Sydney got Franklin because they offered more than Hawthorn could afford 100% fact. If it were Fremantle making him an offer we would have matched it and forced a trade, but Sydney had 1 million more in the cap.

You make it sound that Sydney basically handed over all the COLA to Franklin. I am not going to debate it because its not what you want ot hear, so why bother.

Yes yes we used all of our COLA on Franklin plus more.

. Clarkson has repeatedly said that we wanted to keep Kennedy but he accepted an offer we couldn't match for a fringe player (remember Sydney had an extra million that they could use to bring in a fringe player). We got a fair trade at the time based on his development level but had our hand forced as he wanted the 3 year deal we couldn't match.

Did you not fucken read the article I posted? Clarksons another one who has engaged in revisionism. Even his parents were disappointed at Hawthorn discarding him. There was no upper-hand tactic that the swans used, nothing of the like, JPK left for better chances. He could have easily ended up at any other club.

You're making shit up to save face that the hawks fucked up big-time with Kennedy. Your cognitive dissonance because of your beloved hawks is not allowing you to deviate from this narrative in your head and you want to blame the swans for it.

Also he was nearly immediately good at Sydney, not developed there he just couldn't get game time at hawthorn as he was behind a few players at the time.

The swans gave him the confidence to become elite, something that the hawks didn't. Yes he was behind all those mids, that's fact, but his confidence was shot at the hawks knowing he didnt have much of a future at the time. Read the fucken article, this is not bigfooty where you can make up facts to suit your argument, leave that shit over there please.