Retirements - 2014

[woodublieve12]

The manner in which some people identify a footballing "spud" really baffles me.

spud is easier to use the "most overrated, rubbish footballer to ever captain an afl football side, junk"

[bennymacca]

Maxwell wasn't a bad footballer. Overrated very likely, certainly a tool, but I still would have had him at the crows.

[woodublieve12]

Maxwell wasn't a bad footballer. Overrated very likely, certainly a tool, but I still would have had him at the crows.

[bennymacca]

Maxwell wasn't a bad footballer. Overrated very likely, certainly a tool, but I still would have had him at the crows.

Anyone that plays 200 games for any club is a good footballer, and would play in any other team In the afl (barring incredible depth in one position) to say otherwise is blatantly stupid.

[heater31]

Sad way to end a football career, no matter what talent or perceived lack of. Ankle surgery is tougher to recover from than a knee operation IMO.

[bennymacca]

Sad way to end a football career, no matter what talent or perceived lack of. Ankle surgery is tougher to recover from than a knee operation IMO.

Both potentially debilitating in later life which would be the hardest thing.

[Booney]

200+ games, premiership captain. Yep, he's a spud....

( Not that those feats completely exclude him from being a "spud"...but Maxwell played an important role in a side that spent time at the top of the table and won a premiership )

[Booney]

Maxwell wasn't a bad footballer. Overrated very likely, certainly a tool, but I still would have had him at the crows.

Not sure why you're the shocked one.

[woodublieve12]

Maxwell wasn't a bad footballer. Overrated very likely, certainly a tool, but I still would have had him at the crows.

Anyone that plays 200 games for any club is a good footballer, and would play in any other team In the afl (barring incredible depth in one position) to say otherwise is blatantly stupid.

lucky to make the swans reserves...

[bennymacca]

If laidler can make your team he would. You are just being silly now.

[woodublieve12]

If laidler can make your team he would. You are just being silly now.

yeah good point, i guess we have a good track record of turning average footballers into good ones, laidler is an example of that. Played well this year.. So there would be some hope for Hackwell

[heater31]

Maxwell wasn't a bad footballer. Overrated very likely, certainly a tool, but I still would have had him at the crows.

Anyone that plays 200 games for any club is a good footballer, and would play in any other team In the afl (barring incredible depth in one position) to say otherwise is blatantly stupid.

lucky to make the swans reserves...

Ted Richards used to be shithouse until he went to the swans and played a role for that team.

Nick Maxwell probably would be shithouse for any other club except Collingwood. He found a role in that team and played it for them....

[Dogwatcher]

No one ever actually says why Maxwell is a spud.
He played a role. The same one as Tom Harley, also a premiership captain.
You don't get to be a premiership captain by being a spud.

[bennymacca]

If laidler can make your team he would. You are just being silly now.

yeah good point, i guess we have a good track record of turning average footballers into good ones, laidler is an example of that. Played well this year.. So there would be some hope for Hackwell

not saying laidler is a bad footballer. just that people throw around the word spud to describe 200 game players is just blatantly false.

shaun mckernan is a spud, and he will also "retire" at the end of this year

[Booney]

No one ever actually says why Maxwell is a spud.
He played a role. The same one as Tom Harley, also a premiership captain.
You don't get to be a premiership captain by being a spud.

Correct. WUB12 off the mark here.

[Dogwatcher]

While. we're on Maxwell, I thought he should've retired last season.
However, with the injury issues we've had down back (Reid/Brown) and the inexperience of Keefe/Frost, we ended up needing him.
His inability to get consistently on the field has hurt us this season and has put Keefe in positions he's not ready for.
Frost has been a standout for us, though.

We've got a real struggle on our hands to finish in the eight this season and the absence of Maxwell for the remainder is going to make it very hard for us.

[woodublieve12]

No one ever actually says why Maxwell is a spud.
He played a role. The same one as Tom Harley, also a premiership captain.
You don't get to be a premiership captain by being a spud.

Correct. WUB12 off the mark here.

Well i guess we disagree here... very average footballer imo...

[Booney]

No one ever actually says why Maxwell is a spud.
He played a role. The same one as Tom Harley, also a premiership captain.
You don't get to be a premiership captain by being a spud.

Correct. WUB12 off the mark here.

Well i guess we disagree here... very average footballer imo...

Too right we do. I'm not saying he's a champion, or the best I've ever seen, but he isn't a "spud" nor would I say "very average".

[bennymacca]

something of the order of 350 afl/vfl footballers have played 200 or more games.

anyone that does that is a good footballer

[Rik E Boy]

No one ever actually says why Maxwell is a spud.
He played a role. The same one as Tom Harley, also a premiership captain.
You don't get to be a premiership captain by being a spud.

Purlease. Don't forget that Harley and Scarlett were doing one on one defending and holding a very green backline together as the Cats copped another beating from a more mature side. Tom might have become a Maxwell towards the end of his career but Maxwell was never a Tom Harley.
Try Joel Bowden and you're getting closer.


regards,

REB