Kyle Coney back

[The Big Cat]

Apparently coming back to Australia for shoulder surgery. Swans tight lipped saying only he needed surgery and no decision had been made about it. Sources say a decision has been reached. Coney is on a 2 year International Rookie Contract. (Sunday herald Sun - April 26)

[Robbo]

Send him back.

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[satchmopugdog]

Well well well..the lure of the dollar...what is it with the Irish and their shoulders???

[573v30]

Well well well..the lure of the dollar...what is it with the Irish and their shoulders???

Potato bags perhaps?

[connolly]

Well well well..the lure of the dollar...what is it with the Irish and their shoulders???

Some times the chip can be very heavy. Fair dinkum he isn't coming over for a Kenneally special is he? What are we a footy Medicare. Dicky will welcome him with open arms.

[DST]

Brilliantly played by the Sydney Football Club, only surprise is how quickly it took Kyle to make the decision to come back.

While he was always going to be home sick early on, I always maintained once he got back to Ireland and looked around at what he actually was returning to that he would realise that playing professional sport in Australia and be paid to boot was always going to see him come back.

The way the club handled it. meant that when the decision was made he would still be welcomed back with us and would not want to head elsewhere.

DST

[Dalai Lama]

Poor old "Ice Cream Coney" is best served with an irish cream?

[connolly]

Brilliantly played by the Sydney Football Club, only surprise is how quickly it took Kyle to make the decision to come back.

While he was always going to be home sick early on, I always maintained once he got back to Ireland and looked around at what he actually was returning to that he would realise that playing professional sport in Australia and be paid to boot was always going to see him come back.

The way the club handled it. meant that when the decision was made he would still be welcomed back with us and would not want to head elsewhere.

DST

What a surprise.
(1) He did his shoulder just after he got back to Ulster.
(2) The Irish economy is a basket case. In the Republic unemployment is increasing at 1% a month!
Coney is a mercenary and the excellent sports medicine of Doc Nathan and the club has got him back as well as the grim career prospects in Belfast.
We should send him back home to beautiful Belfast as a matter of principle. He walked out on a contract and he comes back injured and the arse out of his strides. Fair dinkum where else can he go. He's hardly an attractive recruiting proposition having broken his word and his shoulder. Next the laughing shafter will be on his way over.

[Puppy Eyes]

How old is Kyle Coney? FFS, he probably has that many people in his ear, mates, mentors, uncles etc and would no doubt be flipping and flopping on the idea almost hourly. At that age, all I was thinking about was how I was ever going to get laid. It's amazing the way some on this blog, and the Bigfooty one, are just so quick to write off their own players. And premiership winning coaches it would seem. Here's a novel idea......how about if Kyle decides to return the collective Swans family make the kid welcome and he might just stick around and be a very good player for us. Or we could just write off a talented teenager.

[dimelb]

Brilliantly played by the Sydney Football Club, only surprise is how quickly it took Kyle to make the decision to come back.

While he was always going to be home sick early on, I always maintained once he got back to Ireland and looked around at what he actually was returning to that he would realise that playing professional sport in Australia and be paid to boot was always going to see him come back.

The way the club handled it. meant that when the decision was made he would still be welcomed back with us and would not want to head elsewhere.

DST

The voice of reason.

[honour_the_name]

How old is Kyle Coney? FFS, he probably has that many people in his ear, mates, mentors, uncles etc and would no doubt be flipping and flopping on the idea almost hourly. At that age, all I was thinking about was how I was ever going to get laid. It's amazing the way some on this blog, and the Bigfooty one, are just so quick to write off their own players. And premiership winning coaches it would seem. Here's a novel idea......how about if Kyle decides to return the collective Swans family make the kid welcome and he might just stick around and be a very good player for us. Or we could just write off a talented teenager.

Totally agree! Too many are too precious here. Give him a second chance and see what happens , we take back kids we don't want.

[connolly]

How old is Kyle Coney? FFS, he probably has that many people in his ear, mates, mentors, uncles etc and would no doubt be flipping and flopping on the idea almost hourly. At that age, all I was thinking about was how I was ever going to get laid. It's amazing the way some on this blog, and the Bigfooty one, are just so quick to write off their own players. And premiership winning coaches it would seem. Here's a novel idea......how about if Kyle decides to return the collective Swans family make the kid welcome and he might just stick around and be a very good player for us. Or we could just write off a talented teenager.

Young Murphy outed the role of Tyrone in this fiasco. At the moment the Swans "family" is a bit dysfunctional. We are a couple of players short on the roster due to Keneally and Coney walking out and our contracts have as much strength as a Cheese Barlow tackle. Coney wrote himself off when he broke his contract. For a professional sportsman to walk out on a contract is particularly serious (name anyone who has done it recently at an AFL club- Sonny Bill at the ARL) Are you seriously suggesting that with his track record Coney will become a good clubman and team player?

[dimelb]

... Are you seriously suggesting that with his track record Coney will become a good clubman and team player?

And once the adolescent homesickness settles down, why shouldn't he?
Incidentally, what was "the role of Tyrone"? Sounds like a stirring drum solo.

[Bear]

Young Murphy outed the role of Tyrone in this fiasco. At the moment the Swans "family" is a bit dysfunctional. We are a couple of players short on the roster due to Keneally and Coney walking out and our contracts have as much strength as a Cheese Barlow tackle. Coney wrote himself off when he broke his contract. For a professional sportsman to walk out on a contract is particularly serious (name anyone who has done it recently at an AFL club- Sonny Bill at the ARL) Are you seriously suggesting that with his track record Coney will become a good clubman and team player?

Coney is an international rookie. It is a top-up/development position. How are we possibly a player down with him going home? Are you sure you're not getting him confused with Fosdike?

Of course he can still become a good clubman. I never would have though Plugger would have become a team player for us after the way he smashed us (and Caven) at the SCG. Just wait and see.