Lance Franklin to become a Swan

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It's a window dressing statement. An insult to the club. Everyone in football knows the money stays in the cap if the player retires early. Andrew Ireland is the best in the business and to suggest he needs advice is arrogance at its highest! To say the club needs to meet with the AFL is a joke anyway, as all club TPPs are reviewed by the AFL before they can be signed off on.

Maybe the coach needs to take a similar approach to Buddy before he approves his running out onto the field -

Buddy - "I'm right to go coach."
Horse - "We need to review that before you can run out"
Buddy - "I've played 180 games coach. I know what I'm doing!"
Horse - "I need formal acknowledgement that you know you must wear footy boots."
Buddy - "OK. Anything else before I can get onto the ground?"
Horse - "Yeah. We need to meet at the end of each year and you can tell me how you intend to make sure you wear boots next year."
Buddy - "Sounds as if you think I'm a dumb arse"
Horse - "No, I don't think that. You are respected across the AFL for your ability to run onto the ground properly attired, but I have to tell you to do something otherwise all the other clubs will think you're my love child.
Buddy - "But you sound like Captain Obvious, telling me to wear boots"
Horse - "It's better to sound like Captain Obvious, than Danny Do Nothing. Remember the old saying 'Justice needs to be seen to be done, even if there's no injustice in the first place.' Or something like that."
Buddy - "Horse?"
Horse - "Yes, my little pariah?"
Buddy - "Can I go out onto the field now? They've already bounced the ball!"
Horse - "Are you wearing your boots?"

This post deserved more love. ..

[Zlatorog]

This post deserved more love. ..

Agree!

[DamY]

But isn't this exactly what is being said by the AFL....

We will have Buddies wage (around $1.1m per year) count against our cap,regardless of whether he plays or is retired.

Given his age/ no. of games played, and apparently degenerative knee, that is a huge gamble with our clubs medium term situation.

The "dead money" though is a requirement, otherwise you'll have clubs one-upping each other on the length of deals if they knew they had no intention of paying them the full terms. This is a fair and practical solution and holds parties accountable. Yes, more risk lies with the Club, but the Club is expecting that risk to be mitigated by other benefits such as increased memberships, exposure, bums on seats at games, corporate sponsorship. Heck, imagine the Redback member that is Buddy's personal sponsor?! Wowsers! It could be like printing money if handled correctly. Plus the signing has Macca's approval, so I guess I'm ok with it

[magic.merkin]

Live stream
Franklin LIVE from the SCG - AFL.com.au

hasn't started yet

[CJK]

Live stream
Franklin LIVE from the SCG - AFL.com.au

hasn't started yet

'This event has now finished'

Nice one AFL

[Jewels]

Live stream
Franklin LIVE from the SCG - AFL.com.au

hasn't started yet

Am i the only one getting "This event has now finished"? If so, what am i doing wrong?

[aardvark]

Its on trade radio...Join AFL.com.au for Trade Radio - AFL.com.au

[spiffy-dude]

Gee the AFL is amateur in all aspects, they can't even get this right.

Was that shortest press conference ever? event finished?

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Its on trade radio...Join AFL.com.au for Trade Radio - AFL.com.au

Doesnt work. I tried chrome, firefox and safari.

[ugg]

Page Not Found | Fox Sports News, Live Sport, Sports | Fox Sports

[Zlatorog]

I hope this doesn't become now a regular occurrence where we only get video snippets of the events after they're finished.

[magic.merkin]

swans facebook said technical difficulties.
it will all be up on the swans site shortly.

[BillyRayCypress]

Listening to Buddy on TWR now.

[ugg]

Sam Reid "ABSOLUTELY" staying.

[spiffy-dude]

Are we giving the 1 number?

[ugg]

Ireland just categorically stated we don't need to move any more players out to accommodate Buddy. But did confirm Armstrong and Everitt were out of contract.