Mega Thread Nick Daicos - Can he be the GTWEB? Part 2

[demondavey]

Yeah, if it wasn't for the players, coaches, umpires, and every media outlet consistently voting him as the best, or one of the best, players in the competition, you could be right...

Wasn’t rated the best internally. I think these awards are overrated, Fadge. I think the reason people tee off in here is because your sycophantic fan boy obsessions perpetuate him as some Demi god type athlete whereas in reality he can’t even win a club B&F.

Ouch.

 

[Lunchtime]

The sledge that prompted Pies legend to storm out

The father of Nick and Josh left early.

www.sen.com.au

 

[Mr Meow]

Wasn’t rated the best internally. I think these awards are overrated, Fadge. I think the reason people tee off in here is because your sycophantic fan boy obsessions perpetuate him as some Demi god type athlete whereas in reality he can’t even win a club B&F.

Ouch.

He did win the BnF when Collingwood had a poor year in 2024. Next on his list are winning them in top 4, grand final or premiership sides. I just worry that the Pies might have their window close soon.

 

[Fadge]

Wasn’t rated the best internally. I think these awards are overrated, Fadge. I think the reason people tee off in here is because your sycophantic fan boy obsessions perpetuate him as some Demi god type athlete whereas in reality he can’t even win a club B&F.

Ouch.

His CV speaks for itself after only his first 4 seasons, and will only continue to speak for itself

I would have loved to hear the 'feedback' had he have won the club B&F, but finished outside the top 4 in all of the Brownlow, Coaches and Players Awards...

The fact you guys are all so excited about the outcome tells us everything we need to know.

 

[demondavey]

His CV speaks for itself after only his first 4 seasons, and will only continue to speak for itself

I would have loved to hear the 'feedback' had he have won the club B&F, but finished outside the top 4 in all of the Brownlow, Coaches and Players Awards...

The fact you guys are all so excited about the outcome tells us everything we need to know.

Not really, nobody is excited. We are just giving you shit.

 

[Fadge]

Not really, nobody is excited. We are just giving you shit.

You are. Have a look at how quickly the results were shared on BigFooty, and how many of you are revelling in it.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't even know, or care, who won Melbourne's B&F.

 

[demondavey]

You are. Have a look at how quickly the results were shared on BigFooty, and how many of you are revelling in it.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't even know, or care, who won Melbourne's B&F.

I think people are taking you to task on it due to your outlandish appraise for him. If you’d toned it down and accepted he was a really promising player with a big future then there’d be no storm here on BF. Instead it’s become comical that he is being talked up as potentially the best ever by you lot.

Have you noticed it’s only Collingwood supporters talking about him like he is some sort of Demi god? He is no doubt great, but he is a protected species by the umpiring department, frothed over by the media, at best an excellent outside player, and nowhere near good enough to carry a midfield.

I mean for all the commentary in this thread you’d think he’d win a B&F at a minimum. He hasn’t even done that this year and his old man absolutely sooked up that both his boys didn’t get the finishes he thought they deserved.

It’s not the Daicos Magpies.

Nobody actually GAF about the stats mate, his little coaches awards or players awards mate, they mean nothing. Best and fairest awards are far more meaningful.

The club didn’t even rate him no.1

Absolutely cringeworthy what you and a few others have contributed here. Id be embarrassed.

 

[demondavey]

This thread should have been started in 3 more years.

 

[Fadge]

This thread should have been started in 3 more years.

What, and sacrifice the 80,000 posts that it will have garnered between when the thread started in February 2024 and October 2028?

 

[Fadge]

Have you noticed it’s only Collingwood supporters talking about him like he is some sort of Demi god? He is no doubt great, but he is a protected species by the umpiring department, frothed over by the media, at best an excellent outside player, and nowhere near good enough to carry a midfield.

LOLOL

In one sentence you say it's only Collingwood supporters talking him up.

Then in the next sentence you go on to say how he is also frothed over by the media.

Which is it?

He really does have you in a pickle, doesn't he?

 

[Fadge]

Nobody actually GAF about the stats mate, his little coaches awards or players awards mate, they mean nothing. Best and fairest awards are far more meaningful.

So when he won the B&F and Coaches Award in 2024, it was all about the respect of his peers (in which he'd gone 2nd and 4th in the previous two years).

Now that he's won the Players MVP, it's all about club Best and Fairests?

You guys need to make up your minds...

 

[ShereKhan]

Can someone remind me if Dusty did absolutely anything of note in his first 4 seasons?

Daics is miles ahead of the pack... regular podium finishes in all the awards, solid finals record and a Bradman-like domination of Brownlow voting

We've never seen anything like it

In Martin's second year being 2011 he averaged 22 disposals and 1.5 goals per game. Here is the list of players from 2018-2025 that did that:

Isaac Heeney in 2025

Yep...that's it...1 x player in the last 8 years. Martin did it in a bottom team in his second year.

 

[Corn Cobbers]

So when he won the B&F and Coaches Award in 2024, it was all about the respect of his peers (in which he'd gone 2nd and 4th in the previous two years).

Now that he's won the Players MVP, it's all about club Best and Fairests?

You guys need to make up your minds...

