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How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Frankly I don't like Alistair Lynch, but I concede he is highly regarded.
Only saw the tail end of his career. Don't like the guy for many reasons, among them that choking sledge against Scotty West in final, one of the bravest Dogs I've seen. I don't his post retirement work either. Arrogant tool.
So how good was he? Was he better at Fitzroy or Brisbane? Did he always play forward? What current player is he most like?
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Terrific footballer and was a quality performer at both ends of the ground
The exemptions for his CFS didn't sit well with the football community but there is no denying about his ability to influence games
I don't think he compares with current day players because it was a very different game but he was very strong and reasonably athletic
His 10 year deal with Brisbane was ground breaking at the time
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
Terrific footballer and was a quality performer at both ends of the ground
The exemptions for his CFS didn't sit well with the football community but there is no denying about his ability to influence games
I don't think he compares with current day players because it was a very different game but he was very strong and reasonably athletic
His 10 year deal with Brisbane was ground breaking at the time
My thoughts of Lynch are somewhat biased as I was in the crowd the night he mocked Scott West with a "choker" gesture near the end of a massive belting they handed us in a finals game. I wanna say 1999?
That gesture seemed to give entitlement to a lot of Lion supporting flogs to really rub in to Dogs supporters that night after the game.
Lynch was a fine player who overcame the effects of a debilitating illness to carve out a strong career, but that action really made me lose a lot of respect for him.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
My thoughts of Lynch are somewhat biased as I was in the crowd the night he mocked Scott West with a "choker" gesture near the end of a massive belting they handed us in a finals game. I wanna say 1999?
That gesture seemed to give entitlement to a lot of Lion supporting flogs to really rub in to Dogs supporters that night after the game.
Lynch was a fine player who overcame the effects of a debilitating illness to carve out a strong career, but that action really made me lose a lot of respect for him.
He wasn't wrong though.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Good player but he was a turd. I loved it when Chris Grant took him to the cleaners one day at Whitten oval when he was playing for Fitzroy. He would feast on ordinary players but struggle on class opponents. IMO he was a bit of a flat track bully.
He did have one funny line though. He was handed (I want to say) a ten match ban after the 2004 grand final for the running battle with Wakelin even though he was retiring anyway. After round ten he said "Finally I can retire"
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
He was a lot better player when he was granted permission to take roids.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
I thought he was Brisbane's most important player during their triple premiership run.
But my favourite memory of him was being rag dolled & destroyed by the great Danny Delre in 1992. He was playing FB for Fitzroy and Delre went on one of his rampages & kicked 4 or 5 in a 1/4 or 1/2 on him. Memory a bit hazy on how many exactly, but the great colossus tore Lynch a brand new one that day.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
The Doctor
I thought he was Brisbane's most important player during their triple premiership run.
But my favourite memory of him was being rag dolled & destroyed by the great Danny Delre in 1992. He was playing FB for Fitzroy and Delre went on one of his rampages & kicked 4 or 5 in a 1/4 or 1/2 on him. Memory a bit hazy on how many exactly, but the great colossus tore Lynch a brand new one that day.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
How were some of the stats in that game?
Axe with 46 possessions and 2 goals with the 3 votes.
Scott Wynd with 21 touches, 9 marks and 19 hit outs with the 2.
Paul Roos 38 disposals got the 1 vote.
Chocco unlucky with 20 touches and 4 goals. Also Grant with 16 and 4 straight. And of course Del-re with 6.3.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
How were some of the stats in that game?
Axe with 46 possessions and 2 goals with the 3 votes.
Scott Wynd with 21 touches, 9 marks and 19 hit outs with the 2.
Paul Roos 38 disposals got the 1 vote.
Chocco unlucky with 20 touches and 4 goals. Also Grant with 16 and 4 straight. And of course Del-re with 6.3.
That team was good enough to go all the way if it wasn't for injuries to the big blokes, Foster and Wynd
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
Axe Man
How were some of the stats in that game?
Axe with 46 possessions and 2 goals with the 3 votes.
Scott Wynd with 21 touches, 9 marks and 19 hit outs with the 2.
Paul Roos 38 disposals got the 1 vote.
Chocco unlucky with 20 touches and 4 goals. Also Grant with 16 and 4 straight. And of course Del-re with 6.3.
Incredible aren't they? Proper disposals too, not just floating out the back and looking for the cheapie. They were hard won touches. No wonder Fitzroy wanted Axe. He always turned it on against them.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
bornadog
That team was good enough to go all the way if it wasn't for injuries to the big blokes, Foster and Wynd
Fossie's broken leg cost us badly.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
Twodogs
Fossie's broken leg cost us badly.
Not having Foster & Royal in the prelim was costly for us. Two of our best.
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
The Doctor
Not having Foster & Royal in the prelim was costly for us. Two of our best.
Wynd as well in the Qualifying
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Re: How good was....Alistair Lynch?
Originally Posted by
bornadog
Wynd as well in the Qualifying
And giving up a 5 goal lead halfway through the second quarter and conceding exactly 100 points in the second half. WTF was wrong with the model of our 1990s finals teams? We could find amazing ways to lose finals. We always come back to 1997 but we were all over the shop when it came to losing finals in several years in that decade.
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