Pies young gun Josh Daicos brings ‘champion’ father to his feet with ‘ridiculous’ GOTY contender

Like father, like son.

While so much of the focus has been on brother Nick Daicos, who is already rewriting the record books in his young career, brother Josh provided quite the highlight on Sunday.

In a move that was reminiscent of father and Collingwood great Peter, Josh beat two Essendon defenders before taking a few bounces and then smashing it through the sticks.

The cameras went straight to father Peter and you could not wipe the smile off his face and he cheered his son on, kicking what is a strong goal of the year contender.

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“Daicos wins it, away he goes, a couple of bounces and like his brilliant father [he] thumps it through,” James Brayshaw said in commentary on Channel 7.

“There he [their father] is, what sort of DNA have they got rolling this family. That is ridiculous. So much focus on Nick and so there should be but he is a fine footballer in his own right and that man was a champion.”

Essendon’s Sam Draper put his name forward for goal of the year last week but Eddie Betts said on Fox Footy that he reckons Daicos is the new leader for that honour.

“We talk about Draper’s goal last week and we knew Daicos could kick goals like this but we said you need to get the crowd involved… he looked smooth, it was very composed, to take on two tacklers on the wing, run and take a bounce, we’ll say goal of the year,” Betts said.

“He made it look ridiculously easy,” Sarah Jones added.

“I think if you asked a lot of other players to do that, that basketball bounce in the middle, not many people could do it.”

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Collingwood was in cruise control at that point, storming out to a 38-1 lead after the first quarter before Essendon charged back into the game with a second-quarter comeback.