Competitions Collingwood All Time Draft

[Jelly Bean]

Let's go raymond35 - the wait is excruciating! And I'm pretty sure you are going to take the next two best players on my list before I can get them!

 

[raymond35]

Let's go raymond35 - the wait is excruciating! And I'm pretty sure you are going to take the next two best players on my list before I can get them!

I'm still trying to get over Pants going.

With selection 22 i pick Billy Picken at centre half back. The magnificent mark who always performed in big games.

 

[raymond35]

Pick 23 is first rover Lou Richards.
The 1953 premiership captain who went on to be the greatest commentator of all time.

 

[magpies42]

Sorry if I hold things up pps, heading in for a procedure shortly. Should be out and with it by by the end of the day.

 

[iGNITER]

Sorry if I hold things up pps, heading in for a procedure shortly. Should be out and with it by by the end of the day.

All the best with it mate. Take care of yourself.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Sorry if I hold things up pps, heading in for a procedure shortly. Should be out and with it by by the end of the day.

I hope it all goes well. Take care

 

[South of the Yarra]

Pick 23 is first rover Lou Richards.
The 1953 premiership captain who went on to be the greatest commentator of all time. View attachment 1259169

Billy 'Cotton' Picken and Louie the Lip are absolute classic choices. People forget how good a player and Captain Lou was and Billy was one of my favourites ever. Those marks and the best Pies finals player I have ever seen. Loved giving lip to the opposition. Never stooped chatting. Loved commentating his own marks. 'Its Billy's' or 'Here comes Billy' or 'Pickennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn'. His mark at Victoria Park against the Saints in 76 was one of the best I ever saw live.

 

[sideswipe]

Billy 'Cotton' Picken and Louie the Lip are absolute classic choices. People forget how good a player and Captain Lou was and Billy was one of my favourites ever. Those marks and the best Pies finals player I have ever seen. Loved giving lip to the opposition. Never stooped chatting. Loved commentating his own marks. 'Its Billy's' or 'Here comes Billy' or 'Pickennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn'. His mark at Victoria Park against the Saints in 76 was one of the best I ever saw live.

Lou would be angry with pick 23. He walked out of the Team of the Century dinner when he wasn't picked.

 

[iGNITER]

Lou would be angry with pick 23. He walked out of the Team of the Century dinner when he wasn't picked.

Good old Lou!

Who would he replace in the Team of the Century if he was selected? Pretty great line up.

 

[gouki88]

Good old Lou!

Who would he replace in the Team of the Century if he was selected? Pretty great line up.

It's definitely tough. I could see an argument for Lou over Whelan. While Whelan was the more gifted player at the peak of his powers, I think Lou contributed more. Gets tricky with the war era & the VFL / VFA schism, but Lou was a premiership captain!

 

[Jelly Bean]

It's definitely tough. I could see an argument for Lou over Whelan. While Whelan was the more gifted player at the peak of his powers, I think Lou contributed more. Gets tricky with the war era & the VFL / VFA schism, but Lou was a premiership captain!

So was Nick Maxwell.

 

[Jelly Bean]

Geez, this one is tough. A player fell through who I wasn't expecting (I won't name him though to not compromise the next selections), but I think I need to stand my ground.

For pick 24, I select the great John Greening on a wing. If he'd have had a fair run at it, he'd have been top 3 on this list by the end of his career, but even so he showed his remarkable talent and is probably a bit stiff to even not have been higher.

B: ------- ------- -------
HB: ------- ------- -------
C: Greening Tuddenham -------
HF: ------- ------ ------
F: ------- Coventry -------
Fol: ------- -------- -------

 

[sideswipe]

Good old Lou!

Who would he replace in the Team of the Century if he was selected? Pretty great line up.

Good new for Lou is that he has made it into this team as the medical sub.

