Past #10: Ben Cunnington - will retire from the AFL after * game - 238 games/95+ goals/2x Syd Barker Medalist/Shinboner - thanks for everything Cunners

[Masked Avenger]

What an iconic image. The young gun admiring the old gunslinger. Smart kid. Even smarter future.

 

[Billy Not Really]

My personal favourite part is the chest punch Cunners gives to Thomas who sells it.

And then Tarryn attempts the same thing back and Cunners just no-sells it trodding off.

Every interaction between them is unintended comedy.

 

[DuckYeah]

The pick up and handball

Lol
Shirt fronts the Misso and handballs the kids into the next paddock hahaha

 

[koshari]

My personal favourite part is the chest punch Cunners gives to Thomas who sells it.

And then Tarryn attempts the same thing back and Cunners just no-sells it trodding off.

Every interaction between them is unintended comedy.

[birds chirping] @ 6 secs.

 

[Snake_Baker]

He looks in love with Cunners. Infact a few do.

Alpha male.

 

[the big lebowski]

Alpha male.

More to it than that I think.

Zeebs is as aloha as they come and I’m not seeing the adulation directed towards him

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

More to it than that I think.

Zeebs is as aloha as they come and I’m not seeing the adulation directed towards him

He has a thing for Hawaiian shirts?

 

[Snake_Baker]

They might tip toe around Cunners, but I don't reckon they go within 10 feet of Taylor.

He makes Cunners look affable by comparison.

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

They might tip toe around Cunners, but I don't reckon they go within 10 feet of Taylor.

He makes Cunners look affable by comparison.

They don't tip-toe around him at all and it's pretty obvious why. He doesn't treat them like idiots whatever their age, he doesn't say much but clearly has a dry sense of humour. He knows who he is, is comfortable in his own skin and leads by example.

 

[archereleven]

He looks in love with Cunners. Infact a few do.

They are the sons craving dads attention and when he gives a subtle wink it makes their day...

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[amaz199]

LDU: Cunners, tell me your secrets

Cunners: smiles

LOL! That was it for me.

 

[Caracas]

Ben just seems like a likeable sort. End of.


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[kangatragic]

So happy for Cunners today. Thought he could be finished from that back injury last year and all this talk about the changing game no longer suiting him.

But I think he's come back better then ever

 

[Snake_Baker]

Beast.

Top 3 in both of the elite contested categories.

 

[That New Poster]

I would expect any Cunners mike-up to be like an isolated bass track of John Entwistle from the who. It's just the bass player, right?

 

[kangatragic]

Also great seeing Tarryn Thomas embracing Cunners straight after the siren. You can just see the massive respect he has for him

 

[leighlee13]

He looked so happy after the final siren. Chatting and hugging everyone. So underatted. He is an absolute star. So glad he plays for our club.

 

[Snake_Baker]

He gave this a fright today, and put in an equal 2nd best effort in the list he personally owns.

He's arguably the greatest contested ball player in North's history

 

[Reagan Smash]

Superstar and criminally underrated

 

[1975]

If Ben played for one of the darling clubs he’d be a Brownlow medallist.

 

[Snake_Baker]

If Ben played for one of the darling clubs he’d be a Brownlow medallist.

& 8 x AA

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Like Archer, his toughness makes casuals overlook how skillful he is. Supremely clean in everything he does.

 

[koshari]

They don't tip-toe around him at all and it's pretty obvious why. He doesn't treat them like idiots whatever their age, he doesn't say much but clearly has a dry sense of humour. He knows who he is, is comfortable in his own skin and leads by example.

I recall Bernie Vince tip toeing around him once. Didn't end terribly well for bernie.

 

[The Dingrel]

Also great seeing Tarryn Thomas embracing Cunners straight after the siren. You can just see the massive respect he has for him

Starting to see it on a regular basis, TT in the middle gets separation on his opponent, cunners hits him with a handpass, and he's off bouncing. Poetry in motion. I like that Nobes is using TT in this way. Other thing i really notice of TT is its rare for him to go to ground, even if he contests it in the air and brings it to ground, he's there with his second efforts to win his own ball or effect a spoil. Cunners being cunners, Jy being Jy, but the game was won today by LDU and TT stepping up to that next level, and Garns is a BIG inclusion. Larkey pushing up the ground getting in the game and taking marks helps a lot. Shame Stevo couldn't be a part of that win today.

 

[The Dingrel]

I recall Bernie Vince tip toeing around him once. Didn't end terribly well for bernie.

yeah that dirty bludger was sniping Higgo all day. Cunners had just had enough, and good on the umpire for not reversing that one, practically acknowledging that he deserved it.