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On reflection, and reading the various reports, this whole thing has been a long time in the planning. Now, taking that as a given, what we have is a situation where the best interests of the club aren't being considered by Buddy and his management in any way. Firstly, strung us out with a week to make the best of it. Secondly, and most damning, the whole scenario has been constructed in such way that Hawthorn loses everything i.e. a cynical 150 year deal that basically Hawthorn would be insane to match. The Swans gain everything, we lose on face value.
So I say to you people who are magnanimous about Buddy leaving, or can 'understand it', from a list management/trading perspective, think again. The guy has thrown us under a bus. We cannot expect to get anything barring some crap compensation for this, unless something extraordinary happens. If he loved the club and wanted the best for us and his fellow players, this could have been brokered an entirely different way.
It's the very definition of a self-serving deal from both Buddy and the Swans. And as for the Fat Controller, your legacy continues to grow. Frack off to the tennis job or whatever role you're now going to slide into now you've placed your indelible stamp on the game.
So I say to you people who are magnanimous about Buddy leaving, or can 'understand it', from a list management/trading perspective, think again. The guy has thrown us under a bus. We cannot expect to get anything barring some crap compensation for this, unless something extraordinary happens. If he loved the club and wanted the best for us and his fellow players, this could have been brokered an entirely different way.
It's the very definition of a self-serving deal from both Buddy and the Swans. And as for the Fat Controller, your legacy continues to grow. Frack off to the tennis job or whatever role you're now going to slide into now you've placed your indelible stamp on the game.
I get your emotion, mate, but Buddy is no genius, he's not capable of planning something.
He's just a dumb footballer.
He doesn't think or care about anyone or anything, he just does stuff: that's what makes him an instinctive footballer.
In his second year, he was banished to Box Hill for 10 weeks for something, which was never revealed. I suspect he probably just fooled around and they punished him to teach him a lesson.
He would have just said "I want to live in Sydney and have a good time with my mates".
Pickering would have then got it done.
I hate it, too but what can you do?
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