Retired #26: Cale Hooker - Has announced his retirement at season's end 🍷

[Lore]

Contract Status: Retiring at the end of Season 2021
Last Game Played: Round 19, 2021 (omit)
Injury Status: n/a

 

[RedmanWasHere]

In 2 goals time, he'll be Cale 100ker.

 

[Beerfish]

I love you Cale.

 

[citizen-erased]

Can we find this guy the fountain of youth

 

[EnolaGay]

Only thing missing from him this season so far is some head ruffling


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[Vindicater]

The new mark rule means the ball can be moved quicker which means a stay at home monster forward is more valuable.

New rule could have extended his career by a year or more.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Has quietly had a very good start to the year.

 

[mad_monkey_j]

I was thinking the other day about who my current favourite player was and it has to be him. The passion and dedication he shows is unmatched. You'd just love to have him playing beside you.

 

[Mr Bultitude]

Never change Cale

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Played out the game with a pretty bad corkie too apparently. Short break into Sydney, hope he gets up.

 

[eth-dog]

Wouldn't be surprised if we rested him.

 

[Bjchan13]

Only thing missing from him this season so far is some head ruffling


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Hawthorne round 14 hopefully

 

[Beerfish]

Played out the game with a pretty bad corkie too apparently. Short break into Sydney, hope he gets up.

He'll play

 

[Call Me Cake]

Makes me wonder, did we waste his full potential down back?

 

[ghostdog]

Makes me wonder, did we waste his full potential down back?

Do you mean, should Hooker have been played forward or back?

 

[Call Me Cake]

Do you mean, should Hooker have been played forward or back?

We may have underestimated his potential as a consistent forward and may have wasted that potential by playing him back all this time.

 

[ghostdog]

We may have underestimated his potential as a consistent forward and may have wasted that potential by playing him back all this time.

It's an interesting discussion for which there should be more discussion. I reckon the question was answered in 2017 and when Ambrose developed his defensive game.

 

[staaation]

Makes me wonder, did we waste his full potential down back?

his AA jacket doesn't really say "wasted potential" to me.
in their prime he and hurley were arguably the best KPD combo in the competition

 

[Call Me Cake]

It's an interesting discussion for which there should be more discussion. I reckon the question was answered in 2017 and when Ambrose developed his defensive game.

his AA jacket doesn't really say "wasted potential" to me.
in their prime he and hurley were arguably the best KPD combo in the competition

I guess our persistence with Daniher and other swing options like Hurley may have had something to do with it, as well as our knee-jerk reactions in moving him back every time he seemed to have had an off-day in the forward-line... as opposed to doing what we'd usually do with other players and left him there to marinate and grind out that potential as a consistent forward.

But I digress, the fact that he was able to cement himself as an AA backman is just a testament to his versatility and talent as a player - but good forwards are usually tough to come by, and it's what we've been crying out for since Lloyd's and Lucas' departure. He may have had the talent to make that area his own.

Any other forward kicks 5, or even 3 - and they're in the papers, lauded as the next best thing. Hooker does it, and it's "well, that's Cale".

Nevertheless, hopefully Jones/Cox can develop themselves to be that consistent duo we've missed out on for a while.

 

[Megabattimus]

Our forward line looks so much better with Hooker acting as the anchor and everyone else spreading out away from him.

Hopefully we can keep that set-up next week, even if we need to rest Hooker due to his corky.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Let us rejoice

 

[Mr Bultitude]

Let us rejoice

Keller in a Cale Hooker thread on Easter Sunday...

 

[Dave]

Love the Chook. Plays with heart.

 

[The Donners]

It’s the only spot left he can play on the ground and he killed it.

Still life in the old dog yet!

 

[Highly Evolved]

Imagine if he won the Coleman this year. (Please let me have this dream)

 

[fairbump_playon]

He's one of the few players I would want to go up to and just hug and thank.

Before getting the crap beaten out of me and arrested.

I’d bail you out for that