Vossy inducted into Australian Football Hall of Fame!

[The Golfing Lion]

Richly deserved.... Is just fantastic news

 

[Brisroy Fitzbane]

Onya Vossy!!!

Don't want to sound negative but why did Buckley get in?? What'd he ever do that was so awesome, except get beaten up in a couple of grannies.

 

[matwt73]

Well deserved for Vossy he should be a legend some time soon too.

All four deserve it, these were the dominant figures of the late nineties and early 00's.

Whilst Buckley will rightly be counted as a collingwood champion I think we can claim him too. He won the rising star at brisbane, played 20 games finished high in the B & F, and whilst he never wanted to be here he put in whilst he was.

Critically, us drafting buckley and committing to get him here if only for a year signalled that Brisbane wasn't going to be dictated to by the big money in melbourne, it was us starting to grow up.

 

[blynd_freddie]

Congrats to Vossy, a deadset legend!

 

[mikey127]

I wonder if other old Fitzroy fans would agree that possibly the best thing about the merging with the bears was knowing the we would be cheering for Vossy. It certainly helped make it easier for me

 

[The Flying Belgian]

Onya Vossy!!!

Don't want to sound negative but why did Buckley get in?? What'd he ever do that was so awesome, except get beaten up in a couple of grannies.

Cant tell if this comment is tongue in cheek or not. If it's not, a tad disappointing. Buckley was a great player and deserves his place.

 

[mikey127]

Buckley was a great player but I don't think he had the respect amongst opposistion fans as Voss and riccuito and hird (with the exception of Hird's degrading speech and lack of respect after we won in 2001)

A lot of fans saw Buckley as stuck up and not very team oriented so I think thats why some people question whether he deserves to be there

not saying I agree or disagree just saying that is why I don't think some fans see him in the same light

 

[kylegee28]

Was Robert Harvey eligible this year?

If so, I'm amazed that Ricciuto was selected ahead of him

 

[Faz 2000]

It is an interesting comparison between the 4 superstar contemporaries who went in.

Each won a Brownlow, and Voss, Hird and Roo had 3, 2, 1 (should have been 2 but for injury) premierships to Buckley's 0. Does that put him behind them? Is he a club great, rather than a HoFer? It's worth of discussion.

Voss, though. Man, what a player he was. Universally respected. And a worth Hall of Famer, for sure.

 

[The Flying Belgian]

Premierships are overrated as a measure of how good a player is/was. It's a measure of how fortunate you are to have a qulaity team around you.

I must say I've got a different impression of Buckley from having read his autobio. He acknowledges he was aloof as a player and captain.

And I don't know about Hird's speech in 2001 when Vossy had to be reminded to thank and commiserate with Essendon. Emotions are high. You can forgive those things IMO.

I may be biased but I rate Voss the highest just for the type of player he was. He had that unquantifiable something that meant he had the knack of doing the right thing at the right moment. His 70m bomb vs Collingwood in 2000 (?) his reverse torp in the GF.

Hird was a thinking mans footballer. Skilled yes, but wasn't the power athlete compared to the other three and probably thought his way around the park more than the other three. It's probably why I think he'll make the better coach out of them all (but that's for another discussion! )

 

[lionsrule49]

Congratulations.

 

[Hollow Knight]

All jokes about "leaving to play in premierships" aside... Buckley was a phenomenal footballer.

I think it's fair to say he had Vossy covered for skill, Vossy coming out in front for leadership and physicality.

Not saying that Voss wasn't highly skilled or Buckley was soft by the way. They both ticked all boxes, they just edge each other in certain areas.

 

[LionKing]

I wonder if other old Fitzroy fans would agree that possibly the best thing about the merging with the bears was knowing the we would be cheering for Vossy. It certainly helped make it easier for me

Words could not express the joy this bloke brought to me. Absolute gun!

 

[western royboy]

Words could not express the joy this bloke brought to me. Absolute gun!

