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Re: egan vs taylor

Hinkley29 said:
totally different players.

egan vs lonergan would be a better comparison.
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disagree, but i can see where ur coming from, similar like builds, but the job and roles taylor and egan performed where quite similar, generally takes the best CHF and strongly rely on their contested marking as a strength, there is more comparison then you would think with the way they play, lonergan is more of a workhorse and a rock like defender then egan and taylor
 
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geelong_crazy26 said:
disagree, but i can see where ur coming from, similar like builds, but the job and roles taylor and egan performed where quite similar, generally takes the best CHF and strongly rely on their contested marking as a strength, there is more comparison then you would think with the way they play, lonergan is more of a workhorse and a rock like defender then egan and taylor
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Nope.

Egan was the gorilla who took the biggest forward. Just like Lonergan. He was better than Lonergan at getting involved in the play, but his primary job was to stop the biggest key forward.

If you look at Geelong 2007 vs Geelong 2011, a rough comparison of the roles that players had would be:

Scarlett 2007 = Scarlett 2011
Egan 2007 = Lonergan 2011
Harley 2007 = Taylor 2011

I am not saying that they play exactly the same roles, but it is the best approximation of roles if you are trying to compare 2007 to 2011.
 
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Egan smashed everyone in '07, will never get the kudos JC et al began to get in the next 18 months because of his foot. Him and Harry are essentially different players though.

Lonergan having a pretty good defensive year really doesn't come close to Egan.
 
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you pick one said:
Harry would be an AA halfback flanker if Ego was still going around.
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l am not the club would have drafted harry if ego was still on the park.it would be nice if we could have both but then you would lose lonners.
 
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Egan had one very good season in a team that was absolutely dominant. It is unfortunate his career got cut short, so we will never know how good he could have become.

Taylor is one of the more elegant players I have seen play for Geelong. A real Geelong player, like Kenny Hinkley, who makes defending a pleasure to watch.

I don't really think there is any comparison, Taylor will end his career as one of the finest Geelong defenders we have seen.

I am suprised anyone would question who the better player was.
 
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All I know is we were bloody lucky to pick up Harry straight after losing Egan. Miracles do happen.
 

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Re: egan vs taylor

Hinkley29 said:
Nope.

Egan was the gorilla who took the biggest forward. Just like Lonergan. He was better than Lonergan at getting involved in the play, but his primary job was to stop the biggest key forward.

If you look at Geelong 2007 vs Geelong 2011, a rough comparison of the roles that players had would be:

Scarlett 2007 = Scarlett 2011
Egan 2007 = Lonergan 2011
Harley 2007 = Taylor 2011

I am not saying that they play exactly the same roles, but it is the best approximation of roles if you are trying to compare 2007 to 2011.
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think your getting a little too technical with it, they are both AA CHB's and around about the same level of ability, where as lonergan is a shelf or so below the standard of an AA which makes the comparison a little obselete.
 
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Harry for me:thumbsu:

better mark and very composed footballer. Egan was sensational though but I doubt he would match the aerial ability of Harry. I'm waiting for Scott to put him forward for a half of footy :D (perhaps he could experiment that one in round 24)
 
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Saw Egan walking around KP the other day, actually walking. No boot, no limp, made me wonder if there is ANY hope at all he could run again, let alone play footy. Now that would be the miracle.

Egan was amazing in 07. Recall a game against Dogs at Etihad, 2nd time we played them, Scarlett was out, Egan was superb. Excellent at actually nullifying tall marking key forwards, exactly what we need in the next few years. Lonergan is great. Taylor is elegant and great to watch, but does rely on more help than Egan would have. Taylor is a nicer kick. Love them both. Glad we have Taylor. Would never have had him if Egan didn't go down. Would not have won in 09 if we didn't have Taylor.
 
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Very tough ask, but id go Harry over Egan. I just reckon he has proven himself in the bigger games a bit more than Egan has. His work in the 09 grand final was exceptional.
 
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Egan comfortably for me. Harry is a better kick, but Egan could be relied on almost week in week out to completely nullify a big gorilla forward. Remember when he went off at 3/4 time against the Lions in round 22 2007, and Brown kicked 4 on Scarlett in the last quarter? Egan had held him to 3 in 3 quarters before that. I suppose like a classy version of Tom Lonergan.
 

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I'm just wild about Harry, but he 'n' Egan shouldn't be compared.

As has been stated earlier in this thread, Harry's role is more like that of Tom Harley, with Lonners doing Egan's old job. Comparing Taylor and Egan is somewhat askew.
 
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All I know is that I mis Matty Egan. :(

He played one of the greatest seasons I've ever seen by a defender in '07.

Really hope the body comes at least halfway right so that he can get around without discomfort.
 
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Completely different players. Might as well compare Milburn to Scarlett.

But Taylor is better. Egan could in theory have been amazing if he had continued playing, but he had one good year, Taylor has had 2 and continues. That, and he helped us win an amazingly tight grand final through sheer determination/.
 
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It was such a shame that we only got to see a very small glance of what Ego could be when I now think on how much he would have developed over the past 5 years I get as sad as I do as to when I think about how Jason Snell might have turned out for us.

On the OP it is very hard to compare the two Harry plays a bit off of his player relying on his closing speed and ability to read the ball well to influence the contest a bit like Fletcher.

Ego was more of a stand side by side with his man and beat them with strength and play reading best comparison would be Scarlo circa 2003-2004
 
Re: egan vs taylor

Hinkley29 said:
If you look at Geelong 2007 vs Geelong 2011, a rough comparison of the roles that players had would be:

Scarlett 2007 = Scarlett 2011
Egan 2007 = Lonergan 2011
Harley 2007 = Taylor 2011

I am not saying that they play exactly the same roles, but it is the best approximation of roles if you are trying to compare 2007 to 2011.
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Harley in 2007 was not playing key position like Taylor does. After Egan went down, Milburn was the virtual CHB during the finals and played on Cloke and Tredrea. Harley 2007 is more like Scarlett 2011. He played on and towelled up a lot of the oppositions best smalls while zoning off to be the third man up but obviously he wasn't as offensive as Scarlett this year.

As for the topic I agree with bulletproof.
 
Egan easily. Would have gone down as a great if he didnt get injured. Harry regularly gets toweled up and lonergan is moved onto his opponent
 

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