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Originally posted by Mickie Lane
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1. Favourite Rooster currently - Tedesco, All Time Favourite would probably be SBW, the hype around him and the way he changed the culture was incredible to see and was just great to see him at the club, was sad that he couldn't maintain the form in 2014 and couldn't go back to back with him but will be someone I will remember.
2. Biggest name before Freddy would have to be Luke Ricketson, a weird one to name considering all the all time greats before Freddy and the fact that he has played with Freddy and being from the same era but as someone whos represented the Roosters for so long and being a one club man and being from a period that was more recent relative to my birth year he would be the name.
3. When these names are brought up, some of these names I can recognize because they are usually brought up when talking about all time greats relative to the Roosters but its hard to truly appreciate them because as someone born in the early 2000s, it's kinda hard to find alot of footage of these players and as such you're more likely to understand what makes players like Freddy great cause there's not only more footage of him but is more recent to people born from the 1990s onwards.
It's kinda like if you're a basketball fan, and your my age, you'll be able to understand what makes someone like a MJ, Pippen or even a Magic Johnson great but harder to appreciate players such as Wilt or Kareem since for these older players you have to go off limited historical footage/word of mouth from people who were from that era.
Not to takeaway from players such as Beetson, Coote, Mullins, Daily and the rest of the icons from those eras, but people my age will have more knowledge of players from say like the 1980s onwards.
Like when I speak to my mates about footy, they are more likely to bring up players from the early 2000s onwards and will bring up obscure players from the 2000s rather than bring up legends like Beetson mainly cause people born in the early 2000s are more likely to talk from talk from that era since we grew up in that era which makes it harder to appreciate players from older eras.
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