Your all time favourite "GOP" for the Saints?

sunsaint · Post: # 673378Post **sunsaint** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 1:10am

How quickly we forget ... Justin Peckett
Robbie Elphinstone was a speedy workhorse
Tim Pekin was an honest trier
how about Russell Morris?

But if we are raising the GOP bar to brownlow medalist level then none of the above metioned come close

markinUSA · Post: # 673383Post **markinUSA** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 5:14am

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!

saint66au · Post: # 673388Post **saint66au** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 7:03am

Jeff Dunne and Wayne Judson were two of my faves, being a "nuggety" back pocket myself

Matthew Young, David Siera, Stephen Theodore, Stephen Rae, Rodney Galt, Gary Lofts are a few others that spring to mid from days gone by.

Frankie · Post: # 673390Post **Frankie** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 7:28am

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.

saintbob · Post: # 673395Post **saintbob** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 8:03am

Davenport - definetly my GOP

Cairnsman · Post: # 673400Post **Cairnsman** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 8:35am

Joffa Cunningham, Gary Sidebottom, Robert Elphingstone

Pilgram · Post: # 673401Post **Pilgram** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 8:42am

aaron hamill

Batnoe · Post: # 673460Post **Batnoe** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 11:35am

Robert Harvey and Lenny Hayes hahah

Pilgram · Post: # 673464Post **Pilgram** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 11:37am

the bloke with the Greatest On-field Presence that I can remember was Stewert Loewe.

hotdish · Post: # 673481Post **hotdish** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 12:22pm

Troy Schwarze.

It was a tragedy that his career ended so abruptly. Didn't deserve to get the sack. His last few years with the saints were very solid, including that match winner v Brisbane. was a good utility.

bigcarl · Post: # 673483Post **bigcarl** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 12:26pm

Cairnsman wrote:Robert Elphingstone

in some of the sides we had in the early 1980s, the eel would have been among the first few picked.

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.

IluvHarvey · Post: # 673505Post **IluvHarvey** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 2:07pm

John Peter-Budge and Kristian Bardsley for me.

fonz_#15 · Post: # 673510Post **fonz_#15** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 2:40pm

Frankie Peckett

B W and R all over · Mon 17 Nov 2008 2:42pm

Brett Bowey

Hurricane · Post: # 673527Post **Hurricane** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 3:18pm

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

BANG BANG

SteveStevens66 · Mon 17 Nov 2008 4:11pm

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

loris · Post: # 673561Post **loris** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 4:15pm

busso mick wrote:In recent years I loved the way Andrew Thompson played, never shirked a contest and went in hard.

I'm with you there nominating Andrew Thommo busso. For players from yesteryear I'll go for Allan Jeans and Bud Annand.

Hey busso have you got your budgie smugglers in training for the Busselton Jetty swim? Will you be relaying with your daughter or solo? I'll solo this year...... see you in the water....be a gentleman & disperse the stingers for me

Saints94 · Post: # 673569Post **Saints94** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 4:25pm

Mark Mcgough

fingers · Post: # 673576Post **fingers** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 4:36pm

Jason Trianidis

#1GILL · Post: # 673620Post **#1GILL** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 5:29pm

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.

RIGHT ON SISTER!!

stinger · Post: # 673635Post **stinger** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 5:39pm

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

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.......

evertonfc · Post: # 673639Post **evertonfc** » Mon 17 Nov 2008 5:49pm

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.

WayneJudson42 · Mon 17 Nov 2008 5:54pm

Muarice O'Keefe; Bill Mildenhall; Mordi Bromberg; and of course...

Paul Callery; Breen; Colling; Rob Elliott...

In a nutshell, 90% of players from 1973 onwrads.

saintspremiers · Mon 17 Nov 2008 9:07pm

Gordon Fode, Rod Owen, Mark Dwyer, Wow Jones, Skeeter Coghlan, Jimmy Krakouer

saintly_safes · Mon 17 Nov 2008 9:30pm

Frankie Couglan always gave 100%, Greg Burns was as tough as old boots , Russell Jeffery was handy ,Bruce Duperouzel, Jeff Sarau ,Max Crowe,Graeme Gellie, Joffa Cunningham,Dean Grieg were all stalwarts in thier day without ever being stars