From 2012 to 2016, the AFL commenced a new broadcast deal requiring the Seven Network and their affiliate station Prime7 to broadcast all Sydney Swans (and Greater Western Sydney Giants) games live to viewers in Sydney and most of regional New South Wales and Canberra. This grand final would be the last match South Melbourne would play in the VFA, as the following season they would be one of eight founding clubs forming the breakaway Victorian Football League. The team enjoyed little success in the Victorian competition; it was the only reserves team never to win a premiership, and its best performances were losing grand finals in 1927, 1956, 1980 and 1995. In the last few minutes, the Sydney defence held strong, with Leo Barry marking the ball just before the siren to stop the Eagles' final desperate shot at goal. Nick Davis! By Sydney Swans Media on The inauguration date of the club is officially 19 June 1874, and it adopted the name "South Melbourne Football Club" four weeks later, on 15 July. [16] The match took place on 3 October 1896 at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground. The AFL stepped in to save the Swans, offering substantial monetary and management support. [41] The following week the Swans were knocked out of the finals in a one-sided contest against North Melbourne, struggling to score throughout the first half with the game effectively over by half-time. They won their next 6 leading into the bye, including home wins against Geelong and North Melbourne, and an upset away win against Hawthorn in the grand final replay. The Swans developed a famous modern rivalry against the Perth-based West Coast Eagles between 2005 and 2007, when six consecutive games between the two teams, including two qualifying finals and two grand finals, were decided by less than a goal. Paul Kelly. Ryan O'Keefe was named the Norm Smith Medallist and the Swan's best player in September, The Swans' 2013 season was marred by long-term injuries to many of its key players, namely Adam Goodes, Sam Reid, Lewis Jetta, Rhyce Shaw and Lewis Roberts-Thomson, among others; despite this setback, the team were still able to reach the finals for the fifteenth time in 18 seasons, reaching the preliminary finals where they were defeated by Fremantle at Patersons Stadium, its first loss at the venue since 2009.[36][37]. By the end of the 1970s South Melbourne were saddled with massive debts after struggling for such a long period of time. A place for Paul Kelly fans to discuss his songs, music, performances and other related activities. Paul Kelly (born 28 July 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer, winner of the Brownlow Medal and captain of the Sydney Swans for ten seasons. [7] In 1880, South Melbourne amalgamated with the nearby Albert-park Football Club, which had a senior football history dating back to May 1867 (Albert-park had, in fact, been known as South Melbourne during its first year of existence). As the new century dawned, Sydney implemented a policy of giving up high order draft picks in exchange for players who struggled at other clubs. After a bye in Round 14, the Sydney Swans lost their first game after, again with the last kick of the game, by 4 points. A lean patch of form which included upset losses to Gold Coast (for the first time ever) and Essendon (for the first time since 2011) had them looking likely to miss finals altogether. Erstklassige Nachrichtenbilder in hoher Auflösung bei Getty Images The rivalry with Hawthorn has been more recent, mostly defined by two grand finals (2012 and 2014). Instead of a 100-goal-a-season forward, Sydney's goalkicking was led by Bernard Toohey (usually a defender) with 29 in 1989, then Jim West with 34 in 1990. They followed up the next round with a 60-point win against the Blues, with new recruit Callum Sinclair kicking 3 goals. Sydney needs to stay strong: Paul Kelly. The Hawks dominated the game quite early and eventually defeated the Swans 11.8. Sydney lost their first game against Greater Western Sydney and then to Collingwood before becoming the first non-South Australian team to win at Adelaide Oval defeating Adelaide by 63 points with Lance Franklin and Luke Parker kicking 4 goals each. The nickname, which was suggested by a Herald and Weekly Times artist in 1933, was inspired by the number of Western Australians in the team (the black swan being the state emblem of Western Australia), and was formally adopted by the club before the following season 1934. Paul Kelly & Dan Sultan - Every Day My Mother's Voice (Official Video) - Duration: 4:22. [46] In response to continued discussions between the club and league, as well as lobbying by the AFLPA,[47] the league further relaxed the trade restrictions for the Swans during the 2015 AFL Finals. Nick Davis! Attendances and