By the numbers #1

Who was the best #1


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Bovo

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It is the....meh part of the footy calendar. So a bit of fun. The following are Crows players who have donned the #1 playing for the Crows.

Romano Negri, Greg Anderson, Lucas Herbert, Andrew Crowell, Nick Gill, Richard Tambling, James Podsiadly

Who was your fave #1 and why? For me it was Greg Anderson. He was playing around the time I seriously got into the Crows.....and was a Port Magpie

Liked his style and represents the early 90's with that long hair.
 

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I remember one game he took the most amazing mark in the rain. I also remember when he used to kick points from the goal square...lol
 

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It is the....meh part of the footy calendar. So a bit of fun. The following are Crows players who have donned the #1 playing for the Crows.

Romano Negri, Greg Anderson, Lucas Herbert, Andrew Crowell, Nick Gill, Richard Tambling, James Podsiadly

Who was your fave #1 and why? For me it was Greg Anderson. He was playing around the time I seriously got into the Crows.....and was a Port Magpie

Liked his style and represents the early 90's with that long hair.
Geez, not a great crop to choose from. Nick Gill wrote and sung a belter of a song I think. So I'll go with him.
 
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It is the....meh part of the footy calendar. So a bit of fun. The following are Crows players who have donned the #1 playing for the Crows.

Romano Negri, Greg Anderson, Lucas Herbert, Andrew Crowell, Nick Gill, Richard Tambling, James Podsiadly

Who was your fave #1 and why? For me it was Greg Anderson. He was playing around the time I seriously got into the Crows.....and was a Port Magpie

Liked his style and represents the early 90's with that long hair.
Ando as all Australian, followed by Jpod.

Crowell loses points for ground announcements.

Not the best group of players.
 

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Negri for me, any guy that gets a game for being "big" and having no other attribute to play football is someone to be respected
 

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Thread needs a poll.

Was always fun watching Nick Gill go for goal! :p
Remember his goal against Richmond (from memory he kicked a bag that day) but one of the goals had a Shane Warne offbreak. I swear the kicked looked like missing by a long way, the ball land and bounces off at 90 degree angle through the goals.
 
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Anderson for sure. He was one of my Dad's favourites in our early days. Such a beautiful sight seeing his gloriously silky mullet beaming down the wing.

Never really rated Gill. Only good thing I remember him doing is taking that screamer on a rainy day. Was useless nearly all the time otherwise, then just yanks down a MotY contender with a slippery ball.


I so badly wanted Tambling to be a serviceable player, I still reckon we could've given him a few more opportunities. Really I just wanted him to be good enough to stick it up all the people who laughed at us for picking him up (ie. everyone). Unfortunately they had the first and last laughs.

Didn't mind us picking up Podsi though. He did exactly what we needed from him so imo he was a decent pick up.
 

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Richard "controversially picked before buddy Franklin" Tambling ahead of
Nick "controversially picked before Justin Westhoff" Gill then
Lucas "controversially picked at all" Herbert.
 

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Says a lot about the Australian culture that the majority of players don't want number 1; don't want to be seen to think they are good.
 

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Greg Anderson for sure. Always felt sorry for tambling. Would still be playing if he had been picked at number 30 instead of 3. Or actually allowed to keep his spot when he had a good game. Too much expectation.
Tambling was garbage overall. Had some good games, but his worst was truly terrible. It also says a lot that the first of those good games came ~2.75 seasons into a 3 season stint.

That said, I feel sorry for him that he was the first victim of the now proud Crows coaching tradition of keeping a bad player in the side long after they've hit rock bottom and then dropping them after a (relatively) good match to make the coach look like they are making the tough calls.
 
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