Tom Mitchell

[YvonneH]

Maybe Tom Mitchell? I hope not.

[royboy42]

Does it really matter? - he’s an All Australian 8 times and is still playing-if Rance can get it last year why not Buddy. The team is an honorary one. All the carry on that Hurn/Hern should have got it do you think he will end up with 8 AA’s? Probably not and it was his first AA. With all the media carryon this year I’m surprised that Tom “I touch it 40 times,not all that effectively though” Mitchell wasn’t made captain. I just hope Max Gawn gets the Brownlow.

Mitchell must have stood on a few toes in Sydney when I wasn't watching.
I'm happy to say I believe he is a champion already, and will become an all time great.

[Wardy]

Mitchell must have stood on a few toes in Sydney when I wasn't watching.
I'm happy to say I believe he is a champion already, and will become an all time great.

It was the interview he and the other Hawthorne Princess Jaeger O’Meara did prior to the firs5 game against hawks this year. he was nothing short of petulant - had a massive dig at the Swans saying he didn’t agree with the selection process etc felt he deserved better - such entitlement!! The thing is I never thought that he ever really put in for us. And his heart certainly wasn’t with us in 2016. That’s why I don’t want him to get the Brownlow - I’d love it to be Max Gawn.

[sidswan]

Mitchell must have stood on a few toes in Sydney when I wasn't watching.
I'm happy to say I believe he is a champion already, and will become an all time great.

I will be most upset if he gets the Brownlow, I agree with Wardy, he comes across as an arrogant little twerp and very disdainful of the Swans.

[Bloody Hell]

It was the interview he and the other Hawthorne Princess Jaeger O’Meara did prior to the firs5 game against hawks this year. he was nothing short of petulant - had a massive dig at the Swans saying he didn’t agree with the selection process etc felt he deserved better - such entitlement!! The thing is I never thought that he ever really put in for us. And his heart certainly wasn’t with us in 2016. That’s why I don’t want him to get the Brownlow - I’d love it to be Max Gawn.

He had 64 touches and kicked 4 goals in the ressies. He was playing NEAFL the next week.

I'd be annoyed.

[royboy42]

I say nonsense to the sense of entitlement. He WAS entitled. As I said, he must have stood on toes. And if he has spoken about not getting a fair go?? Well, I totally support that attitude. I don’t believe he did.

[Wardy]

You can say nonsense all you like - like you I have an opinion so we Agree to disagree - what ever happened to “No “I” in team”? Still didn’t think much of him then - couldn’t care less now - not that he’ll lose any sleep over it. NO ONE IS ENTITLED TO ANYTHING IN THIS LIFE!!! The sooner some realise that the better off the world will be.

[royboy42]

I say nonsense to the sense of entitlement. He WAS entitled. As I said, he must have stood on toes. And if he has spoken about not getting a fair go?? Well, I totally support that attitude. I don’t believe he did.

Looks as if the 742 players who voted for MVP have a pretty good opinion of him as well..Congrats Tom.

[royboy42]

You can say nonsense all you like - like you I have an opinion so we Agree to disagree - what ever happened to “No “I” in team”? Still didn’t think much of him then - couldn’t care less now - not that he’ll lose any sleep over it. NO ONE IS ENTITLED TO ANYTHING IN THIS LIFE!!! The sooner some realise that the better off the world will be.

Of course , I respect your opinion, Wardy. You have been here a long time and talk an enormous lot of sense. We may not agree on this one, but that hasn't happened often.
I think we drift apart on 'entitlement'. I see being allowed to say he thought he was badly done by was legitimate, simply cos I think he was.
I don't see that as a sense of entitlement. Just a very good player unhappy about his talent not being recognised, and having the ticker to say so.
And I wish he was running out against GWS next week.

[AnnieH]

You can say nonsense all you like - like you I have an opinion so we Agree to disagree - what ever happened to “No “I” in team”? Still didn’t think much of him then - couldn’t care less now - not that he’ll lose any sleep over it. NO ONE IS ENTITLED TO ANYTHING IN THIS LIFE!!! The sooner some realise that the better off the world will be.

TESTIFY!!!!
I blame the parents of this generation who think they are entitled to just about everything - they are my contemporaries and they need to be smacked in the face!!
Sorry... as an aside...

[liz]

He had 64 touches and kicked 4 goals in the ressies. He was playing NEAFL the next week.

I'd be annoyed.

By the time he left us, he had been a permanent fixture in the senior team for two seasons. The days of him being stuck in the NEAFL were well in the past. The reasons were given at the time - he'd had a few injury interruptions and there were doubts over his fitness.

I didn't see/read the interview that Wardy refers to, so can't comment around the context/tone of whatever he said. But it does see weird to me that if he was still upset about events from three years earlier.

There certainly doesn't seem to be any warmth towards the Swans from Mitchell, for whatever reason. Compare that to JPK, who always talks well about the Hawks whenever relevant, despite spending less time there, and playing far fewer games and achieving far less, than Mitchell did at the Swans. Yes, I realise there is still a very strong family connection between Kennedy and the Hawks, but there was some family connection too for Mitchell and the Swans.

That's Mitchell's prerogative, but it's not hard to understand why (some) Swans fans would then feel less fondness towards him than we do towards some other ex-Swans now making their way at other clubs.

[Plugger46]

By the time he left us, he had been a permanent fixture in the senior team for two seasons. The days of him being stuck in the NEAFL were well in the past. The reasons were given at the time - he'd had a few injury interruptions and there were doubts over his fitness.

I didn't see/read the interview that Wardy refers to, so can't comment around the context/tone of whatever he said. But it does see weird to me that if he was still upset about events from three years earlier.

There certainly doesn't seem to be any warmth towards the Swans from Mitchell, for whatever reason. Compare that to JPK, who always talks well about the Hawks whenever relevant, despite spending less time there, and playing far fewer games and achieving far less, than Mitchell did at the Swans. Yes, I realise there is still a very strong family connection between Kennedy and the Hawks, but there was some family connection too for Mitchell and the Swans.

That's Mitchell's prerogative, but it's not hard to understand why (some) Swans fans would then feel less fondness towards him than we do towards some other ex-Swans now making their way at other clubs.

Spot on. Sick of hearing that he couldn't get a game and he left to play senior footy. Complete crap. He played 45 games in a row before he left.