Few players can claim to be to famous but not Michael Hibberd, and have a process/style/impact named after them.
After the Tigers game this year the media and others starting using the term regardging how to deal with Dustin Martin - " XXX club (the tiges opponent on any given week) needs to find THEIR Michael Hibberd..."
This also applied to pre-match discussion on the Dogs game re: tagging the Bont - "...send Hibberd??..." Every team now needs a " Michael Hibberd.."
He kept Stringer to a single goal and quiet game on Saturday - further enhancing his status. From memory I think he dealt with Lance Franklin this year also.
But my quetsion is, given his age at 31, and if I read the Contract thread on Demonland correctly , in his last year this year of contarct - who is his likely successor, and do we have one?
I love Trent Rivers, but he's not in the Hibberd style.
Or is he a once-off? He was quietly booed at times on Saturday but Bombers fans next to me thought it bad taste and wished he had never left them.
Is cloning a possibility?