robbie gray: how high is he rated?

[danster168]

he has been someone who I enjoy watching but I've always struggled with knowing where he sits in the games best players.

His best is as good as any. I don't doubt that but is there a reason people don't discuss how inconsistent he is?
Last season he had 8 games with under 15 possessions and plenty of midfield time. As well as another 5 or so games in the teens. In the modern day with high possession footy where good mids get 30 each week he seems to go missing a lot during the season.

I heard Hinkley say that he is on par with gary ablett junior and whilst ablett loves his cheap 1 2 handballs he is one of the great mids of the past. So where does he go down?

 

[Del165198]

Pretty widely known he spent last season struggling with injury.

He doesn't usually rack up huge numbers but he's very damaging with ball in hand.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Somewhere between Russell Ebert and every non Port player in their eyes.

 

[This Is Anfield]

I rate him very highly as he's a goal kicker and he makes things happen.
That basketball bouncing thing he did against us was uncanny.
Mid/fwd AA.

 

[DrMike]

Yep

 

[M Malice]

Yer, he's high.

 

[The 747]

He is rated appropriately, when in form he is a top 10 player in the comp, when out of form he is still a high quality player. Port in general are inconsistent.

 

[Yesterday Dog]

As a random guy on the internet, I neither rate him terribly highly nor rate him below average. Thank you for asking. I love the internet

 

[yeahmate]

he's alright

 

[Bob Fossil]

He has a pleasing skull shape.

 

[PowerForGood]

Not a massive possession winner but I think he is on a par with anyone in the league for his ability to impact a play, a quarter, a game.

Clearly struggling with injury last year where the OP stats are from.

To think he is the player he is with the horrible knee injury he sustained in 2012, even this year he is starring after an off season which had him being treated for testicular cancer.

Simply a star of the game.

 

[Jcpdragonx]

Top 5 in the league. Clutch player and can single handedly win off his own boot

 

[tangolikelama]

My favourite player. His 2014 season was unbelievable

 

[Baird]

Pretty widely known he spent last season struggling with injury.

He doesn't usually rack up huge numbers but he's very damaging with ball in hand.

couldn't have been that injured if he played every game and was all-australian

 

[Tbonefreo]

Just a bloody weapon. Great to watch

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Not highly enough to bother with capital letters in the thread title, that’s for sure.

 

[J_Moore]

He’s very good and goes under the radar outside of SA

 

[adammania9]

When on, he’s a top five deadliest player in the comp but he lacks four quarter efforts and goes missing for large patches, sometimes full matches. As a result, he’s not a top 10 player, probably more of a 15-25.

 

[Madness101]

He's pretty, pretty, pretttttty good.

 

[Del165198]

couldn't have been that injured if he played every game and was all-australian

My point was at his best hes a lot better than just all Australian.
Can't remember the year, but when he won pretty much every media award except the brownlow, that was peak Robbie gray.

 

[PowerForGood]

couldn't have been that injured if he played every game and was all-australian

The "word on the street" was a groin injury. Maybe OP. Given what happened in the off season it might have been more sinister than it was rumoured.
Played forward almost all year as opposed to the 3 years before where he was probably 65-35 in the mids. Kicked 47 (?) goals but tackle count was way down iirc because he just couldnt cover the ground. Emergence of Sam Powell Pepper covered his mid absence to a degree.

 

[pulpdriver]

If he's not in your top five favourite players to watch you're probably mentally impaired. Gun.

 

[Punts]

Absolute Gun but things don’t go his way he acts like a soft **** and puts his head down

 

[Jonts]

Somewhere between Russell Ebert and every non Port player in their eyes.

nah there was a thread just the other week about this
just in afl he was clearly behind tredders for the power let alone the Eberts, cahills williams hell Buckley's 1990 season can be argued as the best ever

 

[Buget]

Probably the best small forward in the league at the moment, given Betts has t been himself this year and Cyril is injured.

Will never get seen as a pure forward because of his time in the middle. But his versatility makes him so dangerous. But you can say the same about Martin and Dangerfield.