Opinion Where will Patrick Dangerfield rank amongst the greats?

[peetoo]

Dan Houston is regarded was one of, if not the best field kicks in the league at the moment. Is he the best player?

Is he Burgoyne level all round?

For example burgoyne could clean disposes an an opponent and there was no apparent violence

Like a surgeon compared to a thug with a machete

And with respect, who’s ranking Houston among the greats?

 

[Wojcinski]

Is he Burgoyne level all round?

For example burgoyne could clean disposes an an opponent and there was no apparent violence

Like a surgeon compared to a thug with a machete

And with respect, who’s ranking Houston among the greats?

if kicking skills are the preliminary selection criteria for great players then why wouldn't you be ranking Houston up there?

Shaun Burgoyne is one of the greats of the game. Better kick than Dangerfield? Yes without doubt. Better player overall than Patrick Dangerfield though? Burgoyne isn't even realistically in the conversation

 

[peetoo]

if kicking skills are the preliminary selection criteria for great players then why wouldn't you be ranking Houston up there?

Shaun Burgoyne is one of the greats of the game. Better kick than Dangerfield? Yes without doubt. Better player overall than Patrick Dangerfield though? Burgoyne isn't even realistically in the conversation

You completely went 180 on me. I didn’t say primary criteria I said if kicking skills are lacking in a player, how can they be discussed as great?

I do realise at least 4 recent Brownlow medalists can be could be described thus.

I just don’t think it’s right

 

[PhatBoy]

You completely went 180 on me. I didn’t say primary criteria I said if kicking skills are lacking in a player, how can they be discussed as great?

I do realise at least 4 recent Brownlow medalists can be could be described thus.

I just don’t think it’s right

Ok well look at it this way.

Look at every single great player of the last 25 years.

Like unarguably great players.

Voss
Judd
Buckley
Cousins
Cox
Brown
Akermanis
JPK
Riewoldt
Riewoldt
Martin
Selwood
Ablett
Hawkins
Hodge
Mitchell
Buddy
Cripps
Bontempelli
Danger
Bartel
Scarlett
Rance
Lake
McLeod
Ricciuto
Fyfe
Pavlich
Tredrea
Pendlebury
Swan


The list goes on - there’s plenty more I could name.

They ALL have probably above average courage and hunger for the ball and contest and to be at the coalface, as it were.

Not all players have that. It’s a fundamental part of being a great player. You can’t be a great player without it. Yet some of these guys aren’t great kicks.

They ALL have elite vision and game sense in knowing where to be when, knowing who to look for and how to position themselves to get the ball.

Other players with the most perfect foot skills DONT have that.

So how can you say that to be a great player, being a great kick is the most important skill?

It’s certainly not the most common thing to all the great players of the the last 25 years.

 

[Sttew]

Voss
Hird
Harvey
Buckley
Akernanis
Mitchell
Crawford
Cotchin
Priddis
Dangerfield
Wowoedin

Something like that

Nothing like that. Go back and try again.

FMD Cotchin and Priddis ahead of Danger. 8AA's alone virtually puts him in exalted territory, and the fact he's been doing it for 15+ years

 

[PhatBoy]

Nothing like that. Go back and try again.

FMD Cotchin and Priddis ahead of Danger. 8AA's alone virtually puts him in exalted territory, and the fact he's been doing it for 15+ years

Look at who you’re replying to

 

[peetoo]

Ok well look at it this way.

Look at every single great player of the last 25 years.

Like unarguably great players.

Voss
Judd
Buckley
Cousins
Cox
Brown
Akermanis
JPK
Riewoldt
Riewoldt
Martin
Selwood
Ablett
Hawkins
Hodge
Mitchell
Buddy
Cripps
Bontempelli
Danger
Bartel
Scarlett
Rance
Lake
McLeod
Ricciuto
Fyfe
Pavlich
Tredrea
Pendlebury
Swan


The list goes on - there’s plenty more I could name.

They ALL have probably above average courage and hunger for the ball and contest and to be at the coalface, as it were.

Not all players have that. It’s a fundamental part of being a great player. You can’t be a great player without it. Yet some of these guys aren’t great kicks.

They ALL have elite vision and game sense in knowing where to be when, knowing who to look for and how to position themselves to get the ball.

Other players with the most perfect foot skills DONT have that.

So how can you say that to be a great player, being a great kick is the most important skill?

It’s certainly not the most common thing to all the great players of the the last 25 years.

Kudos to you taking on that argument. It is football after all.

Did you omit Burgoyne to trigger me? Similar Goodes?

 

[Xtreme]

Nothing like that. Go back and try again.

FMD Cotchinahead of Danger. 8AA's alone virtually puts him in exalted territory, and the fact he's been doing it for 15+ years

If Dangerfield was better than Cotchin he'd have multiple premierships

 

[PhatBoy]

Kudos to you taking on that argument. It is football after all.

Did you omit Burgoyne to trigger me? Similar Goodes?

Um, no? ‘The list goes on, there is plenty more I could name.’

FMD mate.

Rugby league is football.

Rugby union is football.

Gaelic football is football.

Soccer is football.


