O’Keefe To Stay a Swan Now?

Eventhough in this day and age of the AFL Trading system and the fact that players move from club to club quite often, it still amazes me that a player can, during the trading period, tell his current club that he no longer wants to play there and wants to return home (which is fair enough) and then when a deal is not done just walk back in an say that he wants to stay now?

I am of course talking about the recent developments of AFL Player Ryan O’keffe and the Sydney Swans, where O’keefe wanted to be traded to a Melbourne based club so he could return to his home town. If he really wanted to return home sureley a deal would have been done? Now he has just signed a new 4 YEAR DEAL. Go figure.

I guess I am a bit more of a traditionalist where I would want to play with one club etc etc. There MUST be some ill feeling somewhere in that club, whether it be from coach Paul Roos to Ryan O’keefe or vice versa, although no one will admit to it.

“From our point of view there was never any animosity and he was never unhappy with the club,” Roos said.

Even more so from the playing group, how could they now be 100% sure that O’Keefe will be giving it his all for the Red and White? I know Brett Kirk is an outstanding captain and leader of men and will do his best to bring everyone together to acheive their one ultimate goal, a premiership, but deep down there will no doubt be some ill feelings somewhere along the line.

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