The Geelong star is one of this generation’s great footballers but without a premiership to his name he is also one of the hardest to place
On the Thursday night before his first game at Geelong, Patrick Dangerfield was on The Footy Show, sitting on a throne, like some sort of surf-coast Caesar. It wasn’t exactly the Geelong way. Their champions of recent years had mostly been taciturn figures. Dangerfield had already given more interviews in the pre-season than most of his teammates had given in 10 years. No footballer was more available for comment. He was at Geelong to win premierships, he told us. They’d build a game around him.
In many ways, they built the club around him. That Monday, against a side that had won the last three flags, he played one of the great individual games of the decade. He ended up winning the Brownlow medal by nine votes, and collected pretty much every other award there was to win. He was the best player in Australia. Geelong had reset, put all their eggs in the Dangerfield basket, and were on the cusp of another golden era.
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