Universal Love Dane Swan inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame

[SouthernPie]

Swanny was an absolute champion footballer, yet most of all I loved/love his salt of the earth personality, no BS and dry sense of humour. Simply one of a kind. Huge congratulations to him.

 

[VinnieB]

Legend

 

[Markfs]

throughly deserved honour....well done mick!

 

[SouthernPie]

Classic Swanny

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/dane-swan-has-crowd-in-hysterics-with-hall-of-fame-speech/video/557a31b52594125ec12ab0ccd28f27a8

 

[Mollythedolly]

Very well-deserved by Swanny.

A big congratulations to him

Dane Swan joins the Australian Football Hall of Fame

Collingwood congratulates 2010 Premiership player Dane Swan who has tonight been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

www.collingwoodfc.com.au

Fitting reward for a stellar career.

Only thing left for him to do is to start breeding. His parents deserve lots and lots of little Swanny grandkids.

 

[SouthernPie]

^ Molly, he's well on the way. He has a 3 year old son and year old twin girls.

 

[loki04]

A very different cat is our Swanny.
Even down to not wearing the required dress code.
Listening to him talk though you wonder how many players over the years have slipped through the cracks. Players who didn’t have the support within a club when they made mistakes.
He certainly took his second chance and made the most of it.
Deserved hall of fame member. Now for Collingwood to catch up.

Plenty usually though they don't get drafted at all. H
What clubs deem high risk types.

 

[loki04]

Congratulations Swanny well deserves absolutely a champion of not just Collingwood but the game.

Agree with others 2nd to Buckley as the best pie I've seen, Pendles 3rd and young Nick making a great start to one day join them.

 

[gouki88]

That 5-6 year peak of his was simply unbelievable. As good as any midfielder ever I'd say. Well earned

 

[Jatz]

Apologies if the intrusion isn't welcome but just wanted to say how well deserved this is.

I lost count of the number of ANZAC Day games he used to dominate, not to mention all those finals.

Fantastic player over the journey and it's good to see him recognised as such.

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

That 5-6 year peak of his was simply unbelievable. As good as any midfielder ever I'd say. Well earned

Agree.

His peak would be 2009-2013, but 2006-2008 and 2014-2015 was more than respectable.

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Fitting reward for a stellar career.

Only thing left for him to do is to start breeding. His parents deserve lots and lots of little Swanny grandkids.

He's got 3 kids including a set of twins. His eldest is a boy, the twins are girls.

 

[sideswipe]

Love Swanny, but his whole "I hated training, loved partying" is a bit overdone. You don't play 258 games, including 8 straight seasons of 20+ games, without doing a power of work.

 

[3066]

I just watched his acceptance speech.

OMG the GOAT speech. Geez that was so funny and sincere.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Love Swanny, but his whole "I hated training, loved partying" is a bit overdone. You don't play 258 games, including 8 straight seasons of 20+ games, without doing a power of work.

He’s the Rob Gronkowski of the AFL. Hates meetings but is an extreme competitor and is driven by playing and succeeding with his mates.

 

[WakeUpPies]

Absolutely unstoppable in his prime. Shame injuries forced him to retire early, I was certain he was going to finish his career as a 40+ goal forward.

 

[Mollythedolly]

He's got 3 kids including a set of twins. His eldest is a boy, the twins are girls.

I won’t be happy till his family ride is a Toyota Coaster.

 

[Kes1984]

^ Molly, he's well on the way. He has a 3 year old son and year old twin girls.

Girls
Shame not all boys!

 

[Kes1984]

He's got 3 kids including a set of twins. His eldest is a boy, the twins are girls.

Can we get Pete Daicos on babysitting duties?

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Can we get Pete Daicos on babysitting duties?

To teach them to play footy?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Girls
Shame not all boys!

AFLW draft Swan prospects.

Good thing to keep an eye on if and when the twins are draft eligible.

 

[Kes1984]

To teach them to play footy?

Absolutely!

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

Absolutely!

I wasn't sure where you were going with the babysitting duties..

 

[76woodenspooners]

He’s no “cunning linguist”. Well played Swanny. A great speech.

IIRC back in his playing days players used to challenge each other to somehow put certain words into their speeches or interviews and see if anyone noticed. That’s probably what happened here. Difficult one to hide.