Players who sacrificed their game for the good of the club?

[southerncross]

Players who sacrificed their game for the good of the club?

Some players are oun-and-out stars, some are journeyman who fill in at positions and do the grunt work for the greater good of the club.
Which players past and present do you rate highly in the area.

For me it was guys that spring to mind are Stephen Power, Tony Libertore who went from a ball winner to gun tagger and sacrificed his game accordingly, Jose Romero and Darren Baxter who all had the ability to play a more free flowing game and yet adapted to what the coach required. Greg Eppulstun also had a great reputation of negating all types of players but for mine really wasn't that talented to begin with.

Are there any other players that spring to mind?

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Players who sacrificed their game for the good of the club?

Ben Harrison was one who was often asked to play outside his weight division. He'd take the number one tall forward & give away a decent amount of height in the process.

[Mofra]

Re: Players who sacrificed their game for the good of the club?

Kretiuk often played on bigger opponents, I'm positive it perhaps shortened his career as his body finally gave way to injury.

I see a touch of selflessness in Boydy's style of play, has gained the ability to sprint from packs (his acceleration is actually quite good) but rarely does this as his often plays a defensive/run-with role.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Re: Players who sacrificed their game for the good of the club?

Croft.

Always had to deal with bigger opponents every time he stepped out onto the ground.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Players who sacrificed their game for the good of the club?

Second Harrison. And he seemed by almost hated by some quarters of so-called supporters. We don't seem to have a whipping boy for 2007, hopefully real supporters dont find the need to, although if BF posters are real supporters for slagging K-Mac, then god help us.

[Bornadog]

Re: Players who sacrificed their game for the good of the club?

I think Hargrave often plays on players that are either bigger than him or even smaller. Its hard to know where he should play but with the lack of height in the backline he is called upon even thou he is only 190cm.

[bulldogSimmo]

Might sound weird to some but I firmly believe the Bont is in this category. Does so much defensive and grunt work which often goes unnoticed that other gun kids don't do

[bulldogSimmo]

Haha that should read Bont (haven't worked out how I can edit my own post yet)

[Mofra]

VDM, McNeill, anyone else playing that thankless pressure HF role

[Bulldog Joe]

Haha that should read Bont (haven't worked out how I can edit my own post yet)

Fixed it for you.
Keep up the contributions

[Bulldog Joe]

Might sound weird to some but I firmly believe the Bont is in this category. Does so much defensive and grunt work which often goes unnoticed that other gun kids don't do

The think with Bont is that he is always looking to improve his game

[bulldogSimmo]

The think with Bont is that he is always looking to improve his game

Yes agreed but I think if he had of been more selfish he would have had two bronlows by now. I prefer the Bont we have, but it's the team oriented things which gets ignored by the media and the umps

[GVGjr]

Haha that should read Bont (haven't worked out how I can edit my own post yet)

if you are on the phone you should see 3 dots. There is an edit and quote option that should assist.

[Bornadog]

if you are on the phone you should see 3 dots. There is an edit and quote option that should assist.

On desktop there is no edit button, after you leave the page and come back.

[Sedat]

Tony Liberatore sacrificed his entire hard-won reputation as an exceptional ball-winning midfielder who revolutionised tackling in the modern game to become the competition heel, because his coach asked him to.