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2021 Player Reviews: #13 Clayton Oliver

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1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

Hands down the best player I have seen in red & blue.

 

Except for one R Flower I would agree!

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    Scary thing - he's getting better.

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    Unravel the mystery of the best player at Clubs not being with AFL Flags. Probably near thing in most cases. 

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    To think that Clayton Oliver is only about 25% through his career. He is still only quite young at about 24 years old.

    He can only get better. I can imagine him playing well over 300 AFL games too for the Demons.

    He is an absolute super star and hopefully will have the desire to win many more Premierships at the Demons and be one of our greatest players ever.

    Love ya Clarrie!

     

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    9 hours ago, picket fence said:

    Please please MFC MAKE A FRAMED POSTER OF THIS SIGNED.🤩

    Bang bang bang bang. 
     

    Clarry is 5-star ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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    5 hours ago, Supreme_Demon said:

    To think that Clayton Oliver is only about 25% through his career. He is still only quite young at about 24 years old.

    He can only get better. I can imagine him playing well over 300 AFL games too for the Demons.

    He is an absolute super star and hopefully will have the desire to win many more Premierships at the Demons and be one of our greatest players ever.

    Love ya Clarrie!

     

    Without meaning to be a downer, I’ll be surprised if he makes it to 300. He’s a human battering ram whose arms already have to be taped on by his dodgy shoulders.

    I’ll settle for him leading the dynasty until he’s 28 before he starts to struggle with injuries though.

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    13 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    Without meaning to be a downer, I’ll be surprised if he makes it to 300. He’s a human battering ram whose arms already have to be taped on by his dodgy shoulders.

    I’ll settle for him leading the dynasty until he’s 28 before he starts to struggle with injuries though.

    Go the way of Nat Fyfe but with a trifecta of premierships maybe.

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    In the latest Gus and Gawny, Gus describes Oliver as "...looks like superman, no-one can tackle him".

    It will be scary for the opposition to have two immovable forces in the middle who can both turn on the jets at will.

     

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    Is he better than Trac?

    He works harder I reckon.

    I think he is but it's close.

    Great to have the two.

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    2 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    In the latest Gus and Gawny, Gus describes Oliver as "...looks like superman, no-one can tackle him".

    It will be scary for the opposition to have two immovable forces in the middle who can both turn on the jets at will.

     

    Deceptively strong. That footage of him being tackled by two players and he still gets a decent kick in was freakish.

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    51 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    Deceptively strong. That footage of him being tackled by two players and he still gets a decent kick in was freakish.

    Genuinely, my memory has it as 3 tackling him..

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    On 11/15/2021 at 9:49 PM, John Crow Batty said:

    Go the way of Nat Fyfe but with a trifecta of premierships maybe.

    Can spend 2 or 3 years up forward winning games with goals after he has finished his domination of the midfield. 

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    48 minutes ago, 58er said:

    Can spend 2 or 3 years up forward winning games with goals after he has finished his domination of the midfield. 

    Oliver > Fyfe

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    11 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

    Is he better than Trac?

    He works harder I reckon.

    I think he is but it's close.

    Great to have the two.

    Not sure who works harder as they play different roles.  Oliver is in the thick of it to get the ball, Petracca is the burst player to go forward.  Yep, great to have the two.

    Who is better?  Depends on criteria and one's emotional investment in each player.

    But, now that Oliver has learnt to hold his ground in or run out of a pack, instead of treating the ball as a hot potato and blindly hand pass out of congestion, I reckon he has a few more levels of improvement.

    Now that is a truly scary thought.

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    15 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

    Is he better than Trac?

    He works harder I reckon.

    I think he is but it's close.

    Great to have the two.

    Yep he is better than Track and I think him close to being the Best player in the Competition

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    After a very long time, I'm getting over my deep seated animosity towards my father "guiding" me down the path of being a dees supporter. Hopefully my son doesn't feel the same way.

    Very much down to our star studded lineup. When Clarry did that one handed pickup under pressure against the Hawks (2016/7?), I knew we were onto a winner. 

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    4 minutes ago, In Harmes Way said:

    Very much down to our star studded lineup. When Clarry did that one handed pickup under pressure against the Hawks (2016/7?), I knew we were onto a winner. 

    I think about this a lot. It was incredible.

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    4 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    Not sure who works harder as they play different roles.  Oliver is in the thick of it to get the ball, Petracca is the burst player to go forward.  Yep, great to have the two.

    Who is better?  Depends on criteria and one's emotional investment in each player.

    But, now that Oliver has learnt to hold his ground in or run out of a pack, instead of treating the ball as a hot potato and blindly hand pass out of congestion, I reckon he has a few more levels of improvement.

    Now that is a truly scary thought.

    To think if we had have taken Wines instead of Toumpas we may not have ended up with Clarry or trac

    We would have had two great players in Viney and Wines but quite similar in many ways.

     

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    I’ve never seen him struggle.

    Best player in the comp.

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    46 minutes ago, Biffen said:

    I’ve never seen him struggle.

    Best player in the comp.

    Impressive ever since his first game. 

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    2 hours ago, picket fence said:

    Yep he is better than Track and I think him close to being the Best player in the Competition

    Who is better? He won the coaches award, Mongrel Punt ranks him number one, I think he is clearly the best player in the competition. He reminds me a great deal of Barassi  - they have the same relentless, nothing-will- stop-me approach; Total aggression at the ball.

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    Oliver and Petracca are like having two Martins or two Bontempellis, or one of each.

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    18 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

    Is he better than Trac?

    He works harder I reckon.

    I think he is but it's close.

    Great to have the two.

    I've said this before.  Clarry is VB, Trac is craft beer.  You need both for an awesome party 😁

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    2 minutes ago, mauriesy said:

    Oliver and Petracca are like having two Martins or two Bontempellis, or one of each.

    Closer to the  latter but Oliver does not have the break away strength of Bont.

    His handball receives and gives over his shoulders is sublime as well as his ability to work in confined space.

    There's no doubt we took a little out of Dog's 2016 handball handbook into our 2021 season and boy did it work.

    Petracca's ability to break clear and deliver or shoot in an unhurried manner is sheer brilliance

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