#11 Shane "Obi-wan Kenobi " Obree

[jerry springer]

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Shane O'Bree
Fast Facts
Jumper No: 11
Height: 180cm
Weight: 83kg
DOB: 15 March 1979
Recruited From: Beaufort/North Ballarat U18/Brisbane
Career Matches: 192
Career Goals: 74 (career matches/goals at the end of the 2007 season)
2007 Home & Away Totals
Matches: 21
Goals: 5
Marks: 90
Disposals: 423
Kicks: 261

About
Backed up his strong finish to 2005 with a consistent 2006, in which the 27-year-old played every game and averaged over 21 possessions a match through the midfield. Had a quiet patch in the middle of the season after being particularly good in the first ten weeks, coinciding with the fortunes of the team, before rediscovering his best form by season’s end. Led the Magpies in effective tackles (84) and handballs (243), and was second behind Ben Johnson for total disposals (491). Finished equal 7th in the EW Copeland Trophy voting, and was the recipient of the 2006 Darren Millane Memorial Trophy for Best Clubman. O’Bree has now played 168 league games, including 149 for Collingwood since crossing from Brisbane at the end of 1999.


Records
Brownlow Medal
2006 votes 9; career votes 32

Draft history
1997 AFL Draft 1st round selection (Brisbane) No. 10 overall; 2000 Pre-Season Draft 1st round selection (Collingwood) No. 1 overall.

Debut
Round 2, 1998 v Sydney @ SCG
Collingwood debut: Round 1, 2000 v Hawthorn @ MCG


Awards Honours
Collingwood
Jock McHale Trophy (4th best and fairest) 2001
Darren Millane Memorial Trophy (best clubman) 2006

AFL
AFL Rising Star nominee 1999

TAC Cup
Team of the Year 1996

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Shane O'Bree Personal information
Birth March 15, 1979 (1979-03-15) (age 28), Victoria
Recruited from Beaufort/North Ballarat U18
Playing career¹
Debut Round 2, April 4, 1998, Brisbane Lions vs. Sydney, at Sydney Cricket Ground
Team(s) Brisbane Lions (1998-99)
19 Games, 3 Goals

Collingwood (2000-)

182 Games, 74 Goals

¹ Statistics to end of 2006 season
Career highlights


AFL Rising Star nominee 1999


Shane O'Bree (born March 15, 1979) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

Originally from Beaufort in north-west Victoria, via North Ballarat U18's, O'Bree was drafted to the Brisbane Lions in the 1997 National Draft as a first-round selection. He spent two years up North, debuting in 1998 with 21 touches, but managed only 19 games in his 2 seasons. A ball winning midfielder, he won a AFL Rising Star nomination in the first week of 1999, having 27 touches. After a brilliant start to the season his form slipped at a great rate, and was delisted at the end of the season.

He was quickly snapped up in the 2000 Pre-Season Draft by Collingwood and had a great first season with the club, showing dominance as a clearance player. He had 498 disposals and then 467 in successive seasons at the Pies, showing he was a great pick up. O'Bree suffered a slow start to 2002 thanks to Osteitis Pubis, but played in the Grand Final sides of 2002 and 2003, once again being a valuable clearance player in the centre for the Magpies. Around this time he also played his 100th game. Steady seasons in both 2004 and 2005 have kept him going, despite his lack of speed in a slow midfield outfit, he still found the ball and tackled hard. 2006 saw him play all 23 games, and bring up his 150th career game in Round 5 against Port Adelaide. He consistently found the ball, having another good season, but was still criticised by supporters for his speed and disposal. He averaged 21 touches for the year.

[jerry springer]

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[jerry springer]

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[bradrowe#32]

He seems to polarise the community, but as long as he keeps getting the ball he was always have a place in the team.

He will be 29 next year so we have to look at replacing him within the next 2-3 years. After that, I'm not sure how to play him. In a back pocket? probably not. As a small forward? I have my doubts. Off the bench? Probably. I see him coming an impact player as he ages.

[jerry springer]

He seems to polarise the community, but as long as he keeps getting the ball he was always have a place in the team.

He will be 29 next year so we have to look at replacing him within the next 2-3 years. After that, I'm not sure how to play him. In a back pocket? probably not. As a small forward? I have my doubts. Off the bench? Probably. I see him coming an impact player as he ages.

some good questions raised

I am his #1 doubter,He makes me tear my hair out with his disposal but as long as he plays for collingwood he still has my support :cool:.I can see him only as a Mid-fielder,cant play forward at all maybe in a few years as a spark off the bench but hopefully he will be depth only with our young guys coming through.

[Johnson#26]

Good footballer, forever underrated.

[jerry springer]

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Obree in South Africa

[jerry springer]

to add to the above picture,I think he should have another "beard off"

he played like a superstar when he had that beard

[jerry springer]

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congrats to obi on his 200th game last night and also his 300th helicopter kick

[skeetz]

Maybe the Helicopters are to become a thing of the past?

THE mystery of Shane O'Bree's missing right foot has finally been solved. Collingwood onballer O'Bree was until recently considered one of the league's more unreliable kicks, last year averaging a deplorable 61 per cent efficiency.

This season the transformation has come from an unlikely source - kicking almost exclusively on his non-preferred left foot.

Incredibly, he has kicked the ball with his right foot just four times in the past four weeks, despite amassing 41 kicks and 79 possessions.