 

[South of the Yarra]

It is hard to believe that a bloke who was in our Team of the Century, won 5 Premierships and was an absolute Champion has slid to Number 25. Probably sums up the way he played. Carlton rejected him and he ended up one of our greats. An attacking Back Pocket who Jock McHale stated changed the way the Pies played with his relentless attacks and dour defence. In the first nine years of the Copeland Trophy only one player won it who was not a Coventry or Collier and that was this man. I had the pleasure of sitting at a table with old Mrs Rumney at the inaugural Hall of Fame launch and she gave me an incredible insight into the Man and The Machine. An absolute champion of our club and with Pick 25 I take HAROLD WALDMERE RUMNEY

B Rumney - -
HB - A.Collier -
C - - -
HF Fothergill - -
F - - -
R --
R -

Also happy to have a back line consisting of 11 Premierships amongst 2 players.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Geez, this one is tough. A player fell through who I wasn't expecting (I won't name him though to not compromise the next selections), but I think I need to stand my ground.

For pick 24, I select the great John Greening on a wing. If he'd have had a fair run at it, he'd have been top 3 on this list by the end of his career, but even so he showed his remarkable talent and is probably a bit stiff to even not have been higher.

The Best of the Best. I wanted to be John Greening as a kid.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Tarkyn_24 Your pick

 

[Trickster]

It's definitely tough. I could see an argument for Lou over Whelan. While Whelan was the more gifted player at the peak of his powers, I think Lou contributed more. Gets tricky with the war era & the VFL / VFA schism, but Lou was a premiership captain!

He'd probably turn around and say, 'I'll knock you all righhht out'

 

[Trickster]

It is hard to believe that a bloke who was in our Team of the Century, won 5 Premierships and was an absolute Champion has slid to Number 25. Probably sums up the way he played. Carlton rejected him and he ended up one of our greats. An attacking Back Pocket who Jock McHale stated changed the way the Pies played with his relentless attacks and dour defence. In the first nine years of the Copeland Trophy only one player won it who was not a Coventry or Collier and that was this man. I had the pleasure of sitting at a table with old Mrs Rumney at the inaugural Hall of Fame launch and she gave me an incredible insight into the Man and The Machine. An absolute champion of our club and with Pick 25 I take HAROLD WALDMERE RUMNEY

B Rumney
HB A.Collier
C
HF Fothergill
F
R
R

Also happy to have a back line consisting of 11 Premierships amongst 2 players.

Brilliant choice. On my radar and thought (and hoped) that being a back pocket he may have slipped...

 

[half_back_flank]

Getting dropped by Carlton is my favourite fact about Rumney.

1927 - 1937
Harold Rumney - 5 premierships
Carlton football club - 0 premierships

 

[South of the Yarra]

Getting dropped by Carlton is my favourite fact about Rumney.

1927 - 1937
Harold Rumney - 5 premierships
Carlton football club - 0 premierships

Love it. Gold

 

[Robroy22]

Geez, this one is tough. A player fell through who I wasn't expecting (I won't name him though to not compromise the next selections), but I think I need to stand my ground.

For pick 24, I select the great John Greening on a wing. If he'd have had a fair run at it, he'd have been top 3 on this list by the end of his career, but even so he showed his remarkable talent and is probably a bit stiff to even not have been higher.

B: ------- ------- -------
HB: ------- ------- -------
C: Greening Tuddenham -------
HF: ------- ------ ------
F: ------- Coventry -------
Fol: ------- -------- -------

Would have been pick ONE in my book. Finally someone realised!

 

[South of the Yarra]

Would have been pick ONE in my book. Finally someone realised!

Was going to take him at 25 but he was snapped up

 

[South of the Yarra]

Would have been pick ONE in my book. Finally someone realised!

Was hoping to have Fothergill and Greening in the same line up.

 

[gouki88]

Was hoping to have Fothergill and Greening in the same line up.

I don't think that would have been very fair. Footy gods stepped in on grounds of parity!

 

[magpies42]

Geez, this one is tough. A player fell through who I wasn't expecting (I won't name him though to not compromise the next selections), but I think I need to stand my ground.

For pick 24, I select the great John Greening on a wing. If he'd have had a fair run at it, he'd have been top 3 on this list by the end of his career, but even so he showed his remarkable talent and is probably a bit stiff to even not have been higher.

B: ------- ------- -------
HB: ------- ------- -------
C: Greening Tuddenham -------
HF: ------- ------ ------
F: ------- Coventry -------
Fol: ------- -------- -------

Talent is really flying off the shelves at the moment