seem the caseat WCE) or "available" ( all better placed clubs pass or don't offer enough)

The "talk" of Swans going hard for him, is more likely to try and inflate his value to the eventual highest bidder.

He would be a great playing addition but the cost to secure him and beat all other suitors, likely to do more harm than good!

VERY UNLIKELY almost impossible!

[hammo]

Kerr would be a great Swans player but how on earth could we arrange a trade to make it happen? Our first round pick (11) is not a high one - the Eagles would want a top 6 pick at the very least. Of the clubs with the early picks, I can't see any giving up such an early selection in a supposedly strong draft for key position players, and for who? The best in terms of trade value that we can all agree on in ROK who we'd be reluctant to trade anyway.

We need to back the likes of Bird, Veszpremi, Meredith and Moore (and DOK if he stays on the list) to develop into class midfielders, hope that McVeigh continues his rise to an elite AFL player, and draft well with the picks we have.

If we trade, let's go for an early second round pick (e.g 17-20) and go for the best available. Two picks inside the top 20 would be a good result and a fairly 'safe' bet of getting two classy players, rather than trading for journeymen and relying on smokies in the 3rd and 4th rounds.

It's a hobby horse of mine, but the missing ingredient for some of our young players listed above could be a top notch midfield coach. You can probably count on one hand the number of times Longmire lined up in the centre square for North Melbourne. Sydney should be throwing the kitchen sink at recently retired players like Hird, Buckley, even Robert Harvey. In a recent interview Veszpremi said he still remembers some of the advice Voss gave him at the draft camp. We need someone like that to develop our next premiership midfield.

That's the long way of saying Kerr is not the answer. Let's not throwaway crucial draft picks to get him here.

[CureTheSane]

That's the long way of saying Kerr is not the answer. Let's not throwaway crucial draft picks to get him here.

And I don't think we will.

Realistically, the only ways to get Kerr are....

1) He decides that he is desperate to be a Swan and demands ti be traded to Sydney or he'll nominate for the draft and West Coast will get nothing for him so they'll have to trade him for whatever the Swans want.
This has worked in the past but I doubt Kerr will be convinced that Sydney is the place for him.

2) He nominates for the draft and we offer him a crap load of money and therefore any other club would have to match the deal for him to go elsewhere.

Seriously doubt that anything will happen with Kerr, and I too am a fan of keeping our first draft pick and using our second.

What the Swans usually do thouygh is trade a player for say a #15 pick, then use their #11 to gain another player, which leaves us with a worse first round pick, or even a high second round pick.