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You can watch itADELAIDE: 7.3 12.4 15.6 19.9 (123)
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Adelaide: Gollant, Thilthorpe 4, Madgen, Smithson 2, Sharrad, Murphy, Newchurch, Sholl, Taylor, Wright, Clamp
BESTS: Thilthorpe, Sholl, Taylor, Gollant, McHenry, Borlase
He’s not getting a game because his forward craft isn’t as good as his ruckwork, it’s the coaches words, so developing him as a ruck in the SANFL and not a forward is beyond stupid
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Agree that its hard to watch and pick everything up when the footage is as it was..
Posting this mainly for 2 of the biggest pain in the arse posters on this board....the subject matter should make it obvious who they are..
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Happy 59th birthday Garry McIntosh
Born on the 16th of March 1964.
During the 1980s as, in terms of its status, influence and economic authority, the VFL rapidly developed into a ‘league apart’, concepts such as loyalty and commitment on the part of players began increasingly to be viewed as either anachronistic or absurd. This was particularly so in relation to those competitions - notably the SANFL and WAFL - which were developing into little more than breeding grounds for VFL talent. Whereas in the 1960s, players like Craig Bradley, Rob Wiley, John Platten, Simon Beasley and the like would have happily played out their careers in their home states, comfortable in the knowledge that they were playing football of elite standard in the company of some of the finest players in the land, by the early '80s it was apparent that Melbourne was the game’s indisputable ‘Mecca’, in terms both of playing standards and overall significance. Champion players who opted to stay at home in defiance of what was becoming an almost irresistible pull eastwards were very much the exception rather than the rule.
In South Australia, the absolute quintessence of this kind of exception was manifest in Norwood’s hyper-aggressive and formidably talented centreman Garry McIntosh. Not even the admission to the expanded VFL competition - re-named ‘the Australian Football League’ in 1990 - of a local club, the Adelaide Crows, could persuade ‘Macca’ to compromise his principles. As Mike Coward eloquently observed,
McIntosh is an anachronism, given that he was a product of the avaricious and uncaring 1980s. While his unremittingly hard and distinctive style of play is well suited to the 1990s, his football philosophy belongs to another time. He is not driven by the prospect of fame and fortune but by a deep and abiding love for his club. He is a loyalist who will not be compromised; cannot be bought, as Neil Craig once observed. As the man who led Norwood into the 1990s he symbolised solidarity; the unshakeable cornerstone of the playing staff at an uncertain time in the evolution of the game in South Australia.¹
If McIntosh, who made his league debut for the Redlegs in 1982, and went on to amass a club record 336 games over the course of the next 17 seasons, ultimately became synonymous with Norwood, there was nevertheless an element of paradox about the inextricable association which developed between the working class, plain speaking, belligerently unkempt former Hope Valley junior and the arch ‘blue-bloods’ of the Parade.
If he looked somewhat out of place alongside the well-groomed likes of Michael Aish, Danny Jenkins, Phil Gallagher and Tom Warhurst, Macca’s impact on the team was every bit as pronounced, and was apparent right from the start. In his debut season he was a key contributor - indeed, in the view of many observers, the best player afield - as the Redlegs overwhelmed Glenelg on Grand Final day to the tune of 62 points. Two years later he was again conspicuous as Norwood overcame its arch nemesis Port Adelaide by nine points after battling its way through to the decisive match of the season from the elimination final.
As staunchly committed to South Australia as he was to the Redlegs - somewhat ironically, given that his father was a New South Welshman - McIntosh was often at his best in interstate matches, of which he would undoubtedly have played many more than his final tally of 12 had the state of origin selectors not elected, with dubious logic, to discount SANFL-based players from consideration following the arrival on the scene of the Crows. One reason for suggesting that the state selectors’ logic was ‘dubious’ was that, during the mid-1990s, Garry McIntosh produced probably the finest football of his career, on a par with virtually anything on show in the AFL at the time. Magarey Medallist in 1994 and ‘95, he would undoubtedly have derived much greater satisfaction from leading his beloved Redlegs to a comprehensive premiership triumph in 1997 over the team that had dominated the SANFL for much of the preceding decade, Port Adelaide.
After retiring as a player in 1998, McIntosh fulfilled another ambition when he replaced Neville Roberts as senior coach of the club in 2002. When, two years later, it was announced, following the team’s worst run for over 30 years, that his contract would not be renewed, he demonstrated trademark loyalty and maturity by agreeing to remain in post until the end of the season.
Over 20 years after Garry McIntosh made his senior playing debut with the Redlegs, the football landscape has altered substantially and irrevocably, in some cases for the better, in others emphatically not. One way in which the game has irreversibly deteriorated is that it is extremely doubtful if it will ever again permit a player of the principles, attitude and qualities of Garry McIntosh to emerge, let alone to flourish and entertain for the better part of two decades.
Author - John Devaney
Footnotes
1. Men of Norwood: the Red and Blue Blooded by Mike Coward, page 127.
Sources
Full Points Footy's SA Football https://australianfootball.com/.../garry%2Bmcintosh/276
(McIntosh with the guernsey he wore in the 1984 series. Picture Sarah Reed)
I thought he meant Vader and Jenny
Yet we chose Brown as a sub last Saturday.
If your saw his form in the pre season you would see why.
He can have impact around the ground without being the number 1 ruck
Exactly...there's a gulf between the Rucks running around in the SANFL these days and current day AFL rucks, if he comes in it should be for Himmelberg.
I'm guessing he was running full pelt when he kicked that?
Hamiil has developed an innate ability to get caught htb nearly every time he gets a possession. Mind you, he was on the receiving end of more than his fair share of teammates making it someone elses problem ...
I imagine he could reasonably in the past as well just that often in the F50 he looked to pass off, no leads then had to kick from a short run up and so not getting any distance.
