2020 trading, drafting and list management: players and personnel
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Ladhams would be a nice pick up. Wouldn’t be for peanuts though
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Cruel. Lol! Precious much...
Which part is ignorant? The fact Buddy is on huge $$ or the fact he has delivered as many premierships for us as Gary? Neither statement is incorrect.
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Gary won us a few off his own boots too.
Guess it’s ok for people to slag him though as he is at another team now.Comment
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It overlooks the significant contribution Lance has made on and off the field, particularly in comparison to Rohan - on both counts.Comment
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Gary would have been on $200k and Buddy $1m. Would have expected Buddy contributed more.
It’s easy to knock Gary but if you do that then you should also knock Buddy, especially given the amount of salary cap going towards him.
Without going off track too far, neither won a Bob Skilton medal, a premiership medal or a best finals player award.
Of course Buddy is going to be recognised as an all time great, and rightfully so. I just think it’s unfair to crucify Gary for going missing in finals and not Buddy.Comment
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Add to that the AFL stamped the Swans papers "never to win flag while Buddy's a Swan" after we recruited him. Fitzpatrick's revenge......the a-hole.Comment
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Does it? I was commenting purely on grand finals.
Gary would have been on $200k and Buddy $1m. Would have expected Buddy contributed more.
It’s easy to knock Gary but if you do that then you should also knock Buddy, especially given the amount of salary cap going towards him.
Without going off track too far, neither won a Bob Skilton medal, a premiership medal or a best finals player award.
Of course Buddy is going to be recognised as an all time great, and rightfully so. I just think it’s unfair to crucify Gary for going missing in finals and not Buddy.Comment
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There is something in it though for 2016, will never forget the umpiring that day.Comment
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Take 2016: Buddy was in scintillating form in the finals series. He was in the best players in each of the three finals matches leading into the grand final.
As already stated he hurt his ankle early in the first quarter of the grand final. He was off the ground for some time getting treatment and when he returned was clearly hampered for the rest of the match.
I firmly believe, despite everything else that went wrong for us that day, we would have won but for Buddy’s injury.Comment
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Again that comment is unfair on Buddy.
Take 2016: Buddy was in scintillating form in the finals series. He was in the best players in each of the three finals matches leading into the grand final.
As already stated he hurt his ankle early in the first quarter of the grand final. He was off the ground for some time getting treatment and when he returned was clearly hampered for the rest of the match.
I firmly believe, despite everything else that went wrong for us that day, we would have won but for Buddy’s injury.
And let's not forget the effect Buddy had on AFL in Sydney - as evidenced in our record memberships.He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)Comment
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On these two years, as well as four others, I'm convinced that we've got some kind of curse that we need to dispel. We finished on top of the ladder in both these years, and we lost both grand finals.
It's been 102 years since we've finished on top of the ladder and won the premiership in the same year. Since 1918, when we finished on top and won the premiership, whenever we've finished on top we made the Grand Final but kept finding strange ways to lose the Grand Finals.
1935 - not particularly remarkable.
1936 - not particularly remarkable.
1945 - first team to lose a Grand Final to a team that made the Grand Final from fourth under the McIntyre Final Four system (introduced in 1931).
1996 - not particularly remarkable.
2014 - biggest losing margin for a minor premier in a Grand Final.
2016 - first team to lose a Grand Final to a team that made the Grand Final from outside the top four under the current finals system (introduced in 2000).
(For completeness, we also made the Grand Final in 1909, 1912 and 1918 after finishing on top of the ladder. In those years the Argus finals system guaranteed that the minor premier would always have the right of challenge for the premiership, so making the Grand Final was automatic for the minor premiers.)
We have never failed to make the Grand Final after finishing on top of the ladder. We have finished on top nine times since 1897, for nine Grand Finals and two premierships."Unbelievable!" -- Nick Davis leaves his mark on the 2005 semi finalComment
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