Dirtiest Team Ever

[Corpuscles]

And now for something completely different.

Here is list of the dirtiest team I could come up with. There is a fine line between being tough, and being dirty. For example, Francis Bourke was as tough as nails, but he was not dirty IMO.

The one name below that I agonised over was Tuddenham – who was as tough as Francis Bourke, but with more of an edge.

Stevie Baker / Ron Andrews / Worsfold
Jimmy O’Dea / Whitten / Grinter
Mad Dog Muir (vc) / Williams / Dipper
Mal Brown / Dermie / Rhys Jones
Matthews / Lockett / Farmer

Ditterich (capt), Millane, Tuddenham

Interchange: Jack Dyer (apologies, but Big Shadow is First Ruck), Mopsy Fraser (hearsay), the Collier Brothers (hearsay, but the photograph of Leeter looking backwards is enough for him to be included IMO).

This side is guaranteed to play only one week, be busy on Monday, hit the garden the next few weekends, and re-group a few months later.

With apologies to: Jade Rawling, Saddington, Brent Grgic, Bryce Gibbs, Guy Richards & Warwick Capper

I am sure someone could come up with a team to play them, perhaps featuring some of the names immediately above. Call them - The Nice Boys

Please let me know where I got it wrong.

Biffinator.

Great thread good work hard to top those

But bout time we forgot about da "heresayers" on bench tho.... cant be any argument with those as we don't know?

Bench : Rog Merrett, Noel Teasdale , KEVIN BLOODY SHEEDY, Frazer Brown (you need vice captain of sledging!)

Emerg : N Winmar(great player but faster punch in the guts than TV at the time) M Long same but got away with it!

 

[Hoffy95]

Ummm....please don't think that I am picking on you aflo8......but I do hope you realise that Kickett was in the middle of the last great all-in-brawl that the code has seen.

Because he sat that ****** Phil Read on his arse does not make him dirty!!

He was just a very capable brawler!!

Nothing wrong with a bloke going out in a blaze of glory in his last hurrah.

Just ask Alistair Lynch!

 

[bushie]

Nothing wrong with a bloke going out in a blaze of glory in his last hurrah.

Just ask Alistair Lynch!

Very true!!

I would like a certain M. Malthouse to be considered for the emergency list.

Nasty little sniper in his time that bastard.



And Mickey, now butter wouldn't melt in your mouth

 

[Groggyk]

Peter Fillandia for biting someone's testes

He wasn't biting; he just had big teeth.

Apparently him and John Hopoate are close up there in Sin City.

 

[Groggyk]

Just ask Alistair Lynch!

Hasn't he got a book called "The Art Of Fighting" in the Worlds' Shortest Book thread.

St Kilda at Morabbin was always a very dirty team though.

 

[Toots Hibbert]

Nothing wrong with a bloke going out in a blaze of glory in his last hurrah.

Just ask Alistair Lynch!

Pffft. He has to connect to call it a blaze of glory. Lynch, though, did lay out a few players earlier in his career by way of cheap shots. The lengthy suspension he got on retirement probably meant the tribunal got about halfway to the correct number of weeks off for Lynchy.

 

[Chewy]

Pffft. He has to connect to call it a blaze of glory.

Yeah, Lynch won't be remembered as going out in a blaze of glory.
More like Blades Of Glory.

Worst Grand Final punch-on ever...

 

[Makka]

Good to see Johnny Worsfold get a guernsey. From 1994-1998, he was always injured and could hardly get a touch. Yet strangely, he was one of Mick Malthouse's most valuable players. All he ever did was run around, lining opponents up and smashing them into next week. Who could forget his mid-air hip and shoulder on Tony Modra as "Mods" attempted one of his speccies? Or the day out at Victoria Park when he took out some poor unsuspecting Magpie, then took on half the Collingwood team?

Worsfold took Dermie's dirty charging tactics to a new level.

Trying not to sound one-eyed here but I wouldn't of called Worsfold dirty. His hits were always fair with his elbows in. As for the Modra hit, you'd better check back at some video footage. Worsfold had eyes for the ball and had his arm up to spoil. Modra was just in his way.

 

[Chewy]

Trying not to sound one-eyed here but I wouldn't of called Worsfold dirty. His hits were always fair with his elbows in.

There is nothing fair about charging opponents. At the time, it may have been legal, but it was never fair. That's why they changed the rules. In the old days, footballers dished out plenty of shirtfronts, but these were usually opportunistic bumps - the chance to take out an opponent presented itself and it was taken. But by the late 80's and early 90's, with increased professionalism (and extra weight training) the game got more hard-edged and some guys (like Dermie and Worsfold) went out of their way to inflict pain.

