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  • Bloods05
    Senior Player
    • Oct 2008
    • 1641

    Originally posted by Auntie.Gerald
    There are still people that I know that have turned their lives around from drugs / alcohol

    It happens and personally I think they are courageous people
    Originally posted by S.S. Bleeder
    I've got empathy for those who deserve it, such as people with physical illnesses and mental health illnesses. Drug use is an illegal activity. You're not addicted to it when you take that first shot/hit. Just because everyone is doing it doesn't justify it. This is the reason why I won't shed a tear when Talia gets dropped at seasons end. He had a great opportunity and he threw it away.
    Ugh.

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    • Burra
      Warming the Bench
      • Mar 2008
      • 104

      According to one of the footy shows this morning Tom Mitchell has set a new record for a number of possessions in a season, with still more to come. Ouch!

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      • Markwebbos
        Veterans List
        • Jul 2016
        • 7186

        Originally posted by Burra
        According to one of the footy shows this morning Tom Mitchell has set a new record for a number of possessions in a season, with still more to come. Ouch!
        We seem to be doing reasonably well without him now. Although his absence was a factor in the 0-6 start.

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        • Nico
          Veterans List
          • Jan 2003
          • 11329

          If Macca gets to 300 this year he will give it away. If he doesn't I think the club will sign him on a much lesser contract. Plays his 300th next year and plays out the year in the 2's loses form. The HS had him the best on Friday but I thought he struggled when he went forward.
          http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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          • penga
            Senior Player
            • Jan 2003
            • 2601

            Originally posted by Burra
            According to one of the footy shows this morning Tom Mitchell has set a new record for a number of possessions in a season, with still more to come. Ouch!
            Meh.

            Heeney in the midfield > Mitchell in the midfield
            C'mon Chels!

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            • liz
              Veteran
              Site Admin
              • Jan 2003
              • 16741

              Originally posted by Burra
              According to one of the footy shows this morning Tom Mitchell has set a new record for a number of possessions in a season, with still more to come. Ouch!
              I think Lachie Neale set a new record last season, so in some ways it just reflects the higher possession way football is trending.

              Part of (I think the main) reason why Mitchell left us is that he was promised he'd been played as a full time onballer at Hawthorn. At Sydney, he was often forced to a half-forward flank, or a wing, because there wasn't a role for another slowish man in the true midfield, not for the entirety of a game. I don't think that's changed. With a full complement of Parker, Kennedy and Hannebery available, our midfield rotations are better suited by rotating a different kind of player - a Jack, Heeney, Jones or even Papley - through there.

              Mitchell has clearly made the Hawks a better side but I don't think his departure has really hurt the Swans.

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              • Burra
                Warming the Bench
                • Mar 2008
                • 104

                Well, shut my mouth!

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                • Nico
                  Veterans List
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 11329

                  Originally posted by Burra
                  According to one of the footy shows this morning Tom Mitchell has set a new record for a number of possessions in a season, with still more to come. Ouch!
                  Mmm, they didn't make the finals.
                  http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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                  • Ludwig
                    Veterans List
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 9359

                    Originally posted by liz
                    I think Lachie Neale set a new record last season, so in some ways it just reflects the higher possession way football is trending.

                    Part of (I think the main) reason why Mitchell left us is that he was promised he'd been played as a full time onballer at Hawthorn. At Sydney, he was often forced to a half-forward flank, or a wing, because there wasn't a role for another slowish man in the true midfield, not for the entirety of a game. I don't think that's changed. With a full complement of Parker, Kennedy and Hannebery available, our midfield rotations are better suited by rotating a different kind of player - a Jack, Heeney, Jones or even Papley - through there.

                    Mitchell has clearly made the Hawks a better side but I don't think his departure has really hurt the Swans.
                    Right on!

                    And let's not forget that we got Ollie Florent in exchange, a player who has attributes more needed by the club.

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                    • 707
                      Veterans List
                      • Aug 2009
                      • 6204

                      Mitchell is having a great season but he is the main (nearly the only) man in their midfield and plays high minutes. Wouldn't have set the record here but good luck to him at Hawthorn, I feel they are in for a lengthy period down the table, no draft picks of note this year, ageing and retiring stars, no longer a destination club.

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                      • Blood Fever
                        Veterans List
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 4040

                        Originally posted by 707
                        Mitchell is having a great season but he is the main (nearly the only) man in their midfield and plays high minutes. Wouldn't have set the record here but good luck to him at Hawthorn, I feel they are in for a lengthy period down the table, no draft picks of note this year, ageing and retiring stars, no longer a destination club.


                        Fresh article by Neil Cordy saying McVeigh almost certain to leave a la Mitchell. Left an uneasy feeling in my stomach.

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                        Originally posted by Blood Fever
                        Fresh article by Neil Cordy saying McVeigh almost certain to leave a la Mitchell. Left an uneasy feeling in my stomach.
                        Sam Mitchell that is - one year and then coaching role

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                        • stevoswan
                          Veterans List
                          • Sep 2014
                          • 8545

                          Originally posted by Blood Fever
                          Fresh article by Neil Cordy saying McVeigh almost certain to leave a la Mitchell. Left an uneasy feeling in my stomach.
                          Sam Mitchell that is - one year and then coaching role
                          As good as Macca's playing now, he was probably going to be in and out of our team next year anyway and whose to say he won't return to us down the track, a la Kirk......but if this rumour is true, it will be awkward seeing him play for someone else, especially if he keeps playing as well as he is now.

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                          • barry
                            Veterans List
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 8499

                            I hope he's not going to the giants!

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                            • Faunac8
                              Senior Player
                              • Mar 2014
                              • 1548

                              Originally posted by Blood Fever
                              Fresh article by Neil Cordy saying McVeigh almost certain to leave a la Mitchell. Left an uneasy feeling in my stomach.
                              Sam Mitchell that is - one year and then coaching role
                              McVeigh set to leave Swans - Daily Telegraph
                              McVeigh set to leave Swans

                              Will be strange to see him in any other coloured jumper

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                              • mcs
                                Travelling Swannie!!
                                • Jul 2007
                                • 8149

                                Originally posted by Faunac8
                                McVeigh set to leave Swans - Daily Telegraph
                                McVeigh set to leave Swans
                                I'd be very sad to see him go off elsewhere on a one year contract, but hopefully at very least we can do what is needed to ensure Game 300 is at the Swans - would be awful to lose in the first week of the finals and leave him stuck on 299 before heading off elsewhere to play game 300.
                                "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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