Your all time favourite "GOP" for the Saints?
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I don't think Cowboy can be included in the category GOP - he was in the Saints Team of the Century!
I was thinking of people with less high profiles when I suggested this topic.
For instance, I thought of Gilbert McAdam, but then thought 'no, he wasn't really a GOP', so I am going to pick Lazar Vidovic for mine. He really had a lot of the old Saints spirit!
I was thinking of people with less high profiles when I suggested this topic.
For instance, I thought of Gilbert McAdam, but then thought 'no, he wasn't really a GOP', so I am going to pick Lazar Vidovic for mine. He really had a lot of the old Saints spirit!
"Don't give up, never give up" - Robert Harvey.
I'm with saint66au on Matty Young and David Sierakowski. Young was a very underrated player and was a key element to our running gameplan in the late 90s - in 99, his best year, he was getting tagged on a half back flank. A really unlucky guy too - I remember being horrified when he was dropped for the granny and he played 97 games for the saints - just 3 short of getting his name on the locker.
Siera was never going to be a brilliant player, but he loved the club and battled hard. I remember him having a really good second half of the year in 2000, when out of desperation Watson put him in as a ruckman/forward. Played a great game against North that season which really gave me a soft spot for him.
Siera was never going to be a brilliant player, but he loved the club and battled hard. I remember him having a really good second half of the year in 2000, when out of desperation Watson put him in as a ruckman/forward. Played a great game against North that season which really gave me a soft spot for him.
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in some of the sides we had in the early 1980s, the eel would have been among the first few picked.Cairnsman wrote:Robert Elphingstone
even by the standards of the competition as a whole he was better than a GOP, but by our standards he was a superstar.
again, it depends on how we are defining a GOP.
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I always had a soft spot for Troy Schwarze ( like many others apparently
) thaught he was a damn good utility.
Jason Blake also rates a big mention, not skillful, flashy or as talented as some of his teamates or some of the guys he has played on but he busts his guts and usually does a good job
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Jason Blake also rates a big mention, not skillful, flashy or as talented as some of his teamates or some of the guys he has played on but he busts his guts and usually does a good job
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Stuart Trott, Ian Synman, Johnny Stephens, Wayne Judson, Andrew Thompson, Frankie Peckett.
As for Cowboy--ridiculous calling him a GOP. A champion pure and simple.
He kicked 5 in '66 How many players in the history of the game have kicked half the total number of their team's goals in a GF? There can't be too many. And George Topping's 2 goals out of Carlton's 4 in the 1909 GF doesn't count for two reasons: (1) the overall score is ridiculously low and (2) it's Carlton
As for Cowboy--ridiculous calling him a GOP. A champion pure and simple.
He kicked 5 in '66 How many players in the history of the game have kicked half the total number of their team's goals in a GF? There can't be too many. And George Topping's 2 goals out of Carlton's 4 in the 1909 GF doesn't count for two reasons: (1) the overall score is ridiculously low and (2) it's Carlton
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I'm with you there nominating Andrew Thommo busso. For players from yesteryear I'll go for Allan Jeans and Bud Annand.busso mick wrote:In recent years I loved the way Andrew Thompson played, never shirked a contest and went in hard.
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to us he was a champion.....to football purists who don't have red white and black stardust in their eyes he was a good ordinary player.......would not be regarded in the elite of the elite.......as an aside....a player as fat as he was wouldn't even get picked today.......stuart dew could hide in cowboy's shorts.......SteveStevens66 wrote:Stuart Trott, Ian Synman, Johnny Stephens, Wayne Judson, Andrew Thompson, Frankie Peckett.
As for Cowboy--ridiculous calling him a GOP. A champion pure and simple.
He kicked 5 in '66 How many players in the history of the game have kicked half the total number of their team's goals in a GF? There can't be too many. And George Topping's 2 goals out of Carlton's 4 in the 1909 GF doesn't count for two reasons: (1) the overall score is ridiculously low and (2) it's Carlton
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Thompson and Peckett were surely above GOPs.
At their respective peaks, they were very good players - well above GOP level. The length of their careers and their tapering impact towards the end perhaps moved that part of their careers into the GOP category, but the same could be said for Harvey, too.
Guys like Siera, Bardsley, Callaghan, Brett Voss, Vidovic, Blake...they're true GOPs.
At their respective peaks, they were very good players - well above GOP level. The length of their careers and their tapering impact towards the end perhaps moved that part of their careers into the GOP category, but the same could be said for Harvey, too.
Guys like Siera, Bardsley, Callaghan, Brett Voss, Vidovic, Blake...they're true GOPs.
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