Motts more gifted than Bradley or Kernahan
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Motts more gifted than Bradley or Kernahan
I thought Thy was talking about Ricky Mott on this forum, now that’s tough....
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that was the word............
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Met him personally great family absolute tragedy.
A true champion person just starting off his life and could have been anything if not fir that accident.
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Motts could have been really good, we'll never know how good. The other two were out and out champions from day 1. Sticks was a champion from we'll before he came to us.
The list of players that were more gifted than braddles or sticks in the whole history of the afl is pretty slim.
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you don't get to be a champion that young - it diminishes the term - which is already brutally misused with regard to sports people...............
Bit like GOAT, a dollar for every time someone’s a GOAT these days.
Mightn't have been a champ when he got here, but he had a decent CV.
Bruce Doull as a notch on his belt, lost a Margery (was ahead by 8) through suspension and was universally acclaimed as the best player in the country.
So......could play.
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doull was 50 years old............
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no question there..........
Motts was just settling into his stride at the time of his accident. The way he moved across the ground, he just glided & he had such good hands.
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I thought it was mum.
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They weren't kids when they came over. Both had played 5 full SANFL seasons, with sticks having already kicked 290 goals at Glenelg and a lazy 10 in a state game whilst braddles was going at a goal a game as a midfielder for nearly a hundred games.
To put it in perspective they had both played double the amount of games that Sam Walsh has played before they got to us.
They were pretty much bomb proof by the time they came over and if they weren't already champs they were both close to it.
No disrespect to motts, unsure what he might have become.
Best player bar Jezza I ever saw in the flesh and heat of competition in Navy, and we’ve had a few.
He was a freak of nature with ball in hand, could launch when no one saw opportunity, snap off both feet, hands like a demon, jezza just nudges him out along side Doull.
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Not sure who you're talking about here? Couldn't be Motts in his 19 games at Carlton?
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they were great players - I try to protect the word "champion" for only the very best - after their career is done.............
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My bro could play footy, Sam Mitchell type, he always said “motts gets it, twists turns snags one”.
He was our hero in Navy
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Can we agree on "well on their way to becoming champions" which they both did?
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Kicked 4 goals for Carlton. Had the capacity to be great but never got the opportunity.
I cried when he hurt himself, my bro called me and said, “it’s all over”.
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To paraphrase our former coach, I would say looking at the fixture I can’t see any games where Walsh won’t be the BOG and get 3 Brownlow votes...
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You called it . Motts wasn’t fast but strided out with clean hands and a low kick . Greg Williams . Paddy Dow
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I see a bit of Motts in the boy Kemp.
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