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It would be an interesting watch , but he was a true champion of the game and they adapt to the conditions of the time
So I'd be comfortable he would be fine in todays game
Would he be as potent ?
a 191cm forward with presumably no tank and jump. not sure how his skillset translates to today's game?
He’d still be great but he’d kick far fewer goals IMO.
They showed some of the great goal kicking games during the first lockdown - including Lockett - and I was stunned there was so much room on forward lines and how often FF’s were one out with FB’s. Today’s forwards would hardly believe their luck (as long as they could put up with wayward fists to the back of the head, snipes and shirtfronts).
And I reckon Dusty would have kicked just as many 5’s as Lethal given those conditions.
What about Peter Hudson? 188 cm, slow, couldn't jump and couldn't mark well above his head.
Would still be good imo, natural footballer
He was very quick, Gummy, with great hands and a beautiful, thumping kick. I’d imagine a slimmed down Plugger might be a Taylor Walker type athlete with a bit of Fraser Gehrig thrown in. And not too much shorter than our Jack.
Not saying he'd be no good, would be far more difficult for Plugger these days though. He'd have to make a lot of adjustments, I wonder if he worked on his tank whether he'd be more of a powerful hybrid inside mid/Forward these days
Tex isn't a bad example, only 1 cm taller (very surprised by that) and doesn't possess elite athletic attributes.
Just stand in his way, he'll show ya how the skill set works
Ah one on one contests how the hell has the game come to this sad state of affairs.
Just stand in his way, he'll show ya how the skill set works
I always remember watching plugger literally run straight through a pack, the other players went down like 9 pins.
He'd be ok, would need to adapt but would still be very good.
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I imagine when the mood struck it'd be total carnage. Same with Ablett. Lockett would literally tell defenders you stand there you are going to hospital.
Exactly.Just stand in his way, he'll show ya how the skill set works
The greatest reader of the ball in games history. A skill you literally cannot teach. JR was good, Hudson was next level.
Haha, yeah.Looks an AFL footballer to me.
I assume North reckon they have enough depth with Pink and Biggie
When he made his comeback with the Swans he’d trimmed right down
It was an Ansett preseason cup game at Manuka oval and Rodney Eade looked after a group doing a coaching course there and let Roos coach during the game (sign of things to come)
Eade made no secret he wasn’t in favor of Locketts come back attempt , said he would be too easily rebounded against
So I watched with great interest as I’d seen him a couple of times at Moorabbin oval
The pies tried to isolate him when trying the take the ball out of defence but it didn’t quite work and while Lockett didn’t set the world on fire everyone around was saying looked ominous or words to that effect
I think Eades words were “went better than I expected”
If we teleported a 15yo Lockett to today , would he have trimmed for the chance of being drafted and would that have led to an AFL standard player ?
Back then a big feed of fish n chips on a Friday night was a good feed
Four rotating interchanges plus an injury sub, compared to the old school two injury subs. Killed the one on one contest stone dead. Old fart legendary innovator coach Sheeds had a massive hand in upping the interchange n rotation systems way back when.
