Jump to content

Hyphenated Names

Whispering_Jack
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

Posted

Ever since I was a kid in the 50s and Melbourne had a ruckman named Dick Fenton-Smith running around, I was conscious of the importance of hyphenated names in the club’s history. After all, we produced the great Ivor Warne-Smith (pictured) who won Brownlow Medals in 1926 (in a premiership team) and 1928.

In 1996, the Demons created a league record of players with hyphenated names wins David and Donald Cockatoo-Collins and Tent Ormond-Allen on their list. They had that record all on their own until 2019 when the Tigers muscled in and equalled it with Callum Coleman-Jones, Riley Collier-Dawkins and Derek Eggmolesse-Smith.

But now, North Melbourne are homing in on a Melbourne record for the number of players on a club list with hyphenated names.

That will occur when the Roos draft Jason Horne-Francis in the November National Draft. They already have Luke Davies-Uniake and, after receiving Coleman-Jones from the Tigers, they are set to equal the record when Horne-Francis comes on board.

Could someone pluck a quartet of players out there in the draft with hyphenated names to help us keep our record intact.

Hat tip/Swamp on Twitter 

BD346060-0129-465E-B9C5-A9F9AEDE31B6.jpeg

  • Quote
    • Like 4
     

    I don't know how you could forget 2 crucial games from Audley Gillespie-Jones in 1935. We win!

    Surely the double barrel gets a guernsey too with Neal Bullen and Kennedy Harris?

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    54 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    Could someone pluck a quartet of players out there in the draft with hyphenated names to help us keep our record intact.

    WJ. Don’t need a quartet. Just a trio given we have ANB.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
     

    I think Richmond had the current cravat title with Eggmolesse-Smith, Coleman-Jones and Collier-Dawkins.  Imagine if the Dees had 3 hyphens. It’d be snow season and cheeseboard jokes. 
    Yes Kangas set to assume the hyphenated supremacy!! 

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Haha 1

    Eagles chasing Powell-Pepper to add to Petrevski-Seton.

    It’s the Double hyphen, Double Sam draft double. 

  • Quote
    • Like 2

    What happens to their kids when they marry someone with a hiphenated name

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Love 1
    • Sad 2
    6 minutes ago, radar said:

    What happens to their kids when they marry someone with a hiphenated name

    It depends. I'm a hyphen and my wife wanted to take my name, so our kid is a hyphen. 

    My sister I think wants to keep her name, so I'd say patriachy will win over with her kids and they'll take her fiance's name.

    It is good having your name in your kids name though. 

    Edited by A F

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    5 hours ago, Roger Mellie said:

    I don't know how you could forget 2 crucial games from Audley Gillespie-Jones in 1935. We win!

    Surely the double barrel gets a guernsey too with Neal Bullen and Kennedy Harris?

    throw in vandenBerg or van den berg or Van den berg or whatever the correct way it's officially meant to read is 

  • Quote
    • Like 1
     
    5 minutes ago, Turner said:

    throw in vandenBerg or van den berg or Van den berg or whatever the correct way it's officially meant to read is 

    Either way, it's all Dutch to me...

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Haha 2
    1 hour ago, radar said:

    What happens to their kids when they marry someone with a hiphenated name

    (I just had to check in to this thread...)

    It's been fascinating me, too, radar. I have double-barrelled grandchildren and am planning to be alive when the potentiality arrives in my family 😉

    And watch out for a future thread, 'Single word names'.

    Edited by Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

  • Quote
    • Haha 1

    West Coast possibly making a move up the ranks:  Sam Powell-Pepper, Sam Petrevski-Seton

    Sam Powell-Pepper, the contracted midfielder is unlikely to land at West Coast but could still be on the move if interest from other rivals progresses. The Eagles' acquisition of priority target Sam Petrevski-Seton made it hard for them to also pursue Powell-Pepper, who is contracted for two more seasons but in search of more midfield opportunities

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    MFC

    Joffrey Rothschild-Baillieu III.

    MAKE IT HAPPEN!

    Failing that, I’ll accept Archibald Mountbatten-St. George as sufficiently nob enough.

