View Full Version : Bryce Gibbs: "I'll stay for the long term"
C4[2]Yo`DooR
4 Oct 2006, 16:08
http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=new...ticleid=301771 (http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=301771)
Glenelg young gun and potential No.1 draft pick Bryce Gibbs has said that no matter where he lands in the November NAB AFL Draft, he "definitely" wants to remain at the club for the long-term.
Gibbs, who was initially linked with Adelaide as a father/son selection until his eligibility made him open to all clubs upon closer inspection of the rules, suggested he wanted to forge a prosperous career with just one AFL club.
His comments come after the Crows recently said they would be willing to pounce on the midfielder after his minimum two years at a rival AFL club ends - possibly with either Carlton or Essendon.
"They're saying I might come home in two years or whatever, but I'm a pretty loyal person, so I'm just rapt to put on a guernsey wherever and have a good crack at it," Gibbs said at the NAB AFL Draft Camp in Canberra on Wednesday.
"Every now and then something comes out in the paper and my sister goes, 'Bryce, Bryce you're in the paper'. I say, 'Oh, don't worry, chuck it in the bin.' You don't know whether to believe it or not.
"It's been pretty crazy ever since the decision was made about the draft (eligibility), but I'm happy just to put on a guernsey with whoever it may be, so I've just got to work hard and hopefully it'll work out for the best."
Gibbs said he is not perturbed about moving interstate either.
"Mum's stressing out, but I'm no worries I don't reckon," Gibbs said.
"I will miss family and friends, but that's part of it. To get there and do it I suppose you have to sacrifice some things and if it's moving a couple of hundred kilometres away, I'm up for it.
"Once that day comes in November and you know what you're doing, you can just really focus and have a real big crack at it."
The 2006 under-18 All-Australian has had an outstanding year and believes that having two years' experience at senior level with The Bays in the SANFL has been pivotal to his game.
"Definitely … just even learning where to run and what to do and I've had so many roles over the last year and a half - whether it was playing down back or up forward or in the midfield - I've learnt so much running around with those bigger bodies," Gibbs said.
Gibbs said the build-up to the draft had been a valuable learning experience.
"Early on it was a bit like - what do I do? But it just comes now and I just have to do it and deal with it and I cop it a bit from my mates, but that's alright," Gibbs said.
"You can only control what you can and all this stuff (about going at) draft number one or number two - it's out of my control and I only focus on the things I can control, which is getting a kick on the footy field, so I try not to worry about it too much.
"If I'm working hard and doing all of the things right, hopefully it can just take care of itself."
Gibbs is close mates with two other Draft Camp attendees which he said had been a bonus in his football journey thus far.
"I'm real good mates with James Sellar and Mark Austin. We're at school together as well and in the same group of friends, so I'm with them all day, every day at school and we eat and live out of each other's pockets," Gibbs said.
"So growing up through school and playing footy together at Glenelg as well, we made a real special bond and it's just amazing that we're all going through it together and if one's down, we can pick one of them up and we get behind each other and it's been great.
"(I like) just hanging with the boys, going to have a bit of a hit of golf or go surfing or just sit around and watch a movie - but just sitting around with the boys just gets me away from it all and I have a bit of a laugh and giggle, so it's good."
Of the 'Bryce Gibbs Cup', a fictitious trophy contested between Carlton and Essendon earlier this season supposedly for the right to choose Gibbs with the No.1 draft pick, Gibbs said: "I reckon it is rubbish and I think that got a bit out of hand."
"The Bryce Gibbs Cup. I don't know about that," exclaimed Gibbs, before suggesting that the Gumbleton Cup or the Sellar Cup" would have been more appropriate.
mattdavies_03
4 Oct 2006, 16:20
yeh i just read this on afl.com.au, it's good news that the kid would rather stay where he gets drafted. About a month ago I was set that I wanted Essendon not to take him, just on the rumor that he may leave, but now I'd love Essendon to draft him. And if he goes to carlton ahead of Essendon, I'd rather see him stay there than run off to Adelaide just to please the croweaters.
