Your all time favourite "GOP" for the Saints?

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stinger wrote: ...the champion tag is handed out to easily imho........stick by what i say...and ross and cowboy are acquaintances of mine......had lunch with cowboy more than once.....they are exactly the type of player that jack dyer invented the tern for.........
Hey Stinger...

Next time you catch up with Cowboy, get him to explain this....

The date was the last training before the 1971 Grand Final....

I went to the ground to watch them train and I was standing near the goals at the City end...

Cowboy was doing warm up laps with another player (can't remember)....

as he jog past me, he said to that other player...

I can't wait to the end of this farking season


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Post: # 673262Post Beekay »

WTF! WTF WTF

Someone said Max in the second post of this thread and no one has pulled him up for it.


Max is a champion defender.


Good? More like exellent.
Ordinary? Are you f'n serious?
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My favourite has to be Joffa Cunningham.

Was never blessed with silky skills, but he tried and tried for us in those dark days. He played well above his talent level.


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Post: # 673265Post TassieJones »

stinger wrote:
TassieJones wrote:Shane Birss

Does Jamie Shanahan count as a GOP? always liked him

cost us a grand final.......he should have knocked that prick jarmen out......
True, not fair to say he alone cost us the game though. Still liked him though.

Agree with Brett Voss, loved the bloke


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Post: # 673267Post stinger »

St Fidelius wrote:
stinger wrote: ...the champion tag is handed out to easily imho........stick by what i say...and ross and cowboy are acquaintances of mine......had lunch with cowboy more than once.....they are exactly the type of player that jack dyer invented the tern for.........
Hey Stinger...

Next time you catch up with Cowboy, get him to explain this....

The date was the last training before the 1971 Grand Final....

I went to the ground to watch them train and I was standing near the goals at the City end...

Cowboy was doing warm up laps with another player (can't remember)....

as he jog past me, he said to that other player...

I can't wait to the end of this farking season


:lol:

at a guess..i would say he hated training.....


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Post: # 673268Post stinger »

TassieJones wrote:
stinger wrote:
TassieJones wrote:Shane Birss

Does Jamie Shanahan count as a GOP? always liked him

cost us a grand final.......he should have knocked that prick jarmen out......
True, not fair to say he alone cost us the game though. Still liked him though.

Agree with Brett Voss, loved the bloke
i think the coach decided that he would never play in the red white and black again after that day....


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Post: # 673269Post bigcarl »

Beekay wrote:WTF! WTF WTF

Someone said Max in the second post of this thread and no one has pulled him up for it.


Max is a champion defender.

also, no way is maxy or was david grant a GOP.

max has been one of the best defenders in the comp over many years; grant was very talented and always a top 5 or top 10 player for us.


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Post: # 673270Post claystreet »

haha too funny, i am havin a lend

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Post: # 673274Post Beekay »

bigcarl wrote:
Beekay wrote:WTF! WTF WTF

Someone said Max in the second post of this thread and no one has pulled him up for it.


Max is a champion defender.

also, no way is maxy or was david grant a GOP.

max has been one of the best defenders in the comp over many years; grant was very talented and always a top 5 or top 10 player for us.
Apologies for missing it!


I really did have a soft spot for Troy Schwarze.

I'd say Luke Ball is my current fav GOP.


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evertonfc wrote:
Little Dozer wrote:David Grant.
Sheesh, I don't think you can be a GOP and make All-Australian.

Favourite GOP...

I'll take Brett Voss any day of the week.
Didn't realise David Grant made AA. I just remember how under-rated he was at a time when the football world gushed over blokes like Silvagni and Kernahan. He was a terrific player and remains one of my favourites.


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Post: # 673277Post Bernard Shakey »

stinger wrote:
TassieJones wrote:
stinger wrote:
TassieJones wrote:Shane Birss

Does Jamie Shanahan count as a GOP? always liked him

cost us a grand final.......he should have knocked that prick jarmen out......
True, not fair to say he alone cost us the game though. Still liked him though.

Agree with Brett Voss, loved the bloke
i think the coach decided that he would never play in the red white and black again after that day....
So why didn't the coach move him in the last quarter?


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Eljay Connors, I know he hasn't played a game but I have a real soft spot for him :)
I will be very happy when (& if) he plays his first game.


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Post: # 673281Post stinger »

Bernard Shakey wrote:
stinger wrote:
TassieJones wrote:
stinger wrote:
TassieJones wrote:Shane Birss

Does Jamie Shanahan count as a GOP? always liked him

cost us a grand final.......he should have knocked that prick jarmen out......
True, not fair to say he alone cost us the game though. Still liked him though.

Agree with Brett Voss, loved the bloke
i think the coach decided that he would never play in the red white and black again after that day....



So why didn't the coach move him in the last quarter?

good question...but i don't know the answer.......guess that's why the coach isn't a coach anymore........


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Post: # 673286Post bigcarl »

i guess it all depends on your definition of a GOP.

some consider it anyone who is not an out-and-out champion of the competition.

i define it as someone who has had to get the best out of his natural talent to hold down a regular senior spot.


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In recent years I loved the way Andrew Thompson played, never shirked a contest and went in hard. I don't know if Rod Keough qualifies but I loved watching him play.


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bigcarl wrote: i define it as someone who has had to get the best out of his natural talent to hold down a regular senior spot.

I certainly don't.

I define it as someone who plays at a good to ordinary level the majority of the time.

Jasan Gram> Plays well from time to time, plays ordinary from time to time.

GOP.

Stevie Baker> Plays good from time to time, plays ordinary from time to time.

GOP.

Lenny Hayes> Plays excellent from time to time, plays great from time to time, plays good from time to time, hardly ever plays ordinary.

Not a GOP.


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Post: # 673308Post bigcarl »

Beekay wrote:I define it as someone who plays at a good to ordinary level the majority of the time.
yes, like i said, it all depends on the definition.


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You gotta love The Blake


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Post: # 673344Post St Fidelius »

apart from the ones already mentioned I used to like Stephen Theodore


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Post: # 673351Post gooner »

Andrew Thompson for me.
You could really see by the way he went about it that he was picked up when he was in his twenties and he did not take any game he played at AFL level for granted.


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CJ has always been mine


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Post: # 673372Post Sobraz »

Dean Greig, Lazar Vidovic and David Grant all fav's from the early 90's...


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ts40 and allan murray...

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i rated Jason Cripps

Loved that game where he came back as we had too many injuries and he hadnt played for 2 years

came back and got best on ground and 32 possessions in a win where we hadnt won many for the year


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