memberships in Sydney grew dramatically during the Lockett era, helped out by the Super League War plaguing Rugby League. Last played for Sydney Swans in 2002. The Swans only kicked 2 goals after half-time with Giant Jeremy Cameron outscoring them in the third quarter alone with 3 goals. After becoming the first grand-finalist to lose their first six games, they have become the first team to reach the finals after starting the season 0–6. The team played home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground and will often play as a curtain raiser to senior AFL games. On a much brighter side for the Swans, their captain Paul Kelly won the League's highest individual honour, the Brownlow Medal, in 1995. Attendances consistently dropped below 10,000 when the team performed poorly between 1990 and 1994. [45] During the 2015 season, with the Swans team stretched by aging players and injuries, it had become apparent that the trade restrictions that had prevented the Swans from participating in the 2014 draft, had impacted the list. In a low-scoring first half, the Swans were very competitive, trailing by only 2 points. The final would create history, being the first Sydney Derby to be played in a final. Although the headcount could have seen Southport's score re-set to zero, the infringement was instead deemed an interchange breach with no material impact on the outcome of the game, resulting in Southport's score standing.[69]. This allowed the Swans to trade for Callum Sinclair in a swap deal,[48] as well as trade a late pick for out-of-contract defender, Michael Talia from the Western Bulldogs.[49]. Then, from 2003 until 2010, the Sydney reserves recombined to a single team, which contested the higher standard AFL Canberra, winning four consecutive premierships between 2005 and 2008. Players left the club in droves, including Brownlow Medalist Greg Williams, Bernard Toohey and Barry Mitchell. The jumper is white with a red back and a red yoke with a silhouette of the Sydney Opera House at the point of the yoke. After missing the finals in 2000, the Swans rebounded to finish 7th in 2001, but were beaten by Hawthorn by 55 points in their elimination final at Colonial Stadium. The club defeated Carlton by five points in the elimination final before losing to the Western Bulldogs in the semi-finals for the second time in three seasons. The Swans lost their first game after the bye, their 3rd of the season to Richmond at the SCG, 11.11 (77) to 14.11. Between Round 7, 1972 and Round 13, 1973, the team lost 29 consecutive games. However, the new board did not have the power to unilaterally stop the move to Sydney: under the VFL constitution, to rescind the decision that had been made on 29 July required a three-quarters majority in a vote of all twelve clubs, and at a meeting on 14 October it failed to obtain this majority. ²: Six rounds into the 2005 season, Stuart Maxfield ended his playing career due to chronic injury. The club song is known as Cheer, Cheer The Red and The White' and is to the tune of the Victory March, the fight song of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend, Indiana, USA, which was written by University of Notre Dame graduates and brothers Rev. In 2014, the Swans finished minor premiers and were favourites to win the grand final, however Hawthorn beat Sydney by 63 points. However three out of four wins in the last four rounds was enough to see them into their ninth consecutive finals series, where they were comprehensively beaten by GWS in the Elimination Final. The Swanettes were rapidly discontinued and no club has had cheerleaders since then. As of 2019, the Sydney Swans have not lost a premiership match by more than 100 points since Round 10, 1998.[73]. A new home ground in ANZ Stadium (then known as Telstra Stadium) provided increased capacity over the SCG. [c] Premierships were won as South Melbourne. At roughly the same time, Hawthorn legend Dermott Brereton was also recruited, albeit with little on-field impact. These games are screened on the 7mate channel in these regions. Hundreds of boys and girls from schools throughout Sydney met in Peakhurst for the annual Paul Kelly Cup on Wednesday. [31] With draft and salary cap concessions in the early 1990s and a series of notable recruits, the team became competitive after the early part of the decade. View Advanced Stats. [51] Previous manufacturers were Puma (from mid-1990s to 2009)[52] and ISC (2010 to 2020). After a loss to North Melbourne in Round 4, the Swans' won twelve games in a row, including victories against 2013 grand finalists Fremantle and Hawthorn, Geelong by 110 points at the SCG and then ladder leaders Port Adelaide. Paul Roos (born 27 June 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer and senior coach in the Australian Football