Which current player has the best football IQ?

Which current player has the best football IQ?

  • Sam Mitchell

    Votes: 41 26.5%
  • Chad Wingard

    Votes: 7 4.5%
  • Luke Hodge

    Votes: 11 7.1%
  • Scott Pendelbury

    Votes: 29 18.7%
  • Harry Taylor

    Votes: 3 1.9%
  • Dane Swan

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Robbie Gray

    Votes: 11 7.1%
  • Gary Ablett

    Votes: 33 21.3%
  • Brent Harvey

    Votes: 6 3.9%
  • Dustin Fletcher

    Votes: 6 3.9%
  • Jack Riewoldt

    Votes: 7 4.5%

  • Total voters
    155

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I'd go with Pendlebury. His ability to work through a situation that he has no business getting through, and making it look very easy, is ridiculous. He doesn't do it with brute strength, or breakneck speed, it's through an acute sense of what is unfolding around him, and seemingly knowing what the people around him are going to do before they do it.

Mitchell up there too.

Yeh, I'd go with Pendles as well. Awareness is unbelievable and takes the right option 95% of the time to allow the team to maintain possession.

From other teams

Adelaide: Dangerfield - reads contested situations well and has that innate ability in the forward 50
Brisbane: Christensen - always on the move and holds onto the ball well
Carlton: Cripps - always knows where his teammates are on the inside
Collingwood: Sidebottom - similar to Pendles in the way he moves on the field and his decision making under pressure
Essendon: Heppell - classy and smart on the inside and reads the play superbly, dropping into defense when needed; or up forward.
Fremantle: Mundy - assesses situations well and is smart in traffic; another who seemingly makes the game stop
Geelong: Blicavs - left field but for a bloke who didn't grow up with the game makes incredibly considered decisions. Links up well
Gold Coast: Ablett: consistently good decision maker and is the best reader of the play in the league
Greater Western Sydney: Cameron - pure forward who beats his opponent with his smarts and goal-sense, rather than brute strength or speed
Hawthorn: Burgoyne - not as productive as Mitchell, but is silky around the contest and reads the play quicker than his opponents
Melbourne: Hogan - natural forward who knows when to create space to lead and when to impact the contest
North Melbourne: Dal Santo - lost a yard of pace but used to dance around players back in the day
Port Adelaide: Boak - could have picked a few but has a great understanding with the players around him and chooses the right option almost every time
Richmond: Ellis - still developing but another who has a great balance between his inside and outside game.
St Kilda: Billings - class decision maker and silky on the outside
Sydney: Hannebery - smart, good in close and spreads the ball to dangerous spots
West Coast: Priddis - inside beast who generate much of West Coast's attacking forays through his creative link up work
Western Bulldogs: Stringer - potentially the highest footy IQ in the league and reads the play before others have had time to react
 
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