History saids is doesn’t take long to rebuild a Wafl club.
Players come and go from all Wafl clubs .Over the summer months.
Swans need to try and recruit at least two ,2025.Afl listed players.Bigger bodied players.
A defender to replace Tony Notte.And a big fwd flanker of CHF.To straighten up our ball movement.
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Its been a long time sice SDFC were a consistant powerhouse in the WAFL GTRX..
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Thats just the clubs history Baz.
They have allways worked on a 15 or 20 year cycle.
Pop up in the finals in 2024.Then sink back to the bottom part of the ladder.
Like the did in the mid 70’s and early 90’s.
After the 1990 flag.
Historical evidence saids this is normal for Swans.
1961-65 under Bunton and Castledine
1980 - 1985 under Todd
1990-1992 under Todd again
2008-2010 under Dawson
Apart from those years its been mediocrity.
Our record in Grand Finals is pretty good if we make them
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I would say the 80s was the last time they had a good run as a power, mini revival 1990 and a one off in 2010.
GF strike rate is good, on the flipside my mob are shockers.
Thank you gtrxuone. Now I know - being competitive moving to rebuilding.
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Heard on radio might have been Before the Footy Jye Chalcrafts’ younger brother is heading over to join him. A taller version. Kade
Feature | Chalcraft Brother’s Forming Formidable Duo at Geelong https://share.google/utvwJNsgGGFCAmIW7
Cheers R&B. Looks like he could be a ready made replacement for Aidan Clarke. Hopefully the club will contact Michael Walters as well to see if he would be interested in a role , if not as a player, perhaps a coaching or mentoring job. I’m sure the young players would benefit greatly from his experience.
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Mike our returning AFL players and recruits havent worked out too well in the last 5-10 years.
True Danger. I thought Frank Anderson was a good recruit, a real leader, until that ACL injury finished his career. Chalcraft and Mclaughlan are excellent players and hopefully they hang around. Pasinis 2025 was destroyed by injury but fingers crossed he can come back stronger next year. Same for Luke Trew and Will Collins
Sonny has a real affinity with Swans being a premiership player and I reckon he would be great for the club in whatever capacity he worked in. Having said that I reckon the Dockers will line him up for a job, why wouldnt they? He is a legend of that club too
Pasini’s AFL career was non existent due to injury mikeh…some players are just very unlucky or simply cursed with injuries… looks like Pasini is both. Touch wood the young fella get’s a break…and literally not a bony one
Was more so talking about the likes of Yarran, Palmer, Crowley, Garlett, Simpson etc and then the likes of Boekhurst, Hughes who went elsewhere and were impactful.
Pasini and Collins are two shining lights but rarely on the park.