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Premiership Player
This would be better judged after players have finished their careers, there are such things as injuries and form slumps ffs.
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Players who had it but then lost it
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- Jun 23, 2004
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Rewatch rounds 1-5 of 2000. He had it alright.
dan0z
Club Legend
Also around the same time Jason Heatly had it at st kilda so did Joe McLaren (i think that was his name)
Yeah! Went to North Melbourne afterwards for a stint. Now just dominates in the Hampden Footy League.
A bit harsh on Davey...would love him at the swans. Plus playing in the crappest team in the comp doesn't help...
Nick Davis.
- Jan 14, 2008
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Dylan Jessen, See state camps and National squads for SA, won many games off his own boot in the juniors and Reserves at SANFL level, found another side of life, Easier and pays better... was once a champion bloke, still is ok if you can except what he is now doing, would have played AFL football and would have starred!
CROWS08
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Actually, his 2007 was almost statistically identical to his 2006:
2006 - 19.63 dpg + 12 goals in 22 games
2007 - 18.86 dpg + 14 goals in 21 games
He didn't kick on and noticably improve as expected, but to say he was 'really down' isn't true.
CROWS08
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I think I know a bit more about Kouta than you do matehe debuted in the mid 90s.. and was at his peak in 99/00. i'd say it only went downhill from there, with the exception of maybe one season.
Kouta started his career at Carlton in 1990, debuted in 1992 and was All Australian in 1995.
His father was ill throughout 1998 and eventually died which effected Kouta for most of that year and throughout the first half of 1999.
Anthony Koutoufidies said:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/fathers-lost/2006/12/18/1166290471388.html?page=3
His latter years were far from poor. He never reached the same heights as he did before but most other players would be more than happy with what Kouta produced after injury took him down.
He didn't "lose it", injury robbed him of being his absolute best but he never lost it late in his career.
Bomberlicious
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Agree 100%.
Mercs was a superstar in '99 & '00 - I think his brother died, pretty sad really.
McKernan also, was a gun around '96-'99, was an embarrasment at Carlton...
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His first year at the Blues was very good and he won the B&F (40 goals + 11 touches and 11 hit outs per game alternating between ruck and forward).
He declined pretty sharply after that, however.
croweater86
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I must say I tend to agree with the notion that Pearce has gone down since blazing away with the rising star. Ok, his stats may be consistently in the late teens (2008 18.7 dpg and 10 goals in 21 games) but i personally believe his influence has been curbed dramatically.
Personally i think he had the ability to turn into a star player but seems this year to have faltered with his decision making, his ability to read the play and his ability to break off a pack and take control of situations - all things i think he was better at in 2006. Its not to say he cant go back to 2006 form, but i do think, from an outsiders point of view, he has lost that "it" he had in his first season.
Kong
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no need to be a defensive, cocky twat.I think I know a bit more about Kouta than you do mate
Kouta started his career at Carlton in 1990, debuted in 1992 and was All Australian in 1995.
my mistake on kouta; i thought i recalled him debuting in the '95 premiership season, but must've heard wrong.
- Jul 21, 2008
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Ashley sampi!
legitimatic
Premiership Player
Sampi lost his fitness moreso than his ability, to the extreme.
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TheBrownDog
Hoping that Danyle Pearce and Justin Westhoff won't be on this list in a few years time.
dan0z
Club Legend
Aussie is another one that had it, lost it, then got it back again..
T-Pain
Team Captain
kyle reimers will own this thread after he hits 60 games
T-Pain
Team Captain
thats the thing....cyril rioli could average 10 more possies per game next season but if his influence on the game isn't there like it was this year then it won't mean anything
yaco55
Hall of Famer
You are missing the whole point of the thred.
Kouta never completely lost form.
His form dipped in his last 2 years but he was still a valuable player.
Masten2McKinley
Club Legend
yes he was killing it in the ruck at one stage, lucky he did fall from grace though otherwise Cox would have gone good byes
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