Last week against the Eagles he had 13 kicks among his 20 possessions, but just one of them - an instinctive mid-air swipe - was a right-footed kick.

But there is no broken right foot, or revelation that he is actually a left-footer.

O'Bree is tracking at an excellent 74.4 per cent effectiveness, 6 per cent above the league average, by simply doing what feels right.

"No, there is nothing wrong with my right leg. I have always been someone who has used my opposite foot. That is how it has come about," he said yesterday.

"I have used it more often than the right this year, and it's more efficient for some reason."

O'Bree confesses he is happier to handball to his faster teammates, but the transformation has hit new levels since Round 5. In that game he had 21 possessions and eight kicks.

The four left-foot kicks hit the target, but of the right-footed disposals, one was out of bounds on the full, one a clanger turnover to Roo Leigh Harding and another was ineffective.

Now, even when he is corralled onto his right foot, he finds a way to squeeze off a left-foot kick.

Against the Eagles he had three goal assists and kicked a super running goal, all with his non-preferred foot.

"I am right-handed in everything I do, so it is weird," he said.

"Left-footers do look more fluid, and it isn't something I go out of my way to do. I must have been supposed to be a left-footer, but I was just born a right-footer."

Champion Data rates O'Bree as one of the premier loose-ball collectors in the league, critical because it means he wins his own ball rather than accepts handball-receives.

He is No. 1 in loose-ball gets this year, and fourth since 2003 behind only champions Ben Cousins of West Coast, Carlton's Anthony Koutoufides and Brisbane Lion Simon Black.

But while the goal last week was on his left side, from 20m directly in front in Round 2 he iced the money shot with his right foot.

"My right is still my favourite side, and if I had a shot to win the Grand Final, I would use my right, not my left," he said.

O'Bree's Pies are in superb nick, but realise they need to capitalise against the Demons on Queens Birthday next Monday to keep their momentum going.

link (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,23801446-19742,00.html)

[jerry springer]

thanks for the article.74% effectiveness is definatly an improvement

[jerry springer]

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/pies-pile-on-pressure/2008/08/29/1219516667967.html

Collingwood veteran Shane O'Bree has warned their premiership rivals the Magpies have regained their intimidating psyche ahead of the AFL finals.

The Magpies have won their past three games despite missing stars Alan Didak, Rhyce and Heath Shaw because of suspensions.

O'Bree said his side had returned to harassing their opponents into making mistakes. It proved to a successful game plan against reigning premiers Geelong in round nine, handing the Cats their only loss for the year by 86 points.

"We're back to playing the footy that we like to play and that is intimidating teams, putting the pressure on and making the most of the turnovers," O'Bree said.

"We're just playing as a team and not relying on too many individuals."

A win against Fremantle on Friday night at Subiaco would lift the Magpies into fourth place.

Should North Melbourne lose to Port Adelaide, Collingwood would claim the all-important double chance for the finals.

O'Bree acknowledged the Dockers would be keen to damage the Magpies' ambitions of finishing fourth.

He also added the Dockers would lift for the retiring Mark Johnson, while enigmatic forward Jeff Farmer and midfielder Josh Carr will reportedly play their last games for Fremantle on Friday night.

"We can finish top four but Freo have got a lot of blokes that are retiring so they're going to be out to beat us as well," O'Bree said.

"I've been in that position before where Collingwood was down the bottom of the ladder and you're playing just to knock a team off and wreck their finals chances, so they'll be fired up, so it's a matter of us taking them on early."

O'Bree admitted his team would sorely miss captain Scott Burns, who is out with a calf injury.

While the Magpies have denied reports Burns' injury will keep him out for the entire finals series, he could miss the first final after the 33-year-old missed three weeks with a calf complaint earlier this year.

O'Bree, who said Burns was not depressed about the injury layoff, was hopeful the rest this weekend would allow him to recover in time for next weekend's first final.

"He's obviously just walking at this stage but he'll have a long break," O'Bree said.

"Flying's not the best thing for it so he'll just freshen up over the weekend and get it right so hopefully run next week and play next weekend."

Collingwood bad boy Alan Didak is clearly still much-loved at the club, after teammates put his name up for the AFL Players Association most valuable player award.

Despite his much-publicised off-field misdemeanour early this month, in which he was handed a club-imposed suspension, Didak's teammates have chosen him as one of their three contenders for one of the game's most respected awards.

Forward Paul Medhurst has also been nominated, demonstrating he has well and truly earned the respect of his fellow Magpies after crossing from Fremantle last year.

Geelong have overlooked reigning Brownlow medallist Jimmy Bartel and the game's undisputed premier fullback Matthew Scarlett.

Gary Ablett, Joel Corey and second year player Joel Selwood were favoured for the Cats' three nominations.

Among the chances to vie for the award with Ablett are Hawthorn forward Lance Franklin, Bulldogs midfielder Adam Cooney and North Melbourne's Brent Harvey.

Sydney captain Brett Kirk was his side's nominee for the Robert Rose award for the most courageous player.

He will battle it out with others including Brisbane captain Jonathan Brown, Hawthorn's Luke Hodge and Richmond's Matthew Richardson. Fremantle's Rhys Palmer, Richmond's Trent Cotchin, Carlton's Matthew Kreuzer, Geelong's Harry Taylor and Hawthorn's Cyril Rioli are among the nominees for the best first year player award. AAP