He’s got a longggg way to go, currently I’d prefer Anderson, Jackson, Serong, Green, Pickett, Cody, De Koning over him - I think they all have better careers.
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Scully too high smhLewis Hayes (brother of Port Adelaide ruck Sam Hayes) is one name that's been mentioned.
Plenty of extra options at KPF. Below is taken from PMBanger's draft thread (which is good reading) from the start of June. Isaac Keeler another SA forward/ruck who dominated the state game on the weekend will probably push into this list in the next update.
Below is his view on whether any of the KPFs could transition to KPD roles.
Yeah really shit draft for them tbh. Hustwaite would be my next best even though I don't realy think he'll be a 'true' KPD at the next level, but after him it has to be Hayes
Hey dogwatch, I remember Phillipou. My memory was not quite as flattering as that article. Thought he looked ok in the ressies, didn't think he had much impact in the senior games I saw him play (not sure which games they were, would have to go back and refer to my Footy record collection!). I used to rate players at the end of each season back then, I certainly didn't rate him favourably compared to other young talls on the list. Although back then they were all young - Grant, Standfield, Grgic, Southern, Hargraves, Sexton, Croft, Darcy and Nicholl. Cox and Ellis were talls at that stage in height, but mainly played flanks or utility roles that early in their career (Ellis followed Kouta in defence and on-ball in a game one day at the G in what was a bit of a breakout game for him).
Hey dogwatch, I remember Phillipou. My memory was not quite as flattering as that article. Thought he looked ok in the ressies, didn't think he had much impact in the senior games I saw him play (not sure which games they were, would have to go back and refer to my Footy record collection!). I used to rate players at the end of each season back then, I certainly didn't rate him favourably compared to other young talls on the list. Although back then they were all young - Grant, Standfield, Grgic, Southern, Hargraves, Sexton, Croft, Darcy and Nicholl. Cox and Ellis were talls at that stage in height, but mainly played flanks or utility roles that early in their career (Ellis followed Kouta in defence and on-ball in a game one day at the G in what was a bit of a breakout game for him).
On his Wikipedia page, seems to be two old Age articles that may shed some light, but they require a Fairfax subscription, which I don't have.
The only other tidbits I could find are these 2:
Basically a review of a schools match in Adelaide early 90s (Phillipou played for Combined State High Schools vs Combined Independent Schools).
Some comments follow up on some of the participants' later senior careers, including this one:
"Phillipou always wanted to be drafted by the Cats… was never sure why he only played 3 AFL games for the Bulldogs for someone with so much talent."
A 2007 thread from WOOF titled "Players that have sucked you in" (some recognisable posters from BF feature in the posts! As does the article you quoted.) The OP in that thread opined:Players that have sucked you in? [Archive] - Whitten Oval Online Forum
There must be a long line of players that the supporters thought were going to be the savior of the club before the actually played and then let us down. For me five otherwise unknowns (all but one is from SA by the way) spring to mind. John Georgiades Hugh Reimers Sam Phillipou Stephen...www.woof.net.au
"Phillipou was drafted by the Dogs two years before he decided to make the move. He was a highly touted key forward and I watched his progress each Monday in the paper to see if he had kicked a few goals or had been mentioned in the best players. After being so eager for two years for him to arrive at the club I was hugely disappointed to see him in an SANFL grand final and he played like a Dog. He was slow and not particularly strong in a contest and to make matters worse he really couldn't even run out quarters. At the 20 min mark, he would really hit the wall and no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't get any fitter
Has anyone got anything else they can add Sam Phillipou?"
(Interestingly in that schools game, Independent Schools' team featured Sean Wellman, Marty McKinnon, Ben Hart and Nick Holland, while High Schools had Che Cockatoo-Collins, Mark Ricciuto, Daryl Wakelin, Chris Groom (aka Not Andrew McLeod!), Sam Phillipou and Randall Bone.)
Hey dogwatch, I remember Phillipou. My memory was not quite as flattering as that article. Thought he looked ok in the ressies, didn't think he had much impact in the senior games I saw him play (not sure which games they were, would have to go back and refer to my Footy record collection!). I used to rate players at the end of each season back then, I certainly didn't rate him favourably compared to other young talls on the list. Although back then they were all young - Grant, Standfield, Grgic, Southern, Hargraves, Sexton, Croft, Darcy and Nicholl. Cox and Ellis were talls at that stage in height, but mainly played flanks or utility roles that early in their career (Ellis followed Kouta in defence and on-ball in a game one day at the G in what was a bit of a breakout game for him).
On his Wikipedia page, seems to be two old Age articles that may shed some light, but they require a Fairfax subscription, which I don't have.
The only other tidbits I could find are these 2:
Basically a review of a schools match in Adelaide early 90s (Phillipou played for Combined State High Schools vs Combined Independent Schools).
Some comments follow up on some of the participants' later senior careers, including this one:
"Phillipou always wanted to be drafted by the Cats… was never sure why he only played 3 AFL games for the Bulldogs for someone with so much talent."
A 2007 thread from WOOF titled "Players that have sucked you in" (some recognisable posters from BF feature in the posts! As does the article you quoted.) The OP in that thread opined:Players that have sucked you in? [Archive] - Whitten Oval Online Forum
There must be a long line of players that the supporters thought were going to be the savior of the club before the actually played and then let us down. For me five otherwise unknowns (all but one is from SA by the way) spring to mind. John Georgiades Hugh Reimers Sam Phillipou Stephen...www.woof.net.au
"Phillipou was drafted by the Dogs two years before he decided to make the move. He was a highly touted key forward and I watched his progress each Monday in the paper to see if he had kicked a few goals or had been mentioned in the best players. After being so eager for two years for him to arrive at the club I was hugely disappointed to see him in an SANFL grand final and he played like a Dog. He was slow and not particularly strong in a contest and to make matters worse he really couldn't even run out quarters. At the 20 min mark, he would really hit the wall and no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't get any fitter
Has anyone got anything else they can add Sam Phillipou?"
(Interestingly in that schools game, Independent Schools' team featured Sean Wellman, Marty McKinnon, Ben Hart and Nick Holland, while High Schools had Che Cockatoo-Collins, Mark Ricciuto, Daryl Wakelin, Chris Groom (aka Not Andrew McLeod!), Sam Phillipou and Randall Bone.)
In revision I got over excited, he's had some good SANFL U18s form but he's not really showing as many transferable traits as you'd expect from the performances, namely that his marking execution isn't convincing even when not under pressure
We're in an era where some former rucks are playing KPD. McEvoy was playing CHB, Keefe at GWS, Roughy.
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