As for the Modra hit, you'd better check back at some video footage. Worsfold had eyes for the ball and had his arm up to spoil. Modra was just in his way.

Bullshit...

Modra was on a long lead from the goalsquare (against McIntosh, I think)
Worsfold came running in from the opposite direction, with the flight of the ball. He never had any intention of playing the ball. His sole aim was to put a hit on Modra and make him "earn" the mark. Maybe he put his arm up to disguise his intentions and not give away the free, but he never got near the ball. He only had eyes for Modra and he achieved his aim when Modra spilled the mark and was carted from the field with concussion.

In the press conference afterwards, the usually circumspect Adelaide coach, Mal Blight took the unusual step of giving Worsfold a public bake for his unsportsmanlike actions. That's how "fair" he thought it was...

I always admired Worsfold as a footballer/competitor/warrior, much like Dipper and Brereton from my team, but you're having a lend of yourself if you think he wasn't a dirty player. In the age of video reports and gradual phasing out of king-hits and fights, Worsfold was as ruthless as they came.

 

[Glorious couch life]

Surely the Atkins brothers must be in there somewhere! Probably playing on each other...

 

[incubi]

A lot of taggers used the same tactics as Libber but didn't receive anywhere near the same notoriety. I reckon this is because Libber was also such a good stopper (short, stocky, tough and pound for pond, one of the strongest players in the AFL) People hate to see the star players get cut down, especially by taggers who break the rules. The whole "dirty" aspect of Libber's game was soooo overplayed. He doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as some of these other guys, especially when you consider that for two thirds of his career, he was on the receiving end.

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Here Here.
Most of his career Libba was clean, bar maybe 3 years near the end where as other players had whole careers full of dirtiness. Also should be remembered that on atleast one occassion things Libba was accused of turned out to be done by other players, for example an incident with Brisbane turned out to be done by Jose Romero.

How could someone be one of the dirtiest ever still win a brownlow (despite missing the last few games of the season having done his knee)?

 

[Biffinator]

Big Carl was the master of the handpass, where the fist that hit the football kept up its trajectory even when the ball was on its way, with the end-target usually being the jaw of an opponent.

If you want a really good laugh, please watch his last match on The Electrifying Eighties - 1980. Whatever Collingwood copped in the subsequent Grand Final was nothing compared with the damage inflicted in that twenty seconds of footage.

Biffinator

 

[Makka]

Bullshit...

Modra was on a long lead from the goalsquare (against McIntosh, I think)
Worsfold came running in from the opposite direction, with the flight of the ball. He never had any intention of playing the ball. His sole aim was to put a hit on Modra and make him "earn" the mark. Maybe he put his arm up to disguise his intentions and not give away the free, but he never got near the ball. He only had eyes for Modra and he achieved his aim when Modra spilled the mark and was carted from the field with concussion.

In the press conference afterwards, the usually circumspect Adelaide coach, Mal Blight took the unusual step of giving Worsfold a public bake for his unsportsmanlike actions. That's how "fair" he thought it was...

I always admired Worsfold as a footballer/competitor/warrior, much like Dipper and Brereton from my team, but you're having a lend of yourself if you think he wasn't a dirty player. In the age of video reports and gradual phasing out of king-hits and fights, Worsfold was as ruthless as they came.

I found a still shot at the point of impact! I shall scan and put it up and then let you decide!

Sure he was ruthless, but that's the way the game was played back then! Sure he'd be continuously suspended these days as would a great majority of players who enjoyed dishing it out. But, it's not what I would call playing dirty as it was within the rules back then. Playing dirty I'd regard more as raising elbows, punches and scratches etc. Everyone has their own take on it. Gary Ablett Snr, who I regard as a great player in his time, I'd also regard as a dirty player for some of his actions.

 

[Makka]

I found a still shot at the point of impact! I shall scan and put it up and then let you decide!

Here's the shot.

http://www.pbase.com/everafterphotography/image/92903447

 

[bushie]

Here's the shot.

http://www.pbase.com/everafterphotography/image/92903447

Inconclusive!!

Fair bump.

Play on!!

 

[dapto]

Inconclusive!!

Fair bump.

Play on!!

The oracle commentating on his infraction from beyond the red card. Neat trick Bushie how do you it?

 

[itsacakewalk]

Nothing wrong with a bloke going out in a blaze of glory in his last hurrah.

 

[GiveGasTheFlick]

Mark "The General" Lee loved the coat hangers he gave out.

 

[MinerBoy]

Modern day - David King. Knees, elbows, he had it all and a mouth to match.

So true.

Most hated player when he was going around.