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: 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

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

NAB Cup

See also

* 2006 AFL season