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  • Jewels
    On the Rookie List
    • Oct 2006
    • 3258
    #1

    The Swans Way.

    Absolutely loved reading this article and it's nice to see someone - particularly someone from the Melbourne print media, acknowledge that tanking isn't necessarily the way to go about trying to win a flag and also that it's not only the flag winning that is important to fans, it's having a team that you know is going to turn up to play each week and give it a red hot go.

    I'm not too good on posting links so sorry if this doesn't work.


    The great ?bottom out' myth: Why Demons should follow Swans lead on rebuild
    Tags: Swans
    • GoSouth33
      On the Rookie List
      • Mar 2005
      • 695
      #2
      Appeared not to work...I did a copy of the text string and then a google search for the article. The whole article appeared.

      Cookies must be enabled | Herald Sun

      Hope this works!
      Last edited by GoSouth33; 2 May 2012, 10:56 AM.
      Run2Live,Live2Run

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        • GoSouth33
          On the Rookie List
          • Mar 2005
          • 695
          #3
          No it doesn't. It asks for an email address and password. I actually got the whole article via the google search. I think others have has this problem as well but I haven't followed up on the "fix".
          Run2Live,Live2Run

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            • Margie
              Regular in the Side
              • Sep 2003
              • 800
              #4
              Originally posted by GoSouth33
              No it doesn't. It asks for an email address and password. I actually got the whole article via the google search. I think others have has this problem as well but I haven't followed up on the "fix".
              Jewels it works with the hint Erica (?) gave. Cut and paste the url address into Google.

              Very good article. Confirms how great the Swans have been at recruiting and the futility of "bottoming out".

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                • R-1
                  Senior Player
                  • Aug 2005
                  • 1042
                  #5
                  Most Herald Sun footy articles are also available on the Telegraph (and the Advertiser, Courier Mail, etc) with no paywall:

                  No Cookies | Daily Telegraph
                  http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/the-great-bottom-out-myth/story-e6frexx0-1226344029612
                  No Cookies

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                    • GongSwan
                      Senior Player
                      • Jan 2009
                      • 1362
                      #6
                      Originally posted by R-1
                      Most Herald Sun footy articles are also available on the Telegraph (and the Advertiser, Courier Mail, etc) with no paywall:

                      http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1226344029612
                      Tep, read one paper, read em all, good article though, although Carlton have had some success by bottoming out to get high draft picks, if they don't win a flag this or next year yd have to call that experiment a failure, because Judd wil be 30 and playing forward by then. No, our list manger is a genius
                      You can't argue with a sick mind - Joe Walsh

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                        • R-1
                          Senior Player
                          • Aug 2005
                          • 1042
                          #7
                          They didn't really make a choice about bottoming out. I'm not sure they ever made a conscious "youth policy and rebuild with draft picks" decision like Melbourne or Richmond. They were just dumb and crashed down for no good reason. They lost all their gun 1990s players and didn't replace them in the early 2000s. Then in 2002 got the wooden spoon, and copped Elliot's dumb financial management as well as some fairly hefty salary cap breach penalties all at once. They also abandoned their home ground around this time, a move I'm not sure was a good one.

                          Killed them for a good five years.

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                            • Panttz
                              Warming the Bench
                              • May 2011
                              • 231
                              #8
                              He talked about dynasties and didnt mention the Lions at the start of the century? What the...

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                                • WeHaveTheGoodes
                                  Suspended by the MRP
                                  • Mar 2012
                                  • 259
                                  #9
                                  I think i love this club more than my wife..

                                  is that bad?

                                  Well the club comes a very very close second to my wife..

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                                    • mcs
                                      Travelling Swannie!!
                                      • Jul 2007
                                      • 8227
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by WeHaveTheGoodes
                                      I think i love this club more than my wife..

                                      is that bad?

                                      Well the club comes a very very close second to my wife..

                                      That's why its awesome to be single! I can love the Swans as much as I want, and don't have to answer to anyone about it!

                                      And no, I don't think its bad!
                                      "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                                        • Dooloo
                                          Warming the Bench
                                          • Jan 2004
                                          • 171
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by mcs
                                          That's why its awesome to be single! I can love the Swans as much as I want, and don't have to answer to anyone about it!

                                          And no, I don't think its bad!
                                          This. My ex wife left me because she realized that l could not love her as much as l loved the Swans. Wise woman
                                          You Just Do Not Get a Better Grand Final Win Than That

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                                            • Triple B
                                              Formerly 'BBB'
                                              • Feb 2003
                                              • 6999
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by mcs
                                              And no, I don't think its bad!
                                              Which is probably why you're single.....lol

                                              My wife is not silly enough to put me at a choice, just in case....
                                              Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09

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                                                • Big Al
                                                  Veterans List
                                                  • Feb 2005
                                                  • 7007
                                                  #13
                                                  All those married couple will relate and those that are single will rejoice. (audio needed)

                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4vLZJhNEk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
                                                  ..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC

                                                  Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN

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                                                    • wolftone57
                                                      Veterans List
                                                      • Aug 2008
                                                      • 5915
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by GoSouth33
                                                      No it doesn't. It asks for an email address and password. I actually got the whole article via the google search. I think others have has this problem as well but I haven't followed up on the "fix".
                                                      You join and get 3 months free Internet exposure to the Herald Sun. They are going to start charging after the three months is up. I think it stinks with all the advertising they get.

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                                                        • WeHaveTheGoodes
                                                          Suspended by the MRP
                                                          • Mar 2012
                                                          • 259
                                                          #15
                                                          Why would you even contemplate paying news limited money to read crap?

                                                          Its like paying for a tv subscription to ACA or TT.

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