Essendon recruit Brendon Goddard has been quick to temper fans' expectations in an interview on the club's website, claiming development will come from the younger brigade. Picture: Michael Klein Source: Herald Sun
Brothers in arms: Essendon's Brendon Goddard and Jobe Watson are in the United States for altitude training. Source: Herald Sun
BRENDON Goddard said yesterday he wouldn't be the saviour for his new club Essendon.
It's mixing words, for when you ask - and get - $700,000 a season over four years and the promise of playing predominantly midfield, the expectations from wounded Bomber fans are that he should just about walk on water.
God knows the Bombers need a gun midfielder.
Of the 2013 recruits, it will be Goddard and former Magpie turned Demon Chris Dawes who will be heavily scrutinised next season.
It's not all about the money - Dawes is reportedly on a fraction more than $500,000 at Melbourne and, seriously, can you believe it? - but with cash comes expectation of performance.
Goddard finished fourth in St Kilda's best-and-fairest this year in what many believe was only a so-so year for a player who in 2010 was arguably among the top 10 in the competition.
The Saints offered him $600,000 a season over three years to stay. The Dons trumped with $700,000 a season over four years to join them.
He did, and from afar the Saints hardly blinked.
Good player, they said, but not the great player that he was.
Goddard doesn't have to prove himself to the Saints, but certainly does to Essendon.
Does the fire still burn? Is there hunger? The willpower?
The challenge now is to involve himself once again, the belief being that he had become an outside/quarterback type of player instead of the fiercely determined ball hunter of September 2010.
He said all the right words yesterday in an interview with the club's website and, at 27, was smart enough to temper fans' expectations.
But not of the group.
"I'm here obviously to offer a bit," he said. "I'll do my best to win games of footy as well, but I'm not going to be the saviour at all.
"The development will come from the younger guys - that's got the biggest scope.
"Without sounding too big head-ish, I think a lot of people know what they're going to get from myself and Jobe (Watson) and Stants (Brent Stanton) and the older guys."
In Colorado with a group of new teammates, Goddard said he chose Essendon for several reasons.
"I see the talent within the group and where they could go. That's obviously something that did appeal," he said.
"(It's about) what I can offer the footy club as a footballer, and what the footy club can offer me as a person, so summing all that up I thought Essendon was a really good choice."
He said he was expecting to play about 95 per cent as an inside midfielder, that the Bombers could learn from St Kilda's defence under Ross Lyon, and that his trademark demands on the field would not change.
"I don't have trouble with giving feedback and stuff like that, (and) can be quite narky at times as a lot of people might know," he said.
"It's all about trying to get better. They are a younger group, but I always feel I've got something to say and something to offer ... and hopefully the guys will take it on board."
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