Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

[ledge]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Rocca is a great long kick and good mark, like the CHFs from years ago, whther you hate him or not is irrelevant. im just pointing out as much as great mark and long goals is what he is good at , but all the other stuff he is terrible at.

[1eyedog]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Rocca is a great long kick and good mark, like the CHFs from years ago, whther you hate him or not is irrelevant. im just pointing out as much as great mark and long goals is what he is good at , but all the other stuff he is terrible at.

Thanks for mentioning that irrelevant fact.

[1eyedog]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Who is he (sorry for not knowing)

Two Dogs summed it up aptly enough

[ledge]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Thanks for mentioning that irrelevant fact.

Is it irrelevant to the original post?
I have put up a name of a CHF that is very good at a certain facet that true CHFs posses,
All depends what part of a CHFs game strengths you want to look at.
All CHFs have strengths and weaknesses, Buddys at the moment his weakness is his accuracy.
Brown, well he doesnt have too many weaknesses but hasnt been in the greatest form,and we are only looking at 2008.
Game plan also comes into it, Murphy is not the type of player i would call a CHF of the previous 2 i mentioned.
Pavlich is a great CHF but his side is so bad he is like Richo and is forced to play everywhere.
Tredrea has a lot of talent but is so far up himself half the time he is looking at his biceps to worry about the ball.
So for mine at the moment its Buddy, 9 shots at goal every game is massive, when the accuracy comes good i hope we arent playing them.

[1eyedog]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Is it irrelevant to the original post?
I have put up a name of a CHF that is very good at a certain facet that true CHFs posses,
All depends what part of a CHFs game strengths you want to look at.
All CHFs have strengths and weaknesses, Buddys at the moment his weakness is his accuracy.
Brown, well he doesnt have too many weaknesses but hasnt been in the greatest form,and we are only looking at 2008.
Game plan also comes into it, Murphy is not the type of player i would call a CHF of the previous 2 i mentioned.
Pavlich is a great CHF but his side is so bad he is like Richo and is forced to play everywhere.
Tredrea has a lot of talent but is so far up himself half the time he is looking at his biceps to worry about the ball.
So for mine at the moment its Buddy, 9 shots at goal every game is massive, when the accuracy comes good i hope we arent playing them.

Generally agree with the above, Rocca, however, kicks the ball long. That's pretty much it IMO. He's not a hopeless mark but he just doesn't give himself the opportunities to take the ball on the lead because 1) he really has no idea about space (and we ain't talking about the singularity or the big bang here) and he runs out of petrol 10 mins into every quarter which affects his ability to lead constantly (like Richo, Pav and Buddy). His lack of constitution also affects his ability (or lack thereof) of being a defensive forward when the ball is on the ground in his attacking 50. So (IMO) Rocca has one strength, he kicks the ball a long way. He shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath of Brown, Richo and Pav, he's half the player and really should have made more of himself through his career (which is nearly over IMO). His brother gave so much more to the two clubs he represented. Just my opinion and I'm sure others will disagree, but that's what makes everyone interesting.

[ledge]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Rocca is a great long kick and good mark, like the CHFs from years ago, whther you hate him or not is irrelevant. im just pointing out as much as great mark and long goals is what he is good at , but all the other stuff he is terrible at.

And this was my original post, exactly what you just said.

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Kelvin Templeton. Coleman medalist, century goal kicker and brownlow medalist all before the age of 22. Did his knee in the preseason after he won the brownlow and basically never played again. If he hadnt there would be no dispute as to who the greatest player of all time was.


The single biggest footballing tragedy in my lifetime-genius wasnt enough to describe how good he was. In one game against St Kilda in 1978 he kicked 15.9 and a couple of out of bounds. They say Franklyn is a freak(and he is) for having 8 or 9 shots at goal most games. KT had 26 shots at goal that day and would have comfortably averaged the same as Buddy over a five year period.


He was just the best player I ever saw, no question.

Templeton did the sort of things that Carey did but kicked a lot more goals.

Templeton kicked 90 in a season playing CHF.

[1eyedog]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

And this was my original post, exactly what you just said.

I reckon he's not as good a mark and as you suggest and shouldn't be mentioned with the aforementioned CHFs.

[ledge]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Templeton did the sort of things that Carey did but kicked a lot more goals.

Templeton kicked 90 in a season playing CHF.

Amazing footballer, lucky looks dont come into it, not that i can talk!

[1eyedog]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Not Far behind

Also won a Brownlow from CHF. Now that his career is over and he doesn't have to think of the team first (which of course he always did), I wonder whether that incident during his Brownlow year doesn't haunt him?

[ledge]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

I did hear somewhere he admitted it haunted him , but he isnt alone i think it haunts all bulldog supporters and that Collins dude i hope he never forgets it!

[LostDoggy]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

I think a few regulars should read some of the early posts on this thread.
Key CHF are over rated...what a joke.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

Which sides? Name one. Just one side that we should be quaking in our boots about destroying our small forward line.

Geelong Twodogs?

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

I think a few regulars should read some of the early posts on this thread.
Key CHF are over rated...what a joke.

jerry, there are over 100 posts in this thread, rather than being cryptic, can you please be more specific?

[hujsh]

Re: Best CHF in the AFL in 2008

I think a few regulars should read some of the early posts on this thread.
Key CHF are over rated...what a joke.

You've been waiting for this match haven't you