yeah, preseason. Depth when it matters. too slow, turning circle of a truck.
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LukeParkerno1
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Since when do players deserve send off games? Shaw has barely played 150 games for the club. Whilst he is fantastic at his best, this send off game thing is silly. You can do the same thing giving him a lap of hour before the game. That said, I hope he recaptures his form, he is critical.
At some stage he'll be overtaken for his spot in the team and be nice if he was able to foreshadowed it as his last game. I as a fan of Okeefes since debuted would of liked to attend his final game if I knew it was going to be his last game.
Since when does me hoping he gets better treatment a statement that long serving players are owed it?
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LukeParkerno1
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I just hate send off games. As a fan I would rather see the person not play, get a lap of honour and the bloke who would replace him the following season play. I don't see the need for a send off game, and I didn't see the need for one for O'Keefe. He had a send off game in the NEAFL anyway. I just hate gifting games to players at the end of their career especially when we are a top 4 side.
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And that's fine that you feel that way, I like them and not for nothing but do you think OKeefe couldn't have been serviceable enough for a send off game last year especially when we obviously rested players against Richmond late in the year anyway?
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LukeParkerno1
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Depends wasn't Okeefe in the NEAFL final on the same Day? Just remember reading that somewhere that's all.
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But you can't give a send off game to a player who hasn't announced his retirement. Sure he could of played that Richmond game, but as he was still planning on playing in 2015 elsewhere at that stage, so either he was playing for a spot in the team or we were retiring him before he had come to the decision himself.
When he retired in the week leading up to the Prelim Final he was given the lap of honour of the ground. Not much more we could of done when he was as non committal on the issue of retirement as we were giving him a proper send off.
Saying that we have only given "send off games" when we have missed the finals. Most of the time the players we are sending off are still in the team and we have been knocked out in the finals, thus no need for such games.
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I recall Mark Bayes getting a send off game where we played finals but he got one in Round 22 at home. Was a nice touch. Think Stevie Wright got one as well. Probably those days are gone unless you know you can't make the eight.
The fact about Okeefe not decided on retirement is a good one though from memory it was all but confirmed he wouldn't be playing with swans in 2015(correct me if I'm wrong) so Richmond game still plausible as last game at swans.
Don't disagree on the logistics of it in a finals bound team, just like the sentiment.
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Hi everyone,
I am undertaking a PhD and am on the search for some data, specifically player positions. Most of this info is easily accessible however, finding player positions for players drafted in the early-mid nineties and who either didn't play a senior game or didn't play many has proven quite difficult!
I am using quite broad positional categories (mid, fwd or def) and while many players are moved around various positions I am looking for the position where they spent the majority of time. Please see below a list of Sydney past players who I need positions for. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Courtney
(Sorry if I have posted in the wrong section!)
Rose, Brett
Bell, Matthew
Burton, Paul
Cole, Anthony
Collins, Mark
Goldup, Adrian
Griffin, David
Hall, Dale
Stanislaus, Brian
Strooper, David
Donnelly, Andrew
Gaspar, Darren
Gorman, Glenn
Griffin, Daryl
Heuskes, Adam
Luff, Troy
Mangin, Stuart
Myles, Dion
Parthenides, Emil
Robinson, Scott
Smith, Shayne
Spinks, Jason
Thompson, Ashley
I am undertaking a PhD and am on the search for some data, specifically player positions. Most of this info is easily accessible however, finding player positions for players drafted in the early-mid nineties and who either didn't play a senior game or didn't play many has proven quite difficult!
I am using quite broad positional categories (mid, fwd or def) and while many players are moved around various positions I am looking for the position where they spent the majority of time. Please see below a list of Sydney past players who I need positions for. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Courtney
(Sorry if I have posted in the wrong section!)
Rose, Brett
Bell, Matthew
Burton, Paul
Cole, Anthony
Collins, Mark
Goldup, Adrian
Griffin, David
Hall, Dale
Stanislaus, Brian
Strooper, David
Donnelly, Andrew
Gaspar, Darren
Gorman, Glenn
Griffin, Daryl
Heuskes, Adam
Luff, Troy
Mangin, Stuart
Myles, Dion
Parthenides, Emil
Robinson, Scott
Smith, Shayne
Spinks, Jason
Thompson, Ashley
grimlock
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Gaspar - def
Heuskes - def
Luff - def and fwd
Spinks - fwd
Not familiar with any of the others sorry.
