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  • dejavoodoo44
    Veterans List
    • Apr 2015
    • 8497

    Originally posted by KSAS
    I got the Luke Parker text & email as well. Great news!!!

    Few days ago an excited Saints fan rang SEN to say he noticed on the weekend a Luke Parker having bought property in Highett (adjacent suburb to Moorabbin, Saints home base) & convinced he was coming there way. Dwayne Russell told him how do you know if it's the Swans Luke Parker???? Could be any Luke Parker!!!!
    And in the tradition of how rumours are founded, it was probably just as likely that it was a Lucy Barker or Luca Marka buying the house.

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    • greeng
      Pushing for Selection
      • Mar 2021
      • 84

      I must admit I didn't believe that the club would give Luke Parker another 4 years, but I'm very happy with the decision. The club has rewarded a true and loyal champion who has put his body on the line and spilt blood time and time again for the Sydney Swans. Cant wait to get back to the SCG and see "Lukey" lead the team out in 2022. Cheers.

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      • dejavoodoo44
        Veterans List
        • Apr 2015
        • 8497

        That contract should see him become a member of our 300 game club, along with Goodes, Bolton, McVeigh, O'Loughlin and possibly Kennedy.

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        • Markwebbos
          Veterans List
          • Jul 2016
          • 7186

          My message was from the very shouty LUKEPARKER. Fantastic news, even if I worry about giving him 4 years.

          SEN is reporting (Sam Edmund) that “Sydney is trying to re-sign Luke Parker, Dylan Stephens, Jordan Dawson, Sam Reid, Matthew Ling, Callum Sinclair, Hayden McLean, Ben Ronke and others." I'm surprised at several of those names

          Sam Edmund's trade update on Tom Mitchell, Sydney and Dylan Shiel rumours

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          • i'm-uninformed2
            Reefer Madness
            • Oct 2003
            • 4653

            Oh, and by the way, in relation to the earlier Tom Morris story that Dawson was poised to leave which was in contrast to the even earlier Tom Morris story that Dawson was poised to stay.

            The chief peddler of the 'Swans are stooging Parker with a two year deal worth four half pennies and a stale can of coke', was none other than Tom Morris.

            Amongst the Melbourne media clan due to line up, stick their head in the toilet, and flush again and again and again, Tom needs to be at the front of the queue. And no toilet duck for him.
            'Delicious' is a fun word to say

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            • KSAS
              Senior Player
              • Mar 2018
              • 1770

              Originally posted by Markwebbos
              My message was from the very shouty LUKEPARKER. Fantastic news, even if I worry about giving him 4 years.

              SEN is reporting (Sam Edmund) that “Sydney is trying to re-sign Luke Parker, Dylan Stephens, Jordan Dawson, Sam Reid, Matthew Ling, Callum Sinclair, Hayden McLean, Ben Ronke and others." I'm surprised at several of those names

              Sam Edmund's trade update on Tom Mitchell, Sydney and Dylan Shiel rumours
              This is the same Sam Edmund who only this morning on Whately's SEN program, casted doubt whether Luke Parker will be re'signing despite talk of previous few days that it was on the verge (most likely referring to.Gérard Healy).

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              • mcs
                Travelling Swannie!!
                • Jul 2007
                • 8149

                Originally posted by dejavoodoo44
                That contract should see him become a member of our 300 game club, along with Goodes, Bolton, McVeigh, O'Loughlin and possibly Kennedy.
                A good run with injuries should see him a really good chance to end up outright 2nd on our most games played list. Still fancy he could last a season or two past 2025 too (will still be only just 33 when that contract ends).
                "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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                • KSAS
                  Senior Player
                  • Mar 2018
                  • 1770

                  And oh, Sam was also almost certain Hewitt would be heading to Carlton because contract talks hadn't taken place yet. He went to explain the reason for our tight cap is due to.Buddy $900k next year, Mills & Heeney contracts being heavily back ended to 2023/2022 respectively. He also.queried why we haven't extended McDonald's & Campbell's contracts as yet, when most of last year's top 10 picks have already done so. Thinks that might be another issue looming retaining our yoing guns due to our tight cap.

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                  • Aprilbr
                    Senior Player
                    • Oct 2016
                    • 1803

                    I wonder if Luke getting something like the deal he had been seeking all along means that they have decided to allow someone else to go elsewhere thus enabling them to find the additional cap money? Another possibility is that someone else has re-negotiated their existing contract to free up some cap space for the next year or two?

