Same.

Goddard can GAGF.

Good player, but overrated. He stands out because he's not a passenger in a team of them.

Poor judgment by Simon Wilson here. He should never have aired his views - not to the Herald-Sun and certainly not to Michael Warner. Now the media outlets around town are using the words - 'Revelation' and 'Revealed' as if it were a fait accompli that had we challenged the AFL Commission, the priority pick would automatically be ours.

That's not the case and more importantly, the club had to guarantee its future and were very much at the behest of the AFL, who have since done things for the Carlton Football Club that no other sporting governing body in the world would have dared. It would have been very easy for Wayne Jackson and Andrew Demetriou to recommend to the Commission that we, in the words of Bruce Mathieson - 'lock the place up and hand in the the keys'...because people shouldn't forget that that was one of the options on the table...thankfully - members never had to part with $50 bucks to wind the club up.

FWIW - Goddard might have taken a few years to produce the goods 'expected' of a number 1 draft pick - but he is now one of the genuine stars of the game. In 2003, Leigh Matthews was praising Brisbane captain Michael Voss in a presser and was asked: 'If you could clone a footballer, is Voss as close as you could get to the perfect model?'

'No, you'd clone Anthony Koutoufides,' Matthews said. 'He's the most talented player at his best I've seen, at his best. He has ups and downs, we know. But if he's on, he's 6.4, he wins stoppages, so if you're going to clone somebody, I reckon 22 Koutas would be a pretty tough team to beat.'

Ask the same question today, and I'm convinced the answer would be Brendon Goddard.

Geez El we usually agree but Goddard whilst taking time to come on is pretty close to being a star.
If we had him in our team the young blokes would walk two feet taller.
He is the rightfull owner of the Norm Smith not Lenny Hayes from the drawn grand final.
St Bluda should strip cry baby of the captaincy and give it to Goddard if they are to be any hope of ever winning anything with their current list.

I reckon Goddard is currently top 3 in the comp. Possibly the best, on recent form (with the possible exception of the Brownlow medallist...).
His GF, particularly the drawn one, reminded me of Kouta's '99 prelim - he took gaol saving mark in the backline, seemed to get it in midfield and then popped up with a speccy in the goalsquare.