Tippett!!

[Aprilbr]

With Tippett finally off of our books it's worth contemplating where his recruitment sits in terms of the worst acquisitions in our club history. He ended up costing little in terms of trades as we ended up getting him without actually trading for him. However, his very high, long-term salary probably meant we lost some good players along the way due to salary cap constraints (Mitchell). Unlike Buddy he never reached great heights as a player for us due to injuries and inconsistent form. He was essentially being paid the salary of two topliners across his 6 years at our Club. At least the pain is over now and he and the Swans can move on!

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[The Big Cat]

It didn't come up in the last injury report, but has anyone heard whether Kurt has been booked in for surgery or perhaps a sandblast to finally get his footy jumper off. It was pretty tight fitting as Matthew Richardson pointed out on numerous occasions.

[AnnieH]

With Tippett finally off of our books it's worth contemplating where his recruitment sits in terms of the worst acquisitions in our club history. He ended up costing little in terms of trades as we ended up getting him without actually trading for him. However, his very high, long-term salary probably meant we lost some good players along the way due to salary cap constraints (Mitchell). Unlike Buddy he never reached great heights as a player for us due to injuries and inconsistent form. He was essentially being paid the salary of two topliners across his 6 years at our Club. At least the pain is over now and he and the Swans can move on!

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Let's go back to the beginning somewhere... I believe I said, oh no... he's made of plastic!!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

With Tippett finally off of our books it's worth contemplating where his recruitment sits in terms of the worst acquisitions in our club history. He ended up costing little in terms of trades as we ended up getting him without actually trading for him. However, his very high, long-term salary probably meant we lost some good players along the way due to salary cap constraints (Mitchell).

I think your methodology is sound, you need to look at what a recruit cost the club at the time, and in the long term. Some people still defend the Fields deal in the short term, in the longer term it's defenders get fewer.

[KSAS]

With Tippett finally off of our books it's worth contemplating where his recruitment sits in terms of the worst acquisitions in our club history. He ended up costing little in terms of trades as we ended up getting him without actually trading for him. However, his very high, long-term salary probably meant we lost some good players along the way due to salary cap constraints (Mitchell). Unlike Buddy he never reached great heights as a player for us due to injuries and inconsistent form. He was essentially being paid the salary of two topliners across his 6 years at our Club. At least the pain is over now and he and the Swans can move on!

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Definitely cost us holding onto Mitchell. Had we hypothetically got Buddy first I wondered would we have still pursued Tippett, taking into consideration we recruited him as a key forward on big $$$$? The Buddy / Tippett double act never really fired a shot. Easy in hindsight, but at the time I was happy & excited we recruited Tippett after seeing him monster the Hawthorn backline in the 2012 PF. He was what we needed at the time to help make our forward line more potent. My only concern was the repeated head concussions he endured at Adelaide which raised some doubt on his longevity in the game, but thankfully that didn't eventuate. Unfortunately it was injury and form that got him in the end. He was very much a confidence player who needed continuity to get to his best form. His Time with us was punctuated with too many stop/starts. No regrets club took him on. What might've been!!!

[0918330512]

Looks like this thread will fall just short of 5500 posts as Tippett finally departs.!Thanks for your service Kurt. Final act of Swans loyalty, retiring to give us an early pick in the mid-season draft. Deserves some votes for our Best Clubman 2019

[AnnieH]

This is virtual mouth-to-mouth.

[goswannies]

This is virtual mouth-to-mouth.

[jono2707]

Longest RWO thread ever.

Worst Swans trade ever.

What a ride it's been.

[dejavoodoo44]

I heard Gretel Tippett mentioned in the netball coverage. How's she doing?

[stevoswan]

Great trade at the time......didn't work out......we move on. Simple.

Good luck Kurt.....none of it was your fault.....it's just life.

Hindsight heroes are to be ignored.....

[Go Swannies]

We gave it a shot, it didn't work out. But I like Kurt and hop he looks back on his time at the Swans as a good experience.

[jono2707]

Great trade at the time......didn't work out......we move on. Simple.

Good luck Kurt.....none of it was your fault.....it's just life.

Hindsight heroes are to be ignored.....

Agreed in terms of not blaming Kurt, and he did his best when he could get on the field. But check some of the very first posts in this wonderful thread to see the alarm of some posters at the potential deal before it even happened.

[stevoswan]

Agreed in terms of not blaming Kurt, and he did his best when he could get on the field. But check some of the very first posts in this wonderful thread to see the alarm of some posters at the potential deal before it even happened.

Well, they can all pointlessly pat themselves on the back.....because it doesn't change anything.

[Meg]

When Kurt was fit and healthy he played some excellent football for us. Sadly, as we know too well, his body and bad luck did not allow that to happen for long periods of matches.

This article from Tony Armstrong, written early 2018 when Tippett’s retirement was first announced, sums it up.

‘ONE thing that seemed to be overlooked when Kurt Tippett anounced his retirement was just how good he was.

I was lucky enough to be at both the Crows and the Swans with him and back then, at the peak of his powers, all you had to do was get the ball into his area and he either took a big mark or halved the contest. Every time.

He was a super-mobile big man who took pack marks and kicked clutch goals.’

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