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  • Bloodthirsty
    On the Rookie List
    • May 2013
    • 607

    Originally posted by Primmy
    Lovely little piece written by Shane Crawford on telling his 7 yo son Charlie that Buddy was now playing for the Swans. Every parents nightmare, well handled and beautifully observed.

    No Cookies | Herald Sun
    Man oh man. The @@@@ people get paid to write.
    "Take me down to the Paradise City where the grass is green and the Swans win pretty."

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    • Ludwig
      Veterans List
      • Apr 2007
      • 9359

      Originally posted by Rusty1965
      Thanks for all the messages saying I was a complete twat when I said Buddy would be a Swan in July.... Cheer cheer the red and the white
      Perhaps there was a different reason that people were calling you a complete twat.

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      Re: Shane Crawford, we better get to work on scrapping the F/S system or Hawthorn will be a powerhouse in 20 years. Let's swap the COLA for Shane.

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      • BillyRayCypress
        On the Rookie List
        • May 2012
        • 1379

        Originally posted by Bloodthirsty
        Man oh man. The @@@@ people get paid to write.
        Just back your trailer up and after you've filled up, you can take it home for the garden story.

        Shane's done some outstanding things recently but losing Buddy to the Swans is NOT a life changing event.
        Nothing like a good light bulb moment.

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        • Primmy
          Proud Tragic Swan
          • Apr 2008
          • 5970

          I saw it more as probably the first time some Hero Happy kids are going to have to come to terms with the fact that you don't get a prize "for just showing up" and that @@@@ happens, even to them. The way they are schooled these days is frankly frightening - no one actually loses (they do, as we adults know). It also shows that if you leave kids alone for a bit they generally can sort things out.

          We also don't have the level of loopiness that Melbournites indulge in, the VFL factor. Its kind of his way of saying, suck it up sweetheart, @@@@ happens.
          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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          • Ludwig
            Veterans List
            • Apr 2007
            • 9359

            Why can't the Crawford boys just make Dad their Hero. Isn't he good enough?

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            • wolftone57
              Veterans List
              • Aug 2008
              • 5815

              Originally posted by Ludwig
              Perhaps there was a different reason that people were calling you a complete twat.

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              Re: Shane Crawford, we better get to work on scrapping the F/S system or Hawthorn will be a powerhouse in 20 years. Let's swap the COLA for Shane.
              Our players keep having girls. We are going to have the @@@@ing best women's AFL team in the Southern Hemisphere.

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              Originally posted by Meg
              Very well put Ludwig. I fear the COLA will be scrapped in a knee-jerk response to the current near hysteria from other clubs. It should instead be reviewed rationally within the scope of the total equalisation debate. I expect that both Brisbane and Sydney still need some form of location allowance while the AFL market remains the lesser cousin to NRL in these cities.
              What should happen with COLA is that clubs all over Australia get compensated according to the cost of living. if this happens then WA clubs would be most likely to be compensated. Perth has the highest living standards other than Sydney. I have always wondered why it is called 'highest living standard' when it is obviously the most expensive living standard. I would think that the highest living standard would take in a balance of wages to expenditure, obviously not.

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              • Reggi
                On the Rookie List
                • Jan 2003
                • 2718

                I gather Tim Watson said on seven news tonight that the AFL will endorse the buddy deal tomorrow
                You don't ban those who supported your opponent, you make them wallow in their loserdom by covering your victory! You sit them in the front row. You give them a hat! Toby Ziegler

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                • MightyBloods
                  Regular in the Side
                  • Feb 2012
                  • 532

                  [QUOTE=wolftone57;627102]Our players keep having girls. We are going to have the @@@@ing best women's AFL team in the Southern Hemisphere.

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                  I know a guy who lives on the 35th flloor. He has a very high living standard!

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                  • dimelb
                    pr. dim-melb; m not f
                    • Jun 2003
                    • 6889

                    People, I think the real kicker in Shane Crawford's story is that Charlie's friend James is a Swans fan! I LOLed.
                    And I suspect it might herald a growing sense that the other team isn't The Enemy, it's a bunch of blokes some of whom might be friends with your blokes. Very civilised. We need to get over "hating" other teams. Except for Carlton, of course.
                    He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                    • The Big Cat
                      On the veteran's list
                      • Apr 2006
                      • 2306

                      Probably posted elsewhere but I haven't seen it.

                      Swans Amend "No Dickheads" Player Code | The Flack
                      Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.

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                      • BillyRayCypress
                        On the Rookie List
                        • May 2012
                        • 1379

                        Originally posted by dimelb
                        We need to get over "hating" other teams. Except for Carlton, of course.
                        And Collingwood and Essendon and North and West Coast................................
                        Nothing like a good light bulb moment.

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                        • sharp9
                          Senior Player
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 2508

                          Al Clarkson was quite explicit in his speech at B & F that Buddy was going to Sydney and wished him all the best. Absolutely zero chance of them matching deal....plus using language which completely expects no situation in which the AFL would challenge the offer.
                          "I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005

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                          • Jeffers1984
                            Veterans List
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 4564

                            Looks like the AFL won't rubber stamp the deal today.
                            Pretty frustrating.
                            Official Driver Of The "Who Gives A @@@@ As The Player Will Get Delisted Anyway" Bandwagon.

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                            • DeadlyAkkuret
                              Veterans List
                              • Oct 2006
                              • 4547

                              This is a farce. Any other team and the deal would have gone through by now.

                              The AFL hates that we've done this.

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                              • Cosmic Wizard
                                recruit me pretty please!
                                • Sep 2005
                                • 620

                                Originally posted by DeadlyAkkuret
                                This is a farce. Any other team and the deal would have gone through by now.

                                The AFL hates that we've done this.
                                They hate us because Buddy was all set to be the face of GWS and stop them being more irrelevant than ever in 2014!

                                They are really go to hate us when we win all our games and GWS lose all of theirs in 2014!!!
                                doof-doof

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