How good is Fyfe??

[Lach72]

He was pretty good.

That contest where he bust the tackle, smashed the Pie player over then hit Walters lace out?

I gave Hill and Walters our best votes though last night watching at the ground.
Might have a different opinion watching the replay

 

[Kenny_01]

Never knocked his goal kicking, I think that's a lot easier for him because he can kick through the ball, he makes good contact with the ball that's for sure but it isn't the same thing.

In play he will also bang long to a contest at times, he's smart enough to never kick to an outnumbered team mate but I think people need to look past the flashy things and rate other people for what they do on the field. It's so easy to hear the stats and then link Fyfe to BOG with the memory of a good contested mark consolidating the theory. I don't think he really drills many passes, some tend to fall short while others are simply kicks to a contest.

He has been BOG in over half the games I'd say, he's amazing but he's not an automatic selection because of who he is and the stats sheet.

He does drill quite a few - think he is our most accurate kick inside 50 this season. You also have to remember he gets to so many contests and averages close to 20 contested possessions per game, far more than any other player. He is probably tired but wills himself to win the ball. He runs forward and back. Even yesterday, for him to hit a target running full pelt after Varcoe tried to knock him out and then Oxley tried to tackle him was amazing. Fyfe does that regularly. He would have been absolutely buggered.

 

[Banker]

I don't buy the cheap stat thing with Ablett. Still gotta have the work rate to continue to get the footy in all positions. Not like he waxes with others like the Bowden boys. Also does it with a bloke hanging off him too.

Funny, whilst I thought Fyfe was good last night, I thought hill was better. Couldn't believe he had 32 with 9clearances.

Turning in one hell of a season to date is Fyfe. Amazingly good year.

Probably because so many of his disposals are contested he doesn't really stand out.

Fyfe is one of the most consistent players the game has ever seen if you use brownlow votes are a barometer.

 

[SickQwon]

Fyfe will break the record for most Brownlow votes in a season.

 

[Sully90]

How are people still saying that Fyfe's disposal is dodgy? It has never been dodgy. When he started his disposal was average, now it is quite good. Not as good as Pendlebury, Judd, Ablett, etc, but still so far above being a "weakness" or "dodgy" it's laughable.

 

[Moe B]

Not as good as Patty Cripps...

 

[Taylor]

Not as good as Patty Cripps...

I'm sure it will hurt when he leaves back to WA and joins West Coast at 24.
Four more years!

 

[peppy la pew]

Not as good as Patty Cripps...

Give Fyfe time he's only 23

 

[Moe B]

I'm sure it will hurt when he leaves back to WA and joins West Coast at 24.
Four more years!

Why not freo? He's the future captain of our club... Not going anywhere!!!

 

[Moe B]

Give Fyfe time he's only 23

Nah Fyfe is an absolute freak in all seriousness... Lucky pricks!!

 

[peppy la pew]

Why not freo? He's the future captain of our club... Not going anywhere!!!

Cripps is a future gun, I've bought into the hype

 

[Taylor]

Why not freo? He's the future captain of our club... Not going anywhere!!!

It's for the irony.

 

[iBeng]

Hes pretty good eh.

 

[didaksrightfoot]

How are people still saying that Fyfe's disposal is dodgy? It has never been dodgy. When he started his disposal was average, now it is quite good. Not as good as Pendlebury, Judd, Ablett, etc, but still so far above being a "weakness" or "dodgy" it's laughable.

Because we need to find some "weakness" in his game so he doesn't appear immortal.
Without looking at numbers, I think his actual disposal is probably about average for an AFL level player - but that says a lot given that the majority of his disposals are tough and contested, and how good he is at still getting a clear disposal when most other players would be tackled. (I'm sure his disposal would look much better if he was playing as a half back or outside mid and had more time and space with the ball).

The guy is an absolute beast and just always seems to get himself to the ball, and once he's got it will push through 2 or 3 guys to get it forward. Barring suspension he will runaway with the Brownlow this year, and has clearly put himself as the elite midfielder in the competition right now.

 

[Moe B]

It's for the irony.

Gotcha...

 

[democritus]

It's just a pleasure to watch him do his thing in the flesh every second week.

The most exciting player I've been able to see on a regular basis. Feels good.

