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Joel Bowden
« on: February 05, 2005, 03:47:22 PM »
How your club is shaping up in 2005
05 February 2005   
Herald Sun

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JACK Dyer medallist Joel Bowden says he is happy to move aside for young tall Jay Schulz to be trialled at centre half-back this year. Bowden enjoyed a stunning year in 2004 playing as a key defender but is likely to be more adaptable under new coach Terry Wallace.
"We have spoken about it and he (Wallace) wants to see me playing in a couple of different positions," Bowden said.
"Considering that I was playing well there (centre half-back), I might spend a bit of time there.
"I will probably play half-back, midfield and a little bit forward.
"To get our team's scoring average up we need to kick goals. 'Richo' (Matthew Richardson) did his job, but we need four or five guys to kick 20 goals (for the season)."

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,12154296%255E20322,00.html
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Re: How your club is shaping up in 2005
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2005, 03:56:55 PM »
"I will probably play half-back, midfield and a little bit forward.

 :bow @ coaching staff

Always thought Joel would be handy having a stint up forward and even used as a FF to cause a mismatch against a bigger but slow and lumbering FB. He's 188cm so he's fairly tall, a good mark and kick and is elusive. Bowden can also lead long as he can easily kick well over 50m.

Modern footy is about all rotating all your non-KPs through varied positions so getting our blokes to play a mixture of across half-back, midfield and forward should become the norm. Make us unpredictable and as a result bloody hard to coach against.

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Bowden sets new goals
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2005, 05:21:18 AM »
Bowden sets new goals
February 6, 2005
The Age

Richmond's best-and-fairest, Joel Bowden, is hungry for success, reports Melissa Ryan.

In a year in which Richmond was battered almost to the point of breaking, Joel Bowden was not merely the flotsam that survived the storm the best to be awarded the Jack Dyer Medal as the club champion.

He and the club know that the often sublime, often maligned left-footer had earned the accolade with the steady, outstanding work he contributed at centre half-back, thrown against bigger forwards through sheer necessity, as the Tigers floundered from bad to the wooden spoon.

What that recognition meant to Bowden, who is one of four contenders for the Richmond captaincy, is apparent.

With his family involved in the club for 35 years - he is the son of premiership player Michael Bowden - being heralded its best-and-fairest clearly touched the 26-year-old, and he hoped others would look upon it with the same admiration given to those who had won it in years of greater success.

"I hope people give it merit because sometimes people say when you finish last it doesn't really count. Not that it doesn't really count, but some people said people don't remember the years that you finish on the bottom," Bowden said.

"I'll remember it (the medal) for a long, long time and hopefully I can add to it in the next four or five years, but as long as I'm happy within myself and that I can continue to play with the passion and the feeling that I think I have for the Richmond footy club, then I'm happy, and hopefully then all the supporters, and the coaching staff more importantly, are."

Now in his 10th year as a Tiger, Bowden views the coming era with as much excitement as the rest of the Richmond playing list, caught up in a bubble of enthusiasm from the vigorous spring cleaning the club has endured.

His part in that is to keep producing the consistency of form and impact that so highlighted his season last year. His talent has never been questioned in his 170-game career, but rather, the seeming casualness of its appearance has frustrated many, from supporters to critics.

"Sometimes that comes with the showing of a little ability early. Early on in my first couple of years I might have done a couple of things in quarters . . . and all of a sudden you get labelled maybe a little bit as very talented but then when the consistency (is) not there, there's criticism," Bowden said.

"Richmond supporters by nature just want to succeed and we haven't had success since 1980 so there's a little bit of hunger from the supporters and I know there is from the players."

Whether Bowden will remain in the back line this year is yet to be seen. But coach Terry Wallace would like to use Bowden's qualities around the ground to greater effect.

"You don't throw everything out because the side had a bad season but on the other hand, when Joel played his best football, the club didn't win a game," Wallace said. "That might have been the best spot for Joel but whether it actually helped the team win games, well, the answer is it didn't. The answer is they did not win a game after he came back from Coburg.

"I'm not blaming Joel for that, he won the best-and-fairest, but we'll use him where we see fit. I think he's a quality player that we probably just can't afford to have purely and simply as a sweeping backman because our midfield will need his quality at times.

"But in saying that, we saw how well he played that sweeping role across half-back so we'd be crazy to not take up what's been exposed and use that to our advantage."

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/05/1107476850714.html?from=storyrhs
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Joel Bowden reflects on his B&F
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2005, 05:25:52 AM »
The club champions
By Emma Quayle
The Age
March 20, 2005
 
In a team game, there is still a place for individual honours. The 16 2004 best-and-fairest winners reflect on their achievement.

RICHMOND

JOEL BOWDEN
26 years old
First club champion award

What does it mean to win your club's best and fairest award?
"It's fantastic. It's an achievement. Everyone wants to win premierships, but best and fairests are memorable when you think back on your career. When I finish, I'll be able to look back and think, 'For one year — and hopefully I can add to it — I was the best and fairest player at the footy club that I love.' It's a good feeling."

What does winning the award mean for this season and beyond?
"It gives me confidence. I can go into the next couple of seasons knowing that I can, and will, play well. It's a bit hard right now to think of where you sit in the history of the club, but it will be nice to come back in the future and see your name up on the honour board. I look forward to that, but I also look forward to playing for a few more years and trying to get our club going again."

THE JACK DYER MEDAL
Jack "Captain Blood" Dyer won Richmond's first club champion award in 1932. The trophy was renamed the Jack Dyer Medal, in honour of the former captain, coach, premiership player — and the man who personified the club's "eat 'em alive attitude", 24 years later. Most wins: Jack Dyer 6 (1932, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946).

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2005/03/19/1111086062245.html

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Re: Joel Bowden
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2005, 05:05:11 PM »
Dud !  :thumbsup

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Re: Joel Bowden
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2005, 06:56:30 PM »
Not a dud  :thumbsup

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Re: Joel Bowden
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2005, 07:48:34 PM »
Currently he is overrated IMO, but he can easily prove me wrong this season!

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Re: Joel Bowden
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2005, 06:03:12 AM »
Good 2004 season, but lets face it, we were woeful.  Some serious underperformers in the team

Good luck to Bowden.  Hope he proves his knockers wrong


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Re: Joel Bowden
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2005, 02:36:14 PM »
Won't be as good as last year in my opinion, but will be solid nonetheless.

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Re: Joel Bowden
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2005, 05:33:54 AM »
After a B&F expectations will be high again on Bowden. Playing most likely off a HB flank and not at CHB like last year he'll be judged on how much run out of defence he gives us plus how well he disposes the ball to our midfielders running through the centre in waves. The job for Joel will be to maintain the level of intensity that he had in 2004 and not drift back into old habits.
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