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5 Minute Wonders

Old Man Rivers
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Some people on here have a pretty strange idea of what makes a 5 minute wounder.

Guys like Sean Charles and Jeff Hilton played 47 and 43 games and kicked 60 and 23 goals between them across multiple seasons.  They were seriously capable players across a good number of games, but were either not quite up to the standard / frindge type performance or had other injury issues that prevented them from being a long term career best 22 type player they otherwise had the potential to be on a more established basis than your typical 5 minute wounder.  I'd put other recient players like Dean Kent and Arron vandenBerg and others in this sort of category.

The other 5 minute wounders that do come to mind for me are James Magner (did end up playing a modest number of games, but none that really lived up to his first half dozen that I recall), Mitch Clisby, Alex Georgiou and Mitch White.  Georgiou also really stands out amoung these as someone who's first few games had him looking like star potential.

Mitch White being an interesting case of being a solid regular performer for Casey and it was great to see him have premership sucess at that level.  But from the couple of games he played at AFL level, he looked very promising as a potential capable and reliable player, but I guess it's since played out that he was just that half a step off the pace, but still good enough to be a bloody good seconds player.

At the end of the day, I guess I've still got enormous respect for the guys labeled in this thread as '5 minute wounders' as I'd have loved to have made it anywhere near AFL level in my own playing days and even that 5 minutes of running out onto the G in a MFC jumper would have been amazing.

Edited by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

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    On 6/28/2006 at 6:38 PM, Adzman said:

    Anyone remember Jay Viney???

    Was supposedly better than Todd.

    Can confirm that he wasn't 

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    6 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    Some people on here have a pretty strange idea of what makes a 5 minute wounder.

    Guys like Sean Charles and Jeff Hilton played 47 and 43 games and kicked 60 and 23 goals between them across multiple seasons.  They were seriously capable players across a good number of games, but were either not quite up to the standard / frindge type performance or had other injury issues that prevented them from being a long term career best 22 type player they otherwise had the potential to be on a more established basis than your typical 5 minute wounder.  I'd put other recient players like Dean Kent and Arron vandenBerg and others in this sort of category.

    I liked Jeff Hilton. Was it true that Martin Pike nearly put his head through the wall at Juice nightclub?

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    Earliest memories of non-household names started around 2000 for me. Think few already mentioned:

    Ross Funcke.

    Steven Pitt.

    Chris Lamb.

    Craig Ellis.

    Shannan Motlop.

    David Rodan.

    Viv Michie.

    Jimmy Toumpous.

    Too many players around 2007ish to mid 2010s to mention in this thread 🤣

    Few recent ones, Harley Balic, Harley Bennell, Kyle Dunkley.

    Luke Jackson, only because it felt like he was at the club for 5 minutes 🤭

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    "Dogga "Jackson ( don't recall his first name)  magnificent half a game in the Perth Grand Final  then went missing thereafter.

    Possibly got lost looking for love in the "cat" houses of the Nullarbor. 

    Never heard of again.

    Edited by IRW

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    On 9/30/2022 at 9:33 PM, Macca said:

    Gotta love these old threads ... filled with familiar names who are still posting now

    16 years later and still going strong

    I kicked off this thread some 16 years ago & am stoked it has come back to life in 2022. Some great modern day 5 minute wonders mentioned also. I have scarcely posted in the last decade but always hover in the background, follow the banter & love my Demonland daily fix. 🔴🔵🏆

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    4 hours ago, Old Man Rivers said:

    I kicked off this thread some 16 years ago & am stoked it has come back to life in 2022. Some great modern day 5 minute wonders mentioned also. I have scarcely posted in the last decade but always hover in the background, follow the banter & love my Demonland daily fix. 🔴🔵🏆

    Memories that remain forever young OMR. Amongst the flotsam and jetsam that typically bubbles to the surface post end of season. This thread admittedly tweaked mutual interest up here. Having just returned from the late September ‘window’ empty handed and now able to warm up again in the barmy climes of the Havana of the far north. (Yes we do have an American presence here.)

    We would like to nominate Stephen Kerley as FMW. Our research at Demonwiki indicates like the younger Jacko spent three seasons on the list as a solidly built backman under Tiger Ridley. Whenaponce he departed interstate, for what one may assume better opportunities. Was given a fair go by the coach it appears and was developing into a potentially solid key defender who read the play well and courageously attacked the ball.

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