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From memory he dominated vfl but they only played him twice
Not sure what the point of getting him was
Big Name Players Who Came to The Pies Late in Their Careers.
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Not sure what the point of getting him was
HotPiesWithSauce
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Robert Harvey... Dual Brownlow medallist who was with us for 10 years and never played a game
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The point of getting him and other old flogs was we were absolutely useless at identifying young stars.
Carlton did it, Kernahan, Hunter, Bradley, Bosustow, Fitzpatrick and many more.
We were run by a bunch of chumps for 30 years.
Hence the movie "The Club"
While he wasn't a genuine star, Clinton Young was another who had a fine career and was a premiership player elsewhere, but didn't do well for us.
Pretty sure Gerald Healy was drafted by Collingwood against his will after he had retired. He didn’t change his mind.
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If you read through the thread you will see I apologised as I misunderstood the nature of the thread.
Peace be with you...
sr36
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West Coast did the same with Timmy Watson.
Yes, I was in Queensland and only got to a couple of Pies games in 1992, what was the Brad Hardie thing all about?
Why was he playing in the reserves?
sr36
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He was at the same club as Peter Daicos, who was still good but by then couldn't run. You couldn't possibly have had two forward pockets who couldn't run.
They couldn't slot him in a back pocket, which he played at for Footscray in his heyday?
He wasn't too quick then either.
sr36
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He'd been found out as a back pocket and importantly by then couldn't run for s**t.
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Barry Mitchell, Luke Ball, Brad Hardy, Tom Mitchell, Lynden Dunn, Q Ball (Lynch), Brereton. Those are a few I can think of. Maybe Tom Mitchell the youngest of the lot at the time of recruiting them. How old was David Cloke too?
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Loved the number 17 playing for us.
I might’ve just made the same mistake. Thought question/task was to name players that came to Collingwood late in their careers.
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How's he going manic?
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Bruce Abernathy and Gary Shaw. Both came with huge reputations, Shaw did sweet fa, Abbers was better but still talked up way too much. The New Magpies absolutely ruined us for a number of years. What would you expect with Ronald McDonald running it, what a clown show. (Sorry that should be Ranold not Ronald) no difference it was still a s**t era. David Cloke was good as we got 3 fs from him one being a premiership player. I actually really liked David as a player, came as a forward and was forced to play a smaller ruck role. His body work was brilliant and gave us cover while Monkey hadn’t yet dominated and Wes fellows was well being an early version of Guy Richards. How bad were we that Wes actually won a Copeland trophy 
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Premiership.
