Collingwood Enforcers

[sr36]

I remember the BS that flowed from the lions after they flogged us in 2003. Soft, jumping at shadows. They mocked us. Yet our "weak cowards" beat the team some call the GOAT only 2 weeks earlier as well as beating them in the home and away clash the year before. We also went incredibly close to beating this team of iron men in the 2002 GF in conditions made for tough guys to thrive in.
We were a team of battlers yet almost pulled off the upset of the century. I'm not sure if that reflects badly on the super team but it takes a little gloss off their so called champion side's reputation as the best and toughest unit to win a flag.

They didn't call us soft after we nearly beat them in 2002. They called us soft after 2003. A third of the team was different.

Outs from the 2002 team: Rocca, Steinfort, Molloy, Freeborn, Betheras, McKee, Lockyer
Ins who played in 2003: Kinnear, Tristen Walker, Reece Shaw, Woewodin, Lokan, Cole, J Cloke

Bear in mind that the 2003 ins were also mainly kids. 2002 was a much more hard/hardened team.

 

[gouki88]

Lol@ enforcers in today's game. There are still some courageous players....but enforcers died out long ago.
Closest thing today would be Toby Greene.

Mumford probably has a go at "enforcing" as much as one can in the modern game.

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

monkhorst’s smile was enough to scare most. Off the field though he’s one of the nicest guys.

His teeth would look totally out of place in today's game. Or Des Tuddenham's upper and lower set of falsies - apparently had a rubber set made for game so the plate didn't get smashed. Now there was an enforcer!

 

[MyManLynch]

Mumford probably has a go at "enforcing" as much as one can in the modern game.

The Big Mummy…the awkward, accidental enforcer.

 

[gouki88]

The Big Mummy…the awkward, accidental enforcer.

Always 'accidentally' falling on top of players

 

[jimmy35]

Duncan Wright was a bit of a lad. He knocked Somerville of Essendon out cold in a prelim in 1965. It was considered so bad Collingwood sacked him. I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Jack Burns who played for the Pies in the Forties with Lou Richards and that ilk. He went on to become a recruiting man and got Tuddy and Price to the Pies. He told me a story about an end of season trip when the Collingwood boys went to Queensland. He said they bumped into some rugby league blokes who started the usual crap about aerial ping pong and pansies playing Aussie Rules and Duncan Wright happily accommodated them. He said he was crazy.

Watch the clip below. It's a fascinating story.

'I would've loved to have stayed': A Collingwood enforcer's tears (afl.com.au)
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Shit act. O’Dea on Greening but celebrated because he played for us.

 

[jimmy35]

No true enforcers in today’s game, times and the game has changed. Leeter probably our best known and loved by all the folklore.

 

[manicmagpie]

sh*t act. O’Dea on Greening but celebrated because he played for us.

I agree it was a dog act. To be fair though I don't hear many celebrate it. And the club sacked him and he never played for us again, rather than being employed by the club forever and being made a life member like O'Dea was by St Kilda.

 

[Mukesh]

sh*t act. O’Dea on Greening but celebrated because he played for us.

Which part of the club squeezing Duncan out into the cold escaped your attention..? I don't recall anyone celebrating the event...

 

[jimmy35]

I agree it was a dog act. To be fair though I don't hear many celebrate it. And the club sacked him and he never played for us again, rather than being employed by the club forever and being made a life member like O'Dea was by St Kilda.

True

 

[GreekLunatic]

John bourke

 

[MyManLynch]

John bourke

Only for umpires & opposition supporters

 

[domus]

sh*t act. O’Dea on Greening but celebrated because he played for us.

If he lied about the provocation I agree. ODea made no such claim. St kilda continued to play their thug and celebrated him as a player. Spot the difference.

 

[domus]

They didn't call us soft after we nearly beat them in 2002. They called us soft after 2003. A third of the team was different.

