Past Champions who don't get mentioned enough in the media

[Benny78]

Joel Corey
Cameron Ling
Steve Johnson
Paul Chapman

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Peter Moore never seemed to get mentioned until his son bobbed up.

 

[Boxhead_31]

Joel Corey, his work with the Bulldog mids is very underrated

 

[copthat]

McLeod

 

[nameless]

Nigel Lappin - as important as the big 3 midfielders from the lions team.

Scott West - Won a million b&fs, felt like he was in the AA team most years through the 2000s.

Dean Kemp - Norm Smith medalist and big time player. Too boring too get noticed much, but insanely good on the inside.

 

[nameless]

Joel Corey
Cameron Ling
Steve Johnson
Paul Chapman

Odd post, I dunno if you're going for half funny, half serious.

Corey definitely unappreciated.

Ling and Johnson probably get a mention every week though, while Chapman is a bit inbetween.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Joel Corey
Cameron Ling
Steve Johnson
Paul Chapman

How can Cameron Ling be listed? Not only is he mentioned in the footy media. He is the footy media.

McLeod

Not Victorian and therefor not worth mentioning.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Paul Van Der Haar

Saw him once on Marngrook last year. Very interesting interview and input. Seems the press ignores him as a great of the game and focuses on people with serious character flaws instead.

 

[TerryWallet]

I feel like Buddha Hocking barely gets mentioned for a 4x All Australian, club record 4x BnF, consistent Brownlow placer, AFL HoF, Club Captain and Geelong Team of the Century.

Probably like most Cats of the 80s-90s; over shadowed by Ablett and a missing a flag to elivate them all that next step in the eyes of the general football fan.

Good call. Tough as they come but his skill level was also sublime on both sides of the body. I always used to enjoy watching him play.

 

[Topkent]

Jeff Farmer. Hardly gets a mention when they talk great small forwards but he kicked 9 in a half against Collingwood once.

 

[TerryWallet]

 

[GreyPower]

Peter Knights
Ross Glendinning

 

[Kwality]

Who are the past champions of the game who don't get mentioned enough in the footy media?

What media outlets do you follow?

 

[gavaniacono]

Paul Van Der Haar

Saw him once on Marngrook last year. Very interesting interview and input. Seems the press ignores him as a great of the game and focuses on people with serious character flaws instead.

Used to see him most friday nights in a certain city establishment.

Always choofin on something.

 

[Val Keating]

Paul Kelly

 

[Benny78]

Are we just talking just their names being mentioned? Jason Dunstall gets more than enough mention under those guidelines. As far as players mentioned for being former champions McLeod is mentioned all the time. Same as Jarman, Modra and Ruccuito.

I hardly ever hear Lingy mentioned when the media is discussing taggers or former champions and it's same with Johnson, Chapman and Joel Corey. It seems to be Corey Enright this and Matthew Scarlett that with the media, and the rest they don't recognize.

Lingy shut down a Brownlow medalist in a Grand Final and yet when it comes to taggers the first thing the media has put in everyones heads is that pincher Ryan Crowley. Not the great Cameron Ling.

Some times I hear Wayne Carey or "Darce" say "Hey Lingy" but that's about it.

 

[wal]

Clive

 

[Val Keating]

Are we just talking just their names being mentioned? Jason Dunstall gets more than enough mention under those guidelines.


As far players mentioned for being former champions McLeod is mentioned all the time. Same as Jarman and Ruccuito.

I hardly ever hear Lingy mentioned when the media is discussing taggers or former players same with Johnson, Chapman and Joel Corey.
Some times I hear Wayne Carey or "Darce" say "Hey Lingy" but that's about it.

Because taggers can’t be champions and the OP question was about past champions

 

[PieLebo87]

He was a champion of Collingwood but don’t know if opposition supporters would offer the same courtesy.

James Clement.

 

[TerryWallet]

Clive

The GOAT

 

[Benny78]

Because taggers can’t be champions and the OP question was about past champions

Then how come when someone mentions the word tagger that spud Ryan Crowley automatically pops into your head? It should be Lingy but the media clearly had a vendetta toward mentioning him enough.

 

[DrEvil_]

CLIVE

 

[PhatBoy]

Andy Mackay I always thought was an awesome player in what was an awesome Carlton side but gets glossed over in favour of sticks, Silvagni, Bradley, diesel etc

Probably didn’t have a long enough career for champion status but it often gets forgotten that arguably the best defender in one of the best defences of all time was Matthew Egan in 2007. He could have gone on to be anything.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Used to see him most friday nights in a certain city establishment.

Always choofin on something.

That might explain it

 

[Dazb86]

Then how come when someone mentions the word tagger that spud Ryan Crowley automatically pops into your head? It should be Lingy but the media clearly had a vendetta toward mentioning him enough.

I actually think of Rupert Betheras when someone mentions tagger.