Where do you rate Buddy on Hawks' list of all time greats?

[DeanTheHawk]

2nd to Lethal Leigh for mine.
Yep he's gone past Dunstall, Brereton, Hudson & Platten for mine.

 

[Fevola99]

lol

 

[AC for PM]

This thread is a bit premature.
Wait and see where he is towards the end of his career i think. But the way he's going he'll finish right up there with the best of them - having just turned 24 and with the football world at his feet this bloke could be anything really!

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Dunstall is still by far my favourite.

 

[Linda Crescent]

.... I'll mark this thread and get back to you in 10 years time? PS: Very clear and well thought out title. Well done.

 

[market]

Definitely the aroma of a troll in the air here....

As Fev stated - LOL

 

[Pessimistic]

Currently, hes on a par with Darren Jarman - which is NOT a slight as I recon jars is very underrated

 

[Mitchemx]

Hmm that's a tough one. Being that my earliest memories of footy are are the early 90's, he'd have to rank right up there with the players i've seen. Unfortunately being born in the mid 1980's i have no recollection of the dominant years we had.

As good as he is, he certainly has he's flaws. If he ever fixed these deficiencies (goal kicking and contested marking), he'd be one of the best. If he doesn't, then he'll still be thought of very highly.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

When the club sits down in 2025 to select the Centenary Hawks team, Buddy WILL be in it. Hodgey would give it a nudge as well.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

2nd to Lethal Leigh for mine.
Yep he's gone past Dunstall, Brereton, Hudson & Platten for mine.

Hasn't done anywhere near enough to be rated ahead of those players. Maybe by the end of his career he will rate amongst them. Needs another couple of flags to boost his claim.

And I'd just like to add I grow increasingly annoyed by the way younger football supporters just disregard the greatness of players from a previous era and automatically assume current players are the "best evvah!!".

 

[HolyRioli]

When the club sits down in 2025 to select the Centenary Hawks team, Buddy WILL be in it. Hodgey would give it a nudge as well.

This.

Selection committee is going to have an awful time sorting out the forward line - Franklin, Brereton, Dunstall, Hudson and Peck.

 

[Flukey!]

.... I'll mark this thread and get back to you in 10 years time? PS: Very clear and well thought out title. Well done.

Same.
Someone give this thread a bump the day he retires.

 

[Lord Mud of Glenferrie]

This.

Selection committee is going to have an awful time sorting out the forward line - Franklin, Brereton, Dunstall, Hudson and Peck.

Not to mention Arthur and Buckenara and even a brief thought to Williams.

 

[Lord Mud of Glenferrie]

2nd to Lethal Leigh for mine.
Yep he's gone past Dunstall, Brereton, Hudson & Platten for mine.

Get a history lesson sonny boy.

You may want to start with the excellent article about Peter Hudson that is currently on the Hawthorn web page and then get some old video footage.

Hey Mods

Seeing others have mentioned Hudson, and it being a 50 year celebration of his 1971 150 goal season would a Hudson celebration thread be accepted.

Give all those who saw and knew the great man the opportunity to go down memory lane posting their favourite reminiscences.

I would use a non reply as an excuse to talk about Hudson.

 

[the walloper]

Get a history lesson sonny boy.

You may want to start with the excellent article about Peter Hudson that is currently on the Hawthorn web page and then get some old video footage.

Hey Mods

Seeing others have mentioned Hudson, and it being a 50 year celebration of his 1971 150 goal season would a Hudson celebration thread be accepted.

Give all those who saw and knew the great man the opportunity to go down memory lane posting their favourite reminiscences.

I would use a non reply as an excuse to talk about Hudson.

IMO Hudson is the greatest full-forward of all time...and that includes Coventry, Coleman, Dunstall, Lockett etc. Start the appreciation thread any time Mr Mud!

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

At present, not in my best 18 of players I have seen, but very close.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Get a history lesson sonny boy.

