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It was in a sense a mirror of Kennedy’s move years earlier. Sydney has the biggest fanbase in the AFL, according to Roy Morgan polling, but the problem is getting people to turn up. Go. V. vonn Bigfooty Legend. 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.After several years with only limited success, South Melbourne next reached the grand final in 1945. You could make the case he’s paid for his contract, even before you consider his on-field exploits.Buddy probably wouldn’t have swung the 2019 flag – he wasn’t going to make up for an 89-point margin – but we’d argue he’d be a 2016 premiership player if he’d been in charcoal and orange.Sydney has the biggest fanbase in the AFL, according to Roy Morgan polling, but the problem is getting people to turn up. 1 of 2 Go to page. At the time, he couldn’t get past Sam Mitchell, Luke Hodge, Jordan Lewis and Brad Sewell in Alastair Clarkson’s midfield and went cheaply to the Swans.And so it was that Tom Mitchell ended up at Hawthorn, for essentially the return of Pick 14.What kind of deal is out there for a player like that? With Buddy’s six-year, $7.2 million deal on their books, that would’ve been even tougher.Lance Franklin’s decision to spurn GWS, who he had been expected to sign with for months, and take the Swans’ nine-year, $10 million deal changed the paths of multiple clubs and players – and footy in Sydney as a whole.Not all of this can be attributed to Buddy, of course, but he is inarguably a box office draw. They ended up getting a different Giant in Jon Patton.If we put the cost of COLA at around $700,000, that’s still half-a-million dollars less each year to pay their young core.Many still believe 2016 was the Giants’ best chance at a premiership yet. That jumped to 40,126 in 2014 and all the way up to 61,912 in 2019.“COLA was removed, essentially, off the back of Kurt Tippett and Buddy Franklin going to the Swans in consecutive years,” GWS chief executive Dave Matthews said in 2018.Part of what made Buddy sign with Sydney was the incredible long-term commitment they were willing to make to him – he’d already played 182 AFL games when he signed his nine-year deal.But if Buddy had joined GWS and then not signed a second contract, he would’ve become a free agent as a 32-year-old who’d played 300 AFL games (give or take) – but played just 29 over the past two seasons due to injury.After a three-season fadeout, by 2017 the Swans had between $600,000 and $700,000 less in their salary cap to work with.So, without Buddy, the Swans are able to overcome the angst of people like Eddie McGuire and keep COLA in place, while also allowing them to stay active in the 2014 and 2015 trade periods.Things get tricky at the draft in November. What if … Buddy became a Giant?When Buddy joined in 2014, the Swans’ average home attendance rose by over 15 per cent and merchandise sales went up by 20 per cent.Without him at the club, it may have been a slower climb in these key figures.In reality, Buddy has played in two losing Grand Finals with the Swans – 2014 and 2016 – while the Giants nearly made it in 2016 and then lost in 2019.So we’ve taken a look back at what COULD have happened in an alternate reality and how it would have all played out.Instead, the Giants opt for Josh Kelly (who they actually took at No.