Players that became well known/famous from one play or game

[GreyCrow]

Maybe, but surely most people remember him for rooting his mum and legless sister

Wouldn't have thought he needed to get her drunk

 

[SirKarl0s]

Has to be Moorcroft, I'll never forget that mark but I'll never remember anything else he did.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

Gubby Allen v Footscray.
Kerry Good v Collingwood Escort Cup

 

[Hoops]

not a play or a game but...

 

[Demonic Ascent]

not a play or a game but...

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Could post the same about Fiora

 

[The Swert]

Doesn't quite fit the intent but some incidents/games that have stuck with me and became the dominant
memory attributed to them:

- Heath Shaw GF smother
- Barry Hall KO
- Tom Hawkins Final quarter against North
- Nathan Brown Broken leg
- Razor Ray Holy Jesus
- Chris Connolly Sirengate
- Shane Crawford That's what I'm talkin bout
- Mark Williams Choking
- Cameron Ling Miss from goalsquare
- James Hird (as a player) Hugging fan
- Simon Beaumont 8 first half goals
- Greg Williams Claiming goal from an Eagles rushed point
- Dane Rampe Climbing goalpost, probably

Tom Hawkins did what against the Roos? I remember him for his match winner vs Hawthorn in 2012.

 

[Seadog]

Peter Matera "sets sail for home"

 

[Shane Heard]

Shane Ellen

No one remembers...but those who do, realise it was a performance that changed everything on the day.

Who was on him though?

 

[Shane Heard]

Peter Matera "sets sail for home"

Blight putting an underdone Bairstowe on him all day. Lucky for you guys.

One of Blight’s greatest regrets that day by his own admission.

Pigheaded.

But one of the most glorious drop punts on the run in a grand final you’ll ever see.

Majestic flow..

 

[Shane Heard]

The Daniel Chick smother.

The most underrated smother in the history of grand finals.

I remember it.

 

[Shane Heard]

Brilliant lol

The Princes Park Carlton rabble in full disturbing voice.

Brings back memories.

The good old days. When brutal enforced violence changed the momentum of a game.

Ratten’s pain with that shoulder warms the cockles of my heart.

SOS knocked out not so much. But as always with the lad, he put himself in the zone to be hit.

He was one brave son of serge.

 

[Shane Heard]

I thought he'd be remembered more for bashing his missus

If I ever run into that piece of ####...I can only dream.

Brooke Satchwell is a gorgeous soul of a woman...how she ever got with a ####wit like him is one of the mysteries of the universe.

 

[Shane Heard]

In my mind, Leon Baker will never be remembered for ONE game. Brilliant player, full stop.

A player who jogged around in board shorts at training for South Bunbury, he was definitely the opposite of a figjam.

Please....tell us every story of Leon you can remember from his Sth Bunbury days

 

[Shane Heard]

Fraser Brown for his magnificent "put us in the Granny suck s**t Essendon" tackle in the 99 Prelim.

Mmm....but how did it go 7 days later.

Another Glorious Carlton pathetic performance. So satisfying...

 

[Shane Heard]

Micky Conlan's match winning goal against Essendon in the 1986 elimination final. It rained all day and Fitzroy ended up winning by a point.
Conlan looked dejected after he kicked the goal, probably because he did nothing all day up until that moment.

I was there...VFL park...#### it was cold that day trudging back through the puddles in the car park.

Mum probably had a pot of spaghetti bol on that night when me and the old man got home.

I doubt I watched the replay....

 

[Shane Heard]

Not that anyone on the face of the earth remembers except Bomber fans over the age of 45...but Shane Heard’s shut down job on the dangerous Dipper in the 84’ GF allowed us to control the ball in the midfield more and ultimately run over the campaigners in the last qrt for a famous victory.

Very unassuming man was Shane. Country boy. Didn’t seek the limelight.
Just did what ever job Sheedy asked him to do. Tough as nails.

After Kevin Sheedy took over in 1981 finding the perfect position for him as a tagger, a role that made him far more consistent. He was soon regarded as one of the best taggers in the competition due to his great concentration, speed and cleverness around the contest. You could say he was one of the original taggers of the competition. Tagging has been a staple ever since and for that you can thank Heard and others from the 80’s. His role as a tagger hit its peak in the 1984 Bombers Grand Final win when he played on the Hawks key player Robert ‘Dipper’ DiPierdomenico. He was able to completely shut him out of the game and, according to the Essendon website, this went a long way to the Bombers winning the premiership. Not only did he shut Dipper out of the game, he also was equal highest possession winner on the ground for the Bombers with 23. Along with the premiership medal, he was rewarded at the end of the year by winning the coach’s award, for a second year running.

 

[Shane Heard]

Maybe, but surely most people remember him for rooting his mum and legless sister

By all reports she was a hot chick back in the day.
Who could blame him really.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Peter Caven

 

[Breustiful]

Will Langford's goal in the 14 gf or his horrible inaccuracy thereafter.

 

[Handsome.B.Wonderful]

Ted Hopkins. 29 total games . Comes on at half time in a grand final in his 28th game (pre-interchange days) and turns a grand final. Kicked 10 goals in his career including 4 in the second half of the 1970 grand final in the biggest comeback in grand final history in front of 121,000 people. Only plays one more game before retiring.

Pretty well known for founding Champion Data as well.

 

[The_Reaper]

Jobe Watson

 

[Bostonian]

Mmm....but how did it go 7 days later.

Another Glorious Carlton pathetic performance. So satisfying...

The rectum hurt is strong in this one.

Not as satisfying as all the tears of the Essendon fans when they lost.

Pathetic they were.

 

[MarcusP2]

Essendon fans won’t forget Michael Quinn for being our ruck in the 2009 elim final (partnering the giant that is Nathan Lovett Murray)

Also Rampe for climbing to the top of the goalpost while managing not to shake it

I'll always remember him for falling over in the goal square and missing a Joe the Goose.

 

[Mofra]

John Georgiadis 8 goals on debut for Footscray

Mark Arceri kicking Carlton's only goal for the game (from a dubious free) in the last 33 seconds of a wet game at Whitten Oval.

Setanta O'hAilpin for belting then kicking Cloke at training

 

[BuffDog]

I'll always remember him for falling over in the goal square and missing a Joe the Goose.

Did that happen in the final? Fair to say I don’t remember much of it!