You may want to start with the excellent article about Peter Hudson that is currently on the Hawthorn web page and then get some old video footage.

Hey Mods

Seeing others have mentioned Hudson, and it being a 50 year celebration of his 1971 150 goal season would a Hudson celebration thread be accepted.

Give all those who saw and knew the great man the opportunity to go down memory lane posting their favourite reminiscences.

I would use a non reply as an excuse to talk about Hudson.

Ten years too early on the celebration

 

[Lord Mud of Glenferrie]

Ten years too early on the celebration

Time flies at my age.

Should we use a lousy ten years as an excuse not to?

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

IMO Hudson is the greatest full-forward of all time...and that includes Coventry, Coleman, Dunstall, Lockett etc.

You get no argument from me. You'll never see another full forward like Hudson, a dead set freak. How many players have we seen miss the best part of 5 seasons with a crippling knee injury, and then comeback to kick 100 the next season? If he'd had a full career at Hawthorn, he would have set records nobody could ever reach.

 

[Lord Mud of Glenferrie]

You get no argument from me. You'll never see another full forward like Hudson, a dead set freak. How many players have we seen miss the best part of 5 seasons with a crippling knee injury, and then comeback to kick 100 the next season? If he'd had a full career at Hawthorn, he would have set records nobody could ever reach.

And then there were the records he set in Tasmania playing on one leg and 2 stone over weight.

Hudson is the best footballer full stop that I have seen.

Love the story of him doing 2 weeks specialist training in Tasmania prior to hoping on a chopper and landing in Melbourne. I was not there for that game but didn't he kick 2 or 3 goals in the first ten minutes and spent a large part of the game hanging onto the goal post gasping for breath.

Keep them coming fellas

 

[blackhead&boil]

And then there were the records he set in Tasmania playing on one leg and 2 stone over weight.

Hudson is the best footballer full stop that I have seen.

Love the story of him doing 2 weeks specialist training in Tasmania prior to hoping on a chopper and landing in Melbourne. I was not there for that game but didn't he kick 2 or 3 goals in the first ten minutes and spent a large part of the game hanging onto the goal post gasping for breath.

Keep them coming fellas

didn't he finish with 8??

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

didn't he finish with 8??

Yep, 8 goals. It was hoped we could use him in finals, but the loss to Collingwood virtually sealed our fate, so he went home again.

The thing about Hudson that set him aside from others was his remarkable judgement and clever use of the body .. an art that has disappeared these days with players pushing and shoving each other.

One highlight I recall was the time a kick came in, and holding his opponent off the ball with his body, he trapped the ball in the air, squashing it on the ground with one hand, then turned and soccered the ball off the ground for a goal. All the commentator could say was .. "Ohhh .... would you look at that!!!!".

 

[Lord Mud of Glenferrie]

Remarkable judgement, clever use of his body, ability to read the high ball and lose his opponent and GUILE.

Some like to say that Hudson was not an aerialist. This was a nagging criticism, mostly by Coleman, Wade and McKenna supporters and parroted by ignorant fans of other clubs.

Only last week an article appeared on one of the football news sites that Hudson got a little annoyed about this and two weeks in a row took the mark of the week award. Having proved his point he returned to his using his other strengths and continued on his merry way kicking bags of goals.

I saw Hudson kick his 16 goals and that day he did everything including standing on heads and 60 metre flat punts from the boundary.

 

[Ordovician]

2nd to Lethal Leigh for mine.
Yep he's gone past Dunstall, Brereton, Hudson & Platten for mine.

Just how old are you?

I can't imagine that anyone who had seen any of these players play would put Franklin even remotely equal to Hudson or Dunstall, let alone ahead of them.

 

[arupist]

As a pure full forward, Lance Franklin is not even a freckle on Peter Hudson's arse. Buddy has other attributes that make him a star, but the equal to Huddo at FF - never.

For those who have never actually seen Huddo play, stop making rash judgements. FFS!