Kurt Tippett to the Swans? **UPDATE: Tippett requests trade to Sydney***

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JJ Dillon says hello, and Brute Barnard wants to rip your bloody arms off.
George "The Animal" Steele was my fave, he used to bite the foam padding outa the turnbuckles. My dad and his mate took me to a live wrestling event in about 1973, at Gibson Park, Thirroul. Brute Bernard was there, I think Mario Milano and Spiros Arion, and of course tag-team champs Ronny Miller and Larry O'Dea ... good grief, how did we get on to this?
 

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You're all getting carded for dragging this thread off-topic. This is a very serious discussion, you know? I just want to find out the latest news about Tippett. Who's in charge on here, I must have a word with them.

;)


Previously on the tippett saga

The swans convinced tippett to agree to come to them and they tried to trade with Adelaide. Turns out Adelaide were cheating the rules and the trade fell apart. Now tippett might be in trouble in the mean time he is going to the draft mist likely, but we are waiting to see the outcome of the investigation.

Now tippett is off playing on the beach and gws are talking like they might pick him despite being the worst team ever. The worst footballer ever quit and they are hoping to use his mega bucks to pay Tippett, but Sydney are still keen.

Adelaide fans keep jumping at any rumour or thought they hear on radio and spread them here

Now you are up to date :p
 

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George "The Animal" Steele was my fave, he used to bite the foam padding outa the turnbuckles. My dad and his mate took me to a live wrestling event in about 1973, at Gibson Park, Thirroul. Brute Bernard was there, I think Mario Milano and Spiros Arion, and of course tag-team champs Ronny Miller and Larry O'Dea ... good grief, how did we get on to this?
Don't know, but they're good memories all the same and welcome diversion from other less important things
 
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That's chalmers 2.0

No way its true
This I agree with.

If he is already facing suspensions, fines and likely de registration, then no one in his camp or Tippett him would be so stupid as to even suggest this to another club because that would be worse than what he has already done.

My only problem it is Tippett, his family and manager so could be true. If so then let him retire
 

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George "The Animal" Steele was my fave, he used to bite the foam padding outa the turnbuckles. My dad and his mate took me to a live wrestling event in about 1973, at Gibson Park, Thirroul. Brute Bernard was there, I think Mario Milano and Spiros Arion, and of course tag-team champs Ronny Miller and Larry O'Dea ... good grief, how did we get on to this?
What a great memory. I loved watching "World Championship Wrestling" every Saturday. Who was the guy who came into the ring with the Kaiser helmet on?

I liked Ronny Miller and Larry O'dea (and of course Milano, you had to like Milano), but I think my favorite was Andre the Giant.
 

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It's 5AA who yesterday 'reported' that the AFL had agreed to go easy on Tippett if he agreed to join the Suns.
God I actually feel sorry for the Adelaide people.
They have Rucci, Cornes & Rowe feeding them bullshit day in day out, making stuff up that quite often contradicts what they 'reported' the day before.
I think the afl is quite capable of screwing up just about anything it sets its mind to. But I really cannot understand how or why they would do anything that impacts on which club selects Tippett in either draft. I know that he, his manager and the crows are in the gun for some form of penalties. But surely the last thing the afl want to be seen doing, while penalising kurt for draft tampering, is to be doing that very thing themselves.

I know they're incompetent from time to time. But surely they're not 'triggy' incompetent. Or have I missed an afl press release.
 

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What a great memory. I loved watching "World Championship Wrestling" every Saturday. Who was the guy who came into the ring with the Kaiser helmet on?

I liked Ronny Miller and Larry O'dea (and of course Milano, you had to like Milano), but I think my favorite was Andre the Giant.
Tiger Singh
 

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Kurt Tippett just wants to wear red and white and be a Swan
  • Jon Ralph
  • From:Herald Sun
  • November 03, 2012 10:10AM

DESPITE AN AFL INVESTIGATION IN SALARY CAP BREECHES, KURT TIPPETT IS STILL KEEN ON MOVING TO SYDNEY TO KICK GOALS FOR THE SWANS. PICTURE: GEORGE SALPIGTIDIS. HERALD SUN
KURT Tippett still wants to play for Sydney, despite the Greater Western Sydney push to pluck him from the Swans' grasp.
Yet even the Swans admit it will take something exceptional for the Adelaide forward to find a way to the reigning premiers in the national or pre-season draft.

Sydney has two realistic chances at procuring Tippett at the expense of GWS - the Giants are bluffing and will overlook him, or he puts a large enough price on his head that even Kevin Sheedy is scared off.

Sydney chief executive Andrew Ireland has been in regular contact with Tippett, who has identified the Swans as the only club he wants to play for.

But as Ireland said this week, given Sydney has only pick 23 in the national draft and the final pick in the pre-season draft, challenges lie ahead.

Some Sydney officials believe the club's hopes of drafting him are fast fading.

``We are hopeful. The reality is when you go to the draft and someone you want is in there, you have to hope the circumstances work out well if you are deep in the draft,'' he said.

``One thing we know is we can't control what other clubs do, we can only control our end. We are still hopeful and Kurt is still hopeful of playing for the Swans.''

Israel Folau's sudden rejection of AFL has less relevance to the Tippett deal than their determination to save some salary cap room for their clutch of high draft picks.

Coach Kevin Sheedy believes if the Giants can secure Tippett and fast-track their contention for the premiership it might off-set the salary cap room it takes up given the kids will want to stay.

Sheedy said yesterday Tippett was the prototype of the type of player he wanted to recruit.

``We would be derelict in our duty if we didn't talk to the young man,'' he said.

``We need a ruck/forward who would be handy for us. The Swans are after him, but we need a marquee player like that. Why wouldn't you want to come to our club?''

Tippett is more likely to put himself in the pre-season draft given there are fewer picks, but GWS has the first pick in that draft.

The Giants have five picks ahead of the Suns in the national draft - 1, 2, 3, 12, 13 - so could use any of those if forced to select him through that draft.
 

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Very unlikely hel make it past gws, I think theyl take him because they already have alot of first rounders and and he is the perfect age to bridge the gap till gws really starts being competitive
 
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