After a season which included a mid-year slump, Sydney proved to be the most successful club in the competition, until it got to the Grand Final where a disturbing trend of failure in the ultimate game again appeared.
John Longmire as a coach has an enviable record of making the finals in 12 of the 14 years he was at the helm. It was, however, 2012 when he won his last premiership and since then the Swans have been to the well in the “big one” three times and returned home empty-handed after performances that did not do justice to their form throughout the year.
Longmire announced his retirement on 26th November, so it will be up to the new coach Dean Cox to arrest this trend that has prevented Longmire from claiming a higher ranking amongst the best coaches of all time.
Top 100 Game Players Lost: 2
There was very little activity in Sydney during the trade period, their leading current player Luke Parker (No.5) was traded to North Melbourne to finish out the remainder of his illustrious career and Sam Reid (No.46) eventually conceded to his injuries and retired.
Top 100 Game Players recruited from other clubs: 0
Sydney recruited no players during the trade period.
Current Top 100 Game Players: 10
Sydney is still well placed with experienced Top 100 game players spread throughout the rankings: Both Dayne Rampe (equal No.11) and Jake Lloyd (No.13) are Top 20 game players, Harry Cunningham (equal No.33), Isaac Heeney (No.36) and Tom Papley (equal No.43) are Top 50 game players and the remaining five are all outside the Top 50.
Sydney’s Tom Papley. (Photo by Matt King/AFL Photos/via Getty Images)
Potential Top 100 Game Players in 2025: 1. It is likely that only James Rowbottom will make it onto the elite list in 2025.
Players no longer qualified for Top 100 Game Status: 2
William Williams – nearly 80 years after his debut in 1945 – is now ranked outside the Swan’s Top 100 game players of all-time.
Williams gave the (then) Bloods great service winning three Best & Fairest (1946, 1947 and 1950). He is still ranked No.33 on the Sydney Top 100 goal kickers list.
Martin Mattner played 98 games for Adelaide before moving to Sydney in 2008 and still ranks No.64 at the Crows. He played 124 games for Sydney, now not enough to be regarded as elite, and this highlights how much higher the bar to entry is at the foundation clubs.
Top 100 Goalkickers lost: 2.
The same two players lost from the Top 100 game players list, Luke Parker (No.21) and Sam Reid (No.32) are also lost to the goal kicking list.
Top 100 Goal Scorers recruited from other clubs: 0.
Current Top 100 Goal Scorers: 7.
Tom Papley (No.12) and Isaac Heney (No.15) are both ranked inside the all-time Top 20 whilst Will Hayward (equal No.26) is a double centurion but all the others: Logan McDonald (equal No.78), Chad Warner (equal No.94), Hayden McLean (No.97) and Joel Amarty (equal No.99) are lowly ranked. Amarty sits in the hot seat with three others.
Potential Top 100 Goal Kickers next season: 1
It seems highly likely that Errol Gulden will join the elite next season.
Players no longer qualified as Top 100 Goal Kickers:
Both players who no longer are included on the Top 100 list at Sydney were dual-club players: from 1984 until 1987 Paul Hawke played for Sydney, averaging one goal in every game he played. In 1988, he moved to Collingwood and gave excellent service for two years but in 1990 (Collingwood’s premiership year) he was unable to make the senior side. He returned to Sydney in 1991 but played only one more senior game.
Stuart Magee, born in Belfast Ireland in 1943 came to Australia at the age of eight and played his first game of VFL/AFL for South Melbourne in 1962. He was dumped by the club at the start of the 1968 season and moved to a more successful career at the Bulldogs where he still ranks No.83 for games played and equal No.79 (with current player Tim English) for goals kicked.
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