- Sydney Swans season 2006
This article covers the 2006 season of the
Sydney Swans AFL team.= News ="For the full text of these news items, see [http://sydneyswans.com.au/default.asp?pg=clubnews SydneySwans.com Club News] "
* 30 September 2006: TheSydney Swans go down to theWest Coast Eagles in the Grand Final by only one point.
* 25 September 2006:Adam Goodes wins his secondBrownlow Medal with 26 votes, 3 votes ahead ofScott West of theWestern 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 defenderTadhg 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 andLeo 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 andRookie Draft on 14 December.Player list
1: Exhibition game as part of Australia week in the USA
2: NAB Regional Challenge gameNAB Cup See also
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2006 AFL season
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