Brendan Fevola is a @#$%&! slug and I couldn't be happier seeing the back of him.
The Carlton Football Club has finally shown some character and courage and will be rewarded for it accordingly.

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Vallance would have to be the best.
Playing on mud heap grounds and kicking a waterlogged football.
Plus having to put up with each club's resident thug running around trying to knock your block off.
His average is better than Fev's too.
Quite certain he would have been a better person as well.
Good-bye Fev, you have bookended the worst decade in our club's history on and off the field.

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How ironic, indeed

Henderson and pick 12 = 1st round draft picks. "A lot of people" are quite chuffed.

Now that it's 2010 we can safely call Brendan Fevola a past player of the CFC and highlight that he finished up 6th on our goals-per-games tally, ever:

http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-read_artic ... icleId=108

With 3.07 goals per game, increasing steadily in recent years with big goal outputs, Fevola was 6th on our all time ladder of goals per game, behind O'Brien but ahead of Jesaulenko, Kernahan and most of our other top 10 goalkickers. Jesaulenko of course played much of his career away from Full Forward.

From the Blueseum

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52% think he was not the best forward ever and 48% say he was. Very close one.

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Brian Kekovich and Greg Kennedy averaged close to 3 goals a game , and may well have improved on that
if back injuries hadn't cactused both of them.

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I had 20 odd games recorded on I.Q from our '08, '09 seasons (all wins of course) but i just couldnt bear to watch them after we traded him.

So i deleted all of them!

Even one of my favourites when we were playing port at AAMI in the rain and we came from nowhere to beat them in '08.

I dont think i'll even want to watch Rd 2, but i probabaly will.

Am i the only one who still feels like i cannot watch him, or are there others?

Is it just me

Whether he's our greatest ever Full Forward or not he'll always be my personal favourite.

Onya Fevvie, Congratulations on your newborn baby girl

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Jezza ....Fev and Soapy were great but Jezza was just a champion player in any position, probably the most gifted player to ever play for the club....deserved to win Brownlows. Players like Skilton, Stewart won mulitiple brownlows but Jezza was every bit as good and really doesnt get the kudos he deserves when you look through the history books.

Ross Ditchburn was a favourite FF of mine...the Claremont farmer was a great kick for goal and a real old fashioned footballer in the Terry Daniher mould and it was shame he had to leave footy and return home to look after the family farm.
My father is 85 and saw Soapy play and reckons he was great but thinks Fev was his equal...Fev will probably go down in history as a lesser player than all the others due to his behaviour issues but when you clear your mind of all the BS he has created and been involved in you see a very talented footballer with a high level of skill who performed during the dark years of the club and I think he would rate in my mind as the closest to Jezza just ahead of Soapy...

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BlueBlood, you are not the only one who cannot bear to watch games with Fev in them anymore.

I have all over wins on DVD, and usually watch them in the off season, but I cant watch them. I have tried to peak at time, to try and get over it, but when he has the ball, I forward it.

I am spewing that I have to watch two games against us, other than that I will not watch any games he is in.

Glad he has gone to an interstate team as it would have been unbearable to have him in Victoria still.

I will always consider Fev a Carlton champion, with him playing a few token games in the twilight of his career with BrisTradingPost.

Fev was a rat full forward and to put him in front of those others is a load crap.

Couldn't give a stuff about Fevola. He had thousands of opportunities to pull his head in but remained a lazy, selfish individual.
Good riddance. He's an opposition player now and I hope he struggles to get a kick and throws his little tantrums whenever we play him.

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Jezza ws one of the best players ever to don the navy blue. F'ing legend. Should be as revered as Abblett, Matthews and Plugger. Only equaled at Carlton by Nichols

Ditto....he's gawn.

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Our best !@#&$% player through the shit years thats who!!

One of the reasons i kept going to games when we were always getting flogged to the point where i'd almost cry cos i couldnt bear the pain of losing anymore.

A shining light through a dark time.

Look you dont have to love him and we all know that he !@#$%& up and made a tool of himself more than once....

But i believe he deserves some respect after all the good things he did on the field when we were so F!@#$& shithouse.

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Like it or not, he is a Carlton Champion!! Now that he is gone, is not going to change that.........

IMO he's not a saint in fact he was a big part of the problem through our dark times.

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Now that he is gone, there's one thing that worries me. And that is that despite being a dick, he will be remembered as some sort of consistent footballer who kicked loads of goals week in week out. The fact was he wasn't and he didn't. The difference between his best and his worst was the farthest of any footballer gone before him - and we often saw it during one game!

Let's not get away from the fact that the better full-backs gave him a bath (Matthew Scarlett, Max Hudgton, Dale Morris etc), some kids thrashed the pants off him (Tayte Pears) and the matches he dominated against the opposition had a crap midfield (Melbourne/Richmond) or had defenders injured (Hawthorn). Despite his brilliance, which often had me jumping out of my skin - he also caused me incredible anguish, grey hairs and high blood pressure - the likes of which hadn't been seen since I was ousted from my Primary School's 1983 Football Spelling Bee for misspelling Kourkoumelis after going in as firm favorite (the shame).

Before I met him, I always thought Brendan was a complex person surrounded by people who were very simplistic and regimented. What I found out though was that there weren't many complexities to Brendan Fevola. Brendan never really knew how to think too far outside the square and realise that this journey he was on wasn't going to last forever. In a team game where ultimate success is the team winning it all, there'd never been such an individual who had such a selfish approach to the game and his club. Where Brendan impressed most was with the kids at the clinics. He was a natural. He truly was king of the kids and in part it's because he was on their level.

Unfortunately, unless Brisbane win a Premiership in the next 2-3 years his short time there will mean very little. Though a life member at Carlton, it's unlikely he'll return to Visy Park in any capacity other than to take his kids through the learning centre (and perhaps one day the Museum). He's burnt one too many bridges among people associated with the club who have bent over backwards to help him and clear him of further scandal.

Greatest Full-Forward? Not even the 'Boy Who Never Grew Up' would want that title thrust upon him...and he even knows enough about Carlton's history to know it just ain't true.

Id've thought that most sensible observers would have Jezza in that company. A true champion of the game.

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Now Doc I love your posts but I see some flaws in your logic here. He has kicked a few bags on Scarlett with 5 the last time they met. Hudgton has done him over everytime. He has destroyed the Bulldogs in the last two seasons and my memory is that they have used Lake on him for a majority of the time. If Morris is that good on him then Eade can't coach.
He dominates matches because the opposition has a crap midfield you say, well I say from 2002-2007 he could not dominate because he played in a team that had the worst midfield in the comp.
He is gone and it is time for everyone to move on.