Mega Thread The Franklin Mint - All Buddy angst, rants, etc to go in here AND NOWHERE ELSE

[Furn2]

Statistically that was Buddy's worse game since 2009 with only 7 touches. In the previous 7 years at the Hawks he had less than 8 possessions only twice.

 

[Davo23]

Collingwood congrats, no longer the filth ,the most hated team to everybody else in the comp bar Collingwood supporters, Sydney now have that mantle ,cheat the salary cap to get Buddy ,underwritten by the AFL and have that self-righteous tosser so called "äustralian of the year" A.Goodes running around as if he is the next Nelson Mandela .

I don't get it - do you hate Sydney or not?

 

[nickrebellious]

Statistically that was Buddy's worse game since 2009 with only 7 touches. In the previous 7 years at the Hawks he had less than 8 possessions only twice.

Being reported that Phil Davis restricted him to this with a busted kidney.

 

[moginie]

Being reported that Phil Davis restricted him to this with a busted kidney.

Davis was obviously trying to emulate the stirling work done by Lonergan on him.

 

[Off The Couch]

Seems the key to besting him is to be injured - cannot count how many times I've heard and read how teddy had his leg amputated before the 2012 gf and still managed to get the better of buddy

 

[JustKickIt]

Seems the key to besting him is to be injured - cannot count how many times I've heard and read how teddy had his leg amputated before the 2012 gf and still managed to get the better of buddy

I heard it was both legs

 

[scout]

Dan Hannebery stacked the Merc.

Somehow, not so surprising.

 

[Off The Couch]

Dan Hannebery stacked the Merc.

Somehow, not so surprising.

At least it's a mate who can afford to fix it - wonder how hanners crashed it

 

[Goady138]

Dan Hannebery stacked the Merc.

Somehow, not so surprising.

From hand brakes In Kombi vans to AMG's.
Time for Hannebery to pull his head in if true.

 

[Gold Member]

Hannerbury source?

 

[scout]

Hannerbury source?

Story from the Swans.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-03-17/buddys-car-troubles

 

[JustKickIt]

Story from the Swans.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-03-17/buddys-car-troubles

Lucky he moved to Sydney otherwise the press would be.... oh

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Off the rails. Oh well, lay in that bed you made

 

[LuvMyHawks]

It seems Franklin might have lent a flash Mercedes to a friend who - according to the report in a Fairfax newspaper under the headline ‘Buddy’s big bang’ - promptly wrote it off.

Love that sentence...hehe

 

[Gold Member]

Well done Hanners.
Syddy's equalisation vigilante.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Seems the key to besting him is to be injured - cannot count how many times I've heard and read how teddy had his leg amputated before the 2012 gf and still managed to get the better of buddy

All you need to beat Franklin is a bit of heart. It doesn't matter if other parts of the body are injured. Just put your gutsiest player on Franklin, and he's mince meat. Andrew Ireland would be a very worried man at this stage, his decision to move heaven and earth to get Franklin is beginning look very risky indeed, and one which will severely hamper Sydney's recruitment for the next few seasons.

 

[mullumbimbyhawk]

scha·den·freu·de
ˈSHädənˌfroidə/
noun
noun: Schadenfreude; noun: schadenfreude

1. 1.
   pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.

Seems like an appropriate word for what many are feeling. I like many want Buddy to fail miserably at the swans and bring them down with him. It would be the best thing he could ever do and while he bangs supermodels,snorts coke, grows a beard and hangs out with hipster douchebags in Bondi I hope he can smile through it all. If the pressure of failure is too much for Bud just a quick glance at his bank statements should cheer him up

 

[killerspud]

QBE !?

He could have done HCF or Bupa

 

[arupist]

It would be the best thing he could ever do and while he bangs supermodels,snorts coke, grows a beard and hangs out with hipster douchebags in Bondi I hope he can smile through it all. If the pressure of failure is too much for Bud just a quick glance at his bank statements should cheer him up

Poor Buddy. Can't help but feel sorry for him.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Poor Buddy. Can't help but feel sorry for him.