 

[daiks]

Fyfe's is getting people a bit blinded lately. He isn't always best on ground. He's always up there but people fawn over everything he does when there's a lot to work on still. He's the best at hunting the ball in the AFL, when it's in dispute he's almost always going to follow it until he wins it.

He is a contested player with good goal sense but he's not the be all and end all. His disposal is still dodgy. There were more damaging players on the ground tonight.

last night there was a piece of play where he bumped varcoe off the ball, then shrugged off another collingwood player to deliver a pass to walters whilst still being under pressure. his disposal is not dodgy.

 

[clogged]

I've seen better.

Is there anything you don't say that about? You've basically run a decade long whinge about how much you hate modern football, the modern player, how it was all much better in the past, despite the fact it wasn't.

33,000 odd posts about how it was better in the 70s. Stop watching, you whinger.

 

[MarcusP2]

Is there anything you don't say that about? You've basically run a decade long whinge about how much you hate modern football, the modern player, how it was all much better in the past, despite the fact it wasn't.

33,000 odd posts about how it was better in the 70s. Stop watching, you whinger.

Probably Dunstall, Lethal and/or Hudson.

 

[Farang83150]

How are people still saying that Fyfe's disposal is dodgy? It has never been dodgy. When he started his disposal was average, now it is quite good. Not as good as Pendlebury, Judd, Ablett, etc, but still so far above being a "weakness" or "dodgy" it's laughable.

Its people grasping to find an angle to put him down, bummer the loosers cant just enjoy pure footy.

 

[clogged]

Probably Dunstall, Lethal and/or Hudson.

Hudson was ridiculously overrated. The whole idea of a stay at home forward is the kind of thing only an amateur game values.

The 'great' players of the past had it easy. Coaching was basically fire and brimstone stuff to motivate players. These days each and every player has it much harder. Coaches deliberately shutdown opposition playmakers, and inhibit creative players. Only the thick oldies can't see it.

You look at the 'goals of the week' of the 80s and compare to what players do today, and the gulf in degree of difficulty and talent is massive. The game is so much harder today, and the average player is so much more talented.

There were more 'goal of the year' quality goals last night than the entirety of 1983

 

[raffrox]

Hudson was ridiculously overrated. The whole idea of a stay at home forward is the kind of thing only an amateur game values.

The 'great' players of the past had it easy. Coaching was basically fire and brimstone stuff to motivate players. These days each and every player has it much harder. Coaches deliberately shutdown opposition playmakers, and inhibit creative players. Only the thick oldies can't see it.

You look at the 'goals of the week' of the 80s and compare to what players do today, and the gulf in degree of difficulty and talent is massive. The game is so much harder today, and the average player is so much more talented.

There were more 'goal of the year' quality goals last night than the entirety of 1983

Great videos to compare.

Daicos would still be a star toady thats for sure though. How balanced and skilled did he look?

 

[Fireballs]

He's that good that you can take his performances for granted at times.

When he and Dangerfield went H2H, Danger played one of the best games of his career yet only matched what Fyfe did that game which is what he does week in week out.

 

[clogged]

Great videos to compare.

Daicos would still be a star toady thats for sure though. How balanced and skilled did he look?

Daicos certainly would, although these days if a small forward didn't have a bag of tricks like Daicos he'd struggle to score.

 

[Texicana]

Hudson was ridiculously overrated. The whole idea of a stay at home forward is the kind of thing only an amateur game values.

The 'great' players of the past had it easy. Coaching was basically fire and brimstone stuff to motivate players. These days each and every player has it much harder. Coaches deliberately shutdown opposition playmakers, and inhibit creative players. Only the thick oldies can't see it.

You look at the 'goals of the week' of the 80s and compare to what players do today, and the gulf in degree of difficulty and talent is massive. The game is so much harder today, and the average player is so much more talented.

There were more 'goal of the year' quality goals last night than the entirety of 1983

Absolutely spot on. But people and the AFL do not want to admit it, they keep trying to manipulate rules "to return the game to the old days", for their own self-gratification and mis-directed marketing/philosophical ideas. No matter what they do they cannot "return the game to yesteryear" because all players are so much better and athletic today.

The clubs (footy departments) and players have advanced so much in the last 3 decades and players are now true professional sportsmen, not like the semi-pro nature of the past. Any player 3 decades ago with the fitness, training and self management (body - recovery and maintenance) level of any club's best 22 player today would be an absolute superstar back then. Now you have to have this just to have a chance to break into the 22.