Moved Thread Jobe watson - just a good player, never elite

[Ron The Bear]

likewise we could handle discussing Jobe's elite status if people didn't conveniently point to one good season in 2012 when he won a B&F in 2009 and 2010 and had an excellent 2011 too at much the same inside mid role he excelled at it 2012

but yep, drugs. they made him good from being a nothing player prior.

B&F wins

2009 335 votes (22 games)
2010 291 votes (21 games)
2012 551 votes (22 games)

64% increase on his previous best.

The media veneration and propagation of the narrative of Watson as victim is insulting. The saga is an inseparable appendage of the Jobe Watson story, like a gammy leg, and that's the way it will stay.

 

[Northworth]

I thought Jobe's cheating girlfriend analogy for the AFL was interesting today given he was the convicted cheat

 

[Ron The Bear]

The bitter truth is that Watson became the best he could be under the tutelage of Matthew Knights. Sheedy didn't want him and Hird tried to improve him through artificial means.

Doesn't reflect well on Essendon's legends.

 

[Tigersman]

Should also have his 2012 all Australian taken away along with his 2012 best captain award. No reason why they should remain