Grant - The Champion Tag?

[Hard Ball Get]

Re: Grant - The Champion Tag?

Out and out champion of the game.
There would be only a small group of players (Carey, Mattews, Ablett etc) that I think are clearly above him as a footballer. Tough and coragous, strong, versitile, longevity. Grant pretty much has it all.

If Carey et al. is a 5 then I would have Grant at about 4.7 - 4.8

[alwaysadog]

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Champions aren't just made on their football, though tell me what Chris hasn't done for our cause at the highest level. Champions are also champion people. Sutton was, Whitten was, Hawkins was and Grant is. Though in a totally different way to the others, and they're a divergent lot already.

Chris never sort the limelight off the field. If that's part of being a champion then I'll be glad not to call him one. If genuinely decent human beings who perform at the highest level over more than a decade and a half can't be called champions then who can?

Oh, silly me, you obviously have to play for a "big" club to be a champion, no one else has ever had the right to have one.

[LostDoggy]

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He is a champion.

What gives me the shits, is how The Footy Show & certain radio stations throw around the name. Especially when they introduce people onto a panel, take Nathan Brown for example.

Every time he is introduced by James Brayshaw, it's "the champion from the Richmond Football club" what has he done to deserve that?

Chris Grant is far & wide a champion in my eyes, even if other supporters and media people don't see it.

[LostDoggy]

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I can't believe someone thought there was a need to raise the question.

Billy, I suspect you are just trying to get a bit of traffic happening on this website (which is good), but if you were serious about asking it you should have spent the last 17 years watching him rather than reading the Herald-Sun.

Agree. He is a champion Full Stop!
End of Discussion.

[azabob]

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He is a champion.

What gives me the shits, is how The Footy Show & certain radio stations throw around the name. Especially when they introduce people onto a panel, take Nathan Brown for example.

Every time he is introduced by James Brayshaw, it's "the champion from the Richmond Football club" what has he done to deserve that?
Chris Grant is far & wide a champion in my eyes, even if other supporters and media people don't see it.

What I dont understand is why people get upset at what certain radio stations, or footy shows or papers say. Of course brayshaw is going to say Brown is a champion. Brayshaw / Lyon / Newman need to pump up the tyres of their overated, over hyped show. That is why they also find it necessary to degrade women and the contribution they make to society and football.

[The Coon Dog]

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In the eyes of Bulldogs supporters he is a champion, both on & off the field.

[Before I Die]

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When looking back on the career of Chris Grant I would be interested to know if our loyal Bulldog supporters here really class him as a champion footballer?

I can't believe you are asking the question. If you asked was he a superstar, or was he one of the all time greatest players, there may justification for a discussion, though I would say yes to both. But is he a champion? Absolutely, and anyone who disagrees is either ignorant, stupid or both, or has a personal defintion of champion which is at odds with anything you would find in a dictionary. I would love to know what criteria would be used to exclude him, other than, not enough TV exposure, didn't hang with the right social crowd, didn't play for a high profile team.

[Scraggers]

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I agree the tag of champion is thrown around to easily to those who haven't earned it ...

When it comes to Chris Grant, it should be shouted from the roof tops ... Champion man, Champion footballer

[LostDoggy]

Re: Grant - The Champion Tag?

Can't think of anyone more deserving of the tag.

Single-handedly carried the team on many an occassion, and an exquisite ambassador for the game. Severely underrated by the larger football fraternity -- always very disappointed when he doesn't make the 'top 50 of all time' lists when guys like Jakovich or Cousins or Buckley (!) do simply because of a higher media profile. If we had made the '97 GF he would have gotten the recognition he so richly deserved on the widest stage possible.

I await the day (which will surely come) when Chris is retrospectively awarded the Brownlow. Him being the only top vote-getter to miss out is an anomaly that grows more anomalous every passing year, and Ian Collins's despicability becomes clearer and clearer (finally becoming obvious to the AFL hierarchy and wider public), it is surely only a matter of time before someone decent comes along to over-rule the results of a weasel's personal vendetta. Would be a very special moment when it happens.

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ps. WOOF may be able to keep the pressure up on headquarters. If Nick Maxwell can get off a 4-week suspension by bringing in a QC, Chris Grant should be proudly displaying his Brownlow in his pool room.

[LostDoggy]

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If he'd had the brownlow(s) and the premiership he so richly deserved we wouldnt be having this conversation.

Poetry.

Close thread.

[Axe Man]

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I await the day (which will surely come) when Chris is retrospectively awarded the Brownlow. Him being the only top vote-getter to miss out is an anomaly that grows more anomalous every passing year, and Ian Collins's despicability becomes clearer and clearer (finally becoming obvious to the AFL hierarchy and wider public), it is surely only a matter of time before someone decent comes along to over-rule the results of a weasel's personal vendetta. Would be a very special moment when it happens.

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ps. WOOF may be able to keep the pressure up on headquarters. If Nick Maxwell can get off a 4-week suspension by bringing in a QC, Chris Grant should be proudly displaying his Brownlow in his pool room.

Corey McKernan says hi

[Scraggers]

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Corey McKernan says hi

You beat me to it !!

[mighty_west]

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Champion of the game
Legend of the club

The BEST player running around in the red white & blue i have seen [since the late 70's].

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Corey McKernan says hi

You know the stupid thing about this?

Because Grant polled more votes than Harvey, neither he nor McKernan can ever be given a retrospective medal.

To do so would be to take Harvey's back, and they will never do that.

Had Grant tied with Harvey, rather than beaten him, it would have been easy for the AFL just to change the rule, give Grant and McKernan their medals - like they did with Alan Hopkins, Noel Teasdale, Graham Arther et al - and that would be the end of it.

[LostDoggy]

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You know the stupid thing about this?

Because Grant polled more votes than Harvey, neither he nor McKernan can ever be given a retrospective medal.

To do so would be to take Harvey's back, and they will never do that.

Had Grant tied with Harvey, rather than beaten him, it would have been easy for the AFL just to change the rule, give Grant and McKernan their medals - like they did with Alan Hopkins, Noel Teasdale, Graham Arther et al - and that would be the end of it.

Graham Arthur?