C4[2]Yo`DooR
4 Oct 2006, 16:24
yeh i just read this on afl.com.au, it's good news that the kid would rather stay where he gets drafted. About a month ago I was set that I wanted Essendon not to take him, just on the rumor that he may leave, but now I'd love Essendon to draft him. And if he goes to carlton ahead of Essendon, I'd rather see him stay there than run off to Adelaide just to please the croweaters.
exactly .. us Victorians have to stick together .. despite our rivalries .. we must join forces as ONE to fight off the Interstaters !
Two Victorian draftees prepare to eat Crow
By Alan Shiell
Adelaide
November 25, 2003
Crow recruits Fergus Watts, left, and Ben Hudson.
Picture: Bryan Charlton
Ben Hudson, all 199 centimetres of him, expected to be training with his mates at Werribee this week, preparing for only his second season in the VFL.
Yesterday, though, he found himself doing morning and afternoon training sessions with AFL club Adelaide and savouring the Crows' plush facilities at AAMI Stadium at West Lakes.
In between, ruckman-forward Hudson, 24, and Sandringham Dragons' tall forward Fergus Watts, 18, Adelaide's other Victorian draftee, eased their way through a media conference and emerged as talented, mature young men still coming to terms with all the attention thrust on them since they were claimed by the Crows with picks No. 58 and 14, respectively, in last Saturday's national draft.
Watts was always going to be an early pick but Hudson was something of a bolter, to the extent that he was headlined as "Ben who?" in an Adelaide newspaper yesterday.
Hudson is almost the definitive late developer as an Australian footballer.
Born in Werribee, he moved to Queensland with his parents when he was eight and played basketball until he switched to football for two years, aged 13 and 14.
He returned to basketball and also played some rugby union at school and again in his first year of physiotherapy studies at the University of Queensland.
Then Australian football claimed him again for two years with the university and for two more years with Mount Gravatt, where he won the club's best-and-fairest award in 2001 and was a member of its 2002 premiership team.
With his studies successfully behind him, Hudson thought he would "give it (footy) a crack in Melbourne".
"I went down with my brother and girlfriend," he said. "I hadn't organised anything. I had family there.
"I wrote to a few clubs and asked whether they were interested. But my grandmother's house was the closest house to the Werribee Football Club so I went there. I rocked up on Werribee's door and said, 'Do you reckon I could get a game?' So funny things happen.
"I've played only a year in the VFL and obviously played against some AFL-listed blokes. I suppose I did all right there (he was runner-up to Travis Robinson in the club's best-and-fairest award)."
Hudson admitted he had spoken "a little bit" to the Western Bulldogs, and when asked what he thought were his strengths and weaknesses, he said: "Probably because I'm pretty new to the game, anything could be a weakness - disposal and obviously my fitness needs work.
"I suppose as a strength I find I can get the ball as a ruckman - sort of get a few possessions. I'm probably not the tallest of ruckmen but I like to punch the ball out and get a bit physical, and work out ways to get it."
English-born Watts, 197 cen-timetres, moved to Moorabbin at age four and began barracking for St Kilda. Reminded he now had the chance to work alongside Wayne Carey, he said: "From a development point of view as a footballer, Wayne Carey's about as good as it gets as a centre half-forward, so if you're going to learn off someone, there's none better than him.
"So I'll stick pretty close to him the next six months to a year and soak it all up."
Asked about reports he was trying to base his game on that of Dermott Brereton and whether the former Hawthorn champion was a hero of his (he has Dermie's blond-streaked hair): "Not really. It's more in the last year or year and a half where my body's got bigger and I've started to play a bit more like him.
"I'm splitting more packs and that kind of thing, which I really enjoy about football. That's why I play - I love hitting bodies and taking marks. Yeah, I'd like to play senior footy next year but I don't know whether they'd fit me into the team anywhere. I'll just keep working hard and try to get a crack at it.
"I'm not coming to Adelaide to be here for two years and then leave, so, yeah, I see myself as a one-club player and a long-term prospect, so hopefully it all pans out that way."
