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Both Coventry’s deserve recognition as pioneers of the game. Syd the only 4 Peat Premiership Captain in VFL/ AFL history as well as being a Brownlow Medallist. Syd remains remains the only Premiership Captain to win a Brownlow in the same year. & also named the best player in that year’s Grand Final.
Gordon Coventry is recognised as a Legend in the Hall of Fame but missed out being named at Full Forward in the AFL’s Team of the Century which was a disgrace!
Gordon was the 1st player in history to play 300 senior games & kick 100 goals in a season. He also held the VFL/ AFL record for goals kicked until Lockett broke it 62 years later. A 5 time Premiership player who won the competition’s leading goal kicker (in a season) 6 times including being the only player in history to win it for 5 consecutive seasons. Gordon won Collingwood’s goal kicking award an astounding 16 times.
Whilst Essendon’s John Coleman was named at Full Forward in the AFL’s Team of the Century he played less than a 1/3 of the games Gordon did & kicked under half the goals. To be named before Gordon Coventry in the TOC & be named an inaugural Legend was a travesty & the selection committee should hang their heads in shame.
Banned by the game, shunned by Collingwood but still standing strong: The forgotten story of Ron Todd
Don’t think the Tigers had ‘off day’ in the 2018 Preliminary Final. They just didn’t have the answer to the dominant Cox who destroyed them.
Six Points: Unsung heroes driving Pies to glory, Eagles set a benchmark, and 2023's best sub performance
I think Port Adelaide have already made an in principle agreement with Hardwick (Premiership Hero at the Power).
Sadly for Hinkley, it was completed very early on the season when the knives were out for him. Perhaps we’ll see another Wallace/ Roos/ Swans scenario whereas the agreement is cancelled due to the fall out.
Just seems odd Hardwick walked out of the Tigers declaring his ❤️ for the club & the need to take a break. It allowed him to leave with reputation intact & still have the respect of the Tiger Army.
Six Points: Unsung heroes driving Pies to glory, Eagles set a benchmark, and 2023's best sub performance
Adelaide supporters seem to forget the controversial & wrong decision in against Geelong that won them a Final!
Crows robbery the latest in a long list of failures by Gill's arrogant AFL