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  • Blood Fever
    Veterans List
    • Apr 2007
    • 4040

    Originally posted by ernie koala
    Now we're talking...Ryan Clarke is a classic Swans type target/recruit. He's unheralded. He's no nonsense, unselfish, wins the footy, gets on with it. Really hope this rumour has legs.

    The few times I've seen him play have been really good. Love the way he goes about it.

    I get the feeling we can forget all the big names coming to the Swans. I reckon we'll be methodically adding a number of unheralded players to fill spots and play certain roles.

    In the meantime accumulating some cap space for future trades..... I'm all for it
    Agree. Classic Swans strategy which has been highly successful.

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    • Blood Fever
      Veterans List
      • Apr 2007
      • 4040

      Originally posted by AB Swannie
      Buy low. Pay nothing and save your dollars/picks for a start either this year or next. Our list I still bloody good even without any additions. We did just finish one game out of the top four with significant injuries to our talls all year. With a bit more luck injury wise, the development of our young players, and an addition here or there to improve our bottom six, we will be right in the mix again.
      We do have heaps of upside internally with our young guns. Mills, Reid, Melican hardly played. Hope Melican is not chronically and eternally injured like Reid and Tippett.

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

        Originally posted by crackedactor
        Just on trade news. On SEN they mentioned we are having serious discussions with an Essendon player. Did not mention a name. My Essendon supporter friend thinks it might be Hurley. Has anyone hear anything about this?


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        Wasn't Hurley the player we were talking to when we got the trade ban?

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        • Auntie.Gerald
          Veterans List
          • Oct 2009
          • 6474

          I suspect mills will take over Macca’s role in the future so we need more midfielders
          "be tough, only when it gets tough"

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          • 707
            Veterans List
            • Aug 2009
            • 6204

            Originally posted by S.S. Bleeder
            Wasn't Hurley the player we were talking to when we got the trade ban?
            Frawley

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            • liz
              Veteran
              Site Admin
              • Jan 2003
              • 16736

              Originally posted by 707
              Frawley
              Frawley? I've never heard anything linking him to the Swans.

              There were rumours at the time that the Swans were keen on bringing the disgruntled Ryder to the Swans but I'm not convinced how much that was based in reality. I'd be surprised if we had the cap room to bring anyone of that ilk to the club back then.

              There was also the Brisbane player who's name escapes me at the moment (Joel someone?) who had been effectively released by the Lions and wanted to come to Sydney (the city) for family reasons. He landed up on the Giants' list for a season (or maybe two). I doubt he was high profile enough to persuade the AFL to introduce a trade ban.

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              • AnnieH
                RWOs Black Sheep
                • Aug 2006
                • 11332

                Originally posted by S.S. Bleeder
                This isn't the thread where you invent rumours.
                Where else do you want me to invent trading rumours than on the trading thread???
                EVERYTHING... and I mean EVERYTHING said in this thread is mere speculation - unless, of course, it's confirming that a player has signed a contract.
                It's the off season - time for innuendo and wild speculation and of course, unsubstantiated rumours.
                Take a chill pill bruz. It's going to be a long off-season.
                Last edited by AnnieH; 28 September 2018, 10:35 AM.
                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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                • ernie koala
                  Senior Player
                  • May 2007
                  • 3251

                  Originally posted by liz

                  There was also the Brisbane player who's name escapes me at the moment (Joel someone?) who had been effectively released by the Lions and wanted to come to Sydney (the city) for family reasons. He landed up on the Giants' list for a season (or maybe two). I doubt he was high profile enough to persuade the AFL to introduce a trade ban.
                  Joel Patfull was his name.

                  He played nearly 200 games for Brisbane as a key defender ...He was their club champion in 2012, and was regarded as one of the better key defenders in the AFL.

                  I think he was high profile enough for the AFL to take notice.

                  He wanted to move to Sydney and was linked to the Swans, in fact he publicly said so, then the trade ban, so off to GWS he went...

                  Looked very much like AFL manipulation to me.
                  Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect... MT

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                  • Blood Fever
                    Veterans List
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 4040

                    Originally posted by liz
                    Frawley? I've never heard anything linking him to the Swans.

                    There were rumours at the time that the Swans were keen on bringing the disgruntled Ryder to the Swans but I'm not convinced how much that was based in reality. I'd be surprised if we had the cap room to bring anyone of that ilk to the club back then.

                    There was also the Brisbane player who's name escapes me at the moment (Joel someone?) who had been effectively released by the Lions and wanted to come to Sydney (the city) for family reasons. He landed up on the Giants' list for a season (or maybe two). I doubt he was high profile enough to persuade the AFL to introduce a trade ban.
                    Clearly remember Frawley mentioned at the time.

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                    • stevoswan
                      Veterans List
                      • Sep 2014
                      • 8543

                      Originally posted by 707
                      Cops a bagging on the North board, most are glad to see him go. Why do we want him, and Dureya as well?? WTF are we doing?
                      Bitterness at him wanting to go? Norf fans are not known for 'niceness' ......Goodesy. Also overly confident they're getting Gaff?
                      Last edited by stevoswan; 28 September 2018, 11:25 AM.

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                      • stevoswan
                        Veterans List
                        • Sep 2014
                        • 8543

                        I see Barratt's at it again.....

                        If.......your trading-in has been top-notch over a number of years

                        Then.......the cut which already ran deep in the trading-out of Tom Mitchell is now a gaping wound.


                        Wow, let's all slash our wrists.....gee, Barratt's a tool. We got over Mitchell as soon as he left.....and we'll win a premiership before Hawthorn does (the ball's in Horse's court on that one though).

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                        • ugg
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                          • Jan 2003
                          • 15961

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                          • aardvark
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                            • Mar 2010
                            • 5685

                            Originally posted by ugg
                            Just what we need, another player with chronic injuries.

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                            • barry
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                              • Jan 2003
                              • 8499

                              The secrecy lengths that the swans go to with trades just shows how gun-shy they are of the AFL after the trade ban.

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                              • AnnieH
                                RWOs Black Sheep
                                • Aug 2006
                                • 11332

                                Originally posted by barry
                                The secrecy lengths that the swans go to with trades just shows how gun-shy they are of the AFL after the trade ban.
                                Barry, they've ALWAYS been secretive around trade time. Kinnear likes to play his cards extremely close to his chest.
                                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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