Adam Cooney to play 250 games and retire

[demondavey]

Because most people have common decency.

Please. Just because a person retires doesn't mean you change your tune.

 

[Bont2Bruce]

Please. Just because a person retires doesn't mean you change your tune.

Thankfully for people like you there is such a thing as karma.

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

Thankfully for people like you there is such a thing as karma.

Karma will hit him for disagreeing that someone is amazing after they've announced their retirement?

Bigfooty isn't that serious.

 

[JackOutback]

It's a testament to the power of sticky tape that it held him together for 250 games. Fair effort.

 

[gutsroy]

Bad day for rangas - Cooney & Saucehead Merrett announcing they're retiring

This was pretty good:
The ranga is dead, long live the ranga.
Genuine shame that Cooney's body held him back toward the end.

 

[Natho]

What did cooney actually do to his knee?

 

[demondavey]

Thankfully for people like you there is such a thing as karma.

I'll struggle to sleep tonight

 

[demondavey]

What did cooney actually do to his knee?

Hurt it

 

[Natho]

Hurt it

Did it hurt?

 

[The_Flying_Egg]

What did cooney actually do to his knee?

Cracked the patella and messed up the cartilage

 

[Natho]

Cracked the patella and messed up the cartilage

Thats gotta hurt. What year did he do that?

 

[bresker]

2008, before his 23rd birthday. He says he doesn't even remember getting the injury. Split his patellar bone in a collision causing all the cartilage to leak out. After that he played and trained in pain for the rest of his career. Apparently his knee would swell up like a balloon after games.

In his prime he was electric, could take the ball out of the middle and in a couple if bounces be at the forward 50. Played a lot taller than 187cm too, had a great reach and was an excellent mark. Long kick. Explosive. Kicked many goals, Won the Brownlow.

Enjoy the great players while they are here.

 

[inflames1919]

5 goals at the SCG in 2008 was a spectacle

 

[Hellgood]

It's amazing that when a player retires everyone has a decent thing to say about them. The amount of criticism one receives seems to be forgotten when they announce their retirement.

Cooney has never even been remotely hateable. Pretty endearing sort of character.

Every football fan understands the reason he never hit the heights expected of him were well and truly out of his and the clubs he represented control.

 

[nobbyiscool]

His Brownlow year was incredible. On a personal level, I'll always have a soft spot for him cos he was about the biggest win I've ever had in Brownlow betting.

He became a universally liked guy after that too. One of the all time great Brownlow speeches, and the story about proposing to his girlfriend which he repeated about a hundred times in the week following endeared him to most I think.

 

[rumply]

I'd forgotten he was fairly hammered giving his Brownlow speech, did well to get out of that in one piece, other's might not have fared so well

 

[citizen-erased]

Just to clarify for those who don't know the injury history.
Cooney did his knee is a final against Hawthorn a few weeks before he was awarded the 2008 brownlow. It was just before his 23rd birthday and never got to his prime as a player.

He was never close to the same player after that injury.

250 games has been a fair effort all things considered

 

[boncer34]

One of the more refreshingly honest retirement press conferences.

 

[Lucky Star]

2008, before his 23rd birthday. He says he doesn't even remember getting the injury. Split his patellar bone in a collision causing all the cartilage to leak out. After that he played and trained in pain for the rest of his career. Apparently his knee would swell up like a balloon after games.

I've heard a version of this story from a good source that they stuffed up the surgery on his knee and it never tracked in place properly for the rest of his career. Quite painful and limited the amount of training he could do.

Anyway, well done Coons on a great career, many happy memories for us Dogs fans.

 

[Petrie4PM]

Well done on a great career.


Adam Cooney @Adamcooney17

Thanks to everyone for the very kind msgs, you're all bloody brilliant. I just had a mcflurry I sense a L Whitnall type blowout happenin

 

[Testekill]

 

[Quivorir]

Sad to see Adam hang them up at 30.

My favourite Cooney highlight moment was this one:

Why did this happen?

 

[Bont2Bruce]

Why did this happen?

Because ruckmen are overrated.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

His best was amazing.