ADMIRED PAST PLAYERS FROM OTHER CLUBS

[AzzKikA 2,371]

1 minute ago, billy2803 said:

Was more thinking the Schwarzenegger/De Vito twins similarity.

Hated that movie, so hard to tell them apart.

[DubDee 25,532]

Jordan Lewis....oh wait!

[Biffen 12,940]

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Author of one of the best quotes of all time.

As well as,

"I gave up booze and women for a while....

It was the worst twenty minutes of my life"

[Go the Biff 3,414]

Jezza

Swan McKay

Gary Ayres

Kenny Hunter

Jimmy Sewell

Geoff Cunningham

Kelvin Templeton

Mickey Turner

Bruce Doull

Bohdan Jaworskyj

Roger Merrett

 

 

[Little Goffy 14,442]

I tend to have a lot of respect for players who aren't the top-level guns and stars, but who build full careers making a real contribution all the way.

Think of players like Andrew Thompson at St Kilda, 200+ games based on solid contribution, or David Hale who made such a low-key but pivotal contribution to Hawthorn's premierships.

Not a lot of names come immediately to mind, for obvious reasons.

I'll also mention Adam Goodes, partly because ____ you to anyone who thinks he is anything short of one of the great champions of the modern game.

[Sir Why You Little 36,955]

2 hours ago, AzzKikA said:

Yeah agree with this one.

I thought Ablett snr was a little overrated, yeah he could dismantle teams but only when it was given to him, was the best at finding it himself.

Are you serious?

Senior was incredible on a footy field, nobody could stop him until his final years...

[dazzledavey36 54,215]

Josh Thurgood

[Tony Tea 2,806]

Does Brent Crosswell count?

[chook fowler 19,444]

4 hours ago, Wiseblood said:

I was joking of course...

Me too

[dieter 3,325]

Syd Jackdon

Keith Greig

Gary Wilson

Eddie Betts

Adam Goodes

Peter Knights

John Schultz

Jonathan Brown

Francis Bourke

Ken Fraser

Jack Clarke

The Krakour brothers

Malcolm Blight

David Dench

Jarrard Molloy

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,221]

Clearly a s@#t bloke, but Carey's the best player I've seen. Performed in the big matches. Ablett was a freak (of course), but his GF record slightly let him down.

[dieter 3,325]

2 minutes ago, bingers said:

Clearly a s@#t bloke, but Carey's the best player I've seen. Performed in the big matches. Ablett was a freak (of course), but his GF record slightly let him down.

Agree about both. Pity they were not what we call 'Mensches.' That's what I look for, players who were skilled and courageous and FAIR.

I'd add Royce Hart to that list as well.

Edited February 10, 2017 by dieter

[Whispering_Jack 29,763]

It took years but I've developed a liking recently for Murray Weideman.

[DeeMfc 621]

Ablett Snr - absolute maestro.

Its funny how the media and rumours can influence the public perception of how a person is in their personal life. 

Yes Ablett Snr has had more than his fair share of controversy and wrongdoings in his life, but a (censored) he is not.

In the mid 90's I went for a drive with the girlfriend down the west coast and stopped at the southern cliff car park at Jan Juc. I had a nice Holden Calais with all the sports kit at the time. While we were out admiring the view Ablett Snr pulled up with a friend about 5 spots away (in a nice Ford of course) and a few minutes later he actually approached me and started talking about our cars. This led to a great conversation about anything and everything (no footy) for the next 20 minutes. 

To this day Ablett Snr is one of the nicest, most genuine, down to earth gentlemen I have ever met.

 

 

 

[jumbo returns 6,737]

18 hours ago, Wiseblood said:

I was joking of course...

Turn your sarcasm meter up, WB

[jumbo returns 6,737]

Peter Daicos - freakazoid

[old demon me!!! 108]

 

1 hour ago, jumbo returns said:

Peter Daicos - freakazoid

  Jezza - could do it all, wish we had have got him when we went for him before Carlton

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,687]

18 hours ago, bingers said:

Clearly a s@#t bloke, but Carey's the best player I've seen. Performed in the big matches. Ablett was a freak (of course), but his GF record slightly let him down.

Wow. You're a tough marker. His 1989 Grand Final was the single best performance I've ever seen from a player in a Grand Final. (And possibly the best Grand Final I've ever seen, too.)

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,687]

22 hours ago, Tony Tea said:

Does Brent Crosswell count?

Don't know. But he used to write quite well. He had some good articles in The Age after he retired as a player.

[dieter 3,325]

9 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Don't know. But he used to write quite well. He had some good articles in The Age after he retired as a player.

My sister went to Monash where Crosswell was a student. My sister

had a chat with him in the caf once. She said he was the most intelligent man she'd ever met.

[daisycutter 29,600]

52 minutes ago, dieter said:

My sister went to Monash where Crosswell was a student. My sister

had a chat with him in the caf once. She said he was the most intelligent man she'd ever met.

that's understandable diets if she was using you as her touchstone at the time   

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,221]

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Wow. You're a tough marker. His 1989 Grand Final was the single best performance I've ever seen from a player in a Grand Final. (And possibly the best Grand Final I've ever seen, too.)

He played in 4 GFs. The 1989 GF was obviously an incredible performance. But I recall that of the other 3, one was ok, and the other 2 weren't great. FWIW Carey performed in every GF he played in. 

Edited February 11, 2017 by bingers
grammatical error

[dieter 3,325]

20 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

that's understandable diets if she was using you as her touchstone at the time   

You nastie pastie...

[The Chief 697]

Wayne Schimmelbusch for me.  306 games of g&d, hard as a cat's head, rarely played a poor game and was relatively fair during the rough & tumble of the 70's and 80's.  

[Maldonboy38 6,390]

I loved and loathed Dermot Brereton, Peter Matera, Wayne Carey.

Ablett senior remains the best player I have seen. I met him a number of times personally and though he had troubles he was actually a quiet, decent kind of bloke.

Bobby Skilton, Swan MacKay (an amazing mark!), Gary Wilson, Brett Ratten, Matthew Pavlich, Paul Kelly.