Says it all really. :eek:
That article is going to make Crow and Port fans very very very upset. Oh well. :)
C4[2]Yo`DooR
4 Oct 2006, 16:48
Gibbs > Hudson, Watts
Sheik Mathious
4 Oct 2006, 16:53
Watts couldn't get a game.
Gibbs will play all 22 games in 2007.
He won't miss daddy. He will be far too busy. ;)
Gilly1972
4 Oct 2006, 16:57
Yo`DooR']http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=new...ticleid=301771 (http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=301771)
Glenelg young gun and potential No.1 draft pick Bryce Gibbs has said that no matter where he lands in the November NAB AFL Draft, he "definitely" wants to remain at the club for the long-term.
"Definitely … just even learning where to run and what to do and I've had so many roles over the last year and a half - whether it was playing down back or up forward or in the midfield - I've learnt so much running around with those bigger bodies," Gibbs said.
"You can only control what you can and all this stuff (about going at) draft number one or number two - it's out of my control and I only focus on the things I can control, which is getting a kick on the footy field, so I try not to worry about it too much.
"If I'm working hard and doing all of the things right, hopefully it can just take care of itself."
"The Bryce Gibbs Cup. I don't know about that," exclaimed Gibbs, before suggesting that the Gumbleton Cup or the Sellar Cup" would have been more appropriate.
DROOL :D
Smart, mature kid who can play a bit of footy too.
Save him the time doing those moronic psychological tests conducted by lame organisational or sports psychs at draft camp in Canberra, i can tell you now this kid has a great head on his shoulders.
Blues_Man
4 Oct 2006, 17:10
Says it all really. :eek:
All it says is you Cows fans are dellusional and want to change the FS rules to allow you to draft a young bloke who's father never played one game for the Cows .
Now you realise you have lost out, you are bitter ....just build a bridge and move on ..all this bitterness cannot be good for you .
All it says is you Cows fans are dellusional and want to change the FS rules to allow you to draft a young bloke who's father never played one game for the Cows .
Now you realise you have lost out, you are bitter ....just build a bridge and move on ..all this bitterness cannot be good for you .
Yeah, you win i don't give a **** any more.
Sheik Mathious
4 Oct 2006, 17:34
Yeah, you win i don't give a **** any more.
Tough day at the glue factory?
Yeah, you win i don't give a **** any more.
Need a tissue? :)
whippersnipper
4 Oct 2006, 17:38
I really wouldnt read too much into that article. What else is Bryce going to say- as soon as my contract is up, I'm outta here? Of course not- he is saying the same lines every other player with a decent (in this case, virually certain) chance of moving interstate.
Tough day at the glue factory?
You are the one make sticky stuff thinking about Marc and Bryce.
Need a tissue? :)
She will be right mate.
C4[2]Yo`DooR
4 Oct 2006, 17:50
After reading that article ... I need a towell ....
Bluebear
4 Oct 2006, 18:21
Anyone need a cigarrette?:D
Jeremias
4 Oct 2006, 18:30
Excellent news.
I'll post it on the Crows forum......ahh crap, I'm banned from there. Someone else post it there then :D
Smokey_22
4 Oct 2006, 18:32
already done...
Maybe that pic of our boy in the blues jumper might be even more appropriate?
Gilly1972
4 Oct 2006, 18:41
already done...
Maybe that pic of our boy in the blues jumper might be even more appropriate?
I'd love to see the reaction to that :D
Gilly1972
4 Oct 2006, 18:42
I really wouldnt read too much into that article. What else is Bryce going to say- as soon as my contract is up, I'm outta here? Of course not- he is saying the same lines every other player with a decent (in this case, virually certain) chance of moving interstate.
Ben McKinley ?? :D
roostersgal4eva
4 Oct 2006, 19:11
I'd love to see the reaction to that :D
me too :D
good that bryce isnt going to the adelaide cows
atmo id prefer him going collingwood over them
Hugshawks
4 Oct 2006, 19:34
Lucky Carlton.