Olympic-standard mental gymnastics

The new GOAT award is the humble B & F

 

[Corn Cobbers]

In Martin's second year being 2011 he averaged 22 disposals and 1.5 goals per game. Here is the list of players from 2018-2025 that did that:

Isaac Heeney in 2025

Yep...that's it...1 x player in the last 8 years. Martin did it in a bottom team in his second year.

Was he favourite for the Brownlow with 3 weeks to go? Did he play a pivotal role in a flag? Was he even a household name?

Compared to Daics first 4 years... there's just no comparison

 

[Fadge]

In Martin's second year being 2011 he averaged 22 disposals and 1.5 goals per game. Here is the list of players from 2018-2025 that did that:

Isaac Heeney in 2025

Yep...that's it...1 x player in the last 8 years. Martin did it in a bottom team in his second year.

Definite All-Australian then, right?

 

[Corn Cobbers]

Definite All-Australian then, right?

Daics is only one AA behind that Martin guy, he can't have been very good, not for his whole career anyway

 

[ShereKhan]

He did absolutely nothing of note.

In his first 4-years Martin averaged 22.3 disposals and 1.05 goals per game...across a 4-year stretch.

In the single season of 2025, 22+ and 1+ was achieved by Heeney and Bontempelli....that's all.

In 2024: Bont, Heeney, Petracca, Warner

In 2023: Martin and Petracca

In 2022: Bont

In 2021: Bont, Petracca, Martin

In 2020: Martin


Naicos averages 29 and .66 across his first 4-years. 30% more disposals, 38% less goals.

Contested possession averages almost identical. So Nick certainly gets a lot more uncontested possessions.

 

[ShereKhan]

Definite All-Australian then, right?

The meeeeedddyyyaaa love Nick. We get it. It's almost like the team is selected by the meeeeeeddddyyyaaaaaa.

When Nick is named in the best 2 x players on the ground in a final where the contest is fierce (he's zero from 7 thus far), maybe re-start this thread.

 

[ShereKhan]

His CV speaks for itself after only his first 4 seasons, and will only continue to speak for itself

I would have loved to hear the 'feedback' had he have won the club B&F, but finished outside the top 4 in all of the Brownlow, Coaches and Players Awards...

The fact you guys are all so excited about the outcome tells us everything we need to know.

Rowell beat him in the Brownlow. In the coaches votes. In ratings. In B&F. But the players voted Daicos #1 and Rowell not in top-5..... it's almost like the players were influenced by what they hear in the meeeedddddyyyyaaaaa.

 

[Chronz]

In his first 4-years Martin averaged 22.3 disposals and 1.05 goals per game...across a 4-year stretch.

In the single season of 2025, 22+ and 1+ was achieved by Heeney and Bontempelli....that's all.

In 2024: Bont, Heeney, Petracca, Warner

In 2023: Martin and Petracca

In 2022: Bont

In 2021: Bont, Petracca, Martin

In 2020: Martin


Naicos averages 29 and .66 across his first 4-years. 30% more disposals, 38% less goals.

Contested possession averages almost identical. So Nick certainly gets a lot more uncontested possessions.

Richmond supporters just love their biased and cherry picked StAtZ spruiking.

 

[Fadge]

Rowell beat him in the Brownlow. In the coaches votes. In ratings. In B&F. But the players voted Daicos #1 and Rowell not in top-5..... it's almost like the players were influenced by what they hear in the meeeedddddyyyyaaaaa.

Yeah.

The players who sit in team meetings week in, week out, and spend more time talking about their plan for Nick Daicos than they do for any other player in the comp.... don't know what they are talking about.

If Rowell was so much better than Daicos in 2025, you would have won a heap of money on him for the Brownlow, right?

How could Daicos be paying $2.5, and Rowell $8 at the start of the night if Rowell was so much better than him?

But it is good that you blokes have found another player who is allegedly better than Daicos, at least for the next 5 minutes.

After Sheezel, Callaghan, Darcy, Heeney, etc....

 

[Fadge]

Contested possession averages almost identical. So Nick certainly gets a lot more uncontested possessions.

This is definitely my favourite part of this post.

 

[Corn Cobbers]

In his first 4-years Martin averaged 22.3 disposals and 1.05 goals per game...across a 4-year stretch.

In the single season of 2025, 22+ and 1+ was achieved by Heeney and Bontempelli....that's all.

In 2024: Bont, Heeney, Petracca, Warner

In 2023: Martin and Petracca

In 2022: Bont

In 2021: Bont, Petracca, Martin

In 2020: Martin


Naicos averages 29 and .66 across his first 4-years. 30% more disposals, 38% less goals.

Contested possession averages almost identical. So Nick certainly gets a lot more uncontested possessions.

Did Martin get any AAs, Coaches MVPs or Leigh Matthews trophies in those barnstorming first 4 years? Did he average 20% more Brownlow votes per game than anyone in history in that period?

 

[demondavey]

LOLOL

In one sentence you say it's only Collingwood supporters talking him up.

Then in the next sentence you go on to say how he is also frothed over by the media.

Which is it?

He really does have you in a pickle, doesn't he?

I am talking about posters on BF mate….

 

[demondavey]

Fadge has to be Peter Daicos