Bold perhaps but not so reckless.
There’s a cream for that.
Dirty on myself for Dawson and Fox, pretty happy with my other calls though!
But you'll struggle to find anyone with more accurate projections than yourself, great eye for talent. Dawson caught us all by surprise.
Trawling my memory I recall that at that time Dawson wasn't working all that hard. Bursts of brilliance for sure but a fair bit of coasting through games too. I think that later he admitted to it as well. I wouldn't get too hung up on it.
Sure, but DA still isn't living up to his name.
or me
I remember a preseason game in his first year and it was wet. Raining.
Yes, he had played first grade for Sturt in the SANFL & did really well. I know many South Australians who recognised his talent & I know Crows & Port fans who were pissed off he got picked up by us.
he hit the post with a second kick just as long. It was a howling gale & the ball was actually going backward if you kicked it in the opposite direction.
when Dawson first came, they played him in the role he played for Sturt. Then HB. But what he really excelled at was the centre position. He is a mid. Always has been. One whole season in the reserves, where he should have played seniors, he dominated games. I can remember one game at Showgrounds. GWS, who had a pretty good team that day, Patton, Whitfield & a couple of other senior players. he was playing mainly forward & had a couple of goals. But went into the guts for the first bounce after half time. He got the first of 10 clearances for the quarter. His delivery was superb and he got free all quarter. I don't have a clue how many disposals but it must have been about 15. He kicked another 2 goals one 65 metre bomb from the flank when the GWS player didn't see fit to man the mark, big mistake. We were down at half time by 3 & led at 3/4 time by 4 or 5. We blew them apart in the last. There were plenty of players who are now playing seniors at many clubs playing for them.
