'Don't retire, Barry, please don't retire.'

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  • Matt79
    Bring it on!
    • Sep 2004
    • 3143
    #1

    'Don't retire, Barry, please don't retire.'

    A good article from The Age about the farewell fromm Saturday. The quote below bought a tear to the eye.


    "But then just before I went out, a little boy came up to me and he had No.1 on his back, and he was bawling his eyes out, and he was going: " 'Don't retire, Barry, please don't retire.' That just set me off. I gave him a cuddle and said: 'It's all right, Mate, I'll still be around, it's OK.'


    http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/rfnews/it-was-tough-at-the-end-and-i-was-battling-with-the-tears/2009/07/12/1247337026097.html
    Swannies for life!
    Tags: barry, don, retire, Swans, sydney
    • CureTheSane
      Carpe Noctem
      • Jan 2003
      • 5032
      #2
      I thought this post was about Leo.

      However I remember the 'other' Barry.
      He was a pretty good player before he turned into a crazy, unstable, schizophrenic, monster.
      I'm surprised people allow their kids anywhere near him!
      If Leo continues the form he's shown this year, he will warrant being kept on the list without doubt

      The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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        • Dalai Lama
          Suspended by the MRP
          • Nov 2008
          • 632
          #3
          here comes the hot stepper!??!

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            • swansrule100
              The quarterback
              • May 2004
              • 4538
              #4
              i doubt he wanted to go, should still be playing.
              Theres not much left to say

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                • Plugger46
                  Senior Player
                  • Apr 2003
                  • 3674
                  #5
                  Very sad.
                  Bloods

                  "Lockett is the best of all time" - Robert Harvey, Darrel Baldock, Nathan Burke, Kevin Bartlett, Bob Skilton

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                    • Bloody Hell
                      Senior Player
                      • Oct 2006
                      • 3085
                      #6
                      Champion of the Club.

                      Since I've been supporting - well, any sport really - I haven't seen a super star go from playing well to retirement so quickly.

                      Makes you understand the purpose of retirement rumours - press conferences halfway through the season etc.
                      The eternal connundrum "what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object" was finally solved when David Hasselhoff punched himself in the face.

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                        • juliec
                          Warming the Bench
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 164
                          #7
                          It was just sad, the way it all ended

                          No-one came out a winner here
                          Sydney Swans/SMFC "PREMIERS 2005"

                          GO SYDNEY SWANS

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                            • CureTheSane
                              Carpe Noctem
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 5032
                              #8
                              Well, the fifteen other teams are probably pretty happy right about now
                              And the Bulldogs may be the biggest winners of all
                              The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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                                • staple
                                  On the Rookie List
                                  • May 2009
                                  • 62
                                  #9
                                  Apart from the whole punching thing, at least he went out with his footy dignity intact. 4 goals on Rutten (equivalent of 6-7 on most defenders) in his 250th match. Champion of the club, Premiership Captain, Club Leading Goal Scorer, All-Australian. If I were a small child I would cry for you Barry Hall.

                                  They should start a swans elite sports academy and actually name it in your honour. Big, Bad, Bustling, Barry Hall Hall. It just rolls off the tongue.

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                                    • hot potato
                                      Sir Ashmole Gruntbucket
                                      • Jun 2007
                                      • 1122
                                      #10
                                      The Swans are now extremely boring without Hall playing, it was such a pathetic way end a very entertaining career. When you saw the biff in State of Origin last nite, Hall Mosquito tap on Rutten was a non event.

                                      HP
                                      "He was proud of us when we won and he was still proud of us when we lost' Tami Roos about Paul Sept 06.

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                                        • Primmy
                                          Proud Tragic Swan
                                          • Apr 2008
                                          • 5970
                                          #11
                                          I wonder if he will take out Best Club Man at the B&F this year. Has my vote!
                                          If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood

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