You can see Dustin look left and right, and think, why am I here with this bunch of losers.
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The Dusty 300th celebration thread
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On either side of Dustin 2 of the most injury cursed young players ever. I all can say is.... phew!
Good pick up DD. The Waddler!! We all knew he was going to be a superstar.
Funny seeing the other 'kids' there....Gary Rohan heh heh....even a younger and unknown Sarah Jones.
Amazing if you look back how things would've been more different if the Dees took Dusty.
Not even sure the dees interviewed Dusty.
The one I think about was Sydney offering us pick 6 & 14 (Rohan & Jetta) for pick 3.
Can’t remember how tempting it was for us, but bet there were some recruiters out there that would have taken it. Greg Miller would have loved it had it come across his desk in his time.
FJ was enamoured with Duz thankfully. Would love to know what he’d have done if we had pick 2.
The one I think about was Sydney offering us pick 6 & 14 (Rohan & Jetta) for pick 3.
Can’t remember how tempting it was for us, but bet there were some recruiters out there that would have taken it. Greg Miller would have loved it had it come across his desk in his time.
FJ was enamoured with Duz thankfully. Would love to know what he’d have done if we had pick 2.
I think we were always locked into Dustin, regardless of how high the pick was. I will be forever grateful that the Dees overlooked him and we selected him. Imagine if we’d gone for Morabito.
It's been done before, but the analysis of Dusty's finals between 2017-2020 defines his greatness.
Two finals he didn't perform we got beaten against Collingwood in 2018 and Brisbane 2020. Virtually BOG for every other final.
After half a lifetime watching great players on other teams destroy us, and ruing why we couldn't ever have one, I have never taken for granted the pleasure and exhilaration of watching Dusty's 300 games.
Thank you Dusty, you have brought me a lot of happiness
Two finals he didn't perform we got beaten against Collingwood in 2018 and Brisbane 2020. Virtually BOG for every other final.
After half a lifetime watching great players on other teams destroy us, and ruing why we couldn't ever have one, I have never taken for granted the pleasure and exhilaration of watching Dusty's 300 games.
Thank you Dusty, you have brought me a lot of happiness
He's helped change all our lives. No matter what happens from here, there will never be another like him.
Getting emotional thinking about this bloke, made me so proud to be a tiger once again, he was OUR legend, and he gave us all more than we could ever have dreamed.
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Can't wait for saturday. To me Dusty is the greatest of all time and I think the best way to review what Dusty did for us, is to look at Melbourne. Dusty was so good during finals that he drove us to those premierships. Back to back and repeat premierships are super hard to achieve, and as I say Melbourne is the perfect example. They couldn't do it with probably the best ruck of our generation, probably the best midfield group in the comp (Oliver, Petracca and Viney) and the best defensive pairing in the comp (May and Lever).
It makes me smile just thinking about what this man provided for us. He is and will always be a legend of the game and of our footy club, regardless of what AA selection etc says. He is 10 times the player that Dangerfield thought he was.
It makes me smile just thinking about what this man provided for us. He is and will always be a legend of the game and of our footy club, regardless of what AA selection etc says. He is 10 times the player that Dangerfield thought he was.
Now I have had a chance to reflect on the great man's work, I will nominate a moment which sticks in my mind.
Australian Football is a very hard game. You go to the footy and the players who look a bit small in comparison to others on TV are actually pretty damned big and built like a brick shithouse.
Most of the better players are big and very solid.
I reckon my favourite memory of Dustin Martin was in the last round of the 2019 season. We were playing Brisbane at the MCG and I had a seat in M1 maybe 10 rows back from the fence. Dusty gathers the ball in the pocket, runs through 2 Brisbane players (they were both the sort who don't look small on the TV) and snapped a goal. What I remember was the sound, you could clearly hear it from the stands, you could hear the bang as he hit both Brisbane players and turned around to snap the goal. It was the sort of play Dusty is so well known for. That core strength. The ability to gather the ball cleanly and just muscle his way through traffic. Then, the certainty that it was going through for a goal.
Seeing Dusty in action at the ground has been a pleasure, up there with seeing Royce, KB et al.
What a player.
DS
Australian Football is a very hard game. You go to the footy and the players who look a bit small in comparison to others on TV are actually pretty damned big and built like a brick shithouse.
Most of the better players are big and very solid.
I reckon my favourite memory of Dustin Martin was in the last round of the 2019 season. We were playing Brisbane at the MCG and I had a seat in M1 maybe 10 rows back from the fence. Dusty gathers the ball in the pocket, runs through 2 Brisbane players (they were both the sort who don't look small on the TV) and snapped a goal. What I remember was the sound, you could clearly hear it from the stands, you could hear the bang as he hit both Brisbane players and turned around to snap the goal. It was the sort of play Dusty is so well known for. That core strength. The ability to gather the ball cleanly and just muscle his way through traffic. Then, the certainty that it was going through for a goal.
Seeing Dusty in action at the ground has been a pleasure, up there with seeing Royce, KB et al.
What a player.
DS
I was on the AFL members wing David so a fair way away from that but I remember that goal well, early in the last. It was an important one because Brisbane had a good 3rd quarter and it was as if Dusty was saying " nah, not happening, watch this"
Another chance to repeat (yes - again and again) a personal favourite aspect of Dusty - which is the way he responds after he kicks a goal
So many prima donna players from other clubs run immediately to the boundary line to engage the crowd. They'll soak up the personal glory with high fives or fist pumping and basically make themselves the sole focus.
Not our Dusty.
His natural reaction is to turn inwards and away from the goal and the crowd and toward his team mates. The celebration is totally shared with the players around him and he acknowledges the blokes down the field that might have been involved in the build up.
It’s such a simple thing but it typifies him - and of course we can hope to see it a few times on Saturday
So many prima donna players from other clubs run immediately to the boundary line to engage the crowd. They'll soak up the personal glory with high fives or fist pumping and basically make themselves the sole focus.
Not our Dusty.
His natural reaction is to turn inwards and away from the goal and the crowd and toward his team mates. The celebration is totally shared with the players around him and he acknowledges the blokes down the field that might have been involved in the build up.
It’s such a simple thing but it typifies him - and of course we can hope to see it a few times on Saturday
Think age and countless head knocks may be affecting Leigh's memory.
He downplayed Dusty by saying it was only the 3 Norm Smith games that have made his reputation.
It was Leigh who back in 2017 said it was the most dominant season ever by a player. https://www.foxsports.com.au/fantas...n/news-story/5c275fa2d60f6da15d44b51d3db208bd
Note that this was before Dusty won the first of his 3 Norm Smith's.
Dusty won everything that year and wasn't far off it in the other years 2018 - 2020.
Personally I would rank my best players this century as
1: Dusty
2: Judd - captained and led 2 clubs playing inside mid
3: Ablett Jr - as above led 2 clubs as an inside mid
4: Pendlebury - led from the front in the hottest area
5: Cripps - as above, led from the front
6: Franklin - yes a brilliant player but was one out most of the time.
7: Dangerfield - a good player but hardly led his team.
I would rank them that way because it is a lot harder to dominate in the midfield.
