I laughed at the byplay between Scott and the Chief as he came up to number 5. I didn't think he was that off. It's what we've all known for years; Adam Goodes is the hardest working player with or without the ball in the competition.
IMO I loved that 4 out of the 5 players he picked were not KPPs and have been the boys going about their defensive business and shutting down the opposition as well as damaging them in attack.
No mention of Davo? Boo!
I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his time
Well said mcs.AJ has been outstanding and in my view is going to at least be a 10 year player and a major stumbling block for opposition teams. He has the athletic ability of LRT but knows the game because he has grown up with it whereas LRT had to pick the game up after rugby. Reads the game really well and obviously has the application to work on his weaknesses (eg his kicking) because that element of his game has improved considerably over the year.
We have them where we want them, everything is going according to plan!
I am with B Scott. Goodes plays every game and rarely has a real shocker. I am constantly amused when people talk about Goodes he isn't rated even more highly. A couple of swannie friends who i go to the games with say yeah he is good but he goes missing too much. I seriuosly think he is as consistent as any of the out and out champ i have watched in the AFL over the last 20 years; ie Buckley/Voss/Carey etc. In fact i would rank Goodes above all three because i think he has equal influence on games but Goodes is more versatile.
I think Scott was pointing out that as highly regarded as he is by the general footy public, he is regarded even higher by the opposition coaching fraternity for the things which aren't often apparent nor appreciated by Joe Public in the stands...
Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09
With us in the finals again when are they going to rate us is my question.
We are now in a position to do some real hurt in the finals again and eventually they will take notice.. Missed a prelim final in 2010 by 5 point... That to me indicates we are up and about.. But again the Melbourne focused media has taken the heat off us.. well done!
Hopefully this is the case for years to come
Rod_
Goodes is the sort of player that fulfills that old saying 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone'. Only when he retires will we as supporters truly realise how good he has been.
If he was not in our team this year, we would of missed the finals imo, and his presence in the team imo gives us an X-factor that means, despite what 99 per cent of us think, and probably 99.9999% of all other supporters think, means we could go all the way this year. If he was to pull out 3 games of his vintage Brownlow best, then it would not suprise me to see him and Jarred holding aloft a certain piece of Silverware. Of course, a lot of other things would have to go right for that to happen, but he is the one player in our team that can truly turn a game on its head in a few moments of brilliance, and the one man that can genuinely strike fear into any opposing player or coach by his ability to change a game with a few seconds of brilliance.
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