  • Quote

    The origin of hyphenated names a long time ago was applicable to when an upper class woman married a lower class man. That way the upper class name could also be used to acknowledge the so called superior breeding of the resultant descendants. I hope that makes sense. It was all about snobbery.

    Edited by John Crow Batty

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Haha 1

    49 minutes ago, bringbackthebiff said:

    One the dogs hyphenated players had a reasonable game in the GF: Roarke-Smith

    I think the commentators say that to differentiate him from Bailey-Smith.

    The other Bulldog with an apparently hyphenated name is Easton-Wood.  Or is that just Eastonwood?

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    Jay Kennedy-Harris?

  • Quote

    My uncle sponsored Trent Ormond-Allen back in the 90s.

  • Quote

    JKH seemed to lose the hyphen in his name at some point and just become Kennedy Harris. 

    Edited by Supermercado

  • Quote
    2 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    JT. Please draft SA’s Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera.

    I was of the belief ex North small Eddie Sainsbury was his biological father, leaving open the possibility of a triple barrelled name!!!

  • Quote
    •  
    15 minutes ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    I’m not a hyphen but my surname is so long I could easily fit in two or three.

    Hi Dipper.

  • Quote
    • Haha 1

    Join the conversation

    You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

    Guest
    Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
    Reply to this topic...
    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • REPORT: Port Adelaide

      Of course, it’s not the backline, you might argue and you would probably be right. It’s the boot studder (do they still have them?), the midfield, the recruiting staff, the forward line, the kicking coach, the Board, the interchange bench, the supporters, the folk at Casey, the head coach and the club psychologist  It’s all of them and all of us for having expectations that were sufficiently high to have believed three weeks ago that a restoration of the Melbourne team to a position where we might still be in contention for a finals berth when the time for the midseason bye arrived. Now let’s look at what happened over the period of time since Melbourne overwhelmed the Sydney Swans at the MCG in late May when it kicked 8.2 to 5.3 in the final quarter (and that was after scoring 3.8 to two straight goals in the second term). 

      • 2 replies
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Essendon

      Casey’s unbeaten run was extended for at least another fortnight after the Demons overran a persistent Essendon line up by 29 points at ETU Stadium in Port Melbourne last night. After conceding the first goal of the evening, Casey went on a scoring spree from about ten minutes in, with five unanswered majors with its fleet of midsized runners headed by the much improved Paddy Cross who kicked two in quick succession and livewire Ricky Mentha who also kicked an early goal. Leading the charge was recruit of the year, Riley Bonner while Bailey Laurie continued his impressive vein of form. With Tom Campbell missing from the lineup, Will Verrall stepped up to the plate demonstrating his improvement under the veteran ruckman’s tutelage. The Demons were looking comfortable for much of the second quarter and held a 25-point lead until the Bombers struck back with two goals in the shadows of half time. On the other side of the main break their revival continued with first three goals of the half. Harry Sharp, who had been quiet scrambled in the Demons’ first score of the third term to bring the margin back to a single point at the 17 minute mark and the game became an arm-wrestle for the remainder of the quarter and into the final moments of the last.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: Gold Coast

      The Demons have the Bye next week but then are on the road once again when they come up against the Gold Coast Suns on the Gold Coast in what could be a last ditch effort to salvage their season. Who comes in and who comes out?

      • 64 replies
      Demonland

    • PODCAST: Port Adelaide

      The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 16th June @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we dissect the Dees disappointing loss to the Power.
      Your questions and comments are a huge part of our podcast so please post anything you want to ask or say below and we'll give you a shout out on the show.
      Listen LIVE: https://demonland.com/

      • 31 replies
      Demonland

    • POSTGAME: Port Adelaide

      The Demons simply did not take their opportunities when they presented themselves and ultimately when down by 25 points effectively ending their finals chances. Goal kicking practice during the Bye?

      • 252 replies
      Demonland

    • VOTES: Port Adelaide

      Max Gawn has an insurmountable lead in the Demonland Player of the Year ahead of Jake Bowey, Christian Petracca, Clayton Oliver and Kozzy Pickett. Your votes please; 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1.

      • 31 replies
      Demonland
    View All