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Venus. "Morning Star" my arse.
I mean a star is a like a popular entertainer, someone you love to look at. By that definition the little twerp Weightman at the dogs is a "star" because he burns bright and their fans love him. Its a bit of a low bar but the term is vague so it gets abused. Bobby Hill is like a bright star. Someone that gets them in through the turnstiles is a star I guess, whether they are Brad Pitt or Danny de Vito.
"Champion" is another abused word. From the dictionary it means a victor in a contest, and someone who dominates the field. For mine there are very few champions in our game. Dusty used to dominate a huge area of the ground (but he's aged a lot in the last two years) so he qualified as a champion by great deeds (arguably the best big game player of all time) but you wouldn't say he is currently a champion. Jack Riewoldt was on the cusp of being a true champion, so dominant and so consistent. That's how hard I'd like it to be a champ, a really high bar.
I think the Bont is a champion, carries his whole club at times and does it consistently. I think JUH will be a champion (he already makes the whole game shake a bit), maybe N Daicos (if he can play for long periods in the hot part of the ground), but I wouldn't want to say too many more blokes are that dominant they can be called Champions.
I mean a star is a like a popular entertainer, someone you love to look at. By that definition the little twerp Weightman at the dogs is a "star" because he burns bright and their fans love him. Its a bit of a low bar but the term is vague so it gets abused. Bobby Hill is like a bright star. Someone that gets them in through the turnstiles is a star I guess, whether they are Brad Pitt or Danny de Vito.
"Champion" is another abused word. From the dictionary it means a victor in a contest, and someone who dominates the field. For mine there are very few champions in our game. Dusty used to dominate a huge area of the ground (but he's aged a lot in the last two years) so he qualified as a champion by great deeds (arguably the best big game player of all time) but you wouldn't say he is currently a champion. Jack Riewoldt was on the cusp of being a true champion, so dominant and so consistent. That's how hard I'd like it to be a champ, a really high bar.
I think the Bont is a champion, carries his whole club at times and does it consistently. I think JUH will be a champion (he already makes the whole game shake a bit), maybe N Daicos (if he can play for long periods in the hot part of the ground), but I wouldn't want to say too many more blokes are that dominant they can be called Champions.