League (AFL). On 31 July 1985, for what was thought to be $6.3 million, Geoffrey Edelsten "bought" the Swans; in reality it was $2.9 million in cash with funding and other payments spread over five years. Paul Kelly of the Sydney Swans Biography. For the first time in 72 years, the Swans are the champions of the AFL! It was their earliest exit from the finals since 2001 and was a culmination of a mostly disappointing season, as only victories against lesser teams saw them through to a fifth consecutive finals campaign. In 2004 the club added the initials 'SMFC' in white lettering at the back of the collar to honour the club's past as South Melbourne Football Club. Paul Kelly of the Sydney Swans AFL games played and stats. It was the Swans' first win over the Cats since 2006 and its first win at the ground since Round 8, 1999. South Melbourne was a junior foundation club of the Victorian Football Association in 1877, and attained senior status in 1879;[14] The South Melbourne amalgamation with neighbouring Albert-park Football Club in 1880, formed a club that became the strongest in metropolitan Melbourne. The club eventually broke the drought in 2005 and won another premiership in 2012. I don't believe it! Both games were at the SCG. 1995 would be Barassi's last year in charge. Matches were telecast either live, on a 30–90-minute delayed broadcast or late-night replay. [59][60][61] The oval is located less than one hundred metres adjacent to the SCG and since undergoing a redevelopment in 2018/19, has the same dimensions as the Docklands Stadium in Melbourne. He was and still is known to Swans … The Swans faced the Eagles in a rematch in the AFL Grand Final on 24 September 2005, and this time, they prevailed by four points, final score 8.10 (58) to West Coast's 7.12 (54). The Norm Smith Medal is awarded to the player judged best-on-ground in the AFL Grand Final: Sydney announced its team of the century on 8 August 2003: The Sydney Swans receive regular exposure from Sydney's two major daily newspapers, The Daily Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and their respective counterpart publications, The Sunday Telegraph and The Sun-Herald. Maxfield was recruited in 1990 from Caulfield Grammar School by Richmond, and debuted that year. Desperate to hang on, the club was keen to enlist the biggest names and identities in the AFL, and recruited legendary coach Ron Barassi who helped save the club from extinction while serving them as coach from Round 7, 1993 to 1995. The current predominantly red design appeared at the start of the 1992 season. The Swans won their final 4 games to secure a top 4 finish, against Collingwood, Greater Western Sydney, St Kilda and Gold Coast. Four of those six games were finals, and 2 grand finals.   Premiers   Grand Finalist   Finals   Wooden spoon. [25] It was not until 1983 that the club formally moved all its operations to Sydney and became the Sydney Swans. Nevertheless, the Swans continue to have a substantial supporter base in Victoria, with attendances for Swans games in Melbourne being much higher than other non-Victorian teams. He was and still is known to Swans fans everywher Paul Kelly (Irish musician) (born 1957), Irish traditional, bluegrass and country musician. The match was notable for Leo Barry's effort in nullifying the impact of St Kilda full-forward and eventual Coleman Medallist Fraser Gehrig, whom Barry restricted to only two possessions for the entire match. During the Edelsten years, the Swans were seen by the Sydney public as a flamboyant, flashy club, typified by the style of its spearhead, Warwick Capper, his long bright blond mullet and bright pink boots made him unmissable on the field and his pink Lamborghini, penchant for girlfriends who were fashion models and his general showy eccentricity made him notorious off the field – all somewhat fashionable in the 1980s. In past and recent years the Seven Network broadcast Swans games to viewers in Sydney and most of N.S.W. [55] Port Adelaide also has used the Victory March as the basis for their club song since 1971, though their senior team changed their club song to their current original Power To Win after their entry into the AFL. Despite its historical lack of success, South Melbourne/Sydney has provided more Brownlow Medal winners (14) than any other club. The club had been operating at a loss of at least $150,000 for the previous five years. The match, played against Carlton, was to become known colloquially as "the Bloodbath", due to the player brawl that overshadowed the match, with a total of 9 players being reported by the umpires. The Swans lost the grand final to North Melbourne, which had been their first appearance in a grand final since 1945. They won their first match of the interrupted 2020 season against Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval by three points, but won only four more games for the season, missing the finals in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1994–95. [42][43] It was, however, announced in March 2014 that this allowance would be scrapped. [8][9] Following the amalgamation, the club retained the name South Melbourne, and adopted the club's now familiar red and white colours from Albert-park. and Canberra via the Prime TV network (now branded as Prime7). The club survived, despite strong rumours in 1992 that it would merge with the Brisbane Bears to form a combined New South Wales/Queensland team, fold altogether, or even move back to South Melbourne. The clash guernsey is a predominantly white version of the home guernsey similar to the original Opera House guernsey design, including a white back, but it is rarely used, since the two Queensland clubs (the Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast Suns) and cross town rivals GWS Giants are the only clubs with which there is a clash. Paul Kelly is one of the greatest South Melbourne/Sydney Swans players of all time. For the first time since 2011, the Swans failed to make a preliminary final. From 2002 to 2011 Network Ten televised all Swans games played in Melbourne and outside New South Wales live, but on a half-hour delay when played in Sydney for Sydney viewers and via affiliated stations in N.S.W and Canberra. The Swans began the 2017 season with six straight losses, after being upset at home by Port Adelaide in the opening round, they were upset by Collingwood and Carlton, and suffered defeats to the Western Bulldogs, Greater Western Sydney (who won their first game at the SCG) and West Coast Eagles (in Perth). Most Swans matches can be heard by listeners in the Riverina region of N.S.W. In 1982 the club relocated to Sydney, New South Wales, changing its name in the process and becoming the first club in the competition to be based outside the state of Victoria. AFL Statistics Home: AFL Fixture Players Teams Player Rankings Team Rankings Rising Stars AFL Draft Brownlow Medal AFL Ladder Coaches Attendances Supercoach AFL Fantasy AFL Highlights AFL Team Selections Past Players AFL Player Contracts AFL Injury List: Records : Advanced stats available for this page! I see it, but I don't believe it! The Premiership was the Swans' first in 72 years and their first since being based in Sydney. By AAP. In 2000, the Swans reserves team – known as the Redbacks – joined the Sydney AFL competition, but was so dominant in the lower competition that it withdrew prior to the finals series because the club felt the difference in standard was too greatly in favour of the Swans. [18], On grand final eve, 1935, as the Swans prepared to take on Collingwood, star full-forward Bob Pratt was clipped by a truck moments after stepping off a tram and subsequently missed the match for South. The loss signalled the end of the Swans coaching career of Paul Roos as well as that of the playing career of Brett Kirk. The Swans' golden era of finals appearances came to an end in 2019. The Swans' first game played at the Stadium in Round 9, 2002 against Essendon attracted 54,169 spectators. It was during this era that the Swans picked up the likes of Paul Williams, Barry Hall, Craig Bolton, Darren Jolly, Ted Richards, Peter Everitt, Martin Mattner, Rhyce Shaw, Shane Mumford, Ben McGlynn and Mitch Morton, amongst others, and giving up higher order draft picks meant the Swans missed out on the likes of Daniel Motlop, Nick Dal Santo, James Kelly, Courtenay Dempsey and Sam Lonergan who went to … Three more wins followed, against West Coast, Brisbane and Essendon respectively before a shock loss to Richmond in round 8 by a solitary point, after a kick after the siren. The best performed player from every derby match is awarded the Brett Kirk Medal. The Sydney Swans v Collingwood match on 23 August 2003 set an attendance record for the largest crowd to watch an AFL game outside of Victoria with an official attendance of 72,393 and was the largest home and away AFL crowd at any stadium for 2003. (Siren in background)...The longest Premiership drought in football history is over! Instead, it only led to disastrous on-field performances. On Friday, 30 September 2005, a ticker tape parade down Sydney's George Street was held in honour of the Swans' achievements, which ended with a rally at Town Hall, where Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore presented the team with the key to the city. During Capper's peak years, the Swans had made successive finals appearances for the first time since relocating. The West Coast Eagles avenged their 2005 Grand Final defeat by beating the Sydney Swans by one point, only the fourth one-point grand final margin in the competition's