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

 

[Vander18]

Fox is not the only media outlet that has disrespected Hooker the last couple of days.

This morning on Triple M Adelaide, Ditts (Riccuito's sidekick) posed the question as to whether Cale Hooker is the worst player ever to play 200 games.

Wow....an All Australian defender and B&F winner as the worst 200 game player ever? Bizarre.

The proof of Hookers ability is that he is also a very good forward. Most KPD are KPD because they aren’t good enough to play forward. Few can do both, Hooker is one who can. A very, very good footballer and certainly an Essendon champion.

 

[ghostdog]

Cupido4Lyfe gave Brown and Lewis the treatment they deserve.

 

[eth-dog]

Wow....an All Australian defender and B&F winner as the worst 200 game player ever? Bizarre.

The proof of Hookers ability is that he is also a very good forward. Most KPD are KPD because they aren’t good enough to play forward. Few can do both, Hooker is one who can. A very, very good footballer and certainly an Essendon champion.

McGovern is the one that springs to mind. He just plays defence because their forward line is stacked

 

[RearNaked]

Can we please trade him to a team in flag contention this campaigner deserves some success

 

[Lore]

Can we please trade him to a team in flag contention this campaigner deserves some success

He probably wouldn't answer the phone or the door if you tried.

 

[blitzer]

McGovern is the one that springs to mind. He just plays defence because their forward line is stacked

McGovern isn't that good as a forward. He's alright but no better than Hooker or Harry Taylor up forward. Much better as a defender.

 

[boncer34]

Lore can we just celebrate Hooker's 200th in the thread title and * FoxFooty and their bullshit off?

 

[Lore]

Lore can we just celebrate Hooker's 200th in the thread title and fu** FoxFooty and their bullshit off?

Title update was the result of a thread merge but has probably run its course by now.

 

[boncer34]

Title update was the result of a thread merge but has probably run its course by now.

Yeah all good, just dont want to give their disrespect anymore oxygen.

 

[yodellinhank]

Cale Hooker - 202 games and runs all over the board?

 

[Andronicus]

Wow.

Left out of the team. Didn't see that coming.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Why the hell would the Bombers drop Hooker with Hurley out injured?

 

[Burzum]

Why the hell would the Bombers drop Hooker with Hurley out injured?

He's finished.

 

[BomberTime]

Of all the players who have been “managed” and deserve to have been dropped. And all the guys who have been who have been gifted games...

You omit this guy, who has been ok.

We say this a lot, but they have now officially lost the plot, zero faith in the whole club.

 

[essendon]

Good, did nothing last week and showed no leadership at all....

Why the hell would the Bombers drop Hooker with Hurley out injured?

Because they both were very poor and showed no leadership whatsoever last week and should have delivered a lot more than what they did......

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

Cooked. Hopefully does the right thing and retires so we can clear a lot of money to go after someone.

Put him on as an assistant coach for the next 3 years and lets get moving.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Zerk-Thatcher is your only recognised KPD in the side, he's played 9 games. Port have three tall forwards. As a supporter of the team playing you guys this week, there are at least ten names in the Essendon side who I'd much rather have to play against than Hooker in those circumstances.

If he sucked up forward the last couple of games, so what? Play him in his #1 position and maybe he won't suck.

 

[Andronicus]

Zerk-Thatcher is your only recognised KPD in the side, he's played 9 games. Port have three tall forwards. As a supporter of the team playing you guys this week, there are at least ten names in the Essendon side who I'd much rather have to play against than Hooker in those circumstances.

If he sucked up forward the last couple of games, so what? Play him in his #1 position and maybe he won't suck.

While I don't disagree with you at all, you are giving a pretty good summary of what this board has been through for many, many years.

 

[blitzer]

I can understand dropping Hooker in isolation. He hasn't been playing well since his game against Hawthorn. Unfortunately though it comes at a time with no Francis and no Hurley. I guess the plan is Ridley and Gleeson become key position defenders. Which in fairness they have done sometimes. You couldn't play either on Dixon though. So BZT is the only option there.

I don't know if there will a surprise use of Stewart down back. We wouldn't use Daniher down back. Nor Draper. I don't think Phillips can play defense. Its kind of a weird team really. But we'll see how it goes.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Why the hell would the Bombers drop Hooker with Hurley out injured?

We want Dixon to kick a bag.

 

[Booplaz]

Zerk-Thatcher is your only recognised KPD in the side, he's played 9 games. Port have three tall forwards. As a supporter of the team playing you guys this week, there are at least ten names in the Essendon side who I'd much rather have to play against than Hooker in those circumstances.

If he sucked up forward the last couple of games, so what? Play him in his #1 position and maybe he won't suck.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Zerk-Thatcher is your only recognised KPD in the side, he's played 9 games. Port have three tall forwards. As a supporter of the team playing you guys this week, there are at least ten names in the Essendon side who I'd much rather have to play against than Hooker in those circumstances.

If he sucked up forward the last couple of games, so what? Play him in his #1 position and maybe he won't suck.

I think we are playing Stewart down back. And then I guess Ridley/Gleeson on the third tall.

It’s going to be real ugly.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Cooked. Hopefully does the right thing and retires so we can clear a lot of money to go after someone.

Put him on as an assistant coach for the next 3 years and lets get moving.

He’s one of the few players who has worked his arse off in every game of his career. The club’s tried to trade him multiple times, not to mention totally ******* half of his career - in his prime - with the drug saga.

Retire and give up a year of a big solar contract? He shouldn’t give it a second’s thought.

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

He’s one of the few players who has worked his arse off in every game of his career. The club’s tried to trade him multiple times, not to mention totally ******* half of his career - in his prime - with the drug saga.

Retire and give up a year of a big solar contract? He shouldn’t give it a second’s thought.

and that is part of why we have never been able to get out of mediocrity for ever and a day. As I've said many a time we are the country club for old footballers. Whether they come for a retirement package from another club or just get given an extra year or two on our list by being good blokes and good servants it

if he wants the club to be successful he needs to step aside.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

and that is part of why we have never been able to get out of mediocrity for ever and a day. As I've said many a time we are the country club for old footballers. Whether they come for a retirement package from another club or just get given an extra year or two on our list by being good blokes and good servants it

if he wants the club to be successful he needs to step aside.

We’re the country club for s**t footballers. Age doesn’t have much to do with it.

The amount of bog-average VFL-standard footballers who’ve had 4,5,6,7 year careers with Essendon over the past 15 years is amazing - when they’ve never shown anything and were never going to.