Im targetting sylvia and garlett to use up buddys freed up salary
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Steven Tyler
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By the end of the year nearly every club will " throw their hat in the ring" for Buddy, especially if their season isn't going well
"We need to kick a bigger score, we need a quality KPF, who can we target"?
"Anh, imagine if we could get Buddy, our forward line would improve and our membership will go through the roof"
I don't think GWS Freo and West Coast will be on their own in being mentioned
I would have thought reporting clubs that arent interested in Buddy would be bigger news than those who are. heck Me the only club that would be dumb enough not to have look would be Melbourne as they already have an incredible fwd line with Dawes, Clarke, Howe and Byrnes
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Sheesh thats a scary forward line. Especially when you consider they can throw Watts and Sellar forward if they need to as well.
Buddy will sign Easter Monday morning bringing an avalanche of Hawks supporters to the G and and like an irresistible force we will brush the Cats aside. My take on the conspiracy side of things.
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His price is rising by the day.
buddy laughing to the bank
buddy laughing to the bank
ShaKespeare, It is too heavy for him already..
He can't carry it, probably already asked Shady to carry it for him..
He can't carry it, probably already asked Shady to carry it for him..
Has anybody noticed that there is not one pic of Buddy in the Hawks Nest catalogue? Maybe the club already knows he won't be there next year..mmmmmm...strange
Oh well, I have probably jumped to the conclusion..
Oh well, I have probably jumped to the conclusion..
arupist
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Why so much angst? FFS he hasn't left yet and may never leave!
Even if he does head off elsewhere, the Hawks will still be around and still in contention.
Even if he does head off elsewhere, the Hawks will still be around and still in contention.
Taskmaster
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Does Bud realize that if he goes to Great Waste of Space (GWS) he is going to have to get his own ball and play every position on the ground. Cause he will be going from all class, to all crap! Good luck Bud!
Bud will have his best season yet, win the Coleman, win a premiership and stay at Hawthorn! So get stuffed Sheedy, you w***er!
Bud will have his best season yet, win the Coleman, win a premiership and stay at Hawthorn! So get stuffed Sheedy, you w***er!
Sheedy must have noticed his name wasn't in the news for an entire week.
Glasgow Hawk
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Has anybody noticed that there is not one pic of Buddy in the Hawks Nest catalogue? Maybe the club already knows he won't be there next year..mmmmmm...strange
Oh well, I have probably jumped to the conclusion..
I don't think he has ever been one of our "models" not in recent times anyway.
Usually all the Buddy stuff is overpriced memorabilia
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I won't hate him if he leaves but i will not be able to watch him if goes and i am not sure if i will ever forgive him for crushing my 6 year olds heart.But i am still hopeful he will not abandon the mighty Hawkers.
cryptor
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If he goes we'll just have to accept that that is the way the AFL is going now. He would not be the first big name player to leave a club for big money and he certainly won't be the last. We certainly aren't going to only ever lose big name players through FA and again assuming he does leave we need to look at the bigger picture and that is that we remain a big, strong club that is an attractive option for other FA players AND we would then also have ~$1million free in the salary cap.
And who knows, if GWS or Freo do steal Buddy away by offering him ridiculous amounts of cash there's a reasonable chance they may be regretting it a few years down the track when Buddy in his older age may begin to lose his greatest strengths (speed and agility tend to be the first things to leave older players) and they're still paying him a huge chunk of their cap. Those 6 week hamstring strains are also only going to get worse with age...
Then again, Buddy could (and likely will) be the best KPF right up until he retires at age 30+
And who knows, if GWS or Freo do steal Buddy away by offering him ridiculous amounts of cash there's a reasonable chance they may be regretting it a few years down the track when Buddy in his older age may begin to lose his greatest strengths (speed and agility tend to be the first things to leave older players) and they're still paying him a huge chunk of their cap. Those 6 week hamstring strains are also only going to get worse with age...
Then again, Buddy could (and likely will) be the best KPF right up until he retires at age 30+
grizzlym
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I'm more likely to play at GWS than Buddy is.
You sure have more hope than me grizz.
spudmaster
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Playing the bugle doesn't count, Grizz
grizzlym
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Playing the bugle doesn't count, Grizz
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Something Derm said last year regarding Cloke really struck a chord with me.
He was talking about the slightest drop off, team-wise, as a result of the Cloke contract issue hanging over the playing group. The point he was making was that if there was a little bit of a resentment by just a couple of players... with them thinking he was holding the club to ransom, or playing out time until he could move on, that their mind would not be completely right and there would be a miniscule drop off, mentally. Nothing huge - just one or two percent.
But in the context of close games, that one or two percent could cost you. I've given it thought since I heard it, and wondered just how much it cost Collingwood last year. Overall, they were nowhere near the team they were in 2011. I wonder how much of that was upstairs. Would hate to see that happen to the Hawks... but I'll never really know if it has.
He was talking about the slightest drop off, team-wise, as a result of the Cloke contract issue hanging over the playing group. The point he was making was that if there was a little bit of a resentment by just a couple of players... with them thinking he was holding the club to ransom, or playing out time until he could move on, that their mind would not be completely right and there would be a miniscule drop off, mentally. Nothing huge - just one or two percent.
But in the context of close games, that one or two percent could cost you. I've given it thought since I heard it, and wondered just how much it cost Collingwood last year. Overall, they were nowhere near the team they were in 2011. I wonder how much of that was upstairs. Would hate to see that happen to the Hawks... but I'll never really know if it has.
grizzlym
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I think you make some good points. I guess, a counter might be that Buddy looks like he's matured as a footballer. he's primed for a cracker of a year - so perhaps we could just see a stellar year from him that more than compensates. But yes, it's certainly something you'd want sorted, if not publicly, at least behind closed doors before the season is too far in.
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grizzlym
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What makes you think he's going anywhere?
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What else is there to say? We lose Buddy, we get nothing! Zilch! NADA!
There is no good place for Buddy to go. If we traded him last year, then we would have received a mint for him.
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What makes you think he isn't going anywhere?
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