Looks like you're gonna get a champion player and person.
Good on him for staying, good to see he's got loyalty in him. :thumbsu:
Just music to my ears.
Now all we have to do is give him the famous No.4 jumper and he'll be a Carlton boy all his life.
I bet that twit Fantasia is crying uncontrolably. What a tosser!!
Excellent news.
I'll post it on the Crows forum......ahh crap, I'm banned from there. Someone else post it there then :D
I would but I'm on a 2 lifetime board ban per month budget. I like to keep a few in reserve for worthwhile causes. :)
irish_setanta
4 Oct 2006, 20:34
I would but I'm on a 2 lifetime board ban per month budget. I like to keep a few in reserve for worthwhile causes. :)
Rubbing Bryce in the face of the crows would nearly be worth one wouldnt it Parrot?
bluegal1983
4 Oct 2006, 20:58
This is fantastic news!! I am glad he came out and put an end to all this speculation! Shows maturity I think :D :thumbsu:
Suspect Gibbs will get the number 4 and follow in the footsteps of a certain SA born champion. :)
fevalenko
4 Oct 2006, 21:29
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l314/cache25/Gibbs_carlton.jpg
Heres my version of Gibbs for Carlton
TheGeneral
4 Oct 2006, 21:33
Suspect Gibbs will get the number 4 and follow in the footsteps of a certain SA born champion. :)
D.Jarman?
Wanganeen?
Oh wait, that's not good! :p :D
She will be right mate.
Fair bit of research to dig up the same quote from Watts before he left, i'll pay that.
But any concerns about homesickness won't stop us from drafting him. Judd is a close example case to Gibbs, not fergus.
blues4flag
4 Oct 2006, 22:34
Fair bit of research to dig up the same quote from Watts before he left, i'll pay that.
But any concerns about homesickness won't stop us from drafting him. Judd is a close example case to Gibbs, not fergus.
Agree. I'd bet that Fergus left to get more gametime, as he couldn't get into the Adelaide team.
Chodders
4 Oct 2006, 22:52
I really wouldnt read too much into that article. What else is Bryce going to say- as soon as my contract is up, I'm outta here? Of course not- he is saying the same lines every other player with a decent (in this case, virually certain) chance of moving interstate.
I will take Bryce at his word but even if what you say is at the back of his mind then I will be surprised if it still is at the end of two years. I reckon all footy players would love to play for the club they barracked for as a kid when they are first being drafted but once they get to a club they become great mates with the rest of the team they play with they begin to love playing for that team. Brendon Goddard is a good example. I am sure Carlton made him lucrative offers but at the end of the day he is good mates with the boys at the Saints and he enjoys his life down there. If Bryce comes to Carlton the first person who will greet him at the door will be an ex South Aussie and Glenelg player in Sticks and I am sure he won't look back from there. He will have arrived a great club which is a bit down at the moment but will be back eventually. Bryce or whoever may be #1 is part of that future.
The AFL football operations general manager Adrian Anderson confirmed last night that the Crows had been issued with a "please explain" about comments made by Adelaide recruiting manager James Fantasia last week.
Fantasia indicated that attempts by any other club to draft talented young South Australian Bryce Gibbs would be futile and that the youngster would finish up at Adelaide.
Anderson said that comments attributed to Fantasia could have been construed as draft tampering.
I will take Bryce at his word but even if what you say is at the back of his mind then I will be surprised if it still is at the end of two years. I reckon all footy players would love to play for the club they barracked for as a kid when they are first being drafted but once they get to a club they become great mates with the rest of the team they play with they begin to love playing for that team. Brendon Goddard is a good example. I am sure Carlton made him lucrative offers but at the end of the day he is good mates with the boys at the Saints and he enjoys his life down there. If Bryce comes to Carlton the first person who will greet him at the door will be an ex South Aussie and Glenelg player in Sticks and I am sure he won't look back from there. He will have arrived a great club which is a bit down at the moment but will be back eventually. Bryce or whoever may be #1 is part of that future.
