Club 17

[Hodginator]

It's not often I start a new thread, but found this quite amusing and thought it would be a good off-season thread to hear other posters thoughts of players over that period.

Some of my favourites would be Rawlings, Holland, Bowyer, Harf, Rock and Dixon. Hope they enjoy the piss-up.

 

[OzJohnnie]

Gallows humor. Funny.

I bet Clarko and other club legends show up from time to time to thank these men for carrying the torch when the night was darkest. Even those that didn't win it all had something to contribute.

 

[WWSD]

Joel Smith comes to mind

 

[stemline]

Possible best 22 of Non-HFC Premiership players? (Not restricted to 1992-2007):

B: Bert Mills, Les Crane, Ern Utting
HB: Joel Smith, George Dower, Col Austen
C: Viv Randall, Jim Bohan, Andy Angwin
HF: Daniel Chick, Nick Holland, Wally Culpitt
F: Albert Prior, Bert Hyde, Alec Albiston
Foll: Paul Salmon, Stan Spinks, Ted Pool
Int: John Kennedy Snr, Leo Murphy, Ted Fletcher, Roy Simmonds
Em: Kevin Curran, Mark Graham, Jack Green

 

[crazywildhorse]

Tony Woods is a dead set legend.

 

[FisherHawk]

Possible best 22 of Non-HFC Premiership players? (Not restricted to 1992-2007):

B: Bert Mills, Les Crane, Ern Utting
HB: Joel Smith, George Dower, Col Austen
C: Viv Randall, Jim Bohan, Andy Angwin
HF: Daniel Chick, Nick Holland, Wally Culpitt
F: Albert Prior, Bert Hyde, Alec Albiston
Foll: Paul Salmon, Stan Spinks, Ted Pool
Int: John Kennedy Snr, Leo Murphy, Ted Fletcher, Roy Simmonds
Em: Kevin Curran, Mark Graham, Jack Green

I'm struggling to recognise some of those names, so I'll take your word for it.

 

[RIOLINWITPUNCHS]

Whitecross .

Even though not from that era.

Very very unlucky.

 

[beta_condition]

Joel Smith comes to mind

Joel Smith still runs like a gazelle.

 

[Hodgey 15]

The Tigers equivalent group - CLUB 37 - would need a stadium sized venue to accommodate their function.

 

[RIOLINWITPUNCHS]

The Tigers equivalent group - CLUB 37 - would need a stadium sized venue to accommodate their function.

What about Melbourne and StKilda?

 

[Hodgey 15]

What about Melbourne and StKilda?

Gees - there wouldnt be all that many still alive would there?

 

[Luv_our_club]

I have mixed feelings about some of our better players in Club 17. I`d love to hear some real insight from some of these boys on those years. it really shitted me during those years, before Clarkson, that they didn`t man the mark, like it didn't count. Sorry.

 

[cryptor]

Really unlucky to spend your entire career at Hawthorn and never come close to a premiership.

 

[Todman]

Lets face it, all of these players were good not great.

 

[moginie]

Possible best 22 of Non-HFC Premiership players? (Not restricted to 1992-2007):

B: Bert Mills, Les Crane, Ern Utting
HB: Joel Smith, George Dower, Col Austen
C: Viv Randall, Jim Bohan, Andy Angwin
HF: Daniel Chick, Nick Holland, Wally Culpitt
F: Albert Prior, Bert Hyde, Alec Albiston
Foll: Paul Salmon, Stan Spinks, Ted Pool
Int: John Kennedy Snr, Leo Murphy, Ted Fletcher, Roy Simmonds
Em: Kevin Curran, Mark Graham, Jack Green

The unlucky one to miss out here would be Allan Woodley.

I always have a soft spot for Rod Lester-Smith. Playing in two losing GFs without the satisfaction of playing in a winning one.

 

[Todman]

BALL ,BARLOW, BARNARD, BOYLE, BUNN, CHICK, CLARKE, COLLICA , COOPER COX ,CRAWSHAY CROW DAWSON DENNIS
DIXON DOWLER ELLENHAUS FRASER B, GIBSON GRAHAM M,GREENE S,HARDGRAVES HARFORD HAY HAZELL T, HILTON N, HOLLAND N, JOHNSON B,JOHNSTON, KANE B, KILMARTIN
LEKKAS LITTLE LLOYD LOATS LONIE MARKOVIC MCCABE MCDONALD MCENTEE MCEWEN, MCGYNN B,MCPHARLIN L, MERTON L, MILLER H, MOSS G, MURPHY T, MUSTON B, NICHOLLS B,NUGENT G,OBST A, RAWLINGS J.,RIES N, ROBRAN J. ,RODE M ,SAUNDERS M,SCOTT D,SCOTT B, STEVENSON S, STONE N, TALLIS R,TAYLOR R, TAYLOR S,THOMPSON N
THORP M ,THURGOOD J , TRELEVEN C , TUCK S, TUCK T , TURVEY N , VANDERBERG R ,YOUNG B , YOUNG M.

 

[KermitJagger]

Lets face it, all of these players were good not great.

An uninjured Harford could have been great

 

[Todman]

FB: RAWLINGS HAY COOPER
HB: BARLOW GRAHAM MURPHY
C..: LEKKAS HARFORD COLLICA
HF: TALLIS HOLLAND CHICK
FF: DIXON THOMPSON BOYLE
R :SALMON VANDERBERG TAYLOR R.
INT: TAYLOR S, GREENE, TRELEVEN, RIES,

Did not include McGlynn, McPharlin or Dawson

Chick and Salmon both played 100 games

 

[WWSD]

B: Luke McCabe, Jonathan Hay, Danny Jacobs

HB: Joel Smith, Mark Graham, Simon Cox

C: Angelo Lekkas, Daniel Harford, Richard Vandenberg

HF: John Barker, Nick Holland, Kris Barlow

F: Ben Dixon, Nathan Thompson, Adrian Cox

R: Peter Everitt, Daniel Chick, Nick Ries

INT: Tim Clarke, Steven Greene, Tony Woods, Brendan Whitecross

 

[Nugett]

An uninjured Harford could have been great

Didn't he also have the issue that he liked to party too much?

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Feel for these guys, particularly Vanders.

 

[StillAtLarge]

Didn't he also have the issue that he liked to party too much?

Isn't harford a teetotaller?

 

[Nugett]

Isn't harford a teetotaller?

For some strange reason, I had him in with the party boys, Chick, Croad and co. Wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong, nor I doubt will it be the last!

 

[crazywildhorse]

Woods, Smith, Dixon, Vanders (and Harford to a lesser extent), deserved a medal

 

[zucchini]

3 Smith.
2 Barker.
1 Lekkas.