Which past player (singular) would you include to improve the current side ?

[Bosk]

If you want to be 100% sure that the job will be done on the day then it's Chris Mew.

So true.

He'd have to be one of the most underrated players ever to have played for the club - at least among non-Hawk supporters. Blokes like Mew, Tucky and Andy Collins just went about their business with minimal fanfare but were almost never beaten. Of the current list you could probably put Guerra in the same category.

 

[B&GBlood]

PLATTEN inside and outside, pace and endurance.

 

[play2win]

salmon

 

[Schopp]

Seems like a silly question, but is there an accurate figure of how many behinds Dunstall kicked in his career ? The number of behinds I can remember marking down in the footy record for him, especially out at Waverley, seems to not measure up with the current consensus of him being a dead eye dick ?

I wouldn't say he was the most accurate kick I have seen, but definately the best under pressure, genuine iceman. He was asked once about this and said he found it easier to concentrate in big moments. Time and time again would kick clutch goals. One against the Eagles in the last qtr of the 92 elimination final was memorable almost 50 out wet ball non favoured pocket - the boo from the crowd was deafening, moments after leaving his boot dead silence as it split the middle, as a kid I remember being in awe. In the 91 gf the Eagles had the wind in the first qtr and began to kick away 5 goals to 1. In the final minute he kicked 2 into a stiff breeze from about 40-45m out. Not much of a run up but a very powerful boot.

Anyhow found a nice one he kicked needed by the Hawks against the Crows in the 93 elimination final after the siren at 3 qtr time (go to 4.30 min mark)

 

[Furn2]

Three words

Simon Minton-Connell

 

[Miss_Hawk_Fan]

Crawf with out a doubt.... More chance of playing too lol

 

[Jason Dunstall]

Jarman

 

[Hawka_de_Haven]

Ok here's a what if exercise to take posters' minds off the GF (somewhat) and trading/drafting.

After some thought I would probably go with Peter Knights. He'd improve our contested marking and slot in quite nicely at centre half back. I'd love to see some of the forwards of today compete with a defender who would go for his marks in a contested situation. Plus he'd have the added bonus of being able to go forward and stand on blokes heads if any team tried that flooding crap in our forward 50.

Honourable mentions go to:

Darren Jarman. Would there be a better sight in footy than Jars streaming (ok maybe trickling would be a better description, he never was the quickest going around) out of half back and hitting Buddy on the chest with a 55 metre bullet. Could also go forward and kick goals in finals.

Michael Byrne. Very good tap ruckman who could also play forward.

I'm trying to think of players whose game could fit in with the footy played these days as well as improve our current side, not just name our all time greatest player, when we'd get a reasonable consensus on that fairly quickly

Paul Dear

 

[HomerJayS]

It would have to Dunstall. If he was in the goal square we would have probably won all our games in 2012. Buddy to CHF and Roughy at CHB/FB with Gibbo as his wing man (not Gibbo on the wing).

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Darren Jarman ... he could kick for goal.

 

[cs61]

If we are talking about players in their prime, then Shane Crawford.