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  • Plugger46
    Senior Player
    • Apr 2003
    • 3674

    #16
    Originally posted by liz
    As an aside, I recall one of Lockett's coaches at the Swans (can't recall whether it was Barassi or Eade) commenting on how Plugger was by far the best field kick in the team - mostly at training, since it was rare for him to kick the ball to a team mate, rather than towards the big sticks, during games. The same surely applies to Buddy now. Not the not kicking to team mates - he does that a lot - but that he is by far the best at picking out a team mate in the forward 50. Some of his kicks are exquisite.
    I've heard that one as well. His kick to Cressa late in the 1996 Prelim is one that sticks in my mind.

    The best of the best.

    Incredible how much interest any sighting of him creates some 15 years after he left the game.
    Bloods

    "Lockett is the best of all time" - Robert Harvey, Darrel Baldock, Nathan Burke, Kevin Bartlett, Bob Skilton

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    • goswannies
      Senior Player
      • Sep 2007
      • 3052

      #17
      I recall Plugger was interviewed after a game once when he delivered one of those pin-point passes that hit a teammate on the chest. The interviewer ask him if he wished his teammates could deliver the ball that well to him. Plugger just smiled.

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      • sfan
        Warming the Bench
        • May 2003
        • 487

        #18
        I would pay plugger whatever he wants if he can teach Sam Reid to kick straight more often with his goal shots!!!!!

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        • AnnieH
          RWOs Black Sheep
          • Aug 2006
          • 11332

          #19
          I look forward to ALL the forwards pulling up their socks, hitching their undies out of their butts and kicking it straight through the big sticks.
          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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          • S.S. Bleeder
            Senior Player
            • Sep 2014
            • 2165

            #20
            Originally posted by goswannies
            I recall Plugger was interviewed after a game once when he delivered one of those pin-point passes that hit a teammate on the chest. The interviewer ask him if he wished his teammates could deliver the ball that well to him. Plugger just smiled.
            I bet Buddy feels the same way.

            - - - Updated - - -

            Such great news that Plugger is back. Lets hope that we can improve our goal/point ratio. It's a real weakness of ours.

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            • mattybloods
              Warming the Bench
              • Jul 2016
              • 482

              #21
              Can't believe he's back at the club! Never saw that coming.

              Originally posted by Meg
              He looks worryingly thin.
              I was thinking the same at first but had a look at more photos on the website today and you can tell he's not just thin but lots of lean muscle. I don't think his health is an issue. He looks more like a modern AFL forward than he did during his career!

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              • Auntie.Gerald
                Veterans List
                • Oct 2009
                • 6483

                #22
                Sydney Swans (@sydneyswans) | Twitter

                i didn't think we would end up with a zombie version of plugger

                wow he has lost some weight and the pic with him talking in a suit is scary !!!

                lol

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                "be tough, only when it gets tough"

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

                  #23
                  Well Plugger has spoilt my nickname for Sarah Perkins who plays at FF for the Adelaide Crows women's team. Crows' supporters call Sarah 'Tex' but I call her 'Plugger'. She too uses her body size and weight skilfully to out-position her opposing defender.

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                  • Ludwig
                    Veterans List
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 9359

                    #24
                    Plugger just needs a wig and a few botox injections and we'll have him looking like Warwick Capper.

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                    • dawson
                      Senior Player
                      • Mar 2003
                      • 1007

                      #25
                      What is clear is how much more affectionate he is for the Swans than St Kilda

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                      • Joel Ridge
                        Suspended by the MRP
                        • Feb 2017
                        • 82

                        #26
                        Plugger is simply moving with the modern game with his new build. His new build is ideal for forward pressure, repeat efforts, long leads to half back and sprinting back to goal from halfback. He could probably beat his man for endurance with that build.

                        His playing day build of 191cm and 108kgs was ideal for football in the late 80s and 90. He was built for one on one contests close to the goal square. His burst of speed and power got him away from his man into space without midfielders and half forwards dropping into holes. His brilliant kicking finished everything off.

                        I think Plugger is laying of the heavy weights, doing lots of endorance training and on a diet of low carbs and high protein.

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                        • The Big Cat
                          On the veteran's list
                          • Apr 2006
                          • 2360

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Joel Ridge
                          ......... without midfielders and half forwards dropping into holes.
                          They did drop into holes, but only once!
                          Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.

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                          • stevoswan
                            Veterans List
                            • Sep 2014
                            • 8573

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Joel Ridge

                            I think Plugger is laying of the heavy weights, doing lots of endorance training and on a diet of low carbs and high protein.
                            He does a lot of off road motorbike riding. That would make you fit......or more so, you'd have to be fit for that......or both!!

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                            • undy
                              Fatal error: Allowed memo
                              • Mar 2003
                              • 1231

                              #29
                              Originally posted by stevoswan
                              He does a lot of off road motorbike riding. That would make you fit......or more so, you'd have to be fit for that......or both!!
                              Not sure about that - check out his motocross build in this article
                              Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way you'll be a mile away and he'll be shoeless.

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                              • S.S. Bleeder
                                Senior Player
                                • Sep 2014
                                • 2165

                                #30
                                Originally posted by Auntie.Gerald
                                Sydney Swans (@sydneyswans) | Twitter

                                i didn't think we would end up with a zombie version of plugger

                                wow he has lost some weight and the pic with him talking in a suit is scary !!!

                                lol

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                                Aww. You beat me to it. I never thought I'd say this but Plugger really needs to put on a few kilo's. He looks like he's been in a concentration camp. I wonder how much better his career would have been if he played at this weight?

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