Past players - what are they up to?
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Paul Roos has left fox footy. The man has the best career timing I've seen. He always leaves on his terms, and never waits until he's worn out his welcome.
Because of this, I bet all his previous employers (swans, Melbourne, media companies, etc) would welcome him back anytime.
A good lesson in career management.Comment
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I didn't know Plugger had a nephew playing for the Gold Coast Suns Academy!
From last years Under 16 Championships:
#28 Jye Lockett (Gold Coast Suns Academy)
Was one of the damaging three strong trio in the Queensland forward line and booted a couple of goals either end of the game. His first came in the goalsquare where he positioned himself well, took the mark and turned around to kick the goal from a metre out. The hands looked to be in the back of his opponent, but his body positioning was good and he had a number of other chances after that. He took a strong pack mark out 30m on an angle not long after his first goal but it drifted to the left for a behind, and then pushed up the ground at times to win some touches at half-forward. At one stage he applied a fend-off in midfield and got clear to kick forward, before then going deeper later on to mark the ball going back with the flight and put it through the middle of the big sticks midway through the last term.
Lockett was one of a few big bodies for Queensland in the forward half, but made plays of a smaller unit with some work in the first term. He kicked Queensland’s first goal of the game with a snap and missed another shortly after, with not much to do until he popped up again in the third term with his second goal to finish a nice passage of play from the Maroons. Finished as a danger up forward, and had 12 disposals, three marks and two goals across the day.
Article on Jye Lockett as a 13yo back in 2016:
No Cookies | Gold Coast Bulletin
He wanted to play for us back then after hanging around Goodes and Buddy!
The possibility of having a forward line one day consisting of Franklin, Daniher and Lockett!Last edited by KSAS; 14 February 2020, 05:21 PM.Comment
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Sydney Swans champions Nick Smith and Kieren Jack dominate AFL 9s match as ring-ins
AFL 2020: Kieren Jack and Nick Smith social footy ring-ins story, AFL 9s Sydney, Brandon Jack, Swans greats play in post-work comp | Fox SportsComment
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Sydney Swans champions Nick Smith and Kieren Jack dominate AFL 9s match as ring-ins
AFL 2020: Kieren Jack and Nick Smith social footy ring-ins story, AFL 9s Sydney, Brandon Jack, Swans greats play in post-work comp | Fox SportsComment
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Sydney Swans champions Nick Smith and Kieren Jack dominate AFL 9s match as ring-ins
AFL 2020: Kieren Jack and Nick Smith social footy ring-ins story, AFL 9s Sydney, Brandon Jack, Swans greats play in post-work comp | Fox SportsComment
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I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
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Smooch is back! Nick Smith accepts a QBE Sydney Swans Academy development coach position on a part time basis......yay!
Coaching call-up: Premiership Swan flies back inComment
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Story about Darren Jolly in the HUN. Can't get past the paywall and refuse to put a cent into Murdoch's pocket, but the teaser quotes Jolly as having had severe mental issues resulting in him contemplating suicide.Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.Comment
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Ted Richards.....what's he up to? Getting admitted to the Swans Hall Of Fame, that's what.....along with James Alexander Young, Terry Brain and Bernard Toohey!
2012 flag hero among four Swans added to club Hall of Fame
His interview is typical modest Ted......legend! Toohey's is worth watching also.Last edited by stevoswan; 27 February 2020, 03:58 PM.Comment
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Participating in reality TV can have that effect.....
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Ted Richards.....what's he up to? Getting admitted to the Swans Hall Of Fame, that's what.....along with James Alexander Young, Terry Brain and Bernard Toohey!
2012 flag hero among four Swans added to club Hall of Fame
His interview is typical modest Ted......legend! Toohey's is worth watching also.
Its players like him and LRT (plus lot of those other '2nd chance' lower draft pick players) that made that 2012 premiership so damn good - against a very, very good Hawthorn team."You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."Comment
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Mate just sent me a link to his local paper announcing that Xavier Richards has joined the Old Xaverians Amateur club in Melbourne.Comment
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There was quite a Xavier contingent here at one time. Hanners was another.Comment
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