EagleFromMay1967
Sky Punching : send them High as the Clouds
I saw the whole Eadie career. When he first burst into 1st grade in '71 I was in Year 7. I attended every FB match, and most of the away games from 71 to 80. Amazing especially bringing the ball back ~ it was like "get out of my way" - he would just run through defenders. When they didnt let go, he would carry them forward. 2 and 3 of them.
GI reminds me of Wombat: Big strong fast, runs into holes, good with the ball, determined. His tackles were bone crunchers, If you could get rid of the ball to avoid being tackled head on by Wombat, you did so. He worked very well with ball distributing halves: Fulton, Thompson, Gibbs, I Martin, S Martin who would deliver to him in a gap. He scored 71 tries for Manly over 13 yrs in First grade. His play in the Finals series is stuff of Manly legend. Kangaroo etc. Very good goal kicker for us, especially in high pressure situations.
Snake plays a different game: a more 'technical' game. Not blessed with big size or toughness Snake has had to invent and re-invent his game. And to do these things i hold that Brett Stewart has had to overcome bigger obstacles in his life than many. Not the least of which is Type 1 diabetes, but also crippling injuries, court cases.
Brett's cover defence is as good as Wombat's front-on D.
If that had been Eadie running away from him at the SCG and not GI, Aug last year, Snake would have brought him down with a copybook tackle just the same.
Of course, Snake was faster, better link man, reads games better, anticipates, supports, and has done some amazing things with the ball that wouldn't have even occurred to Graham E.
Still in progress, Snakes career has been unique. Despite National selectors favouring Slater WE ALL KNOW that Snake is the better player. We can see he has a much better strike rate than Slater, and Eadie doesn't even come close to either - different era.
Manly s golden era enjoyed a much better win ratio when the Stewart Bros were playing, and such a marked dependance was NOT referred to during Eadie's time in relation to him. It was Fulton that this sort of talk centered upon.
We could have further threads entitled
Johnny Gibbs vs DCE,
R Gartner vs Killer,
Choc vs Igor,
Gifty vs Malcolm Reilly,
T Mooney vs M Robertson,
Cliffy vs Bozo vs Foz (and praps we should have them) etc
but it doesn't really work does it?
And there can be no definitive answer to any of it. Its opinions of course.
To conclude IMHO: Snake is a 9.37%
better Fullback than Graham Eadie was for Manly. As far as goal kicking is concerned Graham Eadie was a 100% better kicker than Snake, and that last one IS definitive. 
GI reminds me of Wombat: Big strong fast, runs into holes, good with the ball, determined. His tackles were bone crunchers, If you could get rid of the ball to avoid being tackled head on by Wombat, you did so. He worked very well with ball distributing halves: Fulton, Thompson, Gibbs, I Martin, S Martin who would deliver to him in a gap. He scored 71 tries for Manly over 13 yrs in First grade. His play in the Finals series is stuff of Manly legend. Kangaroo etc. Very good goal kicker for us, especially in high pressure situations.
Snake plays a different game: a more 'technical' game. Not blessed with big size or toughness Snake has had to invent and re-invent his game. And to do these things i hold that Brett Stewart has had to overcome bigger obstacles in his life than many. Not the least of which is Type 1 diabetes, but also crippling injuries, court cases.
Brett's cover defence is as good as Wombat's front-on D.
If that had been Eadie running away from him at the SCG and not GI, Aug last year, Snake would have brought him down with a copybook tackle just the same.
Of course, Snake was faster, better link man, reads games better, anticipates, supports, and has done some amazing things with the ball that wouldn't have even occurred to Graham E.
Still in progress, Snakes career has been unique. Despite National selectors favouring Slater WE ALL KNOW that Snake is the better player. We can see he has a much better strike rate than Slater, and Eadie doesn't even come close to either - different era.
Manly s golden era enjoyed a much better win ratio when the Stewart Bros were playing, and such a marked dependance was NOT referred to during Eadie's time in relation to him. It was Fulton that this sort of talk centered upon.
We could have further threads entitled
Johnny Gibbs vs DCE,
R Gartner vs Killer,
Choc vs Igor,
Gifty vs Malcolm Reilly,
T Mooney vs M Robertson,
Cliffy vs Bozo vs Foz (and praps we should have them) etc
but it doesn't really work does it?
And there can be no definitive answer to any of it. Its opinions of course.
To conclude IMHO: Snake is a 9.37%
better Fullback than Graham Eadie was for Manly. As far as goal kicking is concerned Graham Eadie was a 100% better kicker than Snake, and that last one IS definitive. 
