lucas v lloyd

[illegaleagle]

i think lucas has taken his game to another level in the lst year or so and believe hes turned into a better player than lloyd. He's probably the most underrated player in the league and the most important player for essendon. He never misses a set shot and has already kicked 12 this year. thoughts?

 

[Browney2006]

Lloyd is a completely different player now, and wil play a different role now that he is captain, hard to compare them now.

 

[Ari]

Lloyd is a completely different player now, and wil play a different role now that he is captain, hard to compare them now.

While I agree LLoyd is a different player to some extent and captain, I strongly disagree with you saying they can't be compared.

Will be very interesting to see who the leading Essendon goalkicker is at the conclusion.

 

[MF]

Lloyd is a completely different player now, and wil play a different role now that he is captain, hard to compare them now.

Why would Lloyd be playing a different role on-field because he is captain?

 

[Browney2006]

Why would Lloyd be playing a different role on-field because he is captain?

Im guessing you havent been watching, but i will explain, since Lloyd has become captain he is playign a lot more up the ground and is no a different player to the one that was kicking 100 goals a season, Round one last year he kicked 7-8 goals (?) but he also had the most amount of disposals on the ground with 26 or so, this year in the first 2 rounds he is barely leading anymore and is more unselfish than ever (He was very unselfish before this) And is dishing off a lot more (All most too much) and coming up the ground a lot more, he has changed a lot since becoming captain. I think he feels he needs to be more of a team man and not just kick the goals.

 

[magilla]

Lucas has always been a gun, he has'nt stepped up his game, people are just starting to notice. He has always been a better player then Lloyd, his goal kicking stats don't show it as Sheedy has used him as a CHB a fair bit throughout his career. While Lloyd is a gun full forward, I think Lucas has always been the better player because of his versatility to play forward and back, and the ability to boot 60m goals consistently is impressive.

 

[carnthedons07premiers]

Lucas kicked 65+ goals last year and didn't recieve any recognition. After destroying Adalaide people are starting to notice. Healso kicked all of his 5 goals against Freo in the 2nd half.

 

[mathew ollaik]

Lucas is one of the best chf going around at the moment

 

[warney7]

Will be very interesting to see who the leading Essendon goalkicker is at the conclusion.

I don't really care who kicks more.

As long as they both boot 80!

 

[carnthedons07premiers]

Wouldn't be great if coming into the last game they were tied for the coleman on 99.

 

[Darealrath]

The gap has closed quite a bit since 2001 but Lloyd is still better IMO. He's playing good footy but is still very much shaking off the rust. People might have forgotten just how good he is.

 

[retroparty]

You cant compare any foward to lloyd. If you watch the games you notice that he gets more stats up the ground. He didnt do that when he was kicking 100 a year

 

[Barts]

Wouldn't be great if coming into the last game they were tied for the coleman on 99.

Exactly. Whos cares about the Coleman, we can invade the ground twice in one game!