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PyreneesPie
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Joined: 22 Aug 2014
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The CFC website and Twitter account is showing a different Dids highlight for each day - till they run out I presume!!
Watching them brought such a smile to my face. It's easy to forget just what a brilliant player he was and how he could turn a game off his own boot. Watch the Didak-Swan-Didak moment. Glorious, just glorious!!!!
I was at the game when he kicked three in three minutes at Etihad (as it was formerly known) against the Weagles. I will never forget it. My mouth just hung open in astonishment for at least a further three minutes before I could close it!!
I hope the club repeats this idea for many other of our magnificent players - Swanny, Pendles, Bucks, Howie, Daics, Millane to name just a few. What entertainment |
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PyreneesPie
PyreneesPie
Joined: 22 Aug 2014
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simon tonna
Joined: 24 Oct 2013 Location: carindale
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Just awesome PP.
Thanks for uploading that, I can't locate some of the videos due to incompetence. Cheers for that. _________________ no second chances |
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Abdul The Bull
Joined: 02 Aug 2017
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One of the greatest riddles of all time is why Malthouse got rid of Saverio?
He was a star. Watching a performance like this it's difficult to understand why you couldn't build a forward line around that!
Notice how he kicked through the ball and booted it irrespective of how close he was to goal? That was a reason he was so accurate. Not like many players today that adopt different techniques for different distances from goal.
BTW, If I'm not mistaken he kicked 500 goals quicker than any other player? _________________ There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that don't. |
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Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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I think Sav kicked his 500th in his 149th game. Coleman kicked 537 in 98, Hudson 727 in 129 games and Brian Taylor 527 in 140. Peter McKenna kicked 838 in 180 games for us (and had 527 after 112 games, out and out star that he was). I’d think Sav is probably also well behind all of Lockett, Coventry, Dunstall, Wade, Lindsay Whit, Sumich, Beasley etc. |
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Rd10.1998_11.1#36
rd10.1998_11.1#36
Joined: 18 Jul 2018 Location: Sevilla, Spain
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Sav is top 10 overall and top 3 at Collingwood for total goals... I recall at one point he & Lloyd were the only current players who had the potential to kick 1,000 career goals and join Lockett, Coventry, Wade, Dunstall and Ablett on that tier. This was pre-Buddy. Richo and Hall were off the required pace _________________ https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/sav-sinks-the-dockers/ |
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Jezza
2023 PREMIERS!
Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End
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I always wonder whether we would have won the 2002 Grand Final had we had retained Sav.
Sav kicked 50 goals for North in the 2002 season, so he was still an excellent goalkicker after departing us. _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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Rd10.1998_11.1#36
rd10.1998_11.1#36
Joined: 18 Jul 2018 Location: Sevilla, Spain
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Rd10.1998_11.1#36 wrote: | at one point he & Lloyd were the only current players who had the potential to kick 1,000 career goals and join Lockett, Coventry, Wade, Dunstall and Ablett on that tier |
Bored with the lockdown so I looked up some numbers:
Sav's best year was 1995 when he kicked 93 goals in 21 games at 4.43 - the year Ablett won his third Coleman in a row with 118
By the end of 1997 he was on 386 goals from 121 games at 3.51 - if he had continued at that rate he would have needed just 285 games to kick 1,000
I believe that's the era I was remembering above, the season after Ablett had retired and people started thinking who might be the next to reach 4 figures... in fact nobody has elevated themselves to that level since (Dunstall was still playing but was already over 1k in 1994)
Buddy was on track to make 1k this season before the virus hit. Riewoldt & Kennedy would need to play 400+ games
Sav hit 500 in his 148th game, a win against the Swans in rd. 4 of 2000, giving him an average of 3.37 which would have net 1,000 in 296 games, but his season output dropped to 2.25gpg which seems to have spelt the end for his time at the Pies
He was traded to North where he kicked another 234 goals in 101 games at 2.32 - his best year with the 'roos was arguably 2004 when he managed 49 goals in 15 games at 3.27 - but the potential of reaching the 1,000 goal mark continued to recede, needing at least another 4 seasons at the end _________________ https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/sav-sinks-the-dockers/ |
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Pies4shaw
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Jezza wrote: | I always wonder whether we would have won the 2002 Grand Final had we had retained Sav.
Sav kicked 50 goals for North in the 2002 season, so he was still an excellent goalkicker after departing us. |
He played 3 finals and kicked a total of 3 goals. He had 1 kick, for a point, in 1994, 8 kicks for 1 goal in 2002 and 3 kicks for 2 goals in 2005.
He would have had to displace either his brother or Josh Fraser from the 2002 GF team (you couldn't possibly have played him and those 2 and left out Tarrant because the team would have been hopelessly slow). Antony was brilliant that day and Josh was useful - the 2 kicked 7 goals 3 between them (the only other multiple goal kicker on the day was Lynch), so it's difficult to see how Sav would have made the difference. I know he kicked 6 against Brisbane at the Gabba earlier that year but that was a very different, high-scoring game, nothing like the GF arm-wrestle we lost. |
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PyreneesPie
PyreneesPie
Joined: 22 Aug 2014
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Both Sav and Anthony were such glorious long kicks and I remember one commentator saying when they were both playing for us "The Rocca's must have had a big backyard". |
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K
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Pies4shaw wrote: | Jezza wrote: | I always wonder whether we would have won the 2002 Grand Final had we had retained Sav.
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He would have had to displace either his brother or Josh Fraser from the 2002 GF team (you couldn't possibly have played him and those 2 and left out Tarrant because the team would have been hopelessly slow). Antony was brilliant that day and Josh was useful - the 2 kicked 7 goals 3 between them (the only other multiple goal kicker on the day was Lynch), so it's difficult to see how Sav would have made the difference. ... |
He could easily have replaced Steve McKee.
Sav was a beautiful tap ruckman. Now that he's been laid off permanently by the Blues, maybe he can teach Grundy how it's done.
Our best ruckman at the time was his brother, who was needed at CHF. |
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Rd10.1998_11.1#36
rd10.1998_11.1#36
Joined: 18 Jul 2018 Location: Sevilla, Spain
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