Heroic Efforts

[SteveG]

Another hero from the Collingwood v Hawthorn game: Mason Cox.

His importance far exceeds the stats.
He made some significant contributions, and enabled Darcy Cameron to play another great game across the park.
He also risked his whole future by playing part of the game without his protective eyewear.
Trying to find a word somewhere between courageous and all too risky:
Heroic

[SteveG]

Another game; another heroic tackle.

Early in the final quarter against The Dees, with 2 points the difference, Gawn takes it out of the Ruck in front of his goals. He turns to put it on his boot to dob one, and then Isaac Quaynor lays a tackle that pins one arm, which causes Gawn to dispose of it incorrectly.

IQ is half his size but with a heart twice as large.
The crowd rise as one: "Gooooorrrnn"

It certainly was a goal-saving tackle. Maybe even game-changing.
The ball sweeps to the other end and Checkers kicks one, that leads to another five. Six straight in the final quarter.

It was as if David had brought down Goliath, and the Philistines were without their hero.
Forget about Michelangelo's oversized David;
Isaac Quaynor is Donatello's David – agile, smart, fearless.

[Meredith1965]

The heroic moment for me was in the last quarter, when Jamie Elliott busted his arse and got his fingertips to a wonky pass from Cox, then threw himself at it to knock it to Josh D, all of which resulted in the Lipinski snap marked by Mihocek. Finals-winning stuff. Don’t think I have ever seen Jamie in better or more committed form.

[npalm]

Great thread SteveG.

[Pies2016]

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Take a look at that pic at the 17 min mark of last quarter and notice the accountability of every player who is standing shoulder to shoulder with their opponents. Then add in I Q who would have left his man to give us the extra at that contest.
It’s a great snap shot of what we were about in a close game.
Brilliant stuff !

[Boogie Knights]

[MagpiesTheGreat]

Great thread, SteveG.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Keep it up!!!

[SteveG]

[stui magpie]

Good thread, I just hope for IQ's sake he's better endowed than either of the Davids.

[RudeBoy]

[SteveG]

This week's game-winning / game-saving heroic effort,
amongst 285 other acts of sheer desperation from The Pies,
was from WHE (The Banker) – making the game safe – with 5 minutes to go.

This should be on his Scanlen's Gum Footy Card.

Check out the balance, and the taut instep.

It would be useful if the others, attempting to kick a goal, were taught about a taut instep.

[SteveG]

Another week; another heart-stopper (or maybe, a heart-starter).

With a game full of heroic efforts:
from Josh Daicos' half-soccer, half-basketball dribbling around the boundary-line to Pendles telling Darcy Moore to get on his bike.

But here are my top three:
Bruzzy with a bung shoulder smothering (again);

Checkers coming from the clouds to lay a momentum-shifting tackle;

Billy E doing it for Billy P.

[watt price tully]

Great thread Steve G. Great editing / photos to illustrate the good points you make.

A lot of contributors here. I love Cox’s work in the tap outs in the last quarters if not last halves in the last few games. (I’m still shaking from that stirring win. I think it even tops the 2010 prelim feeling being at the G.

[SteveG]

[Uncle Jack]