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1 great season and now heading towards Carey, Ablett Snr Matthews territory!! Big footy at its best.
Was pretty special last year for crows.
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1 great season and now heading towards Carey, Ablett Snr Matthews territory!! Big footy at its best.
Spuds need to lower their eyes.True. Banging it forward is the sign of an all time great.
1 year as best in the comp.Was pretty special last year for crows.
Accumulation seems to still be the yardstick because it's an easy stat. Got 40 touches? Must have been BOG.
Ablett 2010 averaged 31.5 disposals and kicked a lazy 44 goals
- All Australian
- MVP
- Coaches Award
- Best and Fairest
- Brownlow
- Premiership Player
- Norm Smith
These are his achievements in his first year as a Cat, and he is still only 26 years old!
I know the latter four haven't occured yet, but they're pretty much a formality.
Last night, he was presented with the MVP award, and he sent a shudder down the spines of all the other sides, by saying that he still has a lot of improvement left in his game.
His 48 disposal game against North Melbourne this year was the best game by a midfielder that I've seen since Gary Ablett Snr.
Before anyone shouts me down, yes it was a better game than any game ever played by Gary Ablett Jnr.
I really think that Paddy has all the tools to become the greatest player to have ever played the game.
Note that I say 'potential' in the thread title, and a lot of players don't fulfill their potential, see Jarrad Waite.
Do you think that Patrick Dangerfield could become the GOAT?
Adelaide really got screwed with the compensation they got for him
To think that Geelong could have signed him without giving up any draft picks, as he was a free agent.
Accumulation seems to still be the yardstick because it's an easy stat. Got 40 touches? Must have been BOG.
If footy was an individual sport like singles tennis where players just played 1v1 then sure, good argument that with all his ability he is one of a handful of players you could argue is the GOAT.
But I think he plays too selfishly in a team sport, too often trying to do too much by himself. If it's a choice between getting it to an "inferior" teammate in a better position or making a lower percentage play by himself then he seems to do the latter far more often.
Buddy Franklin was/is similar in this regard. At Hawthorn he would often burn his teammates to take a low percentage miracle shot. Which looked great on the highlight reels and added to his superstar aura while all the out of bounds on the fulls and behinds are forgotten.
In 2013 Hawthorn had a very dominant year and while the stats suggest Buddy had a quiet year by his lofty standards I reckon it was the more team oriented role and play by him that year that led to such a dominant year for Hawthorn and why the Hawks in 2014 remained strong after he left too.
The same thing can be observed with Adelaide this year.
He's a good player but is closer to being a goat than he is of being GOAT.
Hes clearly the standout player this year. Lets see another 5. Then reassess.
Being slightly superstitious, this premature-ejaculative talk doesnt bode well for the Cats.
Suck shit Adelaide.