Past player. Jacob Brennan (2011 - 2014)

[kane249]

Details
Number 14
Height 188cm
Weight 82Kg
DOB 24-01-1990
Debut Round 5 Vs North Melbourne
Games 28
Goals 2


Draft history: 2010 NAB AFL Draft fourth round father-son selection (West Coast) No. 62 overall.
Honours: 2012 Eagle rookie of the year

 

[kane249]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

 

[sydney eagle]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

Looking at those videos makes it seem that Brennan is a good judge of the flight of the ball, and he likes to attack from defence. The next generation's Bluey McKenna perhaps ? (Not that I want to put any pressure on him or anything ! )

 

[DrTomSwift]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

This kid's on twitter if you didn't know.

https://twitter.com/#!/woundedelephant

 

[kane249]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

Wounded elephant?

 

[kane249]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

 

[Suma Magic]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

You'll have to adjust that title Kane.

Congratulations Moju

 

[ioppolo]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

Good luck and congrats to the young man!

 

[kane249]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

You'll have to adjust that title Kane.

Congratulations Moju

Will get one of the mods to do this after it becomes official on Sunday

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

Yeah I planned to wait til then, didn't want to jinx him

 

[Suma Magic]

Re: 34. Jacob Brennan (Yet to debut)

A wise decision.

Love watching debuts. Expecting him to be quiet just hope we see a running bounce or two.

 

[kane249]

 

[kane249]

Jacob Brennan, 2012 Eagle rookie of the year

 

[getgaff]

The first year Eagle puts the Kangaroos number one ruck on his knees in tassie. Go Moju

 

[Natho]

Goldy made piss by Brennan!!

 

[Jimmy_the_Gent]

Within the next minute, Dean Cox was dominating and we won the game.

I think Brennan deserved more credit for that hit

 

[Jack_the_Ninja]

That hit on Goldy is what cemented my belief Brennan is the Real Deal, players who hit and do damage to opposition players legally are worth their weight in gold to clubs.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

That is an awesome hit. He got him so fair and square too

 

[kane249]

Even better was he got up and was one of the first at the next contest as well while Goldy stayed down

 

[Brolga]

I will admit I am a Brennan fan.

But even I was surprised on the club's video link of top "one percenters" for 2012, just how many featured him.

 

[Toshowyouwhy]

Before we start to talk about Jacob Brennan, let's all cast our minds back to the 30th of September, 2006...

A star studded team of Eagles were bottling it massively. They'd busted out to a fair old buffer by half time, but predictably their opponents, Sydney, came good in the second half and looked like they would steamroll over the top. The flair and brilliance of the likes of Judd, Cousins, Kerr and even that Neil Armstrong fella had gotten them into a winning position, but when the margin had been knocked back to just one point, something else was going to be required.

On this day, as it was on so many other days, the difference was Daniel Chick. Nowadays he might be known as Benny's right hand man - the bloke that was snorting off the left arse cheek while Cuz took care of the right - but when he was on the field he was a match winner. Not through pace, or through bags of goals, but through the intangible bullshit that you often hear Luke Darcy dribble on about in the brief moments he's not slagging West Coast off. On this day the difference was very tangible though, as his physicality and out and out heart in one contest directly resulted in the winning goal, and another chase and tackle on Ted Richards that left Chicky crippled on the floor potentially saved another goal. He didn't win the Norm Smith medal, hell he probably wasn't even close, but make no mistake, Daniel Chick won us that grand final.

In Jacob Brennan, the Eagles have another player with the potential to win games by throwing himself around like a nut case. Case in point, the match in Tasmania against North. We were getting comprehensively bludgeoned by pretty much every player on the field that day, and it wasn't until MoJu twatted Todd Goldstein that we got a foothold in the game. We would eventually go on and win that game, and the plaudits would go to Dean Cox, a man who benefited from the fact that his opponent had been taken out of the game by a 22 year old little bloke.

That wasn't an isolated incident , as evidenced by the frequent appearances of Brennan in the club's 'Top 20 One Percenters' video that came out after the season. He popped up in that video 5 times, including the number one on the list, which was him making Buddy Franklin and Cyril Rioli look like park amateurs.

The boy has a perverse love of the contest, and seems to get some sort of sexual pleasure from the insanely brave and team lifting. His defensive skills are sound and developing, but in a game such as ours, it's moments that can win games and win flags. Nobody will ever forget Daniel Chick in the 2006 grand final, just as I don't think too many Eagles fans will soon be forgetting the pain that Brennan dished out to Goldstein to lift us that day. Every premiership teams need a Jacob Brennan, and with a bit of luck, 2013's will have the real one.

 

[Jack_the_Ninja]

Ok here's one then, Brennan for Captain and Darling for vice, Dynasty in the making right there.

 

[eaglespremiers]

So, first game back in and Jacob had 5 kicks, 3 handballs and 4 tackles.
However, Jon Anderson put him in his team of the week:
"The son of Michael is going to be a player."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/tea...team-of-the-week/story-fnd12rom-1226620955392

 

[Toshowyouwhy]

MOJU UPDATE:

He's playing pretty well.

 

[Bob Fossil]

Is Moju still an acceptable nickname?