There is also the issue of facial hair.
Generally speaking beards seem to be the decoration of choice for backs, moustaches for forwards.
I’d argue that Joes increased potency in front of goal is directly tied to the development of his moustache.
Whereas Francis shaving his beard may indicate a move forward ( or an effort to lose weight).
Midfielders seem to be generally clean shaven , or the few day growth for extra machismo.
Except for the Akermanis goatee of which the less said the better.
I notice a few people still rating players by “sensible haircut”
For your information here are two past Essendon captains
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They were sensible haircuts in the 70s and 80s.
No Vin Catoggios there.
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When Hirdy had short hair we won the flag. Just saying
true - but he had long flowing locks in 1993.
from the look of things, if he is going to go with long hair and short sleeves, the hair needs to be much longer and more flowing to get a flag.
Seems obvious now, or was there a 2001 thread? Hird - what front, back and sides for Grand Final?
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I presume your preference is for this style of club haircut.
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The flag coming out of the head is a bit much
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There’s a chap who has really donned the sash.
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Also, Conor’s haircut should be standard issue uniform to all senior listees.
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You could set the time by that hair cut. Very sharp
Yep, so long as the time was 1921.
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He really took the coach’s words literally when he was asked to fly the flag for the team.
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Should we also have a thread for tattoos?
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Wow
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C’mon Elephant in the room.
His head is a joke.
Fix it dyson.
Also who names their kid after a vacuum cleaner?
Also his nickname is an STD. Lucky he is such a good bloke and.can really play footy.
This was well before “clash jumpers” & color tv so the solution was to surgically attach little steel flag poles to players heads. It also deterred players changing clubs.
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Interesting attitude to haircuts from someone with your username.
Do I have to dig out an old pic of VanderHaar in his prime?
Though a mate met him and TD after a round of golf a few months ago - Vander is still capable of sinking a lazy half dozen tins in the car park afterwards apparently.
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He never had a manicured mop of salon dreadlocks mate.