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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by Nuggety Back Pocket View Post
    Hard to go pass Dale Morris who was an outstanding defender from the rookie list.
    Morris had the ability to play on tall or small forwards and his powers of concentration was outstanding.
    One of the all time greats NBP.

    Probably was under rated early doors but certainly not later.

    Maybe by the football world at large until that Buddy moment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nuggety Back Pocket View Post
    Hard to go pass Dale Morris who was an outstanding defender from the rookie list.
    Morris had the ability to play on tall or small forwards and his powers of concentration was outstanding.
    Was he ever underrated? Got off to a fast start by beating opposition star players.
    I don't think there is anyone I've ever talked to that didn't rate or appreciate what Dale brought our club.
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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    Was he ever underrated? Got off to a fast start by beating opposition star players.
    I don't think there is anyone I've ever talked to that didn't rate or appreciate what Dale brought our club.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Under rated by the media
    Not sure I agree either. He gets a lot of positive comments.
    His journey to us was something to appreciate but I don't think he was underrated to any significant degree.
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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    Not sure I agree either. He gets a lot of positive comments.
    His journey to us was something to appreciate but I don't think he was underrated to any significant degree.
    I guess I am talking a few years before he retired. Until we won the Premiership, I think he was under rated.

    It is like Macrae, I still feel he is under rated by media scribes, even though he is such a consistent performer week after week, year after year.
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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    Was he ever underrated? Got off to a fast start by beating opposition star players.
    I don't think there is anyone I've ever talked to that didn't rate or appreciate what Dale brought our club.
    In the words of his Orthopedic Surgeon, David Young, who treated champion sportspeople across the board he had never witnessed anyone like Dale Morris with the ability to play with such crippling injuries and sustain pain that he managed to achieve.

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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by Nuggety Back Pocket View Post
    In the words of his Orthopedic Surgeon, David Young, who treated champion sportspeople across the board he had never witnessed anyone like Dale Morris with the ability to play with such crippling injuries and sustain pain that he managed to achieve.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    Was he ever underrated? Got off to a fast start by beating opposition star players.
    I don't think there is anyone I've ever talked to that didn't rate or appreciate what Dale brought our club.
    I'm not sure anyone who was All-Australian can be on an underrated list (Dale was AA back pocket in 2008).

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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Probably not top of the list, but I thought Picken was pretty underrated, certainly outside of Dogs fans.
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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by Grantysghost View Post
    Is this an historical whip Mantis

    265 Games, 331 goals, averaging 1.2 goals a game?

    23 and a goal v Pies in an EF (best day ever nearly)
    25 and 2 goals v Hawks in a QF (that was a bad night)

    Under rated !
    You can call it whatever you like, but I’m calling bullshit on him being one of our best ever.

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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    I think the cult following types can often be underrated.

    Libba is not respected for his football as much as he should be outside of Dogs fans. Minson (although ineligible by my AA rules) was another.

    I think Mitch Hahn was underrated.

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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by Mantis View Post
    You can call it whatever you like, but I’m calling bullshit on him being one of our best ever.
    Best ever was a stretch, it's supposed to be a bit of fun so took some artistic license.
    He'd be up there in games and goals though.

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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by jazzadogs View Post
    I think the cult following types can often be underrated.

    Libba is not respected for his football as much as he should be outside of Dogs fans. Minson (although ineligible by my AA rules) was another.

    I think Mitch Hahn was underrated.
    Hahn was a battler who was rated for his toughness not for what he got done on the field so I think it's a good call.
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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by lemmon View Post
    Daniel Cross - couldn't kick over a jam tin but was an absolute workhorse.
    But Crossy was BELOVED.

    Not sure he was under-rated.
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    Re: Most underrated Bulldog - Current Team / All time

    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    Hahn was a battler who was rated for his toughness not for what he got done on the field so I think it's a good call.
    Ummm.

    I think Hahn was fairly rated verging on OVER-rated.

    We all loved his attack on the ball/body and overlooked some pretty diabolical kicking because of it.
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