Is Tadhg kennelly coming back to the swans? YES HE IS!

[IrishSwanPerth]

Welcome back Tadhg, looking forward to seeing you over in Perth mate.

[timthefish]

He hasn't "effectively had a year to recover from chronic injury". He played gaelic footy for that year. Might not be as rough and tumble as AFL, but he still played ... he didn't take a year off to "rest".

when injured players "rest" they remain very active to maintain fitness and flexibility and build strength in weakened areas. he's had a year of part-time reduced-impact training, a tonne of physio and is moving well by all reports. he hasn't had a dislocation in all that time and is tape-free for the first time in years.

in afl terms he has had a years rest.

no-one is expecting an injury-free five years. he'll probably have a couple of issues this year as most senior players experience and as he readjusts to afl but i'm anticipating at least a couple of years of genuine output.

[timthefish]

By the way, I predict at least one Swans player will be injured next year at some point of the Season or Preseason. Can't wait to play I told you so with you all.

right on the money. definitely a real fan carping with the best of them...

[ROK Lobster]

Woo hoo. I am really pleased. I like Tadhg.

[Primmy]

It will be a bit of a culture shock for Tadgh; so many of the team have left.

[schwattasboots]

welcome back tadgh

welcome back to sydney tadgh kennelly

[Nico]

Awesome news. Hopefully this means Shaw can move to a wing.

Or the midfield so we can get the pill out of the guts for a change.

[Nico]

I'm more hoping Mattner is released for this role. Those long racking left footers down the wing of the SCG to J-dubb or Bradshaw would be awesome.

The awkward and mistake master Teddy Richards is going to struggle for a position.

[Nico]

With Kennelly back that sets our backline up. We have a couple of talls in Grundy and LRT, the reliable Bolton, 3 running players in TK, Mattner and Shaw and Smith. Pretty handy if I may say so.

Bradshaw up forward and an emerging midfield says we could be the big surprise packet of 2010. Looks pretty exciting to me. If we can keep our injury level down look out.

[ernie koala]

Exciting yes, but a bit of a worry also..
Roosy says;" having a halfback line with Tadhg, Shaw, Mattner, Malceski will be pretty exciting"...
Yes in one sense it will...ie tonnes of run, plenty of speed and pretty good disposal....but....When we don't have the ball......
Other than Mattner, none of them can, or are willing to, tackle.

[Matt79]

Brilliant news to hear that Tadgh is returning for the next 2 years!

2010 is looking more and more exciting as the pre season progresses!!

[Robbo]

I personally believe this is a bad thing. I don't think we needed another 29+ year old.

[swans_premiers]

Would you trade tadhg for a very high draft pick?

No.

We've lost nothing by keeping him other than a very high draft pick.

Great Decision and great news.

[Nico]

Exciting yes, but a bit of a worry also..
Roosy says;" having a halfback line with Tadhg, Shaw, Mattner, Malceski will be pretty exciting"...
Yes in one sense it will...ie tonnes of run, plenty of speed and pretty good disposal....but....When we don't have the ball......
Other than Mattner, none of them can, or are willing to, tackle.

With Malceski it is all hypothetical because he will be playing 2's. Strewth, Ablett was in better form than him.

[Cheer Squad]

The awkward and mistake master Teddy Richards is going to struggle for a position.

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one with doubts as to the judgement of Ted Richards. We should have delisted or traded him as well.