Toast Congratulations Ryan O'Keefe

[indieswan96]

Ryan O'Keefe will play his 200th game this week and I for one would like to congratluate him on a stellar career so far. Hope he plays on for another 4 or 5 years.

Congrats ROK

 

[Swans120]

Well done ROK, one of our best and most consistent over one of our clubs' greatest periods of success.

Goes about his work with little fanfare and little praise (relative to how good he has been for the length of time, i still believe he has been underrated) and yet has been just so good for so long.

Wonderful player and a wonderful bloke. Will be considered a champion of our club when he retires, i believe.

 

[strauchanie59]

Great player. In our 05-06 era he was probably in our top 4 best and most consistent players. Loved the finals but not Grand Finals. In '05 i remember him being BOG against Saints but went missing in GF. Well deserved 200. His career has flown by. I was there when he played his first game and saw his finest game in my opionion in '02 or '03 against Roos. He was everywhere. Kicked 5 goals I think.

 

[Swans120]

He kicked 5 against the Cats at Skilled, in '04 i believe. But i would rate his Prelim vs St. Kilda higher than that and as his 2nd best. His game against the Blues in '08 at Etihad where we just pipped them was his best game IMO. 30 touches, 12 I50's, 3 goals, 10 marks and 8 tackles and he was just incredible. Wouldn't have won the game without him and probably would have lost by a few goals. Prelim of '06 vs Freo another belter. Kicked 4 and had about 25 touches as well playing in the role that he pretty much created as a high running half forward.

 

[ben.carbonaro]

A wonderful achievement for one of the unsung heroes of our club, a true champion is ROK.

Great feature interview with him in Inside Football if anyone is interested in having a read of it.

 

[Dangas]

well said

 

[Ed_Gein]

Well done ROK, one of our best and most consistent over one of our clubs' greatest periods of success.

Goes about his work with little fanfare and little praise (relative to how good he has been for the length of time, i still believe he has been underrated) and yet has been just so good for so long.

Wonderful player and a wonderful bloke. Will be considered a champion of our club when he retires, i believe.

True. Although i always thought he was one of our 'few' Swans that people rated outside the club. Occasionaly see people talk highly of him on the main board, although i guess he should have more of it, if that's what you mean.

He kicked 5 against the Cats at Skilled, in '04 i believe. But i would rate his Prelim vs St. Kilda higher than that and as his 2nd best. His game against the Blues in '08 at Etihad where we just pipped them was his best game IMO. 30 touches, 12 I50's, 3 goals, 10 marks and 8 tackles and he was just incredible. Wouldn't have won the game without him and probably would have lost by a few goals. Prelim of '06 vs Freo another belter. Kicked 4 and had about 25 touches as well playing in the role that he pretty much created as a high running half forward.

I rate his St Kilda one as the best. He had the ball on a string, was everywhere. Probably had a superman cape underneath his shirt that night.

Anyway, congrats on the 200! Heading down for the game actually, so it's an added bonus i'll be there for the milestone, hopefully we win for him. Champion player.

 

[vonn]

love rhino, babe.

 

[BIGBEZ]

Good onya Rhino great stuff...

 

[SOPH_CROSS]

i love him
and hes been great

but i dont know i still cant love him as much as i used to because he wanted to dog the club

but well done i guess