Speaking on The Unlaced Podcast, De Goey said the comparisons between him and Dustin Martin following his breakout [2018] season were tiresome.
"It peees me off," the Magpies spearhead said.
"I was a kid and I had one good year and all of a sudden it was like '[Dusty] kicks goals and he's a powerful kind of guy'.
"I started doing a little bit of that and I was showing glimpses of that, then all of a sudden someone puts this label on you and people read about this, and then they judge you on that... it's just like all this unneeded stress.
"The amount of people that will be like 'oh he's a Kmart Dusty, he can't even tie Dusty's shoelace', I get so much funny poo like that.
"Then I'll play a good game and then they'll be like 'oh actually you're alright, you're not too bad'."
The Magpies gun put light on the unfair juxtapositions that impacted him in just his fourth season in the AFL.
"You're being compared to the f**king best bloke in the game and I'm 21, 22 (years old).
"You're kidding yourself if you ever think I'm going to be anywhere near him at that age."
https://www.zerohanger.com/de-goey-tired-of-kmart-dusty-label-91751/
