Quinten Lynch announces retirement

[getgaff]

Great story is the stick. A farmer's son and he grew up in the same country WA town that I did. Never got to play against him unfortunately as he was a few years older and moved to the city for footy but always remembered well as the kid from the bush in WA.

Congratulations Quinten and thanks for the years of service at West Coast. Won't forget that 2006 GF, his third goal from outside 50 deep on a flank is what dreams are made of in GF's. Enjoy your retirement and hopefully you can get involved in the WAFL somewhere

 

[NinjaBear]

Seen with love interest Cloke (below in training bra)

 

[The King!]

Quite liked him had a solid career

 

[Smeg Head]

Great goal on the big stage, (some nice work by some D Kerr bloke too!)

 

[Pie in the Sky]

He may get a farewell game, we don't have many left to select.

Excellent career for the Eagles, didn't quite work out for us but got a few decent games in.

 

[Scotland]

Was there ever a time, Eagles fans, where Lynch was a skinny teenager? I genuinely can't recall it. Seems like he's always been a 110kg man mountain from the word go.

No.

I can't link it on this PC but I'm pretty sure highlights from his first game are on youtube. Was against Carlton at Princes Park, wore number 45. I remember when he first started you would hear mutterings 'who/what is that, he's/it's a big unit'. Became a cult hero did Q, and even as a 200 game premiership player he was still referred to as 'the big unit'. I hope he gets a call up for the Pies this weekend, but despite a horror two weeks of injuries he still doesn't really fill a need with Grundy, White and Witts all playing.

 

[Natho]

We salute you Q stick!

 

[unbelievacow]

 

[kranky al]

No.

I can't link it on this PC but I'm pretty sure highlights from his first game are on youtube. Was against Carlton at Princes Park, wore number 45. I remember when he first started you would hear mutterings 'who/what is that, he's/it's a big unit'. Became a cult hero did Q, and even as a 200 game premiership player he was still referred to as 'the big unit'. I hope he gets a call up for the Pies this weekend, but despite a horror two weeks of injuries he still doesn't really fill a need with Grundy, White and Witts all playing.

Imagine if he played in a collingwood win that booted us out of the finals


No thisnks

 

[BnK Media]

Farewell Q. The public will always glove you.

 

[ep2018]

I loved it when the crowd cheered every time he threw his glove.

 

[clogged]

That's a fantastic goal on debut.

And yes, he was huge as a youngster.

 

[ElitePunter]

80 metres out on the wing

"yeah, I'll have a crack"

 

[kranky al]

Wonder if he will have a go at seppoball?

 

[La Vache]

I don't know if it was his first game but I remember pretty clearly when I was first aware of him.

There was another match on and at half time it cut to some highlights of the Eagles match at Subi. This monster kid flushed a couple of monster goals. I mean he absolutely kicked the bladder out of the thing. Cut back to the half time coverage and they were "wtf was that?".

 

[Roobs321]

I liked how when you were just about ready to write him off, again and again he just kept reinventing himself as a highly useful player.

 

[lmach]

The highlight for me was when he tried to blame his clumsiness to escape a suspension.

AFL Tribunal‏@AFLTribunal
Lynch says "it does look clumsy, but that's me as a person".

 

[lewigie]

Collingwood offered him more money than he had gotten in his last two years at the Eagles combined.

Someone needs to post that photo of him wrestling with Stevie J at under 18 level.

 

[TradeDraft]

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Well done Q, you big useless gorilla.

 

[kane249]

Well done Q, you big useless gorilla.

Gorilla? Well quite possibly...

Useless? Far from it

Was a booming kick, had a decent set of hands after a rocky start to his career, decent leap and the most under rated aspect was his ability to run all day. We wouldn't have won the '06 flag without him, but i'm sure you are well aware of that one

 

[wcesam]

I always liked Lynch. Lead up, take a mark, kick the ball as far as you can towards goal, repeat. Never got old.

Haha pretty much. And he was bloody good at it too, really helped us link up play in 2011/2012.

 

[ep2018]

AFL makes a FB post about Lynch retirement and all the top rated comments are "how was Broomhead not RS this week??"

 

[Quinz]

The highlight for me was when he tried to blame his clumsiness to escape a suspension.

AFL Tribunal‏@AFLTribunal
Lynch says "it does look clumsy, but that's me as a person".

Was that when someone on our board made the multi-frame shot to show Lynchy was off the ground before he cannoned into the North players back? And then it got used somehow in the actual defence.

 

[simba_]

nice going, Q stick