Toast Chris Judd 2021 Hall of Fame Inductee

[ThePuma #9]

Forget what he accomplished at Carlton, below are his accomplishments from his time with the Eagles. This alone makes him worthy of entering the Hall of Fame.

Congrats Juddy.







Chris Judd

2002-2007 134 games (138 goals)

• AFL Premiership player: (2006)
• Brownlow Medal: (2004)
• Norm Smith Medal: (2005)
• AFL premiership Captain: (2006)
• West Coast Captain: (2006–2007)
• Leigh Matthews Trophy: (2006)
• 2x All-Australian team: (2004, 2006)
• 2× West Coast Club Champion: (2004, 2006)
• 3× Ross Glendinning Medal: (2005, 2005, 2006)
• AFL Rising Star: (nomination 2002)
• AFL Rising Star Runner up: (2002)
• AFLPA Best First Year Player Award: (2002)
• Geoff Christian Medal: (2006)
• AFL Goal of the Year (2005)
• West Coast Life Member (2018)
• AFL Hall Of Fame (2021)
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[HoneyBadger35]

Best player I’ve ever seen and, with what he did for us then the impact of his trade on our future, I think he’s the most influential Eagle ever.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Best Eagle I've seen. Gee, his leaving hurt. Well deserved.

 

[Altum Volantes]

His best footy, circa 2005 through to the first half of 2007, was probably the best we’ve seen at the club - rivalled only by Glen Jakovich

Glen Jakovich

Age

51

Ht

193cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.2

4star

K

12.0

4star

HB

5.2

4star

M

4.2

4star

T

1.0

3star

No current season stats available

D

17.6

5star

K

11.2

4star

HB

6.4

4star

M

4.2

4star

T

0.6

3star

1994-1996.

When he left, it broke a pretty broken club at the time but ultimately, we got the best of Judd and JK out of the equation, so I think we are all over that now.

Congratulations Juddy - please encourage your boys to play for WCE via Father-Son.

 

[ThePuma #9]

Best player I’ve ever seen and, with what he did for us then the impact of his trade on our future, I think he’s the most influential Eagle ever.

Agreed, his first five years were the best I’ve seen anyone come into the league and play. Was unstoppable when on. Took me a long time to forgive Juddy when he left but time heals all wounds and now I look back on those years very fondly.

 

[Barrybran]

Still the best first 50 games I've seen from any player and probably the best player I've seen on pure skill. Glad he won a flag with us before he turned to the dark side.

 

[kane249]

Best half I've ever seen someone play

 

[KERRPOW]

That was the era i grew up footy obsessed.

The best player to put on the blue and gold

 

[ep2018]

Reinvented his game moving east and won another Brownlow as a result at a basketcase club. Recency bias means he'll be mostly remembered as a Carlton champion and not an eagles one. A shame. Personally I hate the prick, and everything else that happened in the 2007 off season.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Fox Footy, unbelievably, getting it right.

 

[Ishmael_]

One of the best to do it, reminiscent of Daniel Venables.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Best player I’ve ever seen and, with what he did for us then the impact of his trade on our future, I think he’s the most influential Eagle ever.

Peak Judd was also the best player I've ever seen, but I'll have Woosha as the most influential Eagle ever.

 

[The Passenger]

I think he’s the most influential Eagle ever.

Him and Woosha no doubt the top two. Comfortably.

I reckon his arrival was a pretty big kick up the ass for a fair few blokes on our list that had been around for 3/4/5 years but were still not quite performing as required for AFL level football (not consistently anyway). I'm thinking guys like Gardiner, Cox, Embley, Fletcher, Braun, Glass, Hunter, Jones who all showed huge improvement after Judd's arrival. Obviously they were at an age were a good bit of natural improvement occurs (especially the taller blokes in that cohort), but for these guys they would have been early 20's when Judd arrives and within half a season he has already leapfrogged them into being one of the best players at the club. Probably makes someone rethink the standards they are setting for themselves when something like that occurs.

The removal of Ken Judge would no doubt have helped free up a few of the lads as well.

 

[squashface]

Two clubs, two Brownlows, one Hall of Fame star who defies description

Dual Brownlow medallist Chris Judd has been inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame after a glittering career with West Coast and Carlton

www.afl.com.au

The names of players burst out when he talks of those times, in a way they never did on the occasions he spoke publicly at the time while as a player – Embley / Glass / Cox / Cousins / Kerr / Stenglein / Selwood / Banfield / Murphy / Carazzo / Walker / Gibbs / Kreuzer /Betts. What they did and what they gave.

