Was in the Crowley thread and thinking who in the past has played that “protector” role for us.
I know it’s a different game these days and the repercussions are massive but it’s still important to have the type of player that will run 100m out of their way to let the opposition know that rubbing his teammates face into the ground is not on, especially if it’s a young bloke.
I think we have lacked that person since McVeigh and I don’t think it’s any coincidence that some of our greatest teams have had atleast one guy that made the opposition think twice about trying to intimidate or bully our players.
Interested to hear people’s thoughts and maybe a few old stories about players coming into bat for each other, would really love to hear from some of our older blitzers on who used to play that protector role back in the toughest time of footy in the 60’s and 70’s.
Anway, I’m tipping Crowley will be a crowd favorite by years end…him and Tippa ofcourse.
Our whole back line in the 2000’s. Hardwick, Mark Johnson, Wallis and Soloman never took sh*t from anyone.
Harvey was great too. I remember seeing him sprint from the backline to the forward if anyone tried anything.
I would love to see this return and people start fearing us again. Unsocial football!
Our whole back line in the 2000's. Hardwick, Mark Johnson, Wallis and Soloman never took sh*t from anyone.
Harvey was great too. I remember seeing him sprint from the backline to the forward if anyone tried anything.
I would love to see this return and people start fearing us again. Unsocial football!
Don’t forget (Nota) Wellman !! Led from the front, never a backward step.
Ronnie Andrews was a great protector and extremely tough. At the tribunal one day Brian “whale” Roberts was asked if he recalled Ronnie hitting him. He replied “I thought I got kicked by the police horse!”