Gibbs goes for the Roos, so there isn't even that angle, it is really just a go home factor. Saying that, like you said, surround him with mates and club going places (Like Goddard) and he will stay.
mediumsizered
4 Oct 2006, 23:29
The AFL football operations general manager Adrian Anderson confirmed last night that the Crows had been issued with a "please explain" about comments made by Adelaide recruiting manager James Fantasia last week.
Fantasia indicated that attempts by any other club to draft talented young South Australian Bryce Gibbs would be futile and that the youngster would finish up at Adelaide.
Anderson said that comments attributed to Fantasia could have been construed as draft tampering.
I wonder what sort of penalty a club would get for draft tampering. It would have to be worth losing 1st & 2nd round draft picks for a couple of years. Maybe even a $930k fine (in today's terms that would probably be closer to $1mil). Let's see if the AFL have the courage to get stuck into a non-Victorian club with the same passion that they got stuck into Carlton.
I think that if you check... most of the good players who start playing for Carlton end their careers at the blues... apart from that ****er Campo and Hamill who left because we wouldnt give him a little more money (and he was worth it)...
So if Gibbs is saying that he wants to be a one club player, then he is going to fit right into the clubs player culture of serving the club forever :D
I wonder what sort of penalty a club would get for draft tampering. It would have to be worth losing 1st & 2nd round draft picks for a couple of years. Maybe even a $930k fine (in today's terms that would probably be closer to $1mil). Let's see if the AFL have the courage to get stuck into a non-Victorian club with the same passion that they got stuck into Carlton.
Not sure that would apply mate.
Carlton were fined heavily for breaching the cap for the third time. Whilst I don't agree with what Fantasia said think he did go very close to draft tampering, I doubt the AFL would throw the book that hard at the Crows.
The club will now have to find a new recruit.... a long term HOT GF for Gibbs!!! Much like I suspect West Coast did for Judd to give him some extra ties in an attempt to make him stay.
So if any of you know of any nice single ladies that wouldn't mind dating our new friend Bryce, please forward their details to the CFC (and photo attached).
A bit of a question...
Why is this article about Gibbs in the CFC website??? Is it a sign/confirmation?
sticks74
5 Oct 2006, 11:38
A bit of a question...
Why is this article about Gibbs in the CFC website??? Is it a sign/confirmation?
It should be, we would be nuts not to take him...its a done deal!
Gibbs and Murph in the guts next year...Bring it on.
Smokey_22
5 Oct 2006, 11:48
Gibbs and Murph are gonna be so good together. Surely they'll end up being best mates.
The Grover
5 Oct 2006, 14:11
Yo`DooR']exactly .. us Victorians have to stick together .. despite our rivalries .. we must join forces as ONE to fight off the Interstaters !
exactly right, its becoming a joke not a ****ing cycle like AFL maintains is happening.
Before we know it will be a decade since last Victorian flag, thats longer than a cycle.
Each vic club needs a full-time recruiting officer in WA,SA & VIC, all supporters to become members, better facilities on the way for vic clubs.
I can't wait until that cycle eventually turns.
Bluebear
5 Oct 2006, 15:02
exactly right, its becoming a joke not a ****ing cycle like AFL maintains is happening.
Before we know it will be a decade since last Victorian flag, thats longer than a cycle.
Each vic club needs a full-time recruiting officer in WA,SA & VIC, all supporters to become members, better facilities on the way for vic clubs.
I can't wait until that cycle eventually turns.
I have floated this idea before.
Why don't the Vic clubs form a coalition and as a group hire recruiting people in those states to identify talent?
Each club gets the same report and it removes the disadvantage of not seeing the SANFL and WAFL (and QAFL) games that the local teams do, and hence jagging players like Cox as a rookie.
I know they clubs hate sharing information and would not want to cooperate, but none of the vic clubs have the money to all hire full time recruiting staff in each state.
Just a thought......:)
Carlton can easily fix it so crows won;t get him and thats when his contract close in his 2nd year re-sign him for another 2-3 years :D :thumbsu: