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Top 5 Favourite Pies Players ever? (Not the best, your favourite).
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Wow. You include 2 players that would make my top 5 despised players. Which would include.
Dale Thomas
Harry O'Brien
Mike Richardson
Mark Williams
Ollie Henry
Dids is probably my favourite to ever wear the black and white.
You despise 2 gun premiership winners and an inspirational captain?
Leon Davis
just loved everything about how he played.
Chris Tarrant
The biceps that launched a thousand chicken chokings
Ben Reid
Before his body cracked, the backman with the most attacking rebound ive seen
Steele
Reminds me of a little neighbourhood Jack Russell when i was a kid. Into everythingvand always with a tongue half out and a cheeky smile
Patrick Lipinski
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just loved everything about how he played.
Chris Tarrant
The biceps that launched a thousand chicken chokings
Ben Reid
Before his body cracked, the backman with the most attacking rebound ive seen
Steele
Reminds me of a little neighbourhood Jack Russell when i was a kid. Into everythingvand always with a tongue half out and a cheeky smile
Patrick Lipinski
A1 crumpet
Great time of the year and the footy cycle to have a think about this.
1. Gavin Brown, never been a braver player to wear the stripes or any other colours come to think of it. Approached every contest like it was life or death. Brilliant player at SOO level and big matches. How could you not love him
2. Sav Rocca, just loved the excitement he brought to a match. Marks, kicking and power.
3. Len Thompson, Probably stretching the memory and perhaps its time dilation, but he was a giant of a player and before his time as a skilled athletic ruckman.
4. Darrren Millane for just never taking a backward step and he not only made his team mates stand taller, but i reckon us in the stands did as well.
5 JDG, to throw in a current player, just love his last 2 seaons in particular. with the recession ( slight) of Dusty, reckon this bloke has the most impact on a game per touch, just enormous hurt factor, big game player and crunch moment guy.
Couldn't let it go without noting Pendles, just a thng of beauty to behold.
1. Gavin Brown, never been a braver player to wear the stripes or any other colours come to think of it. Approached every contest like it was life or death. Brilliant player at SOO level and big matches. How could you not love him
2. Sav Rocca, just loved the excitement he brought to a match. Marks, kicking and power.
3. Len Thompson, Probably stretching the memory and perhaps its time dilation, but he was a giant of a player and before his time as a skilled athletic ruckman.
4. Darrren Millane for just never taking a backward step and he not only made his team mates stand taller, but i reckon us in the stands did as well.
5 JDG, to throw in a current player, just love his last 2 seaons in particular. with the recession ( slight) of Dusty, reckon this bloke has the most impact on a game per touch, just enormous hurt factor, big game player and crunch moment guy.
Couldn't let it go without noting Pendles, just a thng of beauty to behold.
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Barham
Didak
Picken
Morwood
Though to be honest, I could probably have another couple of lists of 5 players I liked just about as much.
Barham
Didak
Picken
Morwood
Though to be honest, I could probably have another couple of lists of 5 players I liked just about as much.
No offence, but Lumumba would just about be my least favourite player ever.
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Peter Dacios: torps from 50+
Graeme Wright: opposite wing to Darren, should have won the 1990 Brownlow
Scott Pendlebury: longevity, 2 premierships, matrix skills
Scott Burns: tuff as nails,
I would like to have Banks in my list. And Swan for his laconic nature and humour.
I am with him on O'Brien. Wouldn't matter how many premierships he had played in, he soiled his legacy with the racism nonsense over the last few years and probably revealed his true colours (no pun intended).
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G. Brown: Physically he was no giant, but played like one. Determination and courage personified. Went in hard but never performed a dirty act on the ground.
P. Daicos: Timeless talent. Could field him in a side of any era and he'd dominate.
N. Buckley: There were times when supporting Collingwood was not all that rewarding. Nathan created hope. Was driven and disciplined. Supreme footballer.
S. Pendlebury: No explanation required. Freak of consistency.
I expect to get crucified for this, but:
D. Thomas: Was electrifying at his peak. Such an exciting footballer to watch. He was an instinctive athlete who played with dare.
Honorable mentions: P. Medhurst, J. Elliott. Both small athletes that can play tall and win games off their own boot. Didak, he was the modern version of a mini-Daicos, until we got some proper ones.
P. Daicos: Timeless talent. Could field him in a side of any era and he'd dominate.
N. Buckley: There were times when supporting Collingwood was not all that rewarding. Nathan created hope. Was driven and disciplined. Supreme footballer.
S. Pendlebury: No explanation required. Freak of consistency.
I expect to get crucified for this, but:
D. Thomas: Was electrifying at his peak. Such an exciting footballer to watch. He was an instinctive athlete who played with dare.
Honorable mentions: P. Medhurst, J. Elliott. Both small athletes that can play tall and win games off their own boot. Didak, he was the modern version of a mini-Daicos, until we got some proper ones.
Yeah, I agree he's acted in a ridiculous manner over the years, but I like players who got the absolute maximum out of themselves, which he certainly did.
Guys like Tony Shaw Micky Gayfer and Nick Maxwell.
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No Grundy, no Bear. If only things turned out differently.
Well done for acknowledging Morwood. Criminally underrated by many; such a skilled player.
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Morwood was a jet.No Grundy, no Bear. If only things turned out differently.
Well done for acknowledging Morwood. Criminally underrated by many; such a skilled player.
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None taken.
I used the name O'Brien for a reason. I fell out of love with him in the Lumumba years .
Absolutely loved him as H. O'Brien though.
think i could as well TGG.
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Jeez maths isn't your thing. You failed the mathematical component of your own thread.
