Nick Daffy

[Cutterst]

Liked him early on as a HFF because he could kick goals from either side of his body but the game changed over the years he was at Richmond and he didn't. I don't think I ever saw him chase, would drop his arms after 10 metres. Great for the rebound tho BECAUSE HE ALWAYS JOGGED 20 M BEHIND HIS MAN.

Would not survive in todays football because he was a specialist receiver - if the ball didn't come down he couldn't move up-ground and help the team in other ways. Pettifer for all his faults, works harder then Daffy to hold the ball in the forward fifty!

 

[tigersnake]

A mate of mine who I used to go to the footy with a lot, he still goes most weeks and is long term member, some of you would probably know him. He’s generally not one to bag our players. He’s a very positive person, a gentle giant. With Daffy though, one day he’d had enough and snapped. He let loose on Daffy at an important time in a match after he passed to Knighter right in front of us. It was a typical hospital pass by Daffy, up in the air and MK had to really stretch to get there and he got cleaned up by an opposition player running the other way. My mate went beserk, calling Daffy a useless you-know-what and telling him to keep his kicks low forchrissakes and try and hit a target etc.

This bloke just in front of us stood up and abused my mate and said he was Daffy’s fiance’s father. My mate told him he didn’t care who he was and that Daffy was a liability to the side and that he could only take so much of his hospital passes to nobody. It was pretty heated exchange, but funny.

 

[tha8ball]

well i thought the duck was a very handy player......but who cares

 

[Tony Braxton-Hicks]

One of daffy's hospital passes left Dragga with a busted knee that effectively ended his career. I wasn't disappointed when he busted his shoulder in his last game for us.

Daffy was an overrated punce who could only throw the ball onto his boot quickly rather than dodging an opposition player or feigning a handball to buy more time or absorb a tackle and give off to a teammate.

 

[rensman]

can anyone remember what the swans gave up for him, wasn't it stafford and we sent daffy and a 1st round pick???

 

[mainlandy]

The day Nick Daffy (against the Roos in 1995) kicked 6 goals in a half, and we thumped the roos by 48 points was the turning point in his career IMO. He really was not much of a player, but that game, I think he got a big head and never looked back, he got his massive contract and we as supporters paid for watching his ineptness on the field the next 5 years.

Great post Hopper, just knew he was a person like that.

 

[The Mighty Wozman]

A mate of mine who I used to go to the footy with a lot, he still goes most weeks and is long term member, some of you would probably know him.  He’s generally not one to bag our players.  He’s a very positive person, a gentle giant. With Daffy though, one day he’d had enough and snapped.  He let loose on Daffy at an important time in a match after he passed to Knighter right in front of us.  It was a typical hospital pass by Daffy, up in the air and MK had to really stretch to get there and he got cleaned up by an opposition player running the other way.  My mate went beserk, calling Daffy a useless you-know-what and telling him to keep his kicks low forchrissakes and try and hit a target etc. 

This bloke just in front of us stood up and abused my mate and said he was Daffy’s fiance’s father.  My mate told him he didn’t care who he was and that Daffy was a liability to the side and that he could only take so much of his hospital passes to nobody.  It was pretty heated exchange, but funny.

this is pretty interesting because it was the Duck who kicked the ball to Dragga the first time he did his knee at Colonial. Dragga was fairly clear on the wing - Duck kicked an ordinary kick in which Dragga had to stop and prop - he got crunched and so did the knee... I am not blaming the Duck - but that kick was a shocker.

 

[stripes17]

I'm surprised that Campbell and Daffy are best mates. Campbell always prided himself on hard work and seemed to keep a fairly low profile. You would think that he wouldn't tolerate that sort of behaviour from Nick.

 

[bigwow]

can anyone remember what the swans gave up for him, wasn't it stafford and we sent daffy and a 1st round pick???

Pick 17, which ended up at Geelong and was used to select James Kelly.

 

[Bill James]

I'm surprised that Campbell and Daffy are best mates. Campbell always prided himself on hard work and seemed to keep a fairly low profile. You would think that he wouldn't tolerate that sort of behaviour from Nick.

Same kicking problems

 

[nwonash]

Daffy was a good player. If he wasnt, he wouldnt have won the Jack Dyer medal.

Daffy played some really good footy for us. Some people forget that he had a bad knee and thats what effected his playing ability at the end. Daff was a very servicable player and was able to kick goals on a consistant basis.

It's also great the see Daffy back at the club helping out.

 

[AstroboyUK]

In the 94-96 era I enjoyed watching Duck; he was one of the young 'long-hair' brigade that made supporting the tigers pretty cool in those days: but increasingly, after Northy left I began to percieve him as one of a tight group of players who thought they were bigger than the club, and who seemed to hold the club to ransom at times- without raising their own performances.

Eventually they became this little 'clique' of protected players that didnt get disbanded (by clearances and a chance of culture) until Spud arrived. I always felt that was one of Spud's few achievements; the disbandment of the "sooky-la-la-I played well in '95-why isnt Northy still here" faction.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Daffy had 2 good years: 95 and 98, he or his manager engineered very good contracts from both of those years. The 4 year deal after 98 made him into a millstone around the club's neck.