When he kicked the sealer in '01 and ran around in front of us pumping the fist - honestly - it is one of the most spine tingling moments of my life. Recalling it now still brings a lump to the throat.

I recall watching him in his last season limping around against Carlton one night at Etihad and it was plain sad to see an absolute champ reduced to what he was at the end.

Given the broken leg and the influence he had over the period - hard pressed to find anyone better.

 

[matwt73]

One of my abiding memories of Vossy doesn't even come on the football field. I can remember in about 98/99 not long after I had started really following AFL, reading one of those 10 Questions type profiles on the team, the sort where they ask favourite, band, favourite movie etc, it got to the obligatory football questions and asked-

"If you had to pick one of your team mates to kick for goal to win the game after the siren, who would it be?" and we got all sorts, I know a few said Craig Mcrae, and a couple said Lynchy or Darryl White and then it got to Vossy and he said, "Me".

And that summed him up for me, as a leader and a player. No Question, if the game was on the line he wanted the ball in his hands, and as a fan you wanted it in his hands too.

 

[alscotoz]

Great player.

 

[Brisroy Fitzbane]

Cant tell if this comment is tongue in cheek or not. If it's not, a tad disappointing. Buckley was a great player and deserves his place.

Im always half joking. I do it so much, i don't bother using emoticons for such action. That being said... i really dislike Buckley and wish nothing good for him. Will be hard watching him coach his team to success next year... hopefully we can maintain tradition and defy the odds (and hopefully Vossy is around to make it happen)... that's if the rest of our team isn't poached/injured *touches wood furiously*

 

[luthor]

I know it's been fashionable on this board for some time to bag Buckley.

Speaking for myself, I reckon he was a terrific player and thoroughly deserves his place.

As does Vossy.

 

[Jorgo]

Simply can't express in words how happy I am for him and how I feel about his contributions to our club and our game. Absolute champion.

 

[Ceebee]

Gilbert McAdam said he is the best player he ever played with.

 

[Last of the Roys]

I wonder if other old Fitzroy fans would agree that possibly the best thing about the merging with the bears was knowing the we would be cheering for Vossy. It certainly helped make it easier for me

Yeah definitely. No other non Fitzroy player has been more deserving of putting on the FFC jumper than Vossy (and Jonathan Brown). Seeing him wearing it when the Lions did for the first time in 2003 (I think) and pointing to it after the win against Collingwood was an absolute highlight for me (amongst many others). Of course seeing that 2001 Grand Final goal in the last quarter while I was in the crowd behind the goals at that end is perhaps my ultimate Vossy and Lions moment.

On Buckley, it was interesting to note that he did not get a mention in the list of Lions (Brisbane Bears / Fitzroy Football Club) AFL Hall of Fame Inductees on our website. An oversight or a deliberate snub?

http://www.lions.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/5085/newsid/115899/default.aspx

AFL HALL OF FAME LEGENDS (CLUB REPRESENTATIVES)
Haydn Bunton (Inducted as Legend in 1996)
Kevin Murray (Inducted in 1996. Elevated to Legend in 2010)
Leigh Matthews (Inducted as Legend in 1996)
Norm Smith (Inducted 1996. Elevated to Legend 2007)

AFL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES (CLUB REPRESENTATIVES)
Vic Belcher (Inducted 1996)
Albert Collier (Inducted 1996)
Doug Hawkins (Inducted 2004)
Jack Moriarty (Inducted 2004)
John Murphy (Inducted 2006)
Benie Quinlan (Inducted 1996)
John Rantall (Inducted 1996)
Paul Roos (Inducted 2005)
Allan 'The Baron' Ruthven (Inducted 1998)
Wilfred 'Chicken' Smallhorn (Inducted 2006)
Len Thompson (Inducted 1998)
Michael Voss (Inducted 2011)
Robert Walls (Inducted 2006)
Garry Wilson (Inducted 1999)
Jack Worrall (Inducted 1996)

 

[dlanod]

I'd say oversight given other members who ended up playing elsewhere are on that list.