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Thank you very much for your help!
Heuskes -strange, but had talent
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Adam's Special Cross-over Drill
Sydney Morning Herald
Friday September 20, 1996
LISA OLSON
Why does Adam Heuskes swan around in a feather boa and fishnet stockings? LISA OLSON investigates.
HE ALREADY knows what he'll buy once he inks that new six-figure contract. Some pearls, probably just one strand, maybe not even real. Adam Heuskes doesn't want anything flashy or ostentatious. Just classy, and fun.
Until then he'll keep toeing the line, doing whatever it takes to keep his employers happy. After all, he doesn't want them to think he's weird or anything. He got his hair cut nice and choir-boy neat solely for that reason. It used to be long and grungy blond and everyone called him Fabio. Before that he had an outline of the Opera House stencilled on the back, and his No 39 on the side, which not so coincidentally once belonged to his hero, some shy and retiring bloke named Warwick Capper.
Now Heuskes just wants to blend in. He hardly ever wears his pink netball skirt and fishnet stockings anymore. Well, sometimes he puts them on when he has a date, but that's just so he can gauge the reaction on the poor girl's face when she comes to the door. If she blanches, she has to ride in the car with all the dead fish.
The scary part isn't wondering what the city of Sydney will do if the Swans capture the Australian Football League premiership. It's imaging what their young defender will do to celebrate. Walk down George Street wearing only a jock strap? Done that. Get a tattoo? Got two already, one on his back depicting a fairy sitting in a sunset - "It brings out my feminine side," he says - and a Puma on his pectoral, which he rubs when he needs a dose of testosterone.
His other hero, the bloke who used to date Madonna, often shows up at functions dressed in sequined halter tops, feather boas, mauve eye shadow and real pearls. Heuskes thinks that's perfectly wonderful. If he ever becomes to Australian rules what Dennis Rodman is to basketball, Heuskes hopes to be as outrageous and colourful in his own unique way - despite the fact that Tony Lockett has threatened to squash him if Heuskes dares come anywhere near Plugger while wearing a frock.
"Dennis Rodman is mad, and he doesn't care what anyone thinks of him," Heuskes says. "I'm a bit like that. Americans love Rodman for being different. In Australia you're never supposed to stand out, which is pretty sad if you ask me. I'm different, no question. If I was big enough and good enough, I'd be just as mad, absolutely."
Give the lad time, maybe a year or two, to harness all that madness and parlay it back into footy. He's only 20, and already Swans coach Rodney Eade says he has seen Heuskes blossom from "a total idiot" into an intelligent, hard-working, effervescent player who soaks up information like a sponge and then puts it to good use.
And to think it was only earlier this season when Eade told Heuskes to go jump in a lake. The Swans were in Melbourne, having played North Melbourne the night before. Before flying home they were to train at 9 am, beginning with a run around Albert Park Lake. As the team stretched and struggled to stay warm in the freezing mist, barely able to see their own breath because of the fog, a taxi pulled up and out rolled Heuskes, dressed in the same clothes from the previous night, smelling like he had been frolicking in a vat of VB.
Heuskes couldn't understand the fuss. He was there, he was feeling mighty fine, and he was on time. It was 8.58 am.
"I pointed to the lake and said he should dive in, maybe it would sober him up," recalls Eade. "It was half in jest, but the imbecile jumped in anyway. It was about minus three degrees. You should have seen his eyes light up. He hasn't done anything like that since."
Heuskes's choices these days have more of a conservative bent, at least on the field. He has heeded Eade's advice and cut out the tricks. Instead of making the creative pass, he makes the safe one. Instead of frolicking in a vat of beer before a game, he waits till after. Instead of jumping into a lake to sober up, he jumps in to work on his fitness.
Recruited from South Australian club Norwood three seasons ago, Heuskes's contract expires after this season. Port Adelaide is keen to sign him, along with several other clubs. First they'll have to fight off the Swans. Heuskes is high on their wish list. In an organisation that places the development of young players as its top priority, the Swans see Heuskes as a future leader.