Gee you'd be pretty happy with yourself if you were Matthew Kreuzer

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Matthew Kreuzer

Age

34

Ht

200cm

Wt

101kg

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Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.4

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

5.6

4star

CL

3.1

5star

HO

21.0

5star

D

1.0

1star

K

0.0

1star

HB

1.0

1star

CL

0.0

1star

HO

7.0

5star

D

11.8

3star

K

6.0

3star

HB

5.8

4star

HO

9.8

5star

being named in the same sentence as Dean Cox

Dean Cox

Age

42

Ht

203cm

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107kg

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F/R

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D

15.9

4star

K

8.9

3star

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6.9

4star

M

5.3

5star

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1.5

3star

G

0.6

4star

No current season stats available

D

13.0

4star

K

5.8

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.0

1star

, Ben Cousins, Darren Glass

Darren Glass

Age

42

Ht

192cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.7

3star

K

4.3

2star

HB

6.4

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

5.6

2star

K

2.6

1star

HB

3.0

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

1.0

3star

etc.

 

[The Passenger]

Two clubs, two Brownlows, one Hall of Fame star who defies description

Dual Brownlow medallist Chris Judd has been inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame after a glittering career with West Coast and Carlton

www.afl.com.au

Gee you'd be pretty happy with yourself if you were Matthew Kreuzer being named in the same sentence as Dean Cox, Ben Cousins, Darren Glass etc.

To be fair would put him above Carazzo and Walker, and maybe even Murphy.

 

[Scotland]

Forget what he accomplished at Carlton

Done.

He was a fine, fine player from 2004-2007. I think some people have almost forgotten that the answer to 'who is the best player in the comp?' was regularly Chris Judd in that period.

 

[The Passenger]

Done.

He was a fine, fine player from 2004-2007. I think some people have almost forgotten that the answer to 'who is the best player in the comp?' was regularly Chris Judd in that period.

I don't think it was even a question through 2005 and 2006. Judd was comfortably the man with Goodes and Cousins probably the closest contenders during those seasons.

Funnily enough his Brownlow medal seasons were probably not in his top two years at either club.

 

[MrWoollie]

An absolute star who could rip a game apart like few others. That to me has always been the difference between the really really good and the great.
Take a game, totally dominate it, and no matter what the other team does, continue to dominate. Win a game while everyone basically looks on in awe.
That was peak Judd.

Guys like Peter Matera

Peter Matera

Age

55

Ht

183cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.8

5star

K

14.0

5star

HB

4.9

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

2.4

4star

G

0.9

4star

No current season stats available

D

12.2

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

3.2

3star

M

3.2

4star

T

0.6

3star

G

0.6

3star

, Andrew McLeod

Andrew Mcleod

Age

47

Ht

181cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.8

5star

K

13.1

5star

HB

6.7

4star

M

3.1

3star

T

2.2

4star

No current season stats available

D

10.8

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

1.0

1star

T

1.6

4star

, Wayne Carey, Lance Franklin and a few others are like this. Get them in that mood and all you can do is stand back and admire the perfection.

Despite leaving he deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest and best Eagles ever.

 

[The Passenger]

Despite leaving he deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest and best Eagles ever.

I think most were resigned to him heading back to Victoria at some point.

Him leaving with the circumstances the club found themselves in was the grating point. Would have been nice for him to sign one more year to help steady the ship a little bit with an agreement to trade him at the conclusion of 2008. But at the same time the club ****ed itself over a fair bit and that wasn't Judd's fault. Should he be expected to stick around and help clean up the mess when he is looking to move forward with his life? I'm not sure where I sit on that one right now.

But getting Kennedy worked out spectacularly well and given JK has played an extra six years (maybe more) and was pivotal to a flag there's a strong argument we've actually ended up on the better end of that trade.

If that above scenario played out (trading Judd post 2008) there's a pretty strong chance we still end up with JK in a fairly identical trade just with different draft selections. No Marsden memes though

 

[fidstar]

Best Eagle ever.

 

[Chris_6678]

lol Listening to him on MMM talking to Embers and Read he said he felt like he betrayed his teammates leavings. Even sounded.....regretting it lol

 

[flamingEMBERS]

lol Listening to him on MMM talking to Embers and Read he said he felt like he betrayed his teammates leavings. Even sounded.....regretting it lol

It’s kind of a shame, just never got a good send off after he left.

The booing in his first game back showed how much it hurt because we cared so much.

Would be great if, and now he’s not involved with Carlton, could come back to Optus one day and do something game day so he can see how much he actually meant to us

 

[ioppolo]

Reinvented his game moving east and won another Brownlow as a result at a basketcase club. Recency bias means he'll be mostly remembered as a Carlton champion and not an eagles one. A shame. Personally I hate the prick, and everything else that happened in the 2007 off season.

Harsh man. Water under the bridge by now.
With hindsight I can kind of understand why he got out. And he's always defended the Eagles whenever he's grilled about our team's habits during that period

 

[ep2018]

Harsh man. Water under the bridge by now.
With hindsight I can kind of understand why he got out. And he's always defended the Eagles whenever he's grilled about our team's habits during that period

Because his answer affects his reputation during that period also.

 

[Trav22]

A Wce legend, you can definitely see why he left the club and you can’t really blame him. The club was a mess at the time and handled the whole drug culture terribly.

A very smart and well spoken man, who you can see is still fond of his time at the club, would love too see him back in some form although highly unlikely!!