Opinion 5 most menacing things I have seen

[Cyclops]

I mean live at the footy, not on telly (so I won't include Ayres monstering Wilson in the 1991 GF: I was there but I only saw it on the replay). These are the players and occasions I thought shook me and the people around me.

1. Tony Lockett angry on the lead. He had the physique, the temperament and the track record that added up to a towering menacing presence. Never really belted the Pies around physically (and Monky famously rattled his cage) but just a force of footballing destruction and kicked many a bag on us. Scary, but I could see the greatness of it.

2. Gary Ablett's blank face as he prepared to embarass really excellent defenders like Pert and Langford. No emotion, no sign he registered there were any other people between him and the ball. He was a frankly disturbing man.

3. Stan Magro. Not so much for any one incident (although he flattened a "who's who" full of star opponents) as the mad eyes. We were a tough club and had many tough teams, but not many tougher players. Which brings me to...

4. Darren Millane patrolling the wing. He took numbers, names, and revenge. Any number of games come to mind, but the 1990 semi vs Essendon when he was dropped off the ball and calmly got up and looked around for the perpetrator (who had wisely made himself scarce) was like a scene from a Guy Richie movie. Geez I'm glad he played for us.

5. Carey busting a pack round 22 1990. Just a tall kid with promise, in a side getting shellacked, but he walked through 2 or 3 of our famously tough halfbackline like they weren't there and kicked an angry goal in the 3rd (IIRC). Even a one-eyed celebrating Pie like me sat up and took notice, and I wondered if this bloke and not the failed centurion Horse was the one to watch.

 

[ThePiesHaveEyesForPrize]

1. gf 2003 collingwood run out with richie cole, matthew lokan, tristen walker, rhyce shaw and jason cloke in a grand final.
what were we thinking??

2. after writing number 1 i've had to walk away from the computer, sorry guys i cant go on!

 

[Damon_3388]

1. gf 2003 collingwood run out with richie cole, matthew lokan, tristen walker, rhyce shaw and jason cloke in a grand final.
what were we thinking??

In the immortal words of Derryn Hinch - "Shame, shame, shame".

 

[Dump Truck]

Being growing up in West Aus I have 2 derby moments to recall:

First one being Woosh in the first derby just running around picking off players at will, with jacko,wilson by his side they physically intimitated the younger dockers. Wherever the dockers looked, the eagles just happened to be there ready to lay on the pressure.

Second is Josh and Matt Carr in DERBY 26. Really just showed real physical presence on the game and Kerr,Judd,Cousins all had them two on the forefront of their mind whenever they got the ball.

 

[Gunnar Longshanks]

Second is Josh and Matt Carr in DERBY 26. Really just showed real physical presence …

Really?

Keep it real.

 

[tribey]

1. gf 2003 collingwood run out with richie cole, matthew lokan, tristen walker, rhyce shaw and jason cloke in a grand final.
what were we thinking??

And the rest.

Brodie Holland, Ben Kinnear, Heath Scotland (solid player now, pig ordinary at the time), Leon Davis (gun now, wildly inconsistent and often disappointing at the time).

You guys were favourites going into that one too.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

1 - Byron Pickett bouncing on his toes like a prizefighter on the edge of the square before a centre bounce, you just knowing he was gunna go tearing in and take someone out.

2 - David King and Wayne Carey standing and pointing at Jason Akermanis just prior to Kingy taking him out wit a savage elbow to the head in a final in the 90s.

3 - Carey standing at the true centre half forward position at the MCG on a Friday night with three defenders on him, you could see him sledging them and then just making them like fools.

4 - Jimmy Krakeuor when he'd been fired up hitting packs and delivering one inch punches. Racially abused out of the game was Jim. If he got the protection indigenous guys get now, he'd be the best player in the league bar none.

5 - Didn't see it live but my old man has told me about so many times I feel like I was there: Phil Baker knocking Robert Walls out cold at Arden Street with an almighty king hit.

 

[Butts_JZZ30]

This is one for the SANFL fans, Last year I was watching Sturt v Central Districts as a neutral. Central Districts have the Gowans brothers playing for them, two very tough, very irritating on ballers in the mould of Libba. Sturt also had a very tough midfielder/half back flanker Whiteman. After a ball up, a pack quickly formed (I was on the fence about 5m away) and Whiteman belted Gowans right in the fact on the blind side of the pack. Neither player reacted and on the next ball up Gowans smashed him right back in the fact and both players went their separate ways.

Nothing to menacing but just two tough nuts going at it.

Also, if any of you have seen Gary McIntosh play, he was an absolute menace, went in like a maniac and wouldn't hesitate to hand out a quick wack in a pack. He made any player think twice about going for the ball.

 

[courtjester]

I think John Gastev tried to knock Ablett Sr. out one day and bounced off him and fell over.

Ablett wasn't even trying to be menacing!

 

[Adrian Shelton]

This is one for the SANFL fans, Last year I was watching Sturt v Central Districts as a neutral. Central Districts have the Gowans brothers playing for them, two very tough, very irritating on ballers in the mould of Libba. Sturt also had a very tough midfielder/half back flanker Whiteman. After a ball up, a pack quickly formed (I was on the fence about 5m away) and Whiteman belted Gowans right in the fact on the blind side of the pack. Neither player reacted and on the next ball up Gowans smashed him right back in the fact and both players went their separate ways.

Nothing to menacing but just two tough nuts going at it.

Also, if any of you have seen Gary McIntosh play, he was an absolute menace, went in like a maniac and wouldn't hesitate to hand out a quick wack in a pack. He made any player think twice about going for the ball.

'Mad' Whiteman takes no prisoners, Gowans boys leaving will make Centrals seem mortal next yr(unless they surprise everyone like they did this yr!!)

Macca and Greg Williams supposedly got nasty in a state match and the odd tooth went missing!!! From watching old highlight tapes McIntosh was the scariest looking 17 yr old id seen on a footy field, or anywhere else for that matter(and having John Wynne as a mentor didnt hurt either)


Jacko doing his brain against Hawthorn, the last 10 mins of that match was scary, the umps would walk off now!!! When he dropped Langford after he copped one the action went up a notch and Bruns went down

Dave Granger in the 82 SANFL pf with orders to inflict maximum damage(which i think he did to a couple of faces and one poor bastards leg!!)

1990 AFL gf, 1/4 time mayhem, Derek Kickett shaping up a few targets and about 40 sets of fists trying to kill someone in the opposition jumper

Dale Kickett in the demolition derby letting fly at anything within 20 ft of him

Mal Brown donging a few Blues at the Adelaide oval, Trevor Keogh got way to close and got a rather bent nose

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Glen Archer feigning to throw a punch a Wayne Carey in 2003 and the legit toughest man of the decade wetting himself.