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  • neilfws
    Senior Player
    • Aug 2009
    • 1822

    McGlynn retires

    Ben McGlynn calls time on his career - sydneyswans.com.au
  • KTigers
    Senior Player
    • Apr 2012
    • 2499

    #2
    Sad.

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    • dejavoodoo44
      Veterans List
      • Apr 2015
      • 8581

      #3
      Originally posted by KTigers
      Sad.
      Shame that it ended without a deserved premiership medal. Maybe he'll get one as a coach? It certainly seems to be the direction that he wants to take. Though at the moment, we seem to be full of quality people in assistant coach and support roles?

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      • Dosser
        Just wild about Harry
        • Mar 2011
        • 1833

        #4
        Pretty poor form from Longmire to not hand his 2012 medal to Benny. If he did, the medal could have gone on its own tour of country towns and end up in the Swans Hall of Fame.

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        • Auntie.Gerald
          Veterans List
          • Oct 2009
          • 6474

          #5
          Thanks benny
          Hard nut
          Full of passion and run
          "be tough, only when it gets tough"

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

            #6
            Originally posted by Auntie.Gerald
            Thanks benny
            Hard nut
            Full of passion and run
            Yep. +1

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            • Cheer_Cheer
              Regular in the Side
              • Jul 2009
              • 739

              #7
              One of my fave memories is of him taking it up to Johnathon Brown. Thanks Benny.. I have enjoyed watching you !

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              • dejavoodoo44
                Veterans List
                • Apr 2015
                • 8581

                #8
                Originally posted by Cheer_Cheer
                One of my fave memories is of him taking it up to Johnathon Brown. Thanks Benny.. I have enjoyed watching you !
                Though if things went pear shaped, Benny could've head butted him in the nuts.

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                • Swansinger
                  Senior Player
                  • Mar 2003
                  • 1099

                  #9
                  Ben , there were plenty of blokes at the Swans bigger than you. But you're the only one I'd be scared of meeting on a dark night . Absolute terrier !

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                  • mcs
                    Travelling Swannie!!
                    • Jul 2007
                    • 8161

                    #10
                    Farewell Benny - a very good career, and so unfortunate not to get a Premiership in 2012.

                    A fine player at this best, especially during 2012 - where he was at or close to the peak of his powers and at his best. Never afraid to go in hard or give his all for the team.

                    on a superb career!
                    "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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                    • Velour&Ruffles
                      Regular in the Side
                      • Jun 2006
                      • 896

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Auntie.Gerald
                      Thanks benny
                      Hard nut
                      Full of passion and run
                      As gutsy as they come. Search "want him in the trenches beside me" and there's a picture of him.
                      My opinion is objective truth in its purest form

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                      • KTigers
                        Senior Player
                        • Apr 2012
                        • 2499

                        #12
                        I stood next to him for awhile in the line at a food stand at the preseason game at Drummoyne, and he
                        doesn't look much, but man I wouldn't want to have the ball in my hand with him coming at me.
                        In my house, we called him "the human missile".

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                        • jono2707
                          Goes up to 11
                          • Oct 2007
                          • 3326

                          #13
                          Thanks Benny for all your efforts for the club - you were pretty wonderful and entertaining too.

                          And you showed its not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

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                          • AnnieH
                            RWOs Black Sheep
                            • Aug 2006
                            • 11332

                            #14
                            I told the opposition not to touch Benny... it's head-high contact any day of the week.

                            Gunna miss you Benny-boy. A marvelous servant of the club.
                            I'll forever be sad that you didn't get a shiny medal.
                            You deserve one more than anyone.

                            I sincerely hope we can accommodate you in the coaching department.
                            Such a waste to lose such footy talent.

                            #thanksbenny
                            Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                            Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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                            • barry
                              Veterans List
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 8499

                              #15
                              Ben is probably disappointed he never won a flag, but if you were to ask him when he left hawthorn if hed take 2 GF's and being part of a team flag in 2012, i think hed say yes.

                              He was more a part of the 2012 flag than Bob murphy was of 2016.

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