Rumour Jordan Lewis: Clarko's fumbling prompted Franklin to leave for Sydney

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I already knew this story, so I think it's been told before? Gibbo had to convince him to come down to the lobby and meet with Clarko.

Another observation though, Warrnambool wouldn't be proud of Jordan Lewis anymore. Those glasses, the toupee, the natty blazers. Yuck.
 
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Story was that Bud and the boys got into a bit of strife after a bender in LA.
 
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I already knew this story, so I think it's been told before? Gibbo had to convince him to come down to the lobby and meet with Clarko.

Another observation though, Warrnambool wouldn't be proud of Jordan Lewis anymore. Those glasses, the toupee, the natty blazers. Yuck.

Not sure Wbool were proud of him after him and his mates belted the s**t out of a bloke just before he got drafted.
 

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I think Jordan is the one with the Clarko problem not Buddy. He thought he was pulled into a meeting to be made captain but was basically told to find another club. Buddy achieved everything he could have with us, was offered way more money and security at Sydney and it offered him a lifestyle that he found appealing - it was nothing to with a dislike of Hawthorn or Clarko.
 
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Jordan Lewis is definitely still dirty about getting the arse.

Melbourne FC is often the tipping point unfortunately, look at Lumumba.
 

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Jordan dislikes Clarkson intensely after being told he didn't have a future at the Hawks when he was expecting to be given the captaincy. That and the fact he's always been a Kennett man (even having his bucks night at Kennett's house).

Lewis got another 3 years out of his career, when I doubt he would have had more than 1 at Hawthorn but instead of embracing it the way Hodge/Birchall etc have, he remains bitter about the whole thing.
 

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Sydney were into him all year I remember Andrew Ireland said it on Open Mike.
Franklin had already made a decision to leave long before that he had success wanted to set himself up for life $$

Lewis has issues with Clarko for them telling him they no longer wanted him.
 

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The story of Clarkson going to Vegas to meet Buddy was at the end of the 2012 season.

True, but the story that was in the HS a year or two ago told how Pickers was shocked when, less than a handful of days after the 2012 GF they lost to Sydney, Buddy told him that he wanted to move there after the2013 season when his contract expired
 
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