That's my dream he's living. Minus the coke because I'm 9.8% better off it

 

[RUNVS]

At least it's a mate who can afford to fix it - wonder how hanners crashed it

Hannebery came from the side and David Hale drove hard into the back of him.

 

[Off The Couch]

Hannebery came from the side and David Hale drove hard into the back of him.

You hurting, lost - both

 

[Rioli magic]

Hannebery came from the side and David Hale drove hard into the back of him.

Hope you don't have any nightmares tonight!

What if the rumours are true? ...

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Funny how when buddy's mate welling ham got done for drink driving we heard for 2 yrs how it was franklins fault
Now, another mate of his gets into strife, you'd be ready to hear how it's his fault too....

Good to see we weren't being paranoid about the media hating us

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Buddy Useless: Has Franklin damned the Swans?

GWS Giants kicked six final term goals to record an historic 15.9 (99) to 9.13 (67) win over the Swans.

THERE are two ways of looking at the Sydney Swans’ shock loss to the Greater Western Sydney Giants on the weekend.

One is that the Swans were ambushed by a keener, hungrier team with everything to play for, that the wet surface didn’t suit the Swans, that three of their best players in Tippett, Goodes and Kieren Jack were unavailable, that every team has a bad day, that first round form is meaningless, and that big Buddy Franklin is still gelling with his teammates.

And then there’s the other way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it goes like this: This is all karma. And the Swans will never win a premiership while Lance Franklin plays in red-and-white.

$10 million bench warmer... not necessarily what the Swans had in mind when they inked the massive deal. Source: News Corp Australia



This is not to bag Franklin. Everyone has a bad day. Indeed, those who bag Franklin for his often sketchy set-shots conveniently tend to overlook the fact that the 196cm giant can boot them on the run from 60 metres.

That’s giant with a lower case g, by the way, not Giant with a capital G. Franklin could have been a giant with a capital G, but chose instead to become a Swan at the last minute, as we all know.

To be brutally frank, The timing of that deal, and the $10 million scale of it, seemed a little “unSwanslike”. Anyone who was there at the announcement last year will tell you it just had an air of unfamiliar arrogance to it.

The Swans are a team built on mateship, on guts, on all for one and one for all (words which are part of the Brisbane Lions club song but which always seemed to epitomise the Swans better than anyone).

This is a team which has pulled off the incredibly unlikely feat of forging a blue-collar, hard-working, famously dickhead-free identity in Sydney, the showiest of all Australian cities. That’s like opening a successful hotel without a casino in Las Vegas.

He’s down but hopefully not out yet. Source: News Corp Australia



Then the Swans go and get on the nose by recruiting Kurt Tippett at the end of 2012 in an acrimonious dispute with Adelaide. And then this Franklin thing late last year.

Meanwhile, the Swans head office continues to bleat and moan about losing the Cost of Living Allowance because, hey, obviously all Swans players are FORCED to live in expensive beachside apartments.

This club is still to be admired. The old South Melbourne “Bloods” culture, which Sydney mystifyingly ignored for many years, years before rediscovering it in the mid 2000s, lives on. Don’t forget their best player is Australian of the Year, and deservedly too.

Also, it’s not like this is the Swans’ first high-profile recruitment of a key forward.

They wouldn’t have won the flag in 2005 without having earlier recruited superstar Barry Hall, nor made the 1996 decider (and achieved legitimacy in Sydney) without snaring the services of Tony Lockett.

Well he boosts their profile in the social pages, that’s for sure. Source: Supplied



But this one feels a little different. After the way Franklin teased the Giants by almost signing with them, do you think maybe he’s cursed the Swans?

Last week was only one week, and the Swans will no doubt finish above the Giants on the ladder in 2014, but this is a debate worth having, don’t you think?

Hehe