Steve Johnson - Better than Daicos!

[Cursed Cat]

Four on the trot goes okay. Come back to us when you have it and you can drink my salty tears.

Laughable.

this is the same Collingwood which has 1 flag from their past 5 prelims, no ?
that is an underachievement.
I'd be casting an eye back to the good old (very old) days too if I were you ...
salty tears indeed - might be time to bust out the 4-peat DVD's Old Spice ... oh, hang on, it was so long ago you can't get them on dvd ? bugger, anecdotal accounts and B&W photos it is then ...

 

[jimmy35]

so I should, Johnson is AFL royalty

The Queen of Geelong?

 

[Frappe]

Looks common-place now to dribble goals or snap sharp goals from the boundary line, but rare as rocking horse shit back then.

Don't get these threads. Stevie Johnson is a terrific player any way you splice it, a great forward of the modern day game, you can't deny that.

That said, Daicos kicked 549 goals from 250 games (2.1 goals a game avg), Johnson 382 goals from 196 games (1.9 a game avg). Daicos played his career in the wilderness, SJ in one of the greatest teams ever.

I guess if you had to pick from scratch on talent, you'd go for Daicos imv. That said, the margin is slender.

Yeah - summed it well. I do think people forget how good Daics was...

 

[Thommo 42]

My point is, when people try and act surperior, based on flags won before their lifetime, It just seems desperate and pathetic. I'm not saying you should erase history, I'm saying you should put it in perspective.

Nobody is trying to act superior, but a flag is a flag. Sure you might get more enjoyment out of the ones you see, but as soon as its won and the next season begins, it is confined to history like the 100+ premierships before it.

I find that those that just like to dismiss history are those that follow clubs that didn't have a successful history. If I was a Hawks fan born in the 90's, I would still be filled with pride by their incredible 1980's side and its achievements, just as I love reading about the Machine that won 4 in a row.

 

[Chewy]

You obviously believe that and thats fine but you had a sook about Hawthorn posters belittling Johnson yet earlier in the thread you did the same to Franklin when he hadn't even been mentioned to that point

Don't worry about him. He's from Geelong.

 

[The full package]

Johno is good but daicos did more magical things.


Anyway, better in what way? better in skill or better team player?

 

[Sidebottom2Beams]

Daicos has one area covered over all players still to this day and that is where people are dribbling goals through he could constantly kick them through without it touching the ground as well using drop punts. The amount of insane goals he kicked from the boundryline that split the middle nobody is still close to equalling. As for the question as a Collingwood supporter you couldn't answer it without a huge amount of bias pushing you towards Daics.

 

[Hodge is God]

Yeah.. nah.

I would assume Daicos could kick 30 metres straight in front and make the distance.

 

[Lunchlady Doris]

Yeah.. nah.

I would assume Daicos could kick 30 metres straight in front and make the distance.

About 3 people already made this joke. And it wasn't particularly funny the first 3 times

 

[Hodge is God]

About 3 people already made this joke. And it wasn't particularly funny the first 3 times

I do. Lol.

 

[Lunchlady Doris]

I do. Lol.

You do....what?

 

[Gaz_Brownlow]

Daicos has one area covered over all players still to this day and that is where people are dribbling goals through he could constantly kick them through without it touching the ground as well using drop punts. The amount of insane goals he kicked from the boundryline that split the middle nobody is still close to equalling. As for the question as a Collingwood supporter you couldn't answer it without a huge amount of bias pushing you towards Daics.

Do you not watch football at all? Go get a Stevie J highlights package and then tell me he doesn't kick repeated freakish goals....anyways, there is no doubt that both players are remarkable in their own right, I imagine just like every former player, that the legend of SJ will grow in his retirement in about 4-5 years....am sure the analysis will be pretty different then!

 

[Looney]

You can't compare players from different eras. Daicos was regarded as a player ahead of his time in his era. Today, he'd just be an average player. It's kind of like saying Makybe Diva is a better horse than Pharlap.