Jumping ship for one last season.

[Altum Volantes]

Been trying to think of star players of recent times that have been cut off by their original teams (the teams they made their names at), only to go elsewhere for one last season in new colours.

Some have done not too bad, others have bombed badly and vanished without a trace.

Names that jump to mind are -

Doug Hawkins (at the Roys)
Mick McGuane (Blues)
Nicky Winmar (Dogs)
Damien Monkhorst (Saints)
Allen Jakovich (Dogs)
Nick Daffy (Swans)
Adrian McAdam (Pies)

Anyone else you guys can think of? - I'm probably forgetting really obvious ones.

Who would have had the best "one off" season at a club to end their career?

 

[Au_Blue#24]

Originally posted by Black JuJu
Been trying to think of star players of recent times that have been cut off by their original teams (the teams they made their names at), only to go elsewhere for one last season in new colours.

Some have done not too bad, others have bombed badly and vanished without a trace.

Names that jump to mind are -

Doug Hawkins (at the Roys)
Mick McGuane (Blues)
Nicky Winmar (Dogs)
Damien Monkhorst (Saints)
Allen Jakovich (Dogs)
Nick Daffy (Swans)
Adrian McAdam (Pies)

Anyone else you guys can think of? - I'm probably forgetting really obvious ones.

Who would have had the best "one off" season at a club to end their career?

dermie at the pies

 

[CharlieG]

Mick Martyn (Carlton)
Tony Francis (St Kilda)
Ricky Olarenshaw (North)
David Calthorpe (North or Brisbane, can't remember which)

 

[Fishfinger]

Tony Modra - Freo
Peter McKenna - Carl
Rex Hunt - StK

 

[Ching]

Paul Hudson - Richmond
Kingsley Hunter - Hawthorn
Bruce Duperouzel - Bulldogs
Tony Buhargiar - Bulldogs

 

[Fred]

Originally posted by Fishfinger
Tony Modra - Freo
Peter McKenna - Carl
Rex Hunt - StK

Hunt spent 3 years at the saints, not 1, for 57 games.

 

[marcuz]

Tim Darcy- Geelong to Essendon '95

 

[Ripper]

Originally posted by Fishfinger
Tony Modra - Freo
Peter McKenna - Carl
Rex Hunt - StK

Modra spent 3 years at Freo (actually 2 1/2)

 

[Fishfinger]

Originally posted by RIPPER_46
Modra spent 3 years at Freo (actually 2 1/2)


Damn!

"Strawbs" O'Dwyer - Rich

 

[noodle]

sturt anderson

 

[CharlieG]

Forgot Brett Allison (Sydney). Did Mark Fraser go to Essendon for one or two years?

 

[marcuz]

Originally posted by CharlieG
Did Mark Fraser go to Essendon for one or two years?

Try 6 years 95-2000

 

[Captain Sensible]

Originally posted by Black JuJu
Who would have had the best "one off" season at a club to end their career?

Tony Buhagier at Footscray in '85



Did John Barnes play one or two years in his final stint at Essendon?

 

[marcuz]

Barnes played 2 years.

 

[pav_is_god]

Would the "Big Fish" qualify when he played that one comeback season for the Bombers?

 

[Anja_Nees]

Aaron James - Dogs

 

[Moo]

Nathan Brown - Tigers
Nick Stevens - Blues

NB: This post has been rated as a joke by the Australian Posting Classification Board

 

[crudbucket]

Scott Russell - Sydney
Len Thompson - South Melbourne and the Fitzroy.
Max Richardson - Fitzroy.
George Bisset - Collingwood.
Brian Wilson - St. Kilda.

 

[rabs68]

Originally posted by crudbucket
Scott Russell - Sydney
Len Thompson - South Melbourne and the Fitzroy.
Max Richardson - Fitzroy.
George Bisset - Collingwood.
Brian Wilson - St. Kilda.

Max Richardson actually played 2 years for the Roys, but Len Thompson played his last year of footy for us.

John Rantall (Sth, Nth, Sth), Mark Dwyer (Stk), Gavin Excell (Geel), Doug Hawkins (Foots), Greg Parke (Melb), Michael Roberts (Stk, Rich), Allan Sidebottom (Stk), Keiran Sporn (Ess) and last but not least Grant "Cornflakes" Thomas (Stk, Nth) ended their footy careers with one last hurrah at the Roys.

 

[crudbucket]

Laurie Sandilands - Collingwood.
Sam Kekovich - Collingwood.

Not sure, but I think that Larry Donoghue also finished up at Fitzroy but didn't get a senior game.

 

[rabs68]

Originally posted by crudbucket
Not sure, but I think that Larry Donoghue also finished up at Fitzroy but didn't get a senior game.

Correct.

He was there from memory in 1979/80, and basically just played full forward for our ressies.

I think we ended up getting Mark Scott from St Kilda to be our reserves full forward after that.

 

[Turtleman3]

Yep

Not really in line with the thread of finishing their career but one of seasons that went badly are:

Terry Wallace Rich
Justin Murphy Geelong (was he there only one year?)

 

[GOALden Hawk]

Gordon Fode- Hawthorn
Kingsley Hunter - Hawthorn
Barry Young - Hawthorn
Todd Ridley - Hawthorn
Leon Higgins - Hawthorn
Ricky Nixon - Hawthorn
Andrew Demetriou - Hawthorn
Matthew Dent - Hawthorn

Yes, we've had a few.

 

[thegezman]

not entirely sure if these guys lasted one year or more but,

Alex Jesalanko - stk
Warick Capper - bris
Steven O'riely - carl

 

[Demonheart]

Craig Turley to Melbourne for one useless season, also Phil Egan and Michael Pickering to us as well.