Review Which spud did you think was going to be a star?

[edgie]

Not a huge fan of these threads because they're built upon a negative premise, but since this one is about a crers player...

When Troy Menzel got traded to Adelaide, I actually thought that was a steal and that he'd set the world alight with them. Thank **** the very opposite happened! Not my finest prediction

He did look the goods at Carlton. No idea what happened but he was worse than any of our abundance of small forwards after the move.

Sent from mTalk

 

[Total Power]

The 2006 AFL draft thread makes quite an embarrassing reading for me. Upset that we didn't pick Mitch Thorpe and wondering why we took an unknown quantity in Robbie Gray.

 

[Count Zero]

I thought that Aaron Fiora was going to be a world beater. Anyone who saw his first senior game at Alberton will understand.
I would love to know what went wrong.

 

[raptalia]

The 2006 AFL draft thread makes quite an embarrassing reading for me. Upset that we didn't pick Mitch Thorpe and wondering why we took an unknown quantity in Robbie Gray.

I know the feeling. Back in 2006 I was pushing for us to recruit James Sellar and I was really pissed off when the Crows picked him up with pick #14.
We took Travis Boak instead. Travis wasn't one of the red hot fancies linked to us in the phantom drafts and I remember thinking who is this guy?

If 2004 was our spud draft 2006 turned out to be one of our better ones. We took Boak, Gray, Westhoff, Paul Stewart, Krakouer and snared David Rodan with a late pick.

 

[raptalia]

I thought that Aaron Fiora was going to be a world beater. Anyone who saw his first senior game at Alberton will understand.
I would love to know what went wrong.

Was it Fiora who got dropped for the 1998 SANFL Grand Final after playing for most of the year? It was either him or Didak the following year.

Fiora finished up playing 140 AFL games for St Kilda and Richmond so he had a reasonable career. You are right though he never quite reached the heights we though he might.

 

[Count Zero]

Was it Fiora who got dropped for the 1998 SANFL Grand Final after playing for most of the year? It was either him or Didak the following year.

Fiora finished up playing 140 AFL games for St Kilda and Richmond so he had a reasonable career. You are right though he never quite reached the heights we though he might.

I think that he made his senior debut in 1999 and was drafted in the same season.
He is unfortunately usually mentioned in connection with Richmond passing over Pavlich to draft Fiora. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but early on he looked like a once in a generation gun player.

 

[raptalia]

I think that he made his senior debut in 1999 and was drafted in the same season.
He is unfortunately usually mentioned in connection with Richmond passing over Pavlich to draft Fiora. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but early on he looked like a once in a generation gun player.

Oooooh that 1999 draft, we took Paul Koulouriotis at #12 and Geelong took Corey Enright at #47. That hurts.

 

[Andre]

Oooooh that 1999 draft, we took Paul Koulouriotis at #12 and Geelong took Corey Enright at #47. That hurts.

We got Koulagirl out of it

 

[proman_x]

i expected more from Moore Also thought that Shizzels was going to be a good player also but ehhhh occasionally one gets it wrong!

 

[tribey]

The 2006 AFL draft thread makes quite an embarrassing reading for me. Upset that we didn't pick Mitch Thorpe and wondering why we took an unknown quantity in Robbie Gray.

Everyone thought Essendon smashed that draft from top to bottom.

Houli almost - and probably should have - winning a Norm Smith for Richmond is the bizarrest of post-scripts.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Gumbleton was meant to be the next king.

 

[Jonts]

Brendan Ah Chee

 

[nadsee]

Brendan Ah Chee

Too soon!

 

[RossFC]

Brendan Ah Chee

Take that back.

 

[Ralph Lorenz]

Jaxon Crabb.

I remember impersonating him in the backyard as a youngin after his debut.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

 

[Fade to Gray]

Jaxon Crabb.

I remember impersonating him in the backyard as a youngin after his debut.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Great at sideways movement, not much of a footballer though.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

Jaxon Crabb.

I remember impersonating him in the backyard as a youngin after his debut.

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

The next king haha

 

[Powerstufff]

Jaxon Crabb ....

OK as a nipper.

 

[edgie]

Gumbleton was meant to be the next king.

Seemed to fall in to 'players whose early career is wrecked by injury then by the time they have some reliability in their body they've forgotten how to play/game has passed them'

Sent from mTalk

 

[edgie]

Scott Cummings

Still the second highest season goals total in our AFL era...

Sent from mTalk

 

[TeeKray]

Scott Cummings

Still the second highest season goals total in our AFL era...

Sent from mTalk

Kicked 70 goals for Port in '97 and then 95 for WCE in '99 to pocket a Coleman. Maybe an underachiever but hardly a spud.

 

[edgie]

Kicked 70 goals for Port in '97 and then 95 for WCE in '99 to pocket a Coleman. Maybe an underachiever but hardly a spud.

Underachieved at Port specifically, but I guess that was his career pattern at every club.

Sent from mTalk

 

[Daniel Flynn]

Pfeiffer, Colquhoun and Jacobs could've been very good players

 

[Prince St]

Salopek, Colquhoun, even Lewis Stevenson to some extent

 

[Powerstufff]

Pfeiffer, Colquhoun and Jacobs could've been very good players

Bold claim on Pfieffer IMO but am happy to hear the rationale of why/when anyone thought he was going to be a star.
Colquhoun would normally be a good pick for this thread as he seemed to have reached a ceiling with us. But I reckon his time with Sturt has seen him lift and I wouldn't be surprised to see him get re-drafted by somebody.
Jacobs yes. A classic example of why a proven player trade in for a 1st round draft pick is no reason for us to slit our wrists. His recent story I don't really get. Norf talked him up big as an effective 90s style tagger. Then some injury and he's uncontracted with his career hanging on the edge.