Kurt Tippett
2012 games: 18
2012 average: 86.5
2013 club: Sydney
Finally, the 'Tippett saga' is over.
But Kurt Tippett will walk away from this off-season with more haters than admirers, and that is fact.
He walked out on preliminary-finalists Adelaide, said he wanted a return to his home-state of Queensland, refused to go to go an expansion club as if he were a spoilt school-girl, nominated Sydney as his 'only accepted' destination, was found to consensually aid in rorting the Adelaide Crows' salary cap, and finally he was picked by Sydney. Phew! And this has all happened since October.
There's no doubting his SuperCoach potential though - in the first thirteen games of 2012, he scored over 100 eight times. Consistency has always been his major problem, and he's scored under 50 points in a match no less than 17 times since 2010. A few were concussion-related, but it's still too many.
Not that you'll be picking him in your starting squad. His eleven-match suspension flows nicely into Sydney's round 12 bye, so it's impossible for Kurt to play until the second phase of the season.
He's a match-winner, and he can deliver in the big games: He almost single-handedly pulled Adelaide into the AFL Grand Final with a stand-out performance against Hawthorn in the preliminary final at the MCG.
Watch out when he represents the red and white.
2012 games: 18
2012 average: 86.5
2013 club: Sydney
Finally, the 'Tippett saga' is over.
But Kurt Tippett will walk away from this off-season with more haters than admirers, and that is fact.
He walked out on preliminary-finalists Adelaide, said he wanted a return to his home-state of Queensland, refused to go to go an expansion club as if he were a spoilt school-girl, nominated Sydney as his 'only accepted' destination, was found to consensually aid in rorting the Adelaide Crows' salary cap, and finally he was picked by Sydney. Phew! And this has all happened since October.
There's no doubting his SuperCoach potential though - in the first thirteen games of 2012, he scored over 100 eight times. Consistency has always been his major problem, and he's scored under 50 points in a match no less than 17 times since 2010. A few were concussion-related, but it's still too many.
Not that you'll be picking him in your starting squad. His eleven-match suspension flows nicely into Sydney's round 12 bye, so it's impossible for Kurt to play until the second phase of the season.
He's a match-winner, and he can deliver in the big games: He almost single-handedly pulled Adelaide into the AFL Grand Final with a stand-out performance against Hawthorn in the preliminary final at the MCG.
Watch out when he represents the red and white.