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If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood -
I say this after every game where he shines - it is an absolute privilege to watch Goodes play in our team. I'm so pleased to be at so many of his games. Absolute legend.All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund BurkeComment
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I think he is our best ever and the most talented player I have seen at the Swans. We have had some really great players, Round, Roberts, Skilton, Healy, Kelly, Lockett, Cazaly and Pratt to name a few. But this bloke ranks in the best ever in AFL/VFL Football.
Off topic I had a really good look at the draw for this year and I think we have done really well. Cats and Hawks twice but other than that really good and I think we can beat the Cats and maybe the Hawks too. Goodsie will go close to a third Brownlow this year if not win it!Comment
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Our draw is really good I think - we want to be right up there by the time the mid season bye rolls around, as our draw after the bye is much tougher than before. If we can start the season well, I think we will push hard for a top four spot.
On the subject of Goodesy, I think Sandridge sums it up. I know in 40 years time, I'll be proud to tell my kids/grandkids about watching Adam Goodes play. He is not only a supremely talented footballer who is a joy to watch, but an absolute gentleman off the field as well to go with it. Long may he continue to prosper on the field.... I don't put a third brownlow past his grasp, or indeed lets hope another Premiership either!"You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."Comment
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Goodsy may well be the "Most talented" but Skilton will always be the "Best and Fairest" .Comment
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I can't comment as I have never seen any vision of skilts, or watched him Live. But I can say if people who saw both are debating if Goodesy is as good as him, and he won 3 brownlows then I think he must have been a bloody ripper and we are beyond spoilt!Comment
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At the risk of springing one of those icky reverse cliques, when horse talks about Goodes not belonging to any particular position, I think the reverse is a better description - there is no real position that belongs to him. It's a statement of his innate ability to do the impossible and make it look so easy, rather than just his versatility at different parts of the field.
Judd has these tendancies but he's a different player. I've often said that when Judd puts the foot down and does one of his blistering runs through the corridor, it's akin to Moses parting the Red Sea - opposition players just peel away from either side of him. But with Judd, they know how to get him, they're just not good enough to do it. But with Goodsey, it's not like that. When he gets his run on, he is everywhere. He confuses, disorientates and then utterly dominates opposition players.
All this and he's essentially just hit retirement age. Scary.Captain, I am detecting large quantities of win in this sectorComment
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Moses might have parted the Red Sea but he was no where near as good as Judd as a footballer. Only rose to the heights of full back for the Sinai Seconds. So it is probably not a good thing to mention both of them in the same sentence when talking footy.Comment
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But the true measure is that some players are carried to 200 or 300 games by their clubs.
Goodes just looks like he has just started his career and the best could still be before him.
I can really see him going on for five more years and a another charlie.
Amazing really, that at 300 games he could have another 100 or so in him!doof-doof
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Goodsy - the greatest?
Goodsy is one of the greats, no risk. But it is difficult to put him in the ultimate bracket overlooks one major challenge: Kicking for goal. Accuracy in front of goal either from a standing start or on the run has been a major deficiency in his game. Skilton and Kelly could kick straight. Under 50 metres, they were dead-eye dans. To the Skilton Kelly list I would add Lockett. He really was an everest."Play like you can’t lose."Comment
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As much love as I have for the greats, I seem to remember one particular pressure kick at goal of Kelly's in a final where he kicked into the man on the mark.....
I agree that Goodes' goalkicking is the suspect part of his game, but he has kicked plenty of crucial ones under pressure.I wish my weed was EMO so it would cut itselfComment
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From the Fitz Files:
League must realise union is strengthThe director of brilliant Australian film The Sapphires, Wayne Blair, after a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival: ''It all went beautifully. It was Adam Goodes before the hamstring injury.''The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible newsComment
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