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    In 219 games Buddy has never played in Geelong. How spooky is that?

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    On a slightly unrelated topic...A friend in Perth informs me that some pundit at a Perth radio station insists that Franklin is leaving the Swans at end of season...for GWS....Because of salary cap stuff...AFL denies it to this particular reporter...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Plugger46 View Post
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    To be fair, they weren,t looking to play on at all the week before. It was obviously a direction that had come down from on high
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swans500 View Post
    On a slightly unrelated topic...A friend in Perth informs me that some pundit at a Perth radio station insists that Franklin is leaving the Swans at end of season...for GWS....Because of salary cap stuff...AFL denies it to this particular reporter...
    Seriously???

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    On a slightly unrelated topic...A friend in Perth informs me that some pundit at a Perth radio station insists that Franklin is leaving the Swans at end of season...for GWS....Because of salary cap stuff...AFL denies it to this particular reporter...
    lol. Because of the contract, we'd have to pay out most of his salary under the cap in a lump sum anyway, so offloading him would be WORSE for the salary cap.

    Do people not even bother trying to go for accuracy in the rumours they make up any more?

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    Quote Originally Posted by desredandwhite View Post
    lol. Because of the contract, we'd have to pay out most of his salary under the cap in a lump sum anyway, so offloading him would be WORSE for the salary cap.

    Do people not even bother trying to go for accuracy in the rumours they make up any more?
    If he retired we would. If he moved to another club and they took on his whole contract, we wouldn't have to pay anything. Alternatively we could agree to pay a portion of his cap for the length of his contract with the other club.

    Regardless, Buddy ain't going anywhere. There can be little serious question about whether he's worth the money we're paying him, either in terms of his onfield impact or his crowd pleasing and pulling capacity. I doubt the salary cap issues are anything like as bad as outsiders seem to want to paste, but if the cap were a little tight, there'd be half a dozen or so pretty well paid players that the club would be willing to offload before the notion of Buddy even entered the conversation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bloody Hell View Post
    To be fair, they weren,t looking to play on at all the week before. It was obviously a direction that had come down from on high
    Probably but the Eagles shut us down at every opportunity and pinned us in our defensive 50.

    Personnel changed and the Crows did a fairly handy impersonation of witches hats. Much easier to go up the middle when there's minimal pressure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swans500 View Post
    On a slightly unrelated topic...A friend in Perth informs me that some pundit at a Perth radio station insists that Franklin is leaving the Swans at end of season...for GWS....Because of salary cap stuff...AFL denies it to this particular reporter...
    What complete and utter rubbish, would be a bad move for both clubs.

    With the new TV deal the salary cap should explode in the years Buddy's contract is at its highest. We have taken a calculated punt on the new TV deal and I think it will pay off

    I doubt he will even be the highest paid player in the club by the end of his contract and he certainly will just be on a stadard A List Player contract even at $1.8M per year.

    Blokes like Dangerfield and Fyfe will be in similar deals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swans500 View Post
    On a slightly unrelated topic...A friend in Perth informs me that some pundit at a Perth radio station insists that Franklin is leaving the Swans at end of season...for GWS....Because of salary cap stuff...AFL denies it to this particular reporter...
    So not going to happen.
    Nice rumour though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swans500 View Post
    On a slightly unrelated topic...A friend in Perth informs me that some pundit at a Perth radio station insists that Franklin is leaving the Swans at end of season...for GWS....Because of salary cap stuff...AFL denies it to this particular reporter...
    Buddy will go where Jesinta tells him to go to and after the bikini shots I saw in the paper this week, that's fair enough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Al View Post
    Buddy will go where Jesinta tells him to go to and after the bikini shots I saw in the paper this week, that's fair enough.
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    Selwood plays his 200, Lukie plays his 100 and we share a banner with the Cats at their suggestion. I think that was a really good suggestion. I don't rate the Cats. Think they are a bottom 8 side. They will get worse next year when a few of their experienced players retire.

    We would do well to blood a newbie this week with Buddy out.

    We have the choice of either Hewett or Davis. Of course we could play Robbo, Towers or Jones. BJ can't sub again and in this team I can't see him as anything but sub. I definitely wouldn't play Mitchell sub, nor Lloydy and Goodsie will be needed forward.

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