Wayne Carey And Paul Roos Aren't Impressed With Patrick Dangerfield's Herald Sun Article

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Wayne Carey and Paul Roos weren't impressed with Patrick Dangerfield's Herald Sun article suggesting Lance Franklin would have kicked 2000 goals in the 1980s and 1990s.

Dangerfield wrote on Sunday that "if Tony Lockett or Jason Dunstall played in 2017 they wouldn’t have the figures that sit beside their names at the top of the all-time (goalkicking) list".

"Flipping it the other way, if “Buddy” had played in the 1980s-90s he would have finished his career with 2000 goals," he wrote.

Carey disagreed.

"I actually think the complete opposite to that," he said.

"Tony Lockett would kick 4000 goals (in the modern game). One, you're not allowed to hang on like they used to hang on. You're not allowed to chop the arms. It's way more in a forward's advantage now.

"I think Paddy is probably looking through the glass of the modern game.

"Tony Lockett would seriously kick way more goals than what he kicked if he was in the game today.

"They would kick a lot, a lot of goals."

Roos agreed with Duck, looking back on a contest the two had many years ago.

"I agree with you on Paddy," he said.

"The lack of research going into the article is probably the thing that amazes me.

"I'm not one to say the old game is better, let me be really clear on that. The modern game is so much better. But the old game was played often in the mud, every single ruckman in the competition dropped back, you could chop the arms, you could nudge, you could hang on, you had back pockets.

"My whole strategy playing on Duck...everywhere that I stood was so Duck had to lead to where the ruckman was. Every time he went for a mark I chopped his arms. That was part of what you did back then."