10 % into a Buddy plan.

[barry]

Are our midfield as goodas everyone thinks. Theyve been beaten like this before.

In 2014 we lost, to the midfield, game breakers in goodes and okeefe.

[Matt80]

You can't buy moments like these. My four year old son and I are eating pasta and watching Franklin YouTube highlights. After the goal of the year against Essendon in 2009my son said to me.

"I want to run as fast as Franklin so I can talk to him and run at the same time".

I don't know how to tell him that I had serviceable pace but not electric pace and his blood lines are not elite.

He is more likely to be an Issacc Heeney as he is blond and his old man is 184cm. I hope Heeney can have some good highlights so I can give my son a realistic player to follow.

[Untamed Snark]

Buddy is playing like a man who remembers how much he loves playing football. Lucky for us he also remembers how very good he is. :-)

[Rod_]

Hopefully the golden era can start in 2015 and we can run a long race.

Little bit of self assessment and motivation from our last game to better.

We did very well to be fit and in the GF. Just needed to turn up on the right day with the right game plan.

WE do need to adapt when the pressure is on. It took several years to break the Malthouse tackle pressure game plan. Seems that could have helped in 2014..

Anyway I digressed... buddy still gets a tick in 2014.

[annew]

Yes, very much so!

I agree with this statement and apologise for being the poster that sent the thread off course

[Go Swannies]

As the author of this thread, I am impressed on how far off topic we have gone.

In an attempt to save the intention of this off season banter... Do we agree that a 10 percentage chance Buddy is worth his contracted value based on first years assessment..
??????

Earlier this year it was said that in sheer money terms (extra membership, clothing, coverage, etc) it was said the return on investment would be paid off by the end of 2015 - earlier if the Swans won the Premiership. I presume being runners-up would fall somewhere between the two. The team's "failure" last weekend means that there will be a lot of Swans interest next year to see if we regroup. So, promotionally, the loss may have been a good move.

[Zlatorog]

As the author of this thread, I am impressed on how far off topic we have gone.

In an attempt to save the intention of this off season banter... Do we agree that a 10 percentage chance Buddy is worth his contracted value based on first years assessment..
??????

Yes, very much so!

[Rod_]

As the author of this thread, I am impressed on how far off topic we have gone.

In an attempt to save the intention of this off season banter... Do we agree that a 10 percentage chance Buddy is worth his contracted value based on first years assessment..
????

[Go Swannies]

How did News Ltd have the story? Probably because some Wags spend their spare time lunching and doing coffees with journalists and PR people.

I think it's far more likely that they have such empty lives (while waiting for their newspapers to fold) that they watch daytime television. Then it's just a matter of working out the spin and fiction at the next editorial meeting.

[Faunac8]

His partner Jesinta needs to keep her mouth shut
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I made the mistake of reading the rest of this thread before actually reading this
"Article" . Seriously folks one throwaway line results in so much feeling and comment by Swans supporters? It was accurate and it was funny and any wife girlfriend or supporter who took it as a malicious attack on anyone in particular needs to stop being precious.

[Go Swannies]

Liz, the point I was trying to make was that, despite the best efforts of the Telecrap and one person here I don't see any sign of WAG politics - and I'd be very dismayed if there was.

I'm much more interested in Buddy apparently being happy to live in Sydney, happy to be with Jesinta, and happy to play with the Swans. I'll be ecstatic if that all stays in place and Buddy, Reid and Tippo all get a press-season to work out how to play together under pressure (it worked great under the no-pressure Roos) - and that Goodes stem cell treatment means we see more of the Goodes we had at the end of the season rather than the cripple at the start. (Pre-season 2014 I heard the club doctors said his knee was bone-on-bone and it was unlikely he'd get to play a game.)

On paper we have the most dangerous forward line - we just need to see that used to best advantage.

I have had a lot of non-Swans friends say that they always thought Plugger was big till they saw him with Buddy. Alongside Adam Spencer he looked as big as a house but then he shrunk when Buddy arrived. Plugger does the better comedy line, though.

[Matt80]

So a thread about our greatest on-field asset (and riskiest signing) has degenerated into a thread about WAG politics?

I only responded to a story that another poster put on. It's linked to Buddy.

His on-field performance is linked to how things are going off the field for him

Wags can derail sporting success. The 2005 Ashes series being a case in point.

[Plugger46]

So a thread about our greatest on-field asset (and riskiest signing) has degenerated into a thread about WAG politics?

Tiresome isn't it?

[Matt80]

How did News Ltd have the story? Probably because some Wags spend their spare time lunching and doing coffees with journalists and PR people.

[liz]

So a thread about our greatest on-field asset (and riskiest signing) has degenerated into a thread about WAG politics?