Mega Thread Buddy Franklin moves to Sydney

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Those Melbourne clubs you speak of can't blow an obscene amount of money on the player you have - hence the initial complaint that the COLA needs to be removed and the AFL should never have allowed this horrendously poor decision to have been made.

Would one of those clubs unable to blow an obscene amount of money be Melb who after being fined $500k for tanking then received a $2.7m bail out by the afl and within a nanosecond signed Roos for a contract reputedly between $ 4.5 to $6m over three years (if he takes the third year option) as the highest paid coach in the AFL?

I guess if COLa saves the AFL bailing the Swans out every three years it's cheap compared to what it costs them in Victoria.
 

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Oh FMD....

If I made the industry equivalent of the ass-hat decision to recruit Franklin at the expense they have - I'd be gone. Simple.

Making categorical statements based on assumptions and guesses is a sure fire way to lose your job.

Fact, you have NFI what Franklin's contract does or does not include.
Fact, you have NFI about what the Swans administration plan to do with list management.
Fact, despite not being in command of the FACTS you still claim to know better than the Swans administration.

It doesn't matter if you are the CEO of BHP, you are just guessing and judging by your reasoning it is not even an educated guess.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 

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If the AFL scrapped GWS, GC and Sydney tomorrow, and Brisbane for good measure and the TV rights were adjusted accordingly the AFL would probably come out cash positive.
The reason the last tv deal was so good was due to the fact that advertisers now have a game every weekend in all major markets being Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and SE QLD. That is the reason tas missed out. Not enough viewers for the advertisers and TV and Foxtel. If Sydney or qld were to fail the TV rights deal would fall and so would the revenue to the traditional state clubs down south. That is the business case that built the last tv deal and the reason the expansion clubs were brought in. It is all part of the master plan of the commission.
 

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Plus even without COLA your team can win more then two flags in 70 years ;)

Says he who's club has won one and one only in its miserable failure filled history.:rolleyes: It was 72 years to be exact btw, but it's been 48 years now for you so I wouldn't mind betting you will surpass 72 years with a leg in the air to be honest. After all, with your future looking as rosy as it, another 24 years is a mere formality don't you think ? Keep blowing wind up the Hawks **** as it is about as close as you will get to a premiership.:rolleyes:
 

cinderella man

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Making categorical statements based on assumptions and guesses is a sure fire way to lose your job.

Fact, you have NFI what Franklin's contract does or does not include.
Fact, you have NFI about what the Swans administration plan to do with list management.
Fact, despite not being in command of the FACTS you still claim to know better than the Swans administration.

It doesn't matter if you are the CEO of BHP, you are just guessing and judging by your reasoning it is not even an educated guess.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

LMFAO at some of the peanuts from other clubs that profess to know all this.:rolleyes: What is even more hilarious is it comes from supporters from clubs that have bigger problems than Barack Obama currently has and you think they would be best served worrying about their own rabble of a club than anything remotely to do with Sydney.

Hawthorn supporters of course are exempt from this summation especially the inference of being rabble but we all know what their motive is don't we ?
 

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Making categorical statements based on assumptions and guesses is a sure fire way to lose your job.

Fact, you have NFI what Franklin's contract does or does not include.
Fact, you have NFI about what the Swans administration plan to do with list management.
Fact, despite not being in command of the FACTS you still claim to know better than the Swans administration.

It doesn't matter if you are the CEO of BHP, you are just guessing and judging by your reasoning it is not even an educated guess.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Fact, he has NFI.
 

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Says he who's club has won one and one only in its miserable failure filled history.:rolleyes: It was 72 years to be exact btw, but it's been 48 years now for you so I wouldn't mind betting you will surpass 72 years with a leg in the air to be honest. After all, with your future looking as rosy as it, another 24 years is a mere formality don't you think ? Keep blowing wind up the Hawks **** as it is about as close as you will get to a premiership.:rolleyes:


People in glass houses mate...

Remember that your club was forced to relocate to avoid dissolving. St Kilda may not have been hugely successful on field, but at least they are still a footy club, not a franchise that was moved to keep it alive
 

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I wonder if signing Buddy is really a good list management decision.

They have lost Mumford, their first ruck.

White, Everitt & the retired Bolton will all go from their PF side.

When you view the net losses and gains, their depth is gone and they don't have the salary cap space to recruit a first ruck.
 
I wonder if signing Buddy is really a good list management decision.

They have lost Mumford, their first ruck.

White, Everitt & the retired Bolton will all go from their PF side.

When you view the net losses and gains, their depth is gone and they don't have the salary cap space to recruit a first ruck.

These are the Swans players outside of their best 22:

Membrey (0 games)
Cunningham (6 games)
Lamb (12 games)
Armstrong (29 games)
Towers (0 games)
Lockyer (0 games)
Robinson (0 games)
Marsh (0 games)
Jack (9 games)
Naismith (0 games)
Richards (1 game)
Biggs (3 games)

Those players in bold will be good players in the future. But overall they have no depth and no experience at all outside of the Swans best 22 going into 2014.

The Swans best 22 is actually very good, their depth however...
 

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I wonder if signing Buddy is really a good list management decision.

They have lost Mumford, their first ruck.

White, Everitt & the retired Bolton will all go from their PF side.

When you view the net losses and gains, their depth is gone and they don't have the salary cap space to recruit a first ruck.


Don't forget our new recruits for round 1 2014.

John Alexson, Ram Seid, Neville Jetta, Adam Goodes, Thomas Lewis Robertson.

Add Kurt Tippett & Tom Mitchell & Buddy to those that didn't play the PF side.

Looking good hey?
 

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These are the Swans players outside of their best 22:

Membrey (0 games)
Cunningham (6 games)
Lamb (12 games)
Armstrong (29 games)
Towers (0 games)
Lockyer (0 games)
Robinson (0 games)
Marsh (0 games)
Jack (9 games)
Naismith (0 games)
Richards (1 game)
Biggs (0 games)

Those players in bold will be good players in the future. But overall they have no depth and no experience at all outside of the Swans best 22 going into 2014.

The Swans best 22 is actually very good, their depth however... hmm not so good. :oops:
Biggs played the last game against the Hawks & two finals.
A future gun with composure under pressure!
 

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John Alexson, Ram Seid, Neville Jetta, Adam Goodes, Thomas Lewis Robertson.

I wouldn't be pinning too many hopes on Goodes.

He is 34 & he couldn't play one single game onwards Round 12 due to a major knee issue. Still can't even play.

Johnson had a second knee reconstruction and won't return until the middle parts of the year.

It's rather flimsy.

Injuries are a given in football and Sydney have questionable depth.
 

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