Rhino Richards

He was a slack trainer with poor attitude to ftiness at WB and Carlton but had skills. This accounted for his injury prone careers there When he joined MFC he trained hard pre season and had dropped alot of weight. However he did an ACL in the game after the Kangas game and at 28/29 decided enough was enough.

Yes he did. At the MCG. Later cleared to Collingwood. Got into strife with the plod. Sort of goes hand in hand with them. Lally Bamblett was a gifted aboriginal footballer who inate ball skills made him special. Unfortunately he did not have the appetite for AFL footy. We swapped him to WB for Strawbs O'Dwyer. He did nothing there and then returned up Shepparton way to work with the local aboriginal people. Michael Reynolds - Big raw boned Tasmanian who caused a stir with his hard hitting football style. Optimists thought we had uncovered the CHF in the Brereton mould we were looking for. Suffered a knee injury and never delivered on the hype. Tata, Collins played a couple of games in 2001 but form and injury took its toll on him. Cocky brothers were a recruting mistake big time. It was an error to recruit one of them. It was a disaster to recruit both of them. i recall their first game against Geelong in 1996. They got swatted away like flies when they got near the ball. Enough said. Charles allegedly had fantastic aerobic capacity as I recall G Lyon commenting that when he saw Sean Charles run 100 x 100 metre sprints at training he thought his 1st 100 was quick. He thought his 100th 100 was just as quick! Unfortunately lack the maturity and applications required and was cruelled by injury. Was sacrificed on field by Balme too often out of position. Definitely not as good as Davey though.

Scott Chisholm was headless chook with the ball. Prone to moments of sheer insanity. Matthew Collins - From Crows. Had a good year in 2000. Played in 2000GF side for MFC. Not disgraced. Chronic forearm injuries. Delisted at the end of 2001(?) Nick Carter - ex Fitzroy - No idea at AFL level. Was he playing for Bendigo Bombers on the weekend? Leigh Newton - Did an ACL and struggles up and down the ramp between the ground and coaches box. Ben Beams - Broke a forearm not a leg. Prone to turnovers at AFL level.

There were big wraps on John Fidge. His first season as an 18/19 was very exciting. I saw him play a blinder off the HBF at Waverly. Thought he would the next big thing. Oh well. Loads of ability with a crap attitude. His older brother Ted was just a basic roughnut who was not good enough. Rocket Rod had buckets of ability but was an off field disaster. He was wrecked before he did his knee. David Cordner was the blue blood blonder hair 6'4" adonis who kick 100+ goals in the U19 and would be an answer to MFC's prayers 20 years ago. Unfortunately did not like the hard stuff and dipped his head when he went for a mark. Oppositions prayed upon it. He disappeared to Sydney and did little.

Glenn Swann kicked 8.1 against the Cats in Round 10 of 1973. He fell away from there. He may have taken 8 wickets in district cricket but would not have done so as his effort against Geelong was in mid June! David Hone was No 21 at MFC and at the point where his footy career started to take shape sort to continue his post grad studies in England. I seem to recall a knee injury somewhere involved. David Williams did an ACL and was out of footy year. Got delisted by MFC and got drafted by Richmond. Apparently hated it there. Cant blame him. I thought he ended up playing and coaching in the Shepparton leagues. For shooting stars, I recall MFC played a schoolboy in the 1970's called Des O'Dwyer. They had big wraps on him. Gave him one game as 16yo for a taster. Never made the grade. I think MFC website had a story on him. When I looked at the Top 40, I realised that the real talent was starting to thin for the last couple of players and I thought how many one minute wonders did we have.