{"id":217013,"date":"2025-10-16T05:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217013\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:28:07","slug":"charlie-curnow-first-sydney-swans-press-conference-connects-with-lance-buddy-franklin-michael-voss-relationship-carlton-blues-comments-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217013\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Curnow first Sydney Swans press conference, connects with Lance Buddy Franklin, Michael Voss relationship, Carlton Blues comments, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Sydney spearhead Charlie Curnow says he knows time is ticking on his career after cementing his blockbuster move to the Harbour City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But he rejected speculation that his relationship with coach Michael Voss had become strained, adding he had no hard feelings towards the Blues in what he called a \u201cgradual\u201d desire to start fresh elsewhere. <\/p>\n

Curnow was officially dealt to the Swans in the headline deal of this year\u2019s trade period, with Sydney offloading forward Will Hayward and three first-round picks as part of the arrangement for the dual Coleman medallist. <\/p>\n

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Addressing reporters on Thursday morning in Melbourne, Curnow called the past few days \u201ccrazy\u201d, outlining the sequence of events that led to his move. <\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, we went up to Sydney and had a chat with \u2018Coxy\u2019 and a few of the guys, and that (made it) start becoming a bit of a possibility,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut honestly, a week ago, I had no idea what was going on. Obviously, I put myself out there for a trade before that and yeah, it worked out really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curnow, who said \u201call parties come out with a great result\u201d, said he had no hard feelings towards the Blues as he shared the process of coming to his decision to change clubs. <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s reporting different things. I honestly didn\u2019t talk to anyone from another football club until after the season,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a long season, it was a tough season \u2014 there probably wasn\u2019t a point where I said \u2018damn, I need to get out of here\u2019 \u2014 it was kind of gradual.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concept that Curnow\u2019s career clock is slowly ticking isn\u2019t lost on him, who\u2019ll be 29 years old by the start of next season, predicting he has \u201cabout four or five years\u201d of footy left in him. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve only got a short career, (that\u2019s what) the reality is. (Former Carlton stalwart) Kade Simpson, when we first got drafted, said \u2018it goes quick, mate\u2019, and it was his 18th year in \u2026 (I thought) \u2018come on, that doesn\u2019t happen, we\u2019ve got ages ahead\u2019 \u2014 and (now) I\u2019ve only got about four or five years left,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, that\u2019s (how) it kind of went on a decision for myself, a personal decision, and I thought the best thing was to move forward and try and change it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The addition of Curnow\u2019s considerable goalkicking ability adds massively to a Sydney tall forward line that has consistently underperformed in recent years. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was there or not, you look at their team from two years ago … that year, they were one of the best teams in the competition,\u201d the power forward said of the Swans\u2019 status as premiership contenders going into 2026. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not here to change anything, I\u2019m hoping just to slot in and play some good footy with all the other boys in the forward line; it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curnow added of sounding out former Swans hero Lance Franklin: \u201cI haven\u2019t yet. I grew up watching \u2018Buddy\u2019 … I\u2019ll probably hopefully reach out to \u2018Buddy\u2019 over the next couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking further on his Princes Park exit, Curnow rejected speculation that his relationship with senior coach Michael Voss had become strained towards the end. <\/p>\n

\u201cNah, not at all (was it strained),\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, it\u2019s a pretty high-pressure environment. Obviously, some things maybe leaked out there that I would say aren\u2019t true. It\u2019s always a tough environment, football, and it\u2019s going to be a lot of challenges that come with that, but for me and him, I don\u2019t see our relationship being affected at all by this. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just, I had to have a few good conversations with him at the end of the season, to, if I want to get traded, you have to do that. I\u2019m not going to go behind his back and just start putting myself out there. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re in a pretty healthy spot, and as I\u2019ve said, I played some awesome footy under him, and I thank him a lot for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of his discussions with members of the Carlton playing group, Curnow said he\u2019d spoken with teammates \u201cfor three months\u201d about his feelings around potentially leaving, adding they came as \u201cno shock\u201d to them. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was really transparent with them,\u201d Curnow said. \u201cA lot of the boys I\u2019ve been with for a long time, I\u2019ve made all these great mates there. I had conversations with them for three months about this, like it was no shock to any of them. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd look, I live right around the corner from \u2018Cez\u2019 (Adam Cerra), \u2018Walshy\u2019 (Sam Walsh), \u2018Binnsy\u2019 (Jaxon Binns), all these guys \u2014 it will be hard to leave, and going for coffees with them in the morning on the way to training, the things you will miss … (but) I was really transparent with them, leading into this period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Sydney spearhead Charlie Curnow says he knows time is ticking on his career after cementing his blockbuster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,689,132608,132606,132609,3239,1129,43,3231,132610,647,132607,44,677,668,109662,41,39,42,40,1133,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-217013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","10":"tag-blockbuster-move","11":"tag-blockbuster-trade-move","12":"tag-career-admission","13":"tag-carlton-blues","14":"tag-charlie-curnow","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-jack-jovanovski","17":"tag-kade-simpson","18":"tag-melbourne","19":"tag-moves-happening","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-oceania","22":"tag-press-conference","23":"tag-the-trade","24":"tag-top-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topnews","27":"tag-topstories","28":"tag-trade-period","29":"tag-victoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}