Toast 250 Shades of Gray

[Marmozet]

The legend plays game 250 this week.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

#graypride

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[Ford Fairlane]

MELBOURNE is still asleep when Robbie Gray clocks on for work at a cold, brick building in the city’s east.
It’s just before 5am when Gray walks through the doors at Filla Freeza, a meat packing company in Eumemmerring, next door to Dandenong.

For the next 11 hours he will cover every inch of the concrete floor, vacuum sealing meat, lifting boxes and even making sausages. It’s hard yakka even before he gets on the Monash Freeway for the 30-minute drive to training for TAC Cup side, Oakleigh Chargers.

It’s 2006 and for an 18-year-old Gray, an AFL career seems a distant dream.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/...e/news-story/f35ce1503bc168da2307f8824b866492

 

[HighBudget]

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

Our 3rd greatest AFL player..
Should be a multiple time premiership player Brownlow medallist and.norm smith...

But apart from that a great career and still a ever reliable player.

Funny they say you can't teach a old dog new tricks..
But we taught robbie how to kick a set shot constantly in the last two years...
And that's ken's greatest achievement

 

[dirty2]

Champion.

 

[Arsene Wenger]

I reckon our greatest ever in AFL.

 

[TeeKray]

Been a solid player over the journey.

 

[Rigs]

What a man. I love you Robert

 

[backtozero]

Feel privileged to have seen him have so many great moments first hand. Most underrated player in the league bar none.

 

[Marmozet]

Nobody in the comp deserves a premiership more than him and Boak equally.

 

[Janey]

Robbie Gray
and this is why Anthony Hudson is the pick of current day commentators.

 

[tangolikelama]

The GOAT.

My favourite player. Just love the way he goes about it and how humble he is. Has been through it as well with that awful ACL he did at docklands, and going through testicular cancer. I've said it 100 times and I'll say it 100 more but he should've won the 2014 Brownlow. His season was absurd and one of the best I've seen. Going to bring tears the day he raises those boots.

 

[Izzy01]

A legend of the club. Should have won the Brownlow in 2014.
Was so privileged to see him kick the winner against Carlton last year.

 

[Shane_Mag]

One of the all time greats. Whenever he decides to hang up the boots he is gonna have a hell of an amazing highlights video. Hopefully a premiership at the end of it.

 

[ibd77]

Criminally underrated footballer by the nuffies east of Horsham. Loyal, humble champion of the football club. Match winning genus. Dreading the day he retires especially without a premiership medallion around his neck. Happy 250th champ!!!

 

[OneGreatClub]

We had better win for this champ or I will throw up.

 

[Macca19]

He's been ok. Shoulda been better really.

 

[ibd77]

He's been ok. Shoulda been better really.

Imagine if he played his career in a big 4 vic club. it would have been Dustin who???

 

[OneGreatClub]

 

[GremioPower]

Alyx, can there be a Gray playroom meme for this week, please?

 

[Lightning_Rod]

Dead set legend of Port Adelaide

 

[Marmozet]

Remarkable to think how he came back from that horrific ACL injury in 2012 and became one of our greatest ever.

 

[Ljc_86]

He’s been a fav of my family since day one. The fellas knew we had a player and the ladies thought he was (and still is) a cutie.

To this day my Dad still mentions how happy he was with the club when they gave Robbie a new deal when he did his knee and how much he’s meant to this club.

Congrats Robbie you are a legend.