Rate a player: Nick Daffy

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Nick Daffy



Guernsey No: 44 (1992-94), 10 (1995-2001)
D.O.B.:  11-05-1973
Height:  183 cm
Weight:  85 kg

RFC Games: 165
RFC Goals:  181

Position: Half-forward flank, midfield

Best returns:

25 disposals vs Fitz, R22 1994  (24th AFL game, first over 20 possessions)
6 goals & 19 disposals vs North, R4 1995
4 goals & 19 disposals vs Syd, R9 1995
5 goals & 18 disposals vs Bris, R20 1995
2 goals & 21 disposals vs Ess, SF 1995
5 goals & 27 disposals vs StK, R11 1996
3 goals & 23 disposals vs Adel, R12 1996
4 goals & 22 disposals vs Melb, R15 1996
5 goals & 17 disposals vs Geel, R1 1997
5 goals & 28 disposals vs Coll, R4 1998
2 goals & 28 disposals vs WCE, R5 1998
1 goals & 33 disposals vs Port, R10 1998
2 goals & 28 disposals vs North, R12 1998
1 goals & 30 disposals vs Freo, R14 1998
4 goals & 31 disposals vs Carl, R15 1998
1 goals & 30 disposals vs WCE, R20 1998
3 goals & 33 disposals vs Bris, R21 1998
1 goals & 33 disposals vs Syd, R2 1999
2 goals & 28 disposals vs Coll, R4 1999
1 goals & 36 disposals vs Adel, R9 1999
3 goals & 29 disposals vs Haw, R11 2000
2 goals & 26 disposals vs Melb, R1 2001 (his last 20 possession game)
http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/N/Nick_Daffy.html

Recruited from: North Gambier, SA. Pick 49, 1990 National Draft (gained from trading Phil Egan to Melbourne).
RFC Debut: 1992. Round 2 vs North Melbourne
Departed RFC: End of 2001. Traded to Sydney along with pick 17 (James Kelly) for Greg Stafford.

Honours:
1998 Best & Fairest
1995 leading goalkicker (45 goals)
31 Brownlow Votes (most was 10 votes in 1999).

[WilliamPowell]

Don't get me started

 

[Moi]

Don't get me started

 

Ditto
Mum always taught me if you can't say nothing nice say nothin at all lol

[Hellenic Tiger]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh he just annoys the crap out of me. :-

[Mr Magic]

Nice haircut.

[Ox]

my most hated player.
partially responsible for the "im bigger than the club" mentality
that enveloped us for the most part of the 90s.

ctnu of a bloke.

[WilliamPowell]

Don't get me started

 

Ditto
Mum always taught me if you can't say nothing nice say nothin at all lol

Yeah Ma Powell said the same thing

But....

For me Nick Daffy was the most over rated player to represent the RFC in last 20 years. There I said it and I feel better 

The absolute worse thing they ever did was let him loose in the mid-field. Couldn't run in a straight line to save himself. No wonder Richo to this day leads to the pockets - that's where he had go to to get a Daffy pass. Plenty of possessions but very little quality

[rogerd3]

all sausage no sizzle.

[Smokey]

Don't get me started

Yep.

Mum always taught me if you can't say nothing nice say nothin at all lol

Yep.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh he just annoys the crap out of me. Cry Undecided :-

Yep.

Nice haircut.

Yep.

ctnu of a bloke.

Yep.

my most hated player.
partially responsible for the "im bigger than the club" mentality
that enveloped us for the most part of the 90s.

Yep.

For me Nick Daffy was the most over rated player to represent the RFC in last 20 years. There I said and I feel better 

The absolute worse thing they ever did was let him loose in the mid-field. Couldn't run in a straight line to save himself. No wonder Richo to this day leads to the pockets - that's where he had go to to get a Daffy pass. Plenty of possessions but very little quality

Yep.

all sausage no sizzle.

And yep.  Sooooooo glad to see the back of him.

[mightytiges]

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Daffy was fine as a HFFer where kicking over your shoulder blindly was okay as it usually went through the sticks for a score. He made his name on those 6 goals against North in that '95 Monday night game. The problem was he kept kicking like this when moved into the midfield despite being 100m away from the goals and just gifted the opposition half-back line possession time after time again .

For me Nick Daffy was the most over rated player to represent the RFC in last 20 years. There I said and I feel better 

LOL. There's plenty of competition though 

[cub]

He will probably hear he is being rated on OER and sign up under an alias, to give himself the biggest wrap of all time.

[WilliamPowell]

For me Nick Daffy was the most over rated player to represent the RFC in last 20 years. There I said and I feel better 

LOL. There's plenty of competition though 

Not for me - he stands out as the one all the other over rated hacks have aspired to be

[mightytiges]

For me Nick Daffy was the most over rated player to represent the RFC in last 20 years. There I said and I feel better 

LOL. There's plenty of competition though 

Not for me - he stands out as the one all the other over rated hacks have aspired to be

Even ahead of Pitura, Phillip Walsh and Biddiscombe lol.

[Jacosh]

Im about to become the most hated person on this site by the sound of it but i liked him, well at least early on in his playing days.
Early on playing hff or pocket he had reasonably good goal sense and was quick enough to be fairly elusive.
Later on he bulked up (under club orders i was led to believe) to much but didnt/couldnt change his game stlye to suit, then was put into the midfield to try and use some of his bulk.  Unfortunatly that was his downfall as he was a servicable hff/pocket player but didnt have the what it took to play in the centre.

[Hellenic Tiger]

That liking Jacosh would have been 94-96 which coincided with your rise out of the bottom 4 and into finals contention. Hence there was a freshness in our love of the game b/c our team was performing serviceably rather than our annual journey into the abyss that was the bottom 4 at the time with the likes of the Swans and the Bears. Many peoples minds were unfortunantely satisfied with these end results bween 94-96 and rather than look at the bigger picture were happy to continue with what the hand they were dealt. Also the club who had failed to deal with relative success after along time of being an also ran in anonimity who thought of snapping up these blokes to continue their time at the club regardless of the price in dollar terms and the changing of coach every two years on average which allowed him to escape the radar of a coach who may have been there for more than 2 years and hence treat him accordingly.
 Personally I thought 1996 was even better than 1995 the type of footy we played the high scores we were kicking, Richo coming back from his knee. We had the 3rd of 4th best % in the league. We just lost all the close ones Sydney at Waverley, Geelong at Kardinia,Carlton,West Coast at the G just to name a few, but ones these blokes started to get their contract renewals and their so called personas of being at a higher elite level than what they actually were they never actually rose up to that level and if anything went backward and by the end of their careers they were classified as just AFL players something the clappers failed to comprehend due to the media hype.
 Unfortunantely for Daffy one year the second part of 1994 and virtually the first half of 1995 and that Monday Night North game where he kicked 6 goals in our thrashing of the Roos stigmatised him for the rest of the career and set the club back for another decade with the constant renewing of hefty contracts based on what he could do rather than what he does. He successfully milked the club who allowed him to do that and the rest his history. I for one was not upset in a football sense when he did his collarbone/shoulder against Carlscum in the 2001 finals. The further he is away from the club the better. He was nothing more than a fraud in regards to his footballing tenure at RFC and what was that so called push in trying to nominate a ticket for the board or the presidency circa 2004 and dictaing what he thought the issues that the club needed to put forefront in their agenda. Please its like letting loose Ted Bundy in a sorority house full of women with long brown hair that was parted. Like I said a fraud on the field and a fraud off it. No substance, no heart, no desire, no passion,no good intentions, no pride no nothing just fraudulence all the way.