Favourite player.... and stuff the rest of ya

[saintsrfreak]

Always been Lenny Hayes, no real need to explain his positives as everyone knows them.

Outside my club I like J Watson maybe just reminds me of watching Tim play), Also J Brown as i just love a big dominant CHF and always have loved this sort of player... Loewe, Carey, Riewoldt, Tredrea, Brereton etc

Roo isnt really the same type of player as them. He's more athletic and runs his opponent into the ground.

 

[TheNextBigThing]

Chris Knights, back in late 2009 when Adelaide were really going well I used to love watching him play, hopefully he can get back to the form.

 

[Off The Couch]

Always been Lenny Hayes, no real need to explain his positives as everyone knows them.

Outside my club I like J Watson maybe just reminds me of watching Tim play), Also J Brown as i just love a big dominant CHF and always have loved this sort of player... Loewe, Carey, Riewoldt, Tredrea, Brereton etc

At the risk of being red carded on my own board I have to agree - watching him develop over the last few years and reading some of the articles on him not being upto it when he first started playing makes it absolutely fantastic to see the quality of football he is playing this year.

I have to say this also applies to the likes of GAJ and Kennedy (hawks) - the pressure to follow in the footsteps of famous fathers and grandfathers and not really cut it in the first few years and cop the negative media articles and crap from supporters and to then turn your careers around deserves truckloads of accolades.

 

[Scotland]

 

[The Bomb]

All you who love King or Milne this thread is for you!

Travis Colyer, cant get a game, but hey, he is better then Brent Harvey at the same age! So that makes me very happy.

 

[Dr Awkward]

Buddy Franklin
Dustin Martin
Brendon Goddard

 

[r_boy]

Jack Riewoldt for mine.

 

[kosifantutti]

I have always been a kosi fan.

 

[Rack Watts]

Jimmy Bartel, Callan Ward and Patrick Dangerfield.

 

[True Blue Saint]

Lenny Hayes has been my favourite player since very early in his career. Just love the way he goes about it. He's all heart.

Really enjoying some of our younger guys play at the moment- Jack Steven has been in great form the last couple of weeks since being moved into the midfield. Siposs has shown a heap of talent, might not always get a lot of the ball, but uses it extremely well, and is already the best set shot for goal in our side. Cripps was playing some good footy too before his surgery! Hopefully we see Tommy Walsh and Tommy Ledger crack it for a senior game soon!

From other sides, I've always enjoyed the way Kade Simpson plays. Really underrated kick, and is very durable. Jimmy Bartel is an absolute champion. Zac Smith has been a favourite of mine since I saw him in the VFL last year - kid will dominate for the next decade. And Luke Hodge is an absolute superstar!!

 

[Notorious_29]

Matthew Pavlich and Daniel Bradshaw.

Past players included - Michael Voss.

 

[Wickzki]

Love some of our boys and I'd put them above these three simply for the jumper that they wear but my four favorite non-Carlton players (right now);

Mark LeCras - My first game back in Australia after living overseas for pretty much close to a decade was Carlton Vs West Coast at Etihad Stadium in round 10, 2009. Carlton won a decisively one-sided game 16.15.111 to 10.10.70. However, it was one of those games that just doesn't tell how one sided the game really was. Fev kicked 6 and while he only had the nine touches Mark LeCras kicked 6 goals as well (half of West Coast's score). He looked amazing. Been a big fan ever since.

Jack Riewoldt - One of the players that I took a fancy to after watching him several times after getting back. This was at the point before he had developed and he had more detractors than fans. I never understood the criticism outside of it being one of those "he hasn't delivered yet" arguments (completely forgetting the fact that he was developing nicely or appeared to me to be). Was still copping it at the start of last season and I was laughed at and mocked for claiming him as one of my favorite players in the AFL.

Jimmy Bartel - if I could choose ONE midfielder from ANY other AFL club to put onto Carlton's list it'd be Bartel. No Bartel, no Geelong -- and it's always been that way for mine (even more so than no Ablett, no Geelong ever was). People don't realize how amazing that grand final he played against St Kilda was. He was flat out brilliant in the opening quarter and a half before the team realized that he had to go and do a defensive job and give up his own game if Geelong were to win the game. It takes enormous professionalism to understand that while you're already playing a great game that you need to do the team job for your team to win. Not many players can do it, but he did it and he was brilliant. If defensive games were as highly regarded as they should be he very easily could have won the Norm Smith that day.

Dale Thomas - Shoot me now. I'm really enjoying watching a Collingwood player. Not a bandwagon jumper by any stretch of the imagination. He's playing some amazing football and is one of those players that you just have to watch when he's in full flight. He can mark, he can kick beautifully, he's got an underrated defensive side to his game. Just a beautifully fluid player. He might have some ego but sports history has proven one thing. You need to have one if you're going to succeed at the highest level possible.

 

[DO IT TO IT]

i will defend cam mooney's 2007 aa selection to the death

 

[Subtemperate]

Leon Davis.... used to love his freak goals.... then loved his defensive forward play.... then loved his midfield work... and now love his work at the defensive end. Love watching him take the game on, even when he stuffs up occassionally. Everyone loves to slap him..... over his entire career.... but I could care less and am just glad he's played for us.

 

[Art Corvelay]

Jack Anthony until he upped and left

 

[Bardo State]

At the hawks its too hard to chose, but my top 5 would be Cyril, buddy, Hodge, Savage and Brrrrruuuueest

 

[PieNSauce]

Daisy has been my out and out favourite for a few years now. I've always loved how other clubs have underrated him big time but every week for the last few years he's gone out there and done what the coach has asked of him. I find it funny how the bandwagoners of other clubs have now jumped on since his role has changed but all I've ever seen of Daisy is a bloke who wants to work hard and isn't afraid to get hurt in doing his job. Even the press describes his change of role as "coming of age" or some such bullshit but those in the know have always been able to see what this kid's got. He may never be a legend of the game but it's players like Daisy who are the heart and soul of clubs and his work ethic last year is in no small part a piece of Collingwood's 2010 premiership jigsaw.

 

[Mitho]

Thread needs more Dustin Martin. Don't argue with him

Also

Jake King
Ben McEvoy
Stevie J
Johno Brown

 

[Doctor Feel]

Surely Rodan deserves a mention?

From other clubs: J. Brown, max hudghton, m. rooke, p. chapman

Of those, probably Chapman. I pretty much have a bat every time he does one of those incredibly perfectly weighted 50 metres down the wing onto the chest of a leading or sprinting player.

 

[Sin City]

My favourite player is Eddie Betts. Got his faults no doubt but when he lights it up there's no player I like watching better.

 

[AG]

See avatar.

 

[raskolnikov]

Essendon: Tayte Pears
Non-Essendon: Adam Goodes

 

[ThePuppetMaster]

Jack Trengove: So much class, great over head, hard at it, I just love the way he goes about his footy.

Jimmy Bartel: No suprise that I like both these players is it? Bartel is a champion player, probably the best marking mid in the game. Rarely makes a mistake.

 

[MarkT2]

There will never be another Kevin Worthington. Back in todays world, Dale Thomas has willed himself to the front of the pack for me. Outside of Collingwood, I love watching Lance Franklin from a football perspective but I don't really warm to him. My favorite non Collingwood player would be Lenny Hayes now that Richo has retired. I like watching Natanui but he doesn't get enough of it at this point to be a favorite.

 

[stupidlikeafox]

Too close between Murphy & Judd.

From other teams: P. Chapman & Monfries.