I’m not talking about a direct comparison between Dangerfield and Burgoyne here but:
You tell me which player is going to get drafted first retrospectively if they have speed, courage, goal sense, are virtually impossible to tackle, aerial ability, ground ball ability, can defend, can spoil, can play forward, midfield, fast hands, can handball, can kick the ball a country mile, can kick off his left a bit, and is a contested beast, but is average with his kicking accuracy, compared to a player who is roughly average for a good portion of those skills but has elite foot skills.

Because nobody is picking Mitch Duncan over Patrick Dangerfield

 

[Daka]

Bartel criminally underrated.

only 2x All-Australians must have been a rubbish player according to Geelong fans.

 

[Lets Roar like '44]

As a footballer he will rank high. As a flog he’d be higher.

 

[Sttew]

If Dangerfield was better than Cotchin he'd have multiple premierships

And Priddis, who you clumsily deleted from my quote that you quoted?

 

[smasha]

Dusty,Dusty,Dusty!
2020 gf when he carved Dangerfield up like a roast dinner.

Danger had to king hit Vlastuin out of the game,he was so frustrated
No penalty for the campaigner of course.

 

[Xtreme]

And Priddis, who you clumsily deleted from my quote that you quoted?

Priddis gets bonus points for rescuing kittens from trees and helping old ladies cross the street in his spare time.

 

[Wojcinski]

Dusty,Dusty,Dusty!
2020 gf when he carved Dangerfield up like a roast dinner.

Danger had to king hit Vlastuin out of the game,he was so frustrated
No penalty for the campaigner of course.

If that was a king hit then Paddy needs tips from Noah Balta

 

[PenfoldsFan]

Great player no doubt.

Favourite memory was Sloane putting him on his arse in the 2017 Prelim.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Dusty, Danger and Fyfe are always going to be compared to each other as they all got in the AFL system around the same time and near the same ages.

All 3 are clear Hall of Famers and could claim to be a top 5 player in the AFL at their peaks.

Is one of the best players in his generation and in the 2010's and early 2020's

 

[PhatBoy]

Dusty,Dusty,Dusty!
2020 gf when he carved Dangerfield up like a roast dinner.

Danger had to king hit Vlastuin out of the game,he was so frustrated
No penalty for the campaigner of course.

Thought you’d still be crying into your fruit loops

Oh hang on. You are - about something that happened half a decade ago. In a match you won

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Can someone help sign my petition to elevate Matt Suckling and Lindsay Gilbee

Lindsay Gilbee

Age

43

Ht

180cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

Def

Career

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Last 5

D

18.4

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

6.1

4star

M

4.6

4star

T

1.5

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No current season stats available

D

6.6

2star

K

3.2

2star

HB

3.4

3star

M

2.2

3star

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0.6

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to HOF Legends?

In terms of style, I'd say he's most like Judd in terms of his explosion away from the contest. Judd had the edge in his cleanness with the ball, Dangerfield more of a line breaker, kicked more goals, a much better overhead and contested mark and did it for far longer (Judd was finished before he turned 32). But... "he's nowhere near Judd!"

He's already the all-time leader for contested possessions and clearances and the way he's going, he'll finish his career with anywhere between 450-500 goals, putting him around the same range on the all-time list as Ablett Jr, Brereton, Goodes, Jesaulenko, Blight and a number of all-time greats who were known for kicking big bags.

All due respect to other Geelong players of my time, but there's maybe a handful over that journey who've had a claim to being the best player in the game over that time and he's one of them (FWIW the others would be the two Abletts and arguably/very briefly Cameron and Hawkins). And - of itself - that doesn't necessarily mean they're automatically the best Geelong players, but it means something. Dangerfield is still an absolute gun, still an AA threat if his body holds up and he was a top 5/top 10 player in the league for about 7-8 years in a row. I think the world of guys like Johnson and Bartel, but frankly, they're not even close to that.

 

[Wojcinski]

Thought you’d still be crying into your fruit loops

Oh hang on. You are - about something that happened half a decade ago. In a match you won

Crazy to think that during Dusty's "best individual season ever" in 2017 Danger still was ahead of him in nearly every aspect on the stat sheet, except clangers and turnovers

 

[Art Vandelay_]

If that was a king hit then Paddy needs tips from Noah Balta

smasha can't even answer a simple question on this forum. A question worth asking as it is he who purports the myth.
Cannot back up the claim that it is the CFL not the AFL.

So why bother wondering why Tiger fans think that perfectly legal (and cleared) action from PD in that GF is a king hit.
It was an incidental football action.

 

[peetoo]

Crazy to think that during Dusty's "best individual season ever" in 2017 Danger still was ahead of him in nearly every aspect on the stat sheet, except clangers and turnovers

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Why post data which contradicts you?

 

[Wojcinski]

Why post data which contradicts you?

I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to hear what you have to say Peter

 

[Do_Beta_Rapport]

Fantastic player, he’s a shocking kick and that marks him down against some of the all time greats.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Fantastic player, he’s a shocking kick and that marks him down against some of the all time greats.

Perhaps, but doesn't his goal scoring, run & carry and contested/overhead marking mark him ahead of other contemporary greats who played a similar role to him? Which would put him ahead on the ledger overall?

And then factor in his longevity. I mean, call me crazy, but I actually give him some credit for playing - what looks like being - anywhere from 3-5 more seasons worth of high quality football than the likes of Judd, Buckley and Voss.