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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
Bob Murphy is certainly one of the Classiest players I have seen play the game.
Bob Murphy is certainly one of the Classiest players I have seen play the game.
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
Too young for E.J.
Doug Hawkins by a long way for mine, excelled in the wet and made all other players look second rate on the ground at times. Could do it on both sides, blind turns, selling candy, beautiful on both feet, one handed diving marks in the slop, wow, this guy was a champion and is an AFL legend. I never saw Templeton do a spinning 360 blind turn, although I never saw Hawkins kick 15 goals either
Others were Judas Brown and Leon Cameron, both super skilled, high class players.But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.Comment
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
Chris Grant by a stretch for me, though, I only say that because I saw and took notice of his entire career. I wasn't lucky enough to do that with some of the others mentioned in this thread due to my age (so I'll take your word for it, as I respect what posters here have to say).
During the period leading up to and the few years following 1996 I've never seen a footballer completely dominate any position he was placed in the way Grant did. If he had have had that stretch of football in a high profile team, that won at least one premiership in that time he would be remembered as one of the best footballers to ever grace the field.
Sure, his goal kicking let him down from time to time, but the way he despatched the ball from each side of his body with low flat passing was the reason why I decided to base my own football career and football principals on kicking the football efficiently (and remeber his areal dominance through that time as well, not many could beat him). No other big man who leads at the ball or cuts them off at the time or since has been as good as he was in that area. You look at the hype around guys like Cloke in this day and age (who's goal kicking is worse), and you just realise how good Grant really was as a forward. But to think, if he had have played his entire career as a CHB there's absolutely no doubt he would have been the best in that position ever. He would have controlled countless matches through his ability to set up play if that was the case.
I only saw Doug post reco, but he was always silky.
From the last ten years Johnson and Murphy have been standouts, and while I can understand the reasons for Giansiracusa getting a bit of negative press from time to time class is someting he has in spades.
Think about it. Someone who is only 181cm tall, is lacking pace and physical strength really only has one or two attributes to make them competitive. For Gia, it's scoring nous and sublime ability to make opponents look silly when he has the ball in close and finish off the work of the team consistently.
Johnson when plaing in the midfield had it all, and sacrificed that aspect of his career to become a key forward, and did it extremely well. In 2004-2009 he showed exactly what class is, he made all different shapes and sizes look silly.
The elephant in the room for me is Nathan Brown. Like Grant, he had the propensity to miss shots he should have kicked. Aside from that, any time he had the ball in his hands I knew we were safe, and that we'd be dangerous. When he went to Richmond, just before he did his leg he was the best player in the competition. Nobody could stop him. What a shame for him it ended that way, and what a shame for us he didn't stick with us. He was one of the classiest players I've seen.TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
Dancin Douggie. I would have loved to see him play on the sterile grounds we have now.Comment
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
Dougie & Tony McGuiness
Dont need to say anything about Dougie, its all been said.
However, one of my earliest memories at the Western oval was when I was about 8, standing on the members wing one sunny saturday lunchtime & Dougie was playing in the reserves and took an incredibly clean 1 handed speccie over a Nth Melb opponent. Pretty sure that was about 1978.
Tony McGuiness was a gun before he went back to Adelaide. I dont reckon he performed anywhere near as well for Adelaide as he did for us.Comment
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
Grant, Templeton, Hawkins and Collins.
In that order for me.
Grant had class on the field and has so much class off the field.
KT was amazing when we were so crap.
Hawkins enough has been said.
Collins could play in any position.It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.Comment
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
How do people rate Brad Hardy?
Wasn't with us long but left an impression.Don't piss off old people
The older we get the less "LIFE IN PRISON" is a deterrent...Comment
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
No Aker or Cooney?If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
Rohan Smith off a half forward flank. Rode the flank like a butterfly and could sting like a bee. Ditto for Murph. Rumble young men rumble....Comment
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
Dougy was number 1, Grant a close second......and for third in the classy stakes I will throw up the name Paul Hudson.I'm paying money, the girl's happy, she's got no money, I got my rocks off, how good is this...Comment
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He was a good player but I anyways felt he missed shots he should have got, especially when we needed them.
In 2001 he kicked 1 - 6 and followed up the next week 1 - 4. I felt he could have been even a better player if that makes any sense.Don't piss off old people
The older we get the less "LIFE IN PRISON" is a deterrent...Comment
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Re: Who was our classiest player ever?
He kicked them more than he missed. I recall a game at waverley vs the aints when he was sublime.
My other classy favourites would be Leon Cameron, 'SuperMac' and Bob Murphy.I'm paying money, the girl's happy, she's got no money, I got my rocks off, how good is this...Comment
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