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2006 Sydney Swans season

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Home ground
  
SCG

Finals series
  
Runners up

Leading goalkicker
  
Barry Hall (78)

Coach
  
Paul Roos

Pre-season competition
  
First round

Best and Fairest
  
Adam Goodes

Start date
  
2006

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Captain(s)
  
Barry Hall, Brett Kirk & Leo Barry

Similar
  
2006 NAB Cup, 2006 AFL season, 2016 AFL season

This article covers the 2006 season of the Sydney Swans AFL team.

Contents

News

For the full text of these news items, see SydneySwans.com Club News

  • 30 September 2006: The Sydney Swans go down to the West Coast Eagles in the Grand Final by only one point.
  • 25 September 2006: Adam Goodes wins his second Brownlow Medal with 26 votes, 3 votes ahead of Scott West of the Western Bulldogs.
  • 22 September 2006: Sydney win the 1st Preliminary Final by beating a plucky Fremantle 19.13 (127) to 14.8 (92) at Telstra Stadium, and will now play for the 2006 AFL premiership at the MCG on 30 September, against the West Coast Eagles.
  • 9 September 2006: Sydney win their qualifying final by beating West Coast at Subiaco, gaining a week off and a home preliminary final.
  • 8 September 2006: Jared Crouch admits he was playing with a chronic ankle injury, a broken collarbone, along with hamstring and lower back problems
  • 31 August 2006: Swans defender Tadhg Kennelly will wear the red and white for a further three seasons
  • 11 July 2006: Paul Williams announces he needs season ending shoulder surgery. With his previous announcement, he is now retired after 306 games and 306 goals with Collingwood and Sydney
  • 1 July 2006: Jared Crouch's unbroken run of games from his debut in 1998 comes to an end due to injury (and does not play for the rest of the season)
  • 21 June 2006: Paul Williams announces he will retire at the end of the season after 16 seasons playing first for Collingwood and then Sydney
  • 8 March 2006: Tadhg Kennelly injured his shoulder at training and will miss the first two or three weeks of the season
  • 22 February 2006: At the Australian Sport Awards for 2005, the Swans won the National Team of the Year award while Paul Roos took home Coach of the Year award
  • 19 December 2005: Swans assign guernsey numbers
  • 16 December 2005: Swans name three skippers
  • 13 December 2005: Swans draft 8 rookies

    • Captains

    On 16 December 2005, the Sydney Swans announced they would use 3 captains over the season, following on from the 2005 season, where they rotated between 6 captains after Stuart Maxfield resigned from the captaincy. The three captains are Barry Hall, Brett Kirk and Leo Barry. The captaincy will not be rotated, but each will be captain in each game.

    Club List

    The 2006 squad currently consists of the following players. The list was finalised in December 2005 following a 2nd list lodgement on 18 November, the NAB AFL Draft on 26 November, NAB AFL Pre-season Draft and Rookie Draft on 14 December.

    Player list

    Statistics are as of 15 May 2006, after Round 7.

    Additions

  • Exchange period - received:
    1. Paul Chambers (Geelong)
    2. Ted Richards (Essendon)
  • Rookie elevation:
    1. Heath Grundy
    2. Earl Shaw
    3. Luke Vogels
  • Father/son selection:
  • None
  • NAB AFL Draft (26 November 2005):
    1. Matthew Laidlaw (Round 4; Overall pick 51; from Oakleigh Chargers)
    2. Kristin Thornton (Round 4; Overall pick 54; from Peel Thunder)
    3. Ryan Brabazon (Round 4; Overall pick 59; from Claremont (WAFL))
  • NAB AFL Pre-Season Draft:
  • NAB AFL Rookie Draft (13 December 2005):
    1. Simpkin, Jonathan (Pick 16; from Geelong Falcons)
    2. Wall, James (Pick 32; from Calder Cannons)
    3. Currie, Paul (Pick 45; from Northern Knights)
    4. Phillips, Simon (Pick 54; from Sandringham Dragons)
    5. Jack, Kieran (Pick 57; from NSW-ACT Rams)
    6. Barlow, Ed (Pick 58; from Oakleigh Chargers)
    7. Prior, Adam (Pick 59; from Murray Bushrangers)
    8. Rowe, Sam (Pick 60; from Murray Bushrangers)

    Deletions

  • Retired:
    1. Jason Ball
    2. Heath James
    3. Stuart Maxfield
    4. Matthew Nicks
    5. Andrew Schauble
  • Exchange period - traded:
    1. Mark Powell (to Kangaroos)
    2. Jason Saddington (to Carlton)
  • Delisted:
    1. Ben Fixter
    2. Jarrad Sundqvist
    3. Guy Campbell (rookie)
    4. Ed Clarke (rookie)
    5. Andrew Hayes (rookie)
    6. Nick Potter (rookie)
  • Pre-season Draft:
    1. Ben Fixter (to Brisbane Lions)

    1: Exhibition game as part of Australia week in the USA
    2: NAB Regional Challenge game

    References

    2006 Sydney Swans season Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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