Craig Bradley.
We had him signed on an old Form Five way back in 1981!!!!
We had him signed on an old Form Five way back in 1981!!!!
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Greatest Player Who Never Actually Played a Game for your Club.
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Jason Davenport hasn't played a game for us yet, and may never get a chance. If he doesn't he'll be a contender for this thread's dubious honor.
hoiley80 is the biggest nong on these boards, and by a fair margin.
hoiley80 is the biggest nong on these boards, and by a fair margin.
The_Kid_23
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Who ever said anything about Mackie to make him overrated?
Obviously you've never watched Rooke play to know hes probably one of the most hard at it blokes in our side, clearly thats why he went over to Germany so he could be right to play in finals
Carazzo would at best replace Byrnes or Varcoe and even those 2 are bit players anyway, not to say hes not better than them but he would be the 23rd,24th best player at our club ie: Pris, and Charlie, Playfair last year
Downhill Skiiers - Osborne, Ladson, M. Williams
Scottie Pippen...Sonics drafted him then traded him to the Bulls for Olden Polynice and a future draft pick. Pippen won 6 championships with the Bulls and 2 Olympic gold medals and finished second to Kareem Abdul Jabbar for Playoff game appearances. I decided to throw this in as the Eagles have all been covered pretty fully.
By reputation you are right but his ability isn't anywhere near what you claim. You just bought the reputation. A very average full forward by AFL standards. Not fast, strong, brave or good enough. Jesus, in the SANFL even Rick Davis could kick a goal. Hodges had his chance and didn’t make it.
Reminds me of the Shaws. Kelvin was supposed to be the best at u/19 level than the 3 that played seniors. Might have been true or might have been more like Brayden who was supposed to be better than Heath or Rhyce but in reality wasn’t.
BLPC08
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His first 2 years were OK, he did kick 11 against Geelong in '92. But thereafter he was, yeah pretty ordinary in his AFL matches. I think the SANFL in the 80's was a hell-of-a-lot stronger than it is now, so for Hodges to dominate in the 80's shows that he was a pretty talented full-forward.
Wouldn't be surprised if Beau Muston's name floats around this thread in years to come.
I thought beau dowler was the crap one?
Any Fremantle supporters that don't say McLeod are kidding themselves.
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Cameron Roberts - was going to be a better key forward than Ablett and Stoneham put together apparently.
Didn't quite turn out that way.
Didn't quite turn out that way.
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Perhaps not the greatest, but Libba won a Morrish medal as a Roos reserves player but never played a senior game with the club. Went to the Dogs and the rest is history.
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North should be happy that their name was never tarnished by having Liber play senior footy at the club.
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We've had this argument before, but I have to reiterate, your assumptions are crap.
He won a Magarey Medal and booted 153 goals in 1990 at the age of 21/22.
He was duly selected on the Crows inaugural 1991 list after the acrimonious courtroom battles of the previous year and had an injury-riddled year in which he booted 30 goals in 13 games.
Another injury-riddled year followed in 1992, when he booted 48 goals in 13 games, including 11 against eventual Minor Premiers and Grand Finalists Geelong.
By 1993 Modra came along and the two scrapped for the spearhead position with Modra eventually winning out, resulting in just the 17 goals from 10 games in and out of the side with extremely limited gametime when he was picked.
He quit at the end of the year after being left to rot on the bench for the duration of the Prelim loss to Essendon despite goaling early on and did what he always preferred to do, and that was play for Port Adelaide.
He was redrafted by Adelaide in 1996 for a further 5 goals from 2 games but by then he was past his best with cumulative injuries taking their toll, including a compound leg fracture the previous year.
He was traded to the Power's inaugural AFL list in 1997 and hurt his back in the preseason and that was that.
His head was never in playing for Adelaide and his body let him down at crucial times, and yeah it's easy to look at his record of 100 goals in 38 games and question his talent (still at a respectable average of 2.63 per game - especially keeping in mind this was in an era when Adelaide was getting smashed every other week in Victoria), but to say he wasn't 'brave enough' to play at the highest level is tripe.
Had he got an even run with injuries and been totally at ease with his coach and being a Crows player - and vice-versa - he'd have been fine. Not the invincible juggernaut he was touted as at the end of 1990, but still a very very good player.
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Farrk, two blokes having 40+ touches for the same side in the same game is a fair effort.
