"the thing is prior to this year petts wasn't lazy"- you have got to be joking
petts is half the way player o'keefe and didak are! He is the most laziest and selfish player we have had on our list.
Only interested in kicking his 1 or 2 but never interested in the hard stuff.
2 years ago i wrote on this forum that Leon davis was streets ahead of Petts and got laughed at.
well well well lets compare the 2 now. Petts is slow, weak and pathetic. Davis is a hard nut who runs and tackles.
Petts wouldn't know how to even spell those words.
Leon Davis has only taken until he's 28 years old before he's made a serious impact in the game, how many players get 10 years on a list before they finally come good?
Let's compare Pettifer, O'Keefe & Didak prior to this year
2007
Pettifer - 22Games 283K 74H 357D 147M 37G 21B 35T
O'Keefe - 23Games 282K 122H 404D 122M 23G 18B 83T
Didak - 18Games 191K 77H 268D 102M 25G 6B 46T
Similar disposals, O'Keefe with the edge with more handballs, Petts kicks close to twice as many goals is more accurate but O'Keefe tackles more. Only thing that tells me is O'Keefe plays more as a midfielder, Petts was scoring more for us, but for someone who plays forward more, he still got a lot of the ball. O'Keefe also played 1 more game than Petts.
Didak played less games, kicked similar amount of goals and similar tackles in that time, also got less of the ball. Possibly an unfair comparison given he was coming back from injury.
Even so, Petts isn't far off their standard. He wasn't lazy, people just saw a few aspects of their game that they didn't like and blew it out of proportion. He was crap this year, but his last 3 have been good and very consistent.