Firstly, greetings and salutations young Seeds.
living in the States and Taiwan, not exactly hotbeds for Aussie Rules
Remember that too. But also, I remember almost from his first game the opposition giving him a lot of attention, and he was still doing ok. ..went back to the reserves after a while, but still.
Billy criticised the “lazy” Geelong midfield + it was Round 21 when we lost to Hawthorn.
It may take a while for that sort of comment not cause momentary confusion in my brain. Brownless = running capacity, encouraging physical profile?
my only excuse is I never saw Brownless senior play
94 that would be
Yep, kicked 4 in '94. Also OK in '92 with 3.
Billy played quite well in finals. He kicked 19 goals in the 92 finals series.
Saved his best games for finals against Footscray!
I remember when Billy was a tall thin strapping aerialist.
I remember back then I called him Billy Ballless coz he lacked effort and aggression. He never used his large frame to advantage in the contest and was an average forward at best imo!
I'll take 441 career goals at an average of over 2 goals a game from an average forward every day of the week.
It's like a lot of the players in those days though.
In 91 and 92 kicked 81 and 79 goals, and had other forwards to share the load including Stoneham and Ablett.
I always thought Billy was very talented, made me think just prior what's his Finals record was like as I couldn't remember, seems like he wasn't our worst player in all those Finals games.