They love the fact that he trains hard, never misses a meeting and is always the first to raise his hand when it comes to visiting schools or sick kids in hospital. Barely 48 hours before tonight's preliminary final against Essendon, Heuskes was holding a footy clinic, showing kids from West Ryde how to handball.
More than anything, though, they love the vitality and edge he brings to life. As a kid growing up in MacLeod, Victoria, Heuskes's parents taught Adam and his sister Katrina to take every second of every day and turn it into something fun. Adam hasn't let them down.
At a time when the pressure surrounding the Swans is so palpable you can practically squish it between your hands, Heuskes's energy is infectious. At training this week he ran around the SCG oval singing Sweet Transvestite to his teammates. When Lockett limped on to the field to take a few kicks, Heuskes belted the chorus from You're Unbelievable. Plugger gave Heuskes a look that could have melted stone, then his veneer cracked and out came a smile.
Heuskes has been known to sing to opposing forwards, whispering tunes from The Rocky Horror Picture Show just as the guy is about to take a mark or try a kick. "Anything that would put them off," Heuskes says. "And with my voice that doesn't take much."
And Swans backman Paul Roos says every time Heuskes walks into the change room "it's like show and tell. You wonder, 'What now?' We're past the point of considering him strange. He's gone way beyond that."
Strange? Just because he puts on garters and suspenders almost every Friday night and goes to watch and participate in The Rocky Horror Picture Show ? Because he once put a live rabbit in a teammate's boot? Because when Sydney reserve player Dion Myles opened up his box of Kentucky Fried Chicken, there were two live mice at the bottom, and when one jumped on Myles's shirt and clung to it as if it had found a new home, Heuskes was the one in the corner, laughing hysterically?
Because he showed up at the Swans' end-of-the-year, black-tie function a few years ago as bald as a cue ball, and when he won the Best First Year Player Award, he thanked Telly Savalas for giving him inspiration? Because he is obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, and his bedroom is filled with scrapbooks and posters and even swap cards of her likeness?
No, that's not strange. Strange is getting up before the sun and going to the fish markets and buying the nastiest bunch of mackerel ever spawned. For months Stefan Carey couldn't work out why his old, grey car reeked so badly. Then he started finding rotten fish in odd places - a head in the boot and gills under the battery, and there was even a place in the door where the upholstery had been ripped apart, filled with mackerel, and then sewn back together again.
"I'm a little scared to look in Adam's closet," says Carey, a ruckman who lives with Heuskes and Myles. "Who knows what is lurking in there? I haven't quite caught him in girls clothes where it wasn't explainable, but I'm sure that's coming."
Indeed it is. Carey has barely taken a second bite of his cornflakes when Heuskes walks out of his bedroom, draped in a feather boa, his neatly-pressed netball skirt, black thigh-highs and Swans cap. As Carey chokes on his breakfast, the phone rings. It is Eade, calling with some last-minute game instructions.
The coach tells Heuskes who he will be playing on, then asks him how he's feeling. Did he get enough sleep? Is he eating right? And what, by the way, is he doing right now?
"Um, I'm wearing stockings and a skirt and vamping like Marilyn Monroe," Heuskes responds. Somewhere, from far, far away, we hear a faint thud coming over the wires. Does anyone have some smelling salts?
Last week the boys got some bad news. It has been a wild year, with so many reasons to celebrate, and now they are being evicted from their Maroubra flat. The landlord, clearly a Swans fan like everyone else in this city, has agreed they can stay through the next two weeks, as long as they don't get too out of hand.
Heuskes stretches his face into the picture of innocence and smooths his choirboy hair. Him? Out of hand? His plans are tame compared to what they used to be. Haven't you heard? He's toeing the line, keeping his employers happy. And if that means getting Plugger's mind off his injured groin, Heuskes is happy to oblige.
"I'll have to get him out cross-dressing with me, maybe let him borrow some of my fishnet stockings," he says, and the twinkle in his eyes show that he is absolutely serious. Maybe. Probably. We think. Who knows? In the strange and mad world of Adam Heuskes, anything and everything is possible.
© 1996 Sydney Morning Herald
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Brett rose Think he was a midfielder/hb flanker.
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