history. His consistently spectacular aerial exploits earned him the Mark of the Year award in 1987 while his goalkicking efforts (amassing 103 goals in 1987) made him runner up in the Coleman Medal two years running. "I can't work, I spent a month in bed, literally in bed … it's not good," Kelly said. Select from premium Sydney Swans Club Launch of the highest quality. The Swans spent the middle part of the 2008 season inside the top four, however a late form slump which yielded only three wins in the last nine rounds saw the Swans drop to sixth at the conclusion of the 2008 regular season. [68] The club's seconds (and later, reserves) team, competed in the VFL reserves and its successor, the Victorian State Football League, until that competition's demise at the end of 1999 – despite the club having moved to Sydney in 1982. The Sydney Swans' mascot for the AFL's Mascot Manor is Syd 'Swannie' Skilton. Commencing 2002 all their games were broadcast live or on same day delay by Subscription television provider Foxtel across Australia on either the Fox Footy Channel or Fox Sports channels. Following the end of the second world war, South Melbourne consistently struggled, as their traditional inner-city recruiting district largely emptied as a result of demographic shifts. [62], In October 2018 the club announced it would shift all offices and indoor training facilities to Moore Park's Royal Hall of Industries sometime in the early-to-mid 2020s, after announcing a $55 million deal with the New South Wales Government to redevelop the Hall. Paul Kelly (actor) (1899–1956), American stage and screen actor. Roos won six of the remaining 10 games that year (including the last four of the season) and was installed as the permanent coach from the 2003 season onwards, despite rumors that Sydney had nearly concluded a deal with Terry Wallace. The Paul Kelly Cup, named after the former Swans captain and Brownlow medallist, is the largest AFL primary school competition in the state. F Share T Tweet Q SMS W WhatsApp B Email G J Tumblr L LinkedIn. Football Record Video 1995 Season review for the Sydney Swans/South Melbourne. Edelsten resigned as chairman in less than twelve months, but had already made his mark. After several years with only limited success, South Melbourne next reached the grand final in 1945. The team played as Leopold until 1924, then changed its name to the South Melbourne Second Eighteen in 1925. The Sydney Swans is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), having been a founding member of the competition since 1897. The move was welcomed by Melbourne-based fans. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. In the first preliminary final at the MCG on 16 September against St Kilda, the Swans used a seven-goal blitz in 11 minutes of the fourth quarter to overturn an 8-point deficit and overrun the Saints by 15.6 (96) to 9.11 (65). The club was originally established in 1874 as the South Melbourne Football Club, and played amongst other clubs based in Melbourne, Victoria. The flag of the Swans also flew on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the week; the same flag was later given to WA premier Geoff Gallop to fly on top of the state legislature in Perth as part of the friendly wager between Gallop and NSW premier Morris Iemma. It would take them to their third grand final in 5 years, against the Western Bulldogs at the MCG. By the 1960s it was clear that South Melbourne's financial resources would not be capable of allowing them to compete in the growing market for country and interstate players, and their own local zone was never strong enough to compensate for this. Anthony Hudson's TV call of Nick Davis' fourth and match-winning goal in the semi-final against Geelong on Network Ten[32], Stephen Quartermain's TV call of Leo Barry's match- and title-clinching mark on Network Ten[33]. The Opera House design was first used at the start of the 1987 season, replacing the traditional red "V" on white design. This was the first time in a finals series that former Hawk player Lance Franklin would play against his former team, one of very few players to have played back to back grand finals for two different teams. 1: Relocated to Sydney A familiar face was in the SCG stands last Friday night, watching his son make his Swans reserves debut, A super-impressive Sydney outfit has handed the reigning premiers a lesson in…, See all the photos from the Sydney Swans Round Three clash with Richmond at the MCG. They would comprehensively defeat Essendon in their first final, before slumping to an ugly defeat against Geelong, ending their season. They were quick to bounce back the following week, thumping the Adelaide Crows by 6 goals, with Franklin and Tom Papley kicking 4 goals a piece, after a blistering 7 goal to 1 quarter.