Swans: 2009 Retirements & Delistings
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Have I missed something, Liz? Doesn't every team have to take at least 3 picks in the national draft?Comment
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How many games have you actually seen Johnston play? Indeed how many games has Johnston even played full stop in the past 12 months?
He is a gangling 18 year old who has spent most of the past 6 months with his foot in a moonboot.
Sure, we are all entitled to hope he has the talent and application to eventually become a good senior level AFL forward but at this stage we really don't know whether he will or not. Ditto any other tall teenager we draft next month.
Playfair isn't rubbish. He has proven he can make a reasonable contribution at senior AFL level. It just comes down to whether his injuries will prevent him ever doing so again on a consistent basis.
Johnstone might end up the greatest forward since John Coleman, but for heaven's sake, slow down, he hasn't played a game yet and he's bearly out of high school! Gee, I hope he is not reading these messages, what extraordinary pressure that would place on the kid.
Playfair's 2008 form was solid and reliable. I repeat: if he is fit, there is no need to get rid of him. Right now, (and not in say 2012 when young Johnstone has his 21st birthday), Sydney are short of good tall forwards.Comment
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There's a bit of Playfair love around. Not absolutely hopeless but slow, can't kick and is injury prone.
I'll be spewing if he's retained ahead of Schmidt and/or Laidlaw.Bloods
"Lockett is the best of all time" - Robert Harvey, Darrel Baldock, Nathan Burke, Kevin Bartlett, Bob SkiltonComment
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His *actual* stats in the Red and White.
Yes, he did not play this year due to injury. But he will be 27 in January and that should mean at least one more crack when he gets fit.Attached Files10100111001 ;-)Comment
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He played the lead-up role quite well, and if fit can play that role again which will give White an opportunity to play the FF and Goodes to roam more freely between forward and midfield."In some ways we?re less predictable to ourselves and sometimes that can be detrimental because we don?t really know where we?re going" - P.RoosComment
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The issue with Playfair is that he's a crock. He had chronic injury problems long before we recruited him. His body won't stand up to any more AFL footy and it's highly unlikely he'll be retained."As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk
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Justice"Fredom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one" A.J. Liebling (1960)Comment
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To be perfectly Francis, Playfair is just a footballer. It is amazing how a player's stocks go up when he is not playing.Comment
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Maybe Playfair's fate depends on what is planned for Daniel Currie. If he is now injury free and has a good pre-season, he is very unlikely to get a senior game as a ruckman. I think I read somewhere that he has played as a forward in junior football. If they don't plan to find a place for him in the forward line he really has no future at the Swans.Comment
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If Johnno is still in the moonboot I don't like his chances.Comment
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Friend and I came to the intraclub match earlier this year and watched the newbies in action. With Johnno it was a case of "whoa!" rubbing of hands and happy chuckles. If the kid gets to be cured or whatever we have a young bloke who has a great footy build, a great sense of where to be on the ground and a finely tuned radar. there was a good reason he was recruited first up. Now all we have to do is cross fingers and pray to whoever you choose that they know how to fix his problem permanently. He is a definite keeper if he gets there.If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhoodComment
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According to this article he should have been right to go in round 20 but had shin splints. Sounds positive though.
"As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk
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