Matthew Pavlich - 350 games

[hawks787]

This bloke and Bartel deserve more respect for " milestone " games in recent times for the impact and contributions to the game. Pretty sure they should even have a special jumper before others as well. One word is needed- respect!

 

[Ahern2Boof]

Still remember the day he went berzerk against Carlton at the MCG in the mid 2000's. Was my first trip to the 'G and was an unreal game, high-scoring etc. Got to meet him after the match in the rooms, classy bloke.

 

[schmuttt]

One of the few players who towelled up Geelong in the 2007-2011 period.

Sincerely hope he gets the 7 more goals required for 700. Champion player and legend of the game.

 

[chunkylover]

One of the top ten all-time Dockers, for sure.

I hope he carves it up out there this weekend.

have him as number 1 player all time from the west aussie teams. 350 games is incredible, thought 300 was impossible but he flew by it. all australian forward, mid and defender too. cant say a bad word about him, seems a humble good bloke too

 

[jwint43]

Im from perth so don't mean disrespect to Freo, but if this man played for Collingwood his whole career he would be considered a top 10 player all time and the fact hes done it whilst getting on 2 planes every second week just puts it into even more perspective. Mega star

 

[jwint43]

Ponder this :

There’s a reason WA-based players struggle to find longevity in the game. Across his career, Pavlich has flown around 853,994km — that’s more than 21 laps of the equator!

Compare that to North Melbourne’s Brent Harvey. He’s about to break the highest games record, yet he’s flown a mere 320,808km.

Despite the challenge of the Nullarbor, Pavlich has been incredibly durable. Since he made his debut in 2000, he’s missed just 31 games.

That is amazing. He would almost certainly have got to 400+ if he played in Melb.

 

[im_a_lazy_sod]

One of the few players who towelled up Geelong in the 2007-2011 period.

Sincerely hope he gets the 7 more goals required for 700. Champion player and legend of the game.

It'll be probably be just a "kick it to pav" from now on. I'm sure the club would be happy to risk conceding more goals a game if it meant Pav was getting a few more. Retiring as a 350 game + 700 goal player would be far better for publicity than if we went in with Pav not getting his 700th but the club losing by a few less goals (let's be honest, I don't see us winning any more games anyway, so may as well get him his 700)

 

[kangaspurs]

One of the players/people about whom you never hear a bad word. I imagine he is highly respected by opposition players and fans alike and absolutely adored by the Freo faithful.

Dead set champ.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

One of the top ten all-time Dockers, for sure.

I hope he carves it up out there this weekend.

There's ten ahead of him?????

 

[FUS_RO_DAH]

Already getting emotional reading this thread, I'm gonna be a complete mess come round 23

 

[XXRL]

Very hard to see Pav being topped as Freo's greatest ever player.

I can thoroughly recommend his book too, even for non-Freo fans - I smashed through it in one day and loved it.

 

[Van_Dyke]

Gee...I always thought he was overrated. Never seemed that spectacular on the games I watched.

 

[Engimal v2]

Pretty good player in his day. He sort of Dean Cox'd his career at the end, but it was at the club's request so you can't hold that against him.

 

[WCErevival]

 

[imperial_oz]

One of the all time greats, no argument whatsoever. He's been a club stalwart, fully deserving of unqualified respect. Looks like Round 23 might be Pav's swansong, and I'll be cheering for Pav as much as for the Dogs.

Classy call. Well said, sir!

 

[Silversurfer]

He goes alright...have 10 sons please champ

 

[hench]

Absolute superstar of the competition.

If only he played for a Victorian team he'd be recognised more...

And there it is......

 

[bradrowe#32]

One of my all time favourite players. He's incredibly versatile and extremely consistent.

People hang shit on Richmond for passing him, but Collingwood did the same. I didn't have a problem getting Josh Fraser because we desperately needed a ruckman with Monkhorst retiring and the hype of Fraser was pretty immense. But why we traded Clinton King and Pick 3 for Richmond's Pick 7 and Steve McKee was utterly tragic. I understand we wanted McKee and he played a few good games and a lot of shit games, but we should have just traded a third round pick for him. We then could have had Pav and maybe he doesn't spend his whole career at Collingwood, but he was AA in 2002 and may have been the difference in that year's GF... We selected Danny Roach with Pick 7, who played one game for one tackle. The next pick was Joel Corey.

Collingwood did the same thing a few years later, ultimately losing the pick that Hawthorn got Jordan Lewis with.

Anyways, it's all in the past. Pavlich is a superstar.

 

[stax on the mull]

With great players, they always make the difficult look easy, so you see the things that they do, that very few players are capable of, you take what are hopes and match them with a higher level of expectation.

When Pav would see the space and would run towards goals and bomb from outside 50m, it would almost happen faster than your mind could unravel. You might be thinking, he's almost in range here, because he's a long kick he could go the journey and before the possibility is complete in your mind, the ball would be sailing through the goals - and you go - well, ok, that's what Pav has done so many times before.

One thing that I used to marvel at was how quick and agile he was for a big man when he had to set up for a quick snap the ball around the corner. He has those powerful tree trunk thighs and yet he would pivot one foot down like a ballet dancer and spin high on his toes and snap it across his body while his opponents would try and get hold of him.

 

[Sir Deadly]

Very hard to see Pav being topped as Freo's greatest ever player.

I can thoroughly recommend his book too, even for non-Freo fans - I smashed through it in one day and loved it.

Scary to think we might have someone who could top him in Fyfe.
I bought the book a few days ago, eagerly awaiting it to arrive in the post.

 

[clivenator26]

Was mentioned today that as a 16-17 yr old he was in the draft and wanted an SA club to pick him up. You could take one 17yr old at the time, the crows picked Ken McGregor and Port went for Adam Morgan.

Thank f***, the first good thing to happen to the club.

 

[Xtreme]

Pav needs to keep going so he can over take whatever number "that North Melbourne guy" finishes up on

 

[im_a_lazy_sod]

Pav needs to keep going so he can over take whatever number "that North Melbourne guy" finishes up on

He should just wait til Harvey retires, then come out of retirement and beat his record just for lolz

 

[Natho]

Probably the only freo game I'll watch this decade.. apart from the derbies. Good on Pav. Still playing good footy too.

 

[jod23]

Legend. No idea how he has gotten to 350. Ive watched all the Eagle greats just get worn down by the travel. The closest anyone got to 300 was Cox and he fell 10 short on 290. To get to 350 is unheard of for an Eagle or Docker.

Has gone on one year too long though, but he didnt know Freo would suck so hard, he must have thought one last tilt at a flag. Weird what happened to Freo. Top of the ladder to 3rd last.