Buddy Franklin Appreciation Thread

[BigAl3001]

Buddy was never any good until he got to Sydney. Only now is he fulfilling his potential. It's the swans premiership to lose. They are by far the greatest team in the history of Australian Rules Football.

 

[Autobahn]

Clearly underpaid. Worth 2m a year at least.

 

[Burgarama]

He's been a gun for the last 8 years. Nothing new.

Recent hype is just a $ydney $wans fap-fest.

 

[the_interloper]

Still I reckon his best effort was his 100 in 2008 (and no, i'm not talking about goals).

 

[Back Pocket Rocket]

An absolute gun! Still pissed we only got pick 19 for him whereas Collingwood get pick 11 for Dale freaking Thomas!

 

[Syd]

An absolute gun! Still pissed we only got pick 19 for him whereas Collingwood get pick 11 for Dale freaking Thomas!

Then think of it as getting 19 number 1 picks rolled into one

 

[djboonie]

Sad he chose to leave us.

Bud, genuinely draws supporters to the ground, and onfield he draws 2 opponents leaving the other forwards with one less to contend with. Irreplaceable as a footballer in terms of the influence on the team, whether it be directly or indirectly.

I think he's playing with more freedom at Sydney than he did under Clarko at Hawthorn.

I laughed on the weekend when I walked past a reject shop that had about 50 "Buddy Balls" in the entrance....

 

[MF]

Why are we only appreciating the guy now. You do realise he's played some pretty awesome footy for the last 9 or so years don't you??

Guy is a gun, plain and simple. As much as it pains me these days, the bloke can turn a game like few others.

Probably because every man and his dog were jumping over each other to sink the boots into him after 4 games, telling us that his best was far behind him and that he'd be nothing more than an overpaid Kozi.

 

[MF]

Buddy was never any good until he got to Sydney. Only now is he fulfilling his potential. It's the swans premiership to lose. They are by far the greatest team in the history of Australian Rules Football.

It takes a big man to admit that.

 

[Hawkinspired]

Everyone seems to have such a short memory. Buddy has always been a gun and to suggest that this season is his best is mystifying. We all know he was played out of position last year and he suffered statistically speaking, but was still a vital player for Hawthorn. Just having a quick look, his average stats in all key areas such as goals, marks, disposals and tackles over the 2010-2012 period are better than what he has done this year. Even contested marks and marks inside 50 are down compared to the above mentioned period.

 

[DV2000]

He seems to have got some consistency into his game. Looked out of sorts at the beginning of the season and people started jumping on board the critique train, the in the last couple of months he has gone to another level. He is blessed with speed and is so agile. He is also a great mark, he is a big unit and has a magical (not to mention lethal) boot. He has been critisied for his innacurate kicking - and rightly so (he kicked 6 behinds in one half of footy a few weeks ago), but hwne he gets that many shots at goal, it simply doesn't matter - he still ends up kicking a bag. He has inproved his goal-kicking accuracy over the last few weeks as well, including a very neat 6.2 against the Blues. His best could possibly still be ahead of him - Richo nearly winning a Brownlow towards the end of his career comes to mind. There is no doubt that Buddy is one of the reasons why the Swan have been so good this year, he is such a match-winning player. Add him to an already star-studded lineup consisting of Josh Kennedy, Kieran Jack, Kurt Tippet, Ted Richards, Adam Goodes, Jarrad McVeigh, and the results are no surprise.

 

[DV2000]

Still I reckon his best effort was his 100 in 2008 (and no, i'm not talking about goals).

What are you talking about then? Looks like no-one got your joke...

 

[Xtreme]

Probably because every man and his dog were jumping over each other to sink the boots into him after 4 games, telling us that his best was far behind him and that he'd be nothing more than an overpaid Kozi.

He is a knee injury away from screwing up Sydney's salary cap for the next 9 and a bit years

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I just love the way he goes about it

Me too. I'm loving the sheer exuberance.

Loved him at the Hawks, loving him at the Swans.

 

[MF]

He is a knee injury away from screwing up Sydney's salary cap for the next 9 and a bit years

Nah, apparently the AFL will just bail us out if that happens. We're all sweet, mate!

 

[msb77]

Why are we only appreciating the guy now. You do realise he's played some pretty awesome footy for the last 9 or so years don't you??

Guy is a gun, plain and simple. As much as it pains me these days, the bloke can turn a game like few others.

Yes of course he did play awesome footy with the hawks, but only this year obviously being a swans supporter that watches him every week, have I sat back and thought this guy is just bloody awesome. If he can take us all the way this year who would care what happens for the next 8 years?

 

[blue harvest]

Clearly underpaid. Worth 2m a year at least.

That's pretty much what he's getting in the final wash up.

 

[lmach]

He's not bad.

Doesn't have the potential of a Jarrad Waite.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

It is a bit odd how people are only appreciating him now, tbh.
Has been a champion since 2008, and regularly won games off his own boot, yet I'd read bigfooty weekly and there'd always be some dimwit calling him 'duddy', saying he was inconsistent, didn't work hard enough and wasn't a great forward because he didn't take contested marks.

The strangest part about this year though is that he's hit a good patch of form, and the media are jumping up and down like he's doing something new.

 

[MARK In TIME]

It is a bit odd how people are only appreciating him now, tbh.
Has been a champion since 2008, and regularly won games off his own boot, yet I'd read bigfooty weekly and there'd always be some dimwit calling him 'duddy', saying he was inconsistent, didn't work hard enough and wasn't a great forward because he didn't take contested marks.

The strangest part about this year though is that he's hit a good patch of form, and the media are jumping up and down like he's doing something new.

I think the 2014 version of buddy hysteria was formed on the basis low expectations set. The first month every man and his dog was calling him overrated and over-paid, giggling into their cornflakes about the shithole the Swans got themselves into.

His time at Hawthorn however, was mostly in the afterglow of that 2008 season which set expectations incredibly high. Good luck to any player trying to live up to a season like that.

Same sort of Buddy, but different public expectations.

 

[MilhouseVsEvil]

You are an idiot if you think people are only appreciating him now. What I see... is a lot of Sydney fans who were told they were getting a broken shell of a player voicing their excitement.

 

[RUNVS]

He is starting to look right in the Swans guernsey. It took a few months before he stopped looking weird in Swans colours (at leas to me).

 

[Upgrayedd]

Still doesn't look right.

He goes ok. As someone pointed out He's no Dale Thomas, Only worth pick 19.

 

[Rushed_Behind]

he no longer seems to have that floggo demeanor about him.

Very funny av. Keep up the good work.

Also you're right about his demeanour. He's more campaigner than floggo now.

 

[beta_condition]

I'm so glad, that famous blood culture has turned another club reject into a superstar