Topping Up To Win A Flag

[Father Jack]

Has there ever been an occasion where a club has picked up a big name player and then won the premiership within two or three years? I was just thinking back over the past few years trying to come up with a case where a list top-up rather than player development has delivered a flag. North did it in the '70s with the ten year rule, but I am not sure that it has ever really been a factor.

Martin Pike perhaps????

 

[dan warna]

Has there ever been an occasion where a club has picked up a big name player and then won the premiership within two or three years? I was just thinking back over the past few years trying to come up with a case where a list top-up rather than player development has delivered a flag. North did it in the '70s with the ten year rule, but I am not sure that it has ever really been a factor.
Martin Pike perhaps????

happens rarely but Barry Hall ti the swans

Greg Williams to Carlton

Jarman to Adelaide

Pike wasn't a big name compared to the all star squad Brisbane already had.

 

[Darealrath]

Barnes was huge for us in 2000 but i reckon we might have snuck over the line anyway.

 

[NathanD]

Pike and Mal Michael to the Lions at the end of 2000 was pretty shrewd, as neither were really big name players but were icing on the cake.

 

[Father Jack]

Barry Hall probably made the difference. So did Jars. I was wondering that in the context of (obviously) Aker, plus Carey to the Crows.

 

[Coin_Toss]

Hopefully Everitt can win us the flag

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Different era of course, but Ian Stewart to Richmond.

 

[ok.crows]

Jarman to Adelaide

Jarman to Adelaide helps, as does the inclusion of Robran and Caven, but Adelaide still don't win a flag in '97 or '98 without young players McLeod, Goodwin, Johnson and Edwards in the side as well.

 

[Astro_]

Hopefully Everitt can win us the flag

Too bad he is going to Sydney

 

[melbournemartin]

if Melbourne managed to win this year, then Byron Pickett.

 

[celtic_pride]

Sadly in Carlton's case, it backfired backtime after the 95 premiership ...
Too many to list now, but getting Mick Mcguane was the beginning of the rot that set into the Carlton FC and I honestly blame David Parkin more then John Elliott for that. Sure Elliott did the rorts, but Parkin was the geezer who kept recycling the hacks right up to the end of 2000 when he stood aside for Wayne Brittain.
Also as Unexplained pointed out, the Wayne Carey to Adelaide venture was an abject failure (although perhaps worth it at the time) but I'll also never understand why the Crows also went for Ronnie Burns.

 

[konstas_87]

Has there ever been an occasion where a club has picked up a big name player and then won the premiership within two or three years? I was just thinking back over the past few years trying to come up with a case where a list top-up rather than player development has delivered a flag. North did it in the '70s with the ten year rule, but I am not sure that it has ever really been a factor.

Martin Pike perhaps????

martin pike wasnt a topup option, it was just adding a versatile player with experience, not going out and shopping for a star.

 

[nicky]

happens rarely but Barry Hall ti the swans

Greg Williams to Carlton

Jarman to Adelaide

Pike wasn't a big name compared to the all star squad Brisbane already had.

I do not think we topped up with b hall to win a flag.

 

[ok.crows]

Also as Unexplained pointed out, the Wayne Carey to Adelaide venture was an abject failure (although perhaps worth it at the time) but I'll also never understand why the Crows also went for Ronnie Burns.

Ronnie Burns was a freebie. No gain, no pain.

 

[Portia]

Damien Hardwick's first season with Port in 2002, premiership in 2004, he managed to play in 6 consecutive minor premiership sides.
Byron Pickett's first season with Port in 2003, premiership in 2004, Norm Smith medallist.

 

[JoffaMan]

Damien Hardwick's first season with Port in 2002, premiership in 2004, he managed to play in 6 consecutive minor premiership sides.
Byron Pickett's first season with Port in 2003, premiership in 2004, Norm Smith medallist.

Mind you, it's hard not to win one when the AFL serves it to you on a platter

 

[almqvist]

Mind you, it's hard not to win one when the AFL serves it to you on a platter

of course.....our three straight wins against quality opposition in the finals proves that. especially when we finished on top for the two years before hand. surely the fixture changes every season?!! oh dont tell me...

 

[Drop_Punt]

Would a failure at the moment be geelong getting Brad Ottens?? Or does it need more time befor that comment can be made??

 

[Father Jack]

I was being a bit facetious with the Pikey comment, I think he was just in the right spot at the right time. West Coast have never really gone after the big names that i can recall, and havent really lost any big names either, cept for the G train, who bizarrely became the anti-top up player. With him, probably a flag already in the bag.

North did well out of the Carey fiasco in the end.