At first I'm like, "Everyone knows these guys played footy!" Then I'm thinking, "I wonder what the average age is for BF posters?"
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Careers outside AFL that have outshone their playing careers.
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micky_11
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Jack Dyer - member of the Victorian parliament
Darrell Baldock - member of the Tassie parliament
Both great players, so maybe politican was a step down
Ryan O'Keefe - once dated the now Princess Mary of Denmark
John Nicholls - Pentridge prisoner. Definitely a step up from playing with Carlton
Darrell Baldock - member of the Tassie parliament
Both great players, so maybe politican was a step down
Ryan O'Keefe - once dated the now Princess Mary of Denmark
John Nicholls - Pentridge prisoner. Definitely a step up from playing with Carlton
Mike Fitzpatrick certainly.
Fraser Brown anyone?
Warnie would have to be close to the best example.
Fraser Brown anyone?
Warnie would have to be close to the best example.
Nick Jewell - Richmond listed player 10 years back, played 1 senior game. Now a reasonable batsmen for the Victorian Bushrangers.
Gary Pert...S O L I D backman...and well deserving of a FB / CHB slot... moreso than Dench IMO.
Someone will have to help me with the name, but I seem to remember an ex fitzroy player who was the fitness coach to Andre Agassi. Darryn? Nope, can't think of it. Anyway, I'm sure someone will come up with it. Or tellme I'm talking complete rubbish.
Michael Laffy
Myself and my brother used to always joke in the 80's about how bad a footballer he was, and that he was prob the worst player in the league by a considerable margain.
Well yeah, if you've followed the game for a while it's obvious but you don't here much reference to their past in the game. I've got mates who had no idea they had played and they are in their early 20s so who knows.
Brett Stephens?
A few more, going back a bit:
Sam Loxton (St, 41 games) - 12 Test matches (cricket)
George Tribe (WB, 66 games) - 3 Tests (cricket)
Ambrose Palmer (WB, 81 games) - boxer, Australian champion in three weight divisions, legendary trainer whose charges included Johnny Famechon
Laurie Morgan (Fi, 34 games) - won two equestrian gold medals at the 1960 Olympics
George Stuckey (Es, 71 games) - captained the Bombers to a flag, represented Victoria at cricket and won the Stawell Gift - in one year!
Edit: Basil Onyons (Me, 37 games) - scored 6 centuries in 11 Sheffield Shield matches for Victoria (avg. 62)
It was Brett "Moose" Stephens - it was either Agassi or Sampras he was working with
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yep and also played thugby league with the western reds on their inception year of 1995. probs thats what made him as a knob now.
Richard Pratt - won the Morrish Medal but has certainly achieved a bit more in the business world
Brian Dixon - Melbourne premiership player who went on to be Minister for Youth, Sport & Recreation & one of the people behind the Life Be In It Campaign.
Neil 'Nipper' Trezise - Geelong player who also served as Minister for Youth, Sport & Recreation.
Brian Dixon - Melbourne premiership player who went on to be Minister for Youth, Sport & Recreation & one of the people behind the Life Be In It Campaign.
Neil 'Nipper' Trezise - Geelong player who also served as Minister for Youth, Sport & Recreation.
- Sep 2, 2005
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Not sure if it's the correct first name but there was a rumour floating around that Mike Richardson of Collingwood, Essendon and Brisbane made some interesting movies in the US on completion of his playing days.
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Robert Dixon - winner of Aussie Survivor and doco maker
Father Jack
Brownlow Medallist
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I do believe Ray Groom played Rezzies at Melbourne, and ended up Premier of Tasmania. There you go dees fans, the nearest Melbourne have got to a premiership in the last 40 years.
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One the great travesties of justice. Blackfella justice is what Jim got.
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Gary Pert was a very, very, very good player. Dench was better. Dench invented the notion of backman running out.
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Chris Langford is reasonably big cheese in the project management world I think.
Stephens was fitness advisor to Sampras .
10 yrs between their careers but Dench got accolades as part of a successful team...not saying he wasnt any good but IMO guys like Pert and Langford (primetime 10 yrs after Dench) would make him look average at FB. Not gonna debate who is better but this thread is meant to be about successful career players.
All Dench is famous for career wise is attempting to defraud a university of millions.
Pert and Langford are two of the greatest FB's of that 80-early 90's era...you clould slot either into the FB role but based on career Pert gets the nod. Langford is an AFL commissioner but unsure what else he's been doing...whatever it is he's prob very good at it.
Pert will likely be Eddie's replacement as president of Collingwood...is about to be head honcho at Ch 9 in Melbourne and has umpteen business achievements up his sleeve. Popular and likeable bloke too.
I'd leave Dench out of it in disgrace...Pert or Langford great choices at FB or CHB.
So why does playing 300 games exclude anyone from being an idiot?
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