Opinion Your top 5 overated players

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kreuze_missile said:
1. Nick Daicos - An awful lot of hype for a half back flanker racking up 30+ uncontested touches a game. Do not rate.
2. Max Gawn - Wins a ton of hitouts, few are effective. Only gets huge stats because of his time on ground. Garbage up forward. Proven he can't play with any other ruckman. Arguably loses his team more games than he wins.
3. Errol Gulden - Dime a dozen midfielder for me. Clearly an umpires pet given last years brownlow result. Don't understand the hype.
4. Jordan DeGoey - Played a handful of good games in his career, goes missing in the vast majority. Don't rate him as a midfielder at all.
5. Zach Merrett - High possession minimal impact footballer. Doesn't kick goals. Do not rate at all.
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I agree that Gawns hitouts are overrated but 5 goals in a prelim ain't half bad. One of the most dominant games in afl history.
 
1. Cripps: slow plodder that goes missing for months at a time.

2. Petracca: horrendous kick for goal. the worst in the afl over a 3 year period.

3. Darcy Moore: Horrendous defender. Fritsch tore him to shreds. I see him lose 1 on 1's constantly.

4. Neale: has to go into the backline to get uncontested marks when going missing in games. Also, doesn't break the lines.

5. Simpkin. Literally spends more time putting his hair into place after each stoppage than getting his knees dirty.
 

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Josh Kelly (10 good games in a hundred)
Tim Taranto (non damaging accumulator)
Isaac Heeney (hasn’t always delivered on promise)
Jack Steele (lacks polish)
Harry McKay (decision making below par)
 
I’ll preface this by saying this isn’t me saying I don’t think they’re good but the amount of hype they get is kinda dumb

C Serong
N Daicos (yes gun, but he isn’t the best player in the league like everyone says he is)
Lever (needs May to be effective)
C Curnow
Andy Brayshaw
 
JaegarTime said:
I’ll preface this by saying this isn’t me saying I don’t think they’re good but the amount of hype they get is kinda dumb

C Serong
N Daicos (yes gun, but he isn’t the best player in the league like everyone says he is)
Lever (needs May to be effective)
C Curnow
Andy Brayshaw
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Serong is underrated did just as much as the likes of Gulden, Butters in his short time and isn’t mentioned in those categories.
 

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Serong since debut 9th,4th,3rd,1st in best and fairest. Glendenning medal x2
All Australian
Rising Star
Goal of the year
Herald Sun player of the year.
 
JaegarTime said:
I’ll preface this by saying this isn’t me saying I don’t think they’re good but the amount of hype they get is kinda dumb

C Serong
N Daicos (yes gun, but he isn’t the best player in the league like everyone says he is)
Lever (needs May to be effective)
C Curnow
Andy Brayshaw
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Oh boy....
 
JaegarTime said:
I’ll preface this by saying this isn’t me saying I don’t think they’re good but the amount of hype they get is kinda dumb

C Serong
N Daicos (yes gun, but he isn’t the best player in the league like everyone says he is)
Lever (needs May to be effective)
C Curnow
Andy Brayshaw
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Unfortunately, the guy referenced in your user name might be the most overhyped player in history.
 
1. Tom Stewart
I just think he plays an accumulator type role in defence which makes him look a bit better than what he actually is. Feel like a lot of his disposals are just side-ways chips and I don't see him as a particularly good defender.

2. Darcy Moore
I think if Darcy Moore played as a third tall in the Collingwood defence he could be one of the best players in the league but in his current role as a number 1/2 key defender he is overrated. He is treated as one of the best key defenders in the league and I don't even think he is the best key defender on his own team. Gets lost far too many times for my liking and is prone to having a bag kicked on him.

3. Callum Wilkie
Cal Wilkie is a good defender but put simply he has benefited from the Ross Lyon "flooding the defence" system - him making AA this year over the likes of Taylor, Andrews, May and Weitering was crazy to me when as an individual defender I would take all four comfortably over him.

4. Darcy Parish
I just see him as an accumulator and not at all damaging with the ball - somehow has a bigger reputation than Zac Merrett who for me (at this point in their respective careers) is a far better player.

5. Mason Cox
Just feel his output hasn't come close to this reputation he has in the media. Don't think he uses his height and body well enough when up forward and think he is just an okay ruck.
 
adammania9 said:
Jack Viney
Cameron Guthrie
Aliir Aliir
Mason Redman
Tom McCartin
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Don't think there is a player in the comp that has a gap between his best and worst as big as Allir. Sometimes looks like the best defender in the comp and then other times makes some mind-boggling errors
 
carlton_99 said:
1. Tom Stewart
I just think he plays an accumulator type role in defence which makes him look a bit better than what he actually is. Feel like a lot of his disposals are just side-ways chips and I don't see him as a particularly good defender.

2. Darcy Moore
I think if Darcy Moore played as a third tall in the Collingwood defence he could be one of the best players in the league but in his current role as a number 1/2 key defender he is overrated. He is treated as one of the best key defenders in the league and I don't even think he is the best key defender on his own team. Gets lost far too many times for my liking and is prone to having a bag kicked on him.

3. Callum Wilkie
Cal Wilkie is a good defender but put simply he has benefited from the Ross Lyon "flooding the defence" system - him making AA this year over the likes of Taylor, Andrews, May and Weitering was crazy to me when as an individual defender I would take all four comfortably over him.

4. Darcy Parish
I just see him as an accumulator and not at all damaging with the ball - somehow has a bigger reputation than Zac Merrett who for me (at this point in their respective careers) is a far better player.

5. Mason Cox
Just feel his output hasn't come close to this reputation he has in the media. Don't think he uses his height and body well enough when up forward and think he is just an okay ruck.
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Your first 3 are a pisstake surely.
 
Read this post at your own risk - I'm not holding back and I might even stray into Bay 13 territory at times.

1. Nick Daicos - this nepo baby is elite at many things such as handball receives, teammates burnt per game, ducking for free kicks, and physical contests avoided.
2. Tim Taranto - high volume of empty calorie possessions. I will enjoy watching him butcher the ball for the Tigers for the next decade.
3. Christian Petracca - he's been dining out on that 2021 Grand Final performance for a while now. Easily the worst kick and worst social media cooking profile in the league.
4. Sam Draper - people seem to think that a mullet equates to being good at football. It doesn't.
5. Jack Higgins - Nick Daicos' biggest rival for the burning teammates crown. I had a little chuckle when I saw he moved from #22 to #1 jumper this season. I can only assume this is in honour of his Year 12 ATAR.
 
ChristianBoy said:
Your first 3 are a pisstake surely.
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Agree to an extent with the Wilkie claim. Good player but not AA. Double teamed Charlie with Battle against Carlton late in the season, even when the game was over and the Saints needed to attack.

Toby made him look silly in the final. He looked like that old unfit guy who plays full back for the reserves in country footy. He does benefit from Ross' ultra conservative game plan with heaps flooding back as well.

It's not that he's not a very good player who doesn't win a lot of match ups. I just think that he's a tad over rated.
 
BigFrizz36 said:
Agree to an extent with the Wilkie claim. Good player but not AA. Double teamed Charlie with Battle against Carlton late in the season, even when the game was over and the Saints needed to attack.

Toby made him look silly in the final. He looked like that old unfit guy who plays full back for the reserves in country footy. He does benefit from Ross' ultra conservative game plan with heaps flooding back as well.

It's not that he's not a very good player who doesn't win a lot of match ups. I just think that he's a tad over rated.
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Wilkie has been an elite defender for three or four seasons before Lyon arrived.
 

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