#10 Scott Pendlebury
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lanstro
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| 2 years ago I thought our club had wasted his career. We made partial amends yesterday. One more next year and I'd consider it fair. |
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eddiesmith 
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| burnsy17 wrote: | Is he our best ever?
Hard to argue in the modern era at the very least.
2 time premiership player, 383 games, past captain…. |
It's an interesting debate, I see him as our most durable and most reliable.
Doesn't get the same recognition as say a Buckley or Swan or Daicos or Millane, but he just keeps getting the job done and getting better with age.
This is even reflected in Brownlow voting where he's only had 2 top 5 finishes.
But his ability to reinvent himself a couple of years back then easily slide back into midfielder this year shows how good he is. |
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On the March
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What I have found in trying to compare players over generations is that the very best had a unique quality / skill which made them better than others. Names such as Daicos, Greening, McKenna, Buckley and Pendles all have this - yet that skill is different in each case. It makes it very difficult to compare , quite apart from the nature of the game at a point in time.
I do not say this lightly but I have seen them all since the early 1970's - Scott Pendlebury (and Steele) are the first two dual premiership players in an eternity. The fact he played such a critical role in the outcome on Saturday and his continued level of performance makes him Collingwood's -
GREATEST OF ALL TIME!
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Mr Miyagi
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| That last quarter, simply incredible. Not so much ball use, but also decision making and leadership. |
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Raw Hammer
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I’m a Peter Daicos and Nathan Buckley fanboy … but Pendlebury is officially Collingwood’s greatest ever player.
If Nick Daicos continues on this trajectory, he will become number 1.
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jonmac1954
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Agreed on all points.
I will add that if he continues on this trajectory and with a relatively major injury free career he could wind up as an immortal of the game.
Yes he's that good - and perhaps a little bit more. |
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mudlark
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| It’s been suggested that Pendleton is the most watched player, LIVE, inAFL/ VFL history, with over 19,000,000 people watching him play. It could well be correct. 383 games with a reasonable average of 50,000/ game average and the numbers add up. |
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eddiesmith
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| The idiots on SEN couldn’t work that out, thought it was including TV audiences and even then weren’t sure… |
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Deja Vu
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Right. Not that hard to figure out when he's played in front of 500,000 in just 5 GF's alone
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mudlark
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| eddiesmith wrote: | | The idiots on SEN couldn’t work that out, thought it was including TV audiences and even then weren’t sure… |
Only the one idiot and he is a Carlton supporter so it figures. |
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BBHS 
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| That last quarter was the exclamation point on an unbelievable career. What an absolute legend. |
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Take_a_Screamer 
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| Raw Hammer wrote: | I’m a Peter Daicos and Nathan Buckley fanboy … but Pendlebury is officially Collingwood’s greatest ever player.
If Nick Daicos continues on this trajectory, he will become number 1. |
Pendlebury rises above Buckley, Daicos to become greatest Pie
By Michael Gleeson, The Age. October 1, 2023
Scott Pendlebury is now the greatest Collingwood player of modern times. Peter Daicos, Nathan Buckley and Pendlebury have for some time stood apart from other Collingwood greats of the AFL era. Pendlebury is now the best of the three.
Daicos was an inventive genius, the dynamic player who dragged people to watch games, who turned himself from a centreman to a small full-forward. Buckley was unrelentingly brilliant. But after adding a second flag, and the manner in which it was achieved, Pendlebury now sits above them. He is the most decorated, with a Norm Smith like Buckley, but no Brownlow. But he has two premierships, one more than Daicos, and two more than his former teammate and coach.
But it is not only by dint of winning flags that his status rises. It is the fact that the second one significantly came about because of him. There were many good players on the MCG on Saturday, and Bobby Hill was plainly the best, but the oldest player was among the most influential when the game was to be won. In the final quarter it was the former captain who was the leader to put his stamp on the game. Pendlebury’s last term had the mark of a player who wanted to show his team how to win – 11 touches, four contested, a clearance, two inside 50s and a score assist.
By a quirk of his longevity, Pendlebury is Collingwood’s longest serving captain but not a premiership captain, his two flags 13 years apart bracketed his term as captain. In the third quarter when the game changed gears and suddenly Collingwood could not buy a goal, it was Pendlebury who kicked it. Hill found him with a cheeky pass when all thought the player who was running hotter than any other would surely take a shot. Pendlebury kicked from 30 metres out with no angle. For a beautifully skilled player it should have been easy, but set shots have always been Pendlebury’s slight weakness (and a clear edge for Peter Daicos in the ranking of the best). Even if the stats would suggest his conversion is little worse than when on the run, he knows he is vulnerable in these situations. He recently said on his podcast that set-shot goal kicking was his kryptonite. His dad Bruce says he leans back on his kick too much. “And he’s probably right,” Pendlebury said earlier in the finals, smiling ruefully. On Saturday he didn’t lean back, he kicked truly.
Coach Craig McRae revealed that in the finals the player who is as close in age to him as to the team’s youngest player, Nick Daicos, hit three personal bests in the gym. He will next year, injury aside, play his 400th game. As his friend and former premiership teammate Ben Johnson said earlier this year: “He’s never been quick, so if his legs have slowed down you wouldn’t know, he moves in slow motion anyway. His pace has never been important. I’d still be quicker than him!” Johnson retired 10 years ago.
There was a symmetry about Saturday’s game for while Pendlebury might have elevated himself above Peter Daicos, the goalkicker’s son Nick might surpass both of them. While it is easy to forget Pendlebury is 35, it is likewise essential to remind yourself Nick Daicos doesn’t have his 21st until next year. Put another way in any other profession he would be in second year uni, not the peak of his field. Without a fractured knee late in the season he might already have a Brownlow Medal – something only Nathan Buckley of the trio of legends mentioned above has achieved. His poise, vision and execution have been plain from his first game, but now they have been tested in the hottest of games and he was unfazed. If anything the better game brought out a higher standard from him.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/pendlebury-rises-past-buckley-daicos-to-become-greatest-pie-20231001-p5e8wd.html
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MagpieWhisperer35
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| Raw Hammer wrote: | I’m a Peter Daicos and Nathan Buckley fanboy … but Pendlebury is officially Collingwood’s greatest ever player.
If Nick Daicos continues on this trajectory, he will become number 1. |
Peter Daicos and Nathan Buckley i saw most of their games live other than daics early days and they were always my two favourites, and i had trouble accepting Pendles was in their class, but he has gone past them now, Nick will probably end being an AFL great and surpass them all God we are lucky
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Jezza
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| BBHS wrote: | | That last quarter was the exclamation point on an unbelievable career. What an absolute legend. |
It's legendary.
11 disposals in the final quarter and he's 35 years old.
In the AFL era (1990 onwards), he's the equal 2nd oldest Premiership player in this period with Alastair Lynch and only behind Michael Tuck who was 38 when Hawthorn won the flag in 1991.
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