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                    • snajik
                      Senior Player
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 1115

                      Originally posted by i'm-uninformed2
                      Oh, and by the way, in relation to the earlier Tom Morris story that Dawson was poised to leave which was in contrast to the even earlier Tom Morris story that Dawson was poised to stay.

                      The chief peddler of the 'Swans are stooging Parker with a two year deal worth four half pennies and a stale can of coke', was none other than Tom Morris.

                      Amongst the Melbourne media clan due to line up, stick their head in the toilet, and flush again and again and again, Tom needs to be at the front of the queue. And no toilet duck for him.
                      To me his constant insidious rumourmongering infers underlying motives. I ask myself what does he have to gain from all this scuttlebutt? Remember when he was crowing about Ben King definitely joining his brother at The Saints? This is not journalism. This is not news.

                      And what an annoying prat. The kind of guy you dread getting caught with at a party.

                      Over on the other side of the coin...... fantastic news re Luke. A Swans legend already. Though I never thought he'd be going anywhere else. He'd look daft in different clobber.
                      Last edited by snajik; 8 September 2021, 01:15 PM. Reason: swaps
                      It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play violin. That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
                      The Scarlatti Tilt - Richard Brautigan

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                      • Markwebbos
                        Veterans List
                        • Jul 2016
                        • 7186

                        I did hear Sam say words to the effect that, the problem this year is that when player managers ring up other clubs to make offers to players to push their deals with their current clubs up, they can't find any clubs willing to do that. It's that blatant that most of the talk about other clubs is a negotiating tactic.

                        I'd be amazed if we signed every player on the list: Stephens, Reid, Ling, Sinclair and Ronke (which notably omits Hewett). I presume there are some lowball offers being made right now.

                        Anyway, Parker done, onto Dawson.

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                        • mcs
                          Travelling Swannie!!
                          • Jul 2007
                          • 8149

                          Originally posted by Markwebbos
                          My message was from the very shouty LUKEPARKER. Fantastic news, even if I worry about giving him 4 years.

                          SEN is reporting (Sam Edmund) that “Sydney is trying to re-sign Luke Parker, Dylan Stephens, Jordan Dawson, Sam Reid, Matthew Ling, Callum Sinclair, Hayden McLean, Ben Ronke and others." I'm surprised at several of those names

                          Sam Edmund's trade update on Tom Mitchell, Sydney and Dylan Shiel rumours
                          Just demonstrates how .little Edmund knows. He has just thrown in a bunch of random off contract players to try and make the situation look a whole lot worse than it actually is.
                          "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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                          • i'm-uninformed2
                            Reefer Madness
                            • Oct 2003
                            • 4653

                            Originally posted by snajik
                            To me his constant insidious rumourmongering infers underlying motives. I ask myself what does he have to gain from all this scuttlebutt? Remember when he was crowing about Ben King definitely joining his brother at The Saints? This is not journalism. This is not news.

                            And what an annoying prat. The kind of guy you dread getting caught with at a party.

                            Over on the other side of the coin...... fantastic news re Luke. A Swans legend already. Though I never thought he'd be going anywhere else. He'd look daft in different clobber.
                            What does he have to gain? Keeping a job, which is no care and no responsibility, in which he gets to big note himself by pretending to be 'in the know', and his mummy gets to see him on TV and be proud of her son for 'having made it'.
                            'Delicious' is a fun word to say

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                            • mcs
                              Travelling Swannie!!
                              • Jul 2007
                              • 8149

                              Originally posted by Aprilbr
                              I wonder if Luke getting something like the deal he had been seeking all along means that they have decided to allow someone else to go elsewhere thus enabling them to find the additional cap money? Another possibility is that someone else has re-negotiated their existing contract to free up some cap space for the next year or two?
                              Maybe. I however consider the more likely situation was the club and player were much closer to agreeing then the media nonsense being bandied about (I don't for one second believe we only offered a 2 year deal), and that it was more just some final negotiations to agree between player and club, then such negotiations being overly reliant on the fate of other players.

                              I don't suspect that applies however for Dawson, Stephens and Hewett. Although I strongly suspect the club made the call quite a while ago that Hewett was going to be the unfortunate definitely out the door.
                              "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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                              • Auntie.Gerald
                                Veterans List
                                • Oct 2009
                                • 6474

                                i think from what I have seen Ling has the skills like Dawson did in his first few year in ressies etc

                                Dawson had to build the tank and defensive game and the extra time in a lower pressure env like Ressies and match sim helped tremendously

                                No doubt Ling maybe encountering a similar trajectory of development

                                Ling is extremely crafty and quick off the mark

                                I would keep him if he is up for the challenge at the right price
                                "be tough, only when it gets tough"

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