Outs from the 2002 team: Rocca, Steinfort, Molloy, Freeborn, Betheras, McKee, Lockyer
Ins who played in 2003: Kinnear, Tristen Walker, Reece Shaw, Woewodin, Lokan, Cole, J Cloke

Bear in mind that the 2003 ins were also mainly kids. 2002 was a much more hard/hardened team.

I didn't realise they specifically singled out the replacements for the 2002 GF team in their smearing of us as soft and gutless.

 

[sr36]

I didn't realise they specifically singled out the replacements for the 2002 GF team in their smearing of us as soft and gutless.

Pretty confident they weren't talking about Burns or Licuria.

 

[domus]

Oh no he enforced. Watch 28.10. Many of these.

Great bump but I saw Wellingham knockout a Carlton legend with a shirtfront and he is in no way an enforcer!

 

[domus]

Pretty confident they weren't talking about Burns or Licuria.

Ryan Lonie played in 2002 and they branded him a jib. All Shaw did was slip over when he had the pill and lynch snapped a goal and he was branded a jib. It was utter BS. They just happened to be a team stacked with champions against a team of ordinary battlers for the most part.
I get sick of the tough guy crap about the Lions of that era. Cringeworthy.

 

[sr36]

Ryan Lonie played in 2002 and they branded him a jib. All Shaw did was slip over when he had the pill and lynch snapped a goal and he was branded a jib. It was utter BS. They just happened to be a team stacked with champions against a team of ordinary battlers for the most part.
I get sick of the tough guy crap about the Lions of that era. Cringeworthy.

They came out with a move the ball forward at all costs attitude, got on top, and some of our blokes panicked. I tend to agree that it wasn't squibbing, but a lot of blokes couldn't handle the increased intensity - young blokes often lack confidence and go to water when the heat is turned up hotter than they've experienced before, which is how that game went. It was a bit like the game against Brissy this year. Our 2002 team was a lot more experienced and hardened and it would have been less likely to happen to them.

 

[sr36]

Great bump but I saw Wellingham knockout a Carlton legend with a shirtfront and he is in no way an enforcer!

Wellingham was no enforcer, but he was much harder than he appeared:

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[gouki88]

Wellingham was no enforcer, but he was much harder than he appeared:

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Don't think I can recall any instance of Wellingham shirking a contest.

 

[MyManLynch]

Wellingham was no enforcer, but he was much harder than he appeared:

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Wellingham always followed the old Football adage “When it’s your turn to go…you go”.

 

[sr36]

Wellingham always followed the old Football adage “When it’s your turn to go…you go”.

He was fearless too. But it was always a bit unexpected as he was such a laconic, light on his feet graceful mover that you expected him to be an outsider who avoided that stuff.

 

[domus]

Wellingham was no enforcer, but he was much harder than he appeared:

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He was a strange mix. I'll never forget the night he pulled out of a marking contest against Hodge in the final term of the 2011 preliminary final. I won't forget the stare from heath Shaw or the way he kept looking up at the giant screen as if to say, WTF?
It was a shocker. Denis Cometti didn't hold back when it happened. Hodge goaled by the way.

 

[domus]

Don't think I can recall any instance of Wellingham shirking a contest.

Oh boy. I do. It was a shocker and in a big game at a critical moment. Funnily enough it wasn't even a terribly dangerous moment. Maybe he had a brain fade. I'll see if I can find it. Denis Cometti didn't miss it.

 

[sr36]

He was a strange mix. I'll never forget the night he pulled out of a marking contest against Hodge in the final term of the 2011 preliminary final. I won't forget the stare from heath Shaw or the way he kept looking up at the giant screen as if to say, WTF?
It was a shocker. Denis Cometti didn't hold back when it happened. Hodge goaled by the way.

He was a strange mix. I think he was one of the most talented blokes we've had in the last couple of decades, but he never seemed able to focus for a whole quarter, let alone a match and I doubt at all at training.