sadly much of his career was carrying the st kilda team with a handful of other players, (harvey, burke, lockett, winmar etc etc)
300 odd games, a shade under 600 goals (two season he played 3/4 of the at FF and kicked 90 and 80 goals in teams devoid of talent and ridden with injury prior to jason heatley coming and after lockett left)
something like 3200 marks, many contested, and spent the end of teh his career filling as a ruckman through spiders injuries, and suspensions
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outstanding player, as for his kicking at goal, pfft statistically as accurate as any other CHF, the reputation for being a bad kick was a hang over from his youth.
honestly if reiwoldt hadn't landed in our laps we'd be devoid of anyone with that amount of talent in our forward line.
a CHF who can kick 40 plus goals and control the HF line, and can duck into FF and kick bags of 5 or 6 at a pinch ><
given carey spent much of his time at FF and not CHF, as with kernahan, loewe's record stacks up VERY well with the best CHFs of the game.
his mistake? not taking big $$ to go to premiership teams, being loyal to st kilda and not crippling players for fun.
when we played adelaide, they had 3 players on him, our mistake and alves was to keep kicking it him.
pittmans ONLY job that game was to scrag loewe, scrag scrag scrag, add to that the personal trauma on the day that loewe faced, which some may be aware off and was alluded to in the press at the time with out specifics being given.
i rate loewe as an oustanding player (not n the top 50 to ever play AFL but very close).
if he took the $$ to go to hawthorn or sydney he'd have been a premiership CHF at least twice, and he'd be lauded amongst the best ever.