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Buddy Retires Effective Immediately

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A sad way to end a magnificent career. 
A generational champion and one of the best modern day forwards. 
 

On a selfish note, this is very good for us as we won’t have to deal with the emotions of the Buddy farewell in round 24

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    I’m really happy for Bud. He’s had a brilliant career, achieved it all, and now he can return to his true purpose as a footballing legend…

    Supporting the Dees.

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    2 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    A sad way to end a magnificent career. 
    A generational champion and one of the best modern day forwards. 
     

    On a selfish note, this is very good for us as we won’t have to deal with the emotions of the Buddy farewell in round 24

    It is selfish and I was thinking the very same thing.

    PS: selfish is always ok if it helps Dees.

    PPS: what a great player, he was a Dees fan as I recall. Well done Buddy.

     

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    Great player. Sad he doesn't get a farewell game, but he did have the joy of experiencing the fanfare around his 1000th goal last year.

     

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    One of the best players to watch in full flight, wish him the best.

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    I reckon a lap of honour before the rd 24 game. Hopefully his retirement doesn’t inspire the swans for that game.

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    No more chit-chats with Maysie in the goal-square. 🙁

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    18 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    It is selfish and I was thinking the very same thing.

    PS: selfish is always ok if it helps Dees.

    PPS: what a great player, he was a Dees fan as I recall. Well done Buddy.

     

    I would say ‘self interest’ is more appropriate than ‘selfish’. Selfish is more like personally gaining something to the detriment and/or denial to others. Morally questionable.  Self interest is like expressing desire for preferred advantage and/or outcome. Like it’s not selfish to want a horse to win a race or conversely to want it to lose. Anyway Buddy is without doubt the greatest superstar so far of this century. 

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    An extraordinary career, but became a dirty player as he became older.  I am still getting over the corky he gave Trac in the Qualifying Final last year.  Effectively ended our season. Trac had to play through a deep corky in both finals, lost his explosive speed.  In my opinion Buddy purposely went for the injury.  

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    What a legend - one of the great of the AFL.

    And somehow, despite all the stardom over the past 20 years, seems to be a grounded nice person.

    Kicked over 50 goals in a season 13 times. 

    Received 186 Brownlow votes and over 20 votes 4 times (should have won at least 2)

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    3 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Hopefully they organise a lap of honour and all the ceremonial stuff for their next SCG game against GC rather than our game. 

    I think we all know for sure they will save it for the last round against Melbourne  🙉

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    Amazing career.

    One of the greatest spearheads the game has ever seen and we're all better for having seen him play. 

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    A true legend, who captivated lovers of our great game with his on-field feats, regardless of their team allegiance.

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    A great player. However, his retirement is overdue. Later years we have witnessed a great player succumbing to the law of diminishing returns. His individual value and his value to the team has declined. Indeed, I think the game plan and development of the team has not been helped with his presence and regular absences with chronic injury. In the old days he would be long gone. But the inducement to keep playing has been influenced by money and marketing revenue. Yes, a great player whose value has diminished significantly over recent years. His best years were his Hawthorn years but now a fading memory. 

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