Bin Chickens have wasted Buddy’s best years playing a boring ■■■■ style of football that nullified his strengths, not enhanced them. Now he’s completely cooked and he’s still owed $3.8 Million over the next 3 years. That figure might change if contracts are proportionately reduced by whatever percentage the cap may drop by next season, but still that contract now is a poisoned pill on Bin Chickens.
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Tom Morris suggesting Budwah’s hammy is it’s 4-6 weeks at least.
The bloke’s 33, any hamstring strain at that age would be at least 4 weeks I’d have thought. Not exactly shooting for the scoop there is Tom…
Bunnings for buddy
As an owner?
I’ve always thought of him as one of those gormless teens that work there that don’t know one end of a spanner from the other.
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I don’t think they’ll improve until they bite the bullet and retire Franklin. It’s been years since he was at his best. He can still do the occasional freakish thing, but they’re becoming rarer and rarer.
The problem he creates is that he’s such a big, assertive player, that when he’s on the ground the whole team tries to play through him, and he’s simply not capable any longer of being the dominant player on the ground. They need to recognise that, retire him, swallow whatever salary pill that entails, and set about developing a game plan that doesn’t have him in it.
I like Sydney. I think they’re an honest team with a good culture. They made a massive mistake signing Franklin to that ridiculous contract (and the South Australian as well, whose name I forget). They need to put it behind them and start from there.
This year, about the same as last year.
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they won 2012 with Mumford.
lost 2014 (smashed) & lost 2016 grand finals with Buddy and Tippett so could say splashing the cola cash didnt work…
imagine not working at your workplace and knowing you still have 3.8 mil coming your way the next few years on workers comp
the ultimate stitch up
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who the fark is this club you call ‘Sidnee’. Farkin call them by their proper name - the bin chickens…or just the chickens for short…or if you want a change call them the post rooters.
better still don’t even talk about them. I hate 'em.
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By any measure it didn’t work. Not even commercially. However many bandwagon jumping flogs got on board hasn’t improved their financial position such that they don’t need to go cap in hand to the AFL like 3/4 of the competition.
The only way Buddy was going to extend his career past 30, and make it to 36 was to lose a lot of weight, progressively each year until he finished up like a greyhound, thereby reducing stress on his joints and soft tissue.
He has failed to do that. His body cannot take the massive stresses any more. He is farked. They might as well put him on a diet now, write off $1.4M and rebuild him for next year so they can get some value for the $2.4M they still need to pay him .
When is Sam RRRRRRRRRREID! not injured?
He was originally from Queensland.
When players like Buddy are winning matches off their own boot, the massive pay gap is almost tolerable to other players. But surely by now the fact that he cannot get on the park, but still gets his ~$1.3M while he whiles away his time in the rehab group is going to be a bit of a cancer at their club.
Even more so, given the same scenario in the Tippett debacle ( although its hard to pinpoint andy games that Tippet ever won them off his own boot) .
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Yep Tippett left the crows to go home, like Ryder left EFC to go home 
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Because the only thing that maters to players is money. I reckon after spending 10 minutes with L FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFRANKLIN!, you’d be begging for a selfie and offering to wash his car.
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Franklin wouldn’t let you touch his car for fear of finding the half empty baggies in the glove box.
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What would we find in your glovebox?..
Users manual, service book and an old broken air freshener. There was a pair of my wife’s socks in there until the other day when I removed them.
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nothing exciting
- manual/service books and recent vehicle service receipts
- first aid supplies (bandaids) and hand book
- maybe some pins
- sunscreen
- old pair of sungalsses
- some lose coins