Justin Westhoff

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Byron!!! said:
Tbh it’s time the AFL changed things and awarded every player who played in the season a medal, although yes playing in the GF would of course be sweeter.

Anyway, well done Hoff on an amazing career. Hopefully will be part of the club moving forward once all these covid financial cuts etc are behind us.


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Considering Andrew Gaze has an NBA Championship ring. I think his total contribution that season was that he once handed David Robinson a towel.
 

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philreich said:
Had a chuckle when I read a comment over yonder yesterday, "After Westhoff, Boak and Gray all retire, we'll win Showdowns for the rest of eternity." Oh dear - deluded much???

Congrats on a wonderful career, big fella: I hope we get to send you out in the best way possible.
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Yeah I think that comment is more out of respect to them given they have 8 Showdown medals between them
 
El_Scorcho said:
I have said this repeatedly and nope, it still sucks to see him go

It's not his fault the way he's been used, he's the type to just go out and play the role given to him. He's still played some absolutely outstanding football over a long time.

Kevin Durant repeatedly underreported his height as a young basketballer because he didn't want to be pigeonholed as a big man. If Westhoff had just sworn black and blue that he was 191cm and refused to accept any evidence to the contrary, he could have been an all time great playing exclusively in his roaming big flanker/wingman type role while we still had a full forward structure ahead of him.

Even funnier, he shared the forward line in the early part of his career with his inverse, a short guy who played like a natural key forward in Brett Ebert, in that Hipster Doofus Choco forward line where Daniel Motlop was a mercurial genius and Hall of Famer WGT was mainly a decoy.
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Man reading that last part had my stomach in knots just thinking about the chocoball end days, it was oh so painful.
 
Marmozet said:
I remember his run down tackle on someone in our forward 50 in the last quarter that game
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Lol, me too. He was lucky. He literally got a finger tip to the guernsey as the Melbourne player bounced. It was the most touchy of technical free kicks.

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philreich said:
Had a chuckle when I read a comment over yonder yesterday, "After Westhoff, Boak and Gray all retire, we'll win Showdowns for the rest of eternity." Oh dear - deluded much???

Congrats on a wonderful career, big fella: I hope we get to send you out in the best way possible.
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Nah, all we have to do is wheel Josh Carr out again. Never lost a Showdown.
 
Westy - one of the most unassuming, team players and a genuinely good person. He had us out of our seats cheering one minute and tearing our hair out the next. But he's ours and he's all Port Adelaide, and completely one of a kind. His comments and Ken's in his press conference tell you all about his character.

Wish him and his family everything good in his life after footy.
 
I want PAFC to show the lads Taylor Adams (I think from memory) pushing Westhoff's head into the turf with his knee, on the western wing of Adelaide Oval - some years ago.
Just before they take the field against Collingwood, please.
My anger still rages.
Westhoff might still have currency, whether he is on the field or not.
 
philreich said:
Had a chuckle when I read a comment over yonder yesterday, "After Westhoff, Boak and Gray all retire, we'll win Showdowns for the rest of eternity." Oh dear - deluded much???

Congrats on a wonderful career, big fella: I hope we get to send you out in the best way possible.
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Too bad they'll have to put up with Rozee, Butters, Duursma etc. for the next generation.

Butters already has that Josh Carr-Showdown Specialist feel about him. He's going to absolutely thrive in future Showdowns when the Crows become competitive again and the game's there to be won, and even Ryan Burton has a chip on his shoulder for the Crows and will always play with a point to prove against them.
 
Marmozet said:
Too bad they'll have to put up with Rozee, Butters, Duursma etc. for the next generation.

Butters already has that Josh Carr-Showdown Specialist feel about him. He's going to absolutely thrive in future Showdowns when the Crows become competitive again and the game's there to be won, and even Ryan Burton has a chip on his shoulder for the Crows and will always play with a point to prove against them.
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Butters and co might be retired by the time the crows become competitive again.
 

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Lawnchair Larry said:
I want PAFC to show the lads Taylor Adams (I think from memory) pushing Westhoff's head into the turf with his knee, on the western wing of Adelaide Oval - some years ago.
Just before they take the field against Collingwood, please.
My anger still rages.
Westhoff might still have currency, whether he is on the field or not.
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What a dog act.


 
70sDinosaur said:
I think it was mentioned that Westhoff and Boak have both played 280 games. Has anyone played more games than that for Port without a premiership? Given our history, I can't imagine we'd have many 200+ gamers without a flag.
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Further to my reply that no SANFL players pre 1997 finished their career with over 200 games and no flag, technically Russell Ebert got to 200 games without a flag - won it in 1977. My copy of League Football in South Australia book the SANFL published after their Centenary year shows that Russell had played 222 games and Bruce Light 194 games after the 1977 GF had ended. The SANFL as you know would count preseason/night series games in club official totals.

I remember there was a thread on the main board that said Lance Whitnall was the first Carlton 200 game player not to have won a flag. I don't know if that was 100% true or if there were any Carlton players like Ebert and won a flag after their 200th, but finished up with at least 1 flag. They have added a few since Whitnall, - Gibbs, Simpson, Murphy, Scotland, Houlihan, Walker and Betts at the moment is on 198 games.

If you look at this list of Port players in the AFL of the first 23 players its 12 played in 2004 flag and 11 didn't. Only 9 of those 23 have got to 200 AFL games. If we win this year, potentially Westhoff, Boak, Gray, Ebert, Hartlett, Jonas and Wines could have a flag. That would change the equation to 19 and 4.

 
One of my favourites, even though he has his moments of error. Will be missed a lot. Let's get him a premiership; make up for 2007.
 
Hi all,

I thought you may be interested in this article looking back at Westy from a local viewpoint.
It gives a bit of a feel for what sort of guy he is away from the game. The photo below shows Westy in a 2000 U14 premiership - I'm pretty sure my side knocked of the Blockies (Tanunda) later that day in both the A's and B's ... (A's by a point ... big night that one). According to the linked story Westy sat the entire game on the bench - so he's come a long way.

Full story here:
 

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