The year after Paul Kelly retired a Testimonial Dinner was held in his honour. It was well deserved; honouring the Club's longest serving captain, a Brownlow medalist, four times Club B &F, and the greatest player to have ever played his entire career in the state of New South Wales. (Cyncially and quietly speaking, they are also very good fund raises).
I strongly advocate to the Swans Board that in 2010 the club has a Testimonial Dinner for Michael O'Loughlin, (subject of course to whether or not Micky would want one himself).
This is the guy who came to the club from South Australia in 1994 as a very shy, skinny teenager.
He went on to become (we hope) the first player in the club's 135 year history to play over 300 senior games. (With Adelaide's Andrew McLeod, he'll become only the second indigenous player to achieve this with a single club). He also played the most Finals in the Swans' history, was twice All Australian, and won a B&F in 1997, (he was desperately unlucky not to also win in 2000, when he was pipped at the post by Andrew Scauble). And he's behind only the legendary Bob Pratt for the most goals kicked in club history.
Surely this bloke deserves the honour of a Testimonial Dinner.
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