Lance Franklin to become a Swan

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  • kangle4
    Warming the Bench
    • May 2003
    • 200

    The AFL have been embarrassed so they're stalling on purpose.

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    • Zlatorog
      Senior Player
      • Jan 2006
      • 1748

      AFL is a joke and they are losing their credibility in this city more and more. They are damaging the game here more that they can think off. GWS is doomed whether AFL like it or not. They should relocate it to Canberra like the second Sydney airport. ;-)

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      • BillyRayCypress
        On the Rookie List
        • May 2012
        • 1379

        The Fat Controller has probably locked himself away in a cupboard and sulking about the possibility of Buddy going to Sydney. Not a bleet since the news broke.

        He should make room for Matthews who has spent the whole weekend sucking on lemons based on his comment today about the Buddy deal.

        They'll force Sydney back to a 7 years contract before this is all finished.
        Nothing like a good light bulb moment.

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        • Meg
          Go Swannies!
          Site Admin
          • Aug 2011
          • 4828

          Originally posted by BillyRayCypress

          They'll force Sydney back to a 7 years contract before this is all finished.
          Is that what the 'restricted' part of restricted free agency means?

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          • MightyBloods
            Regular in the Side
            • Feb 2012
            • 532

            I heard the AFL have got the same guy who inflates some of the lowly crowd figures to give the contract numbers the once over. The guy's calculator keeps coming up with 25,000.

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            • Primmy
              Proud Tragic Swan
              • Apr 2008
              • 5970

              At last, a media voice of reason.



              worth a read.
              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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              • Auntie.Gerald
                Veterans List
                • Oct 2009
                • 6480

                without being a wanker ok being a wanker that article is almost a copy of what I wrote !!

                Buddy wants to be a Swan.......period !
                "be tough, only when it gets tough"

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                • BillyRayCypress
                  On the Rookie List
                  • May 2012
                  • 1379

                  Originally posted by Auntie.Gerald
                  without being a wanker ok being a wanker that article is almost a copy of what I wrote !!

                  Buddy wants to be a Swan.......period !
                  If you write to him, he says that he will give you a Mummy hug.

                  How does he get Mummy to do that ?
                  Nothing like a good light bulb moment.

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                  • On-Baller
                    On the Rookie List
                    • Mar 2011
                    • 283

                    Good article but why is it that the sydney media have to give backhanders to melbourne everytime they write about it, melbourne journos cop alot of flack around here and rightly so but im yet to see one be as childish as to lambast a whole city with throw away lines that add nothing to the article except to make the writers seem like up themselves twats.

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                    • Zlatorog
                      Senior Player
                      • Jan 2006
                      • 1748

                      Originally posted by On-Baller
                      Good article but why is it that the sydney media have to give backhanders to melbourne everytime they write about it, melbourne journos cop alot of flack around here and rightly so but im yet to see one be as childish as to lambast a whole city with throw away lines that add nothing to the article except to make the writers seem like up themselves twats.
                      Because Melbourne journos are twats as far as Sydney Swans are concerned. And, Fitzsimons is another problem. Who is he to talk about AFL anyway. Zero credibility as far as I'm concern.

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                      • Ludwig
                        Veterans List
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 9359

                        This photo put a smile on my face. Just think, these guys are going to playing together, FOR US, next year. Love the jumper too. Just replace the the Coles with a White Swan, rename this website Blue and White Online and I'm sold.

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                        • Jeffers1984
                          Veterans List
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 4564

                          An Article from the Age saying that we should get the green light from the AFL tomorrow

                          Swans set for all-clear on Buddy

                          Then the Dawks will have the 3 days from that point to figure out if they will match it which would be 99% unlikely from all their activity.
                          Hopefully the Dawks can just say no straight out tomorrow so we can finally see Buddy officially as a Swan!
                          Official Driver Of The "Who Gives A @@@@ As The Player Will Get Delisted Anyway" Bandwagon.

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                          • annew
                            Senior Player
                            • Mar 2006
                            • 2164

                            How could they not approve it when GWS have apparently lodged a 4 million dollar 5 year bid for Heath Shaw

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                            • Meg
                              Go Swannies!
                              Site Admin
                              • Aug 2011
                              • 4828

                              Originally posted by Ludwig
                              This photo put a smile on my face. Just think, these guys are going to playing together, FOR US, next year. Love the jumper too. Just replace the the Coles with a White Swan, rename this website Blue and White Online and I'm sold.

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                              While I am still a bit ambivalent about the contract for Franklin, I do love the thought of Goodes, Franklin and Jetta playing together and Michael O'Loughlin as the Swans Academy coach. I recall in an interview that went with the photo above when the Australian Indigenous squad was announced, that Franklin said it had always been his dream to play alongside either Andrew McLeod or Adam Goodes. Well now he can do it as a Swan for at least a full season (hoping for good fortune on injuries after Adam's bad luck this year). .

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                              • Meg
                                Go Swannies!
                                Site Admin
                                • Aug 2011
                                • 4828

                                Reading the separate thread on the TLM reminded me that there is a nice interview with Troy Luff embedded in the Fox Sports link below that some might not have seen. He is very enthusiastic about Franklin coming to the Swans. Sorry I don't know how to unpack that interview from the rest of the article.

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