Current AFL listed players you wouldn't recognise if you passed on the street.

[DrEvil_]

Someone showed me this image and I had zero idea who it is. Apparently some Port dude.

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Well you'd recognize him when he wears his swastika on his arm.

 

[Ishmael_]

Its funny you mention Sam Butler because I reckon I know the eagles list decently well - certainly their main players who are in their best 25 or so. There is something about Butler though that I find it impossible to recall what he looks like.

He just looks like a guy that you'd be mates with. Could be an accountant or a sales rep or anything really.

 

[Altum Volantes]

I watch a load of Freo games but I reckon I'd struggle to pick Lee Spurr out of a line up.

Also guys who have been in the league a while like David Mackay from the Crows and Levi Greenwood from Collingwood.

 

[Navi]

I'm rubbish with faces, I already have trouble recognizing players by their faces while watching a game. I doubt I'd recognize most players on the street.

 

[JVseven]

St Kildas captain.

 

[RobbieGray17]

I only just

St Kildas captain.

Up until now

 

[Balance]

Aaron Sandilands

Nic Naitanui would have worked better.

 

[Allan Shorty]

Sam butler and nick smith have been mentioned - agree wholeheartedly.

I never saw beau waters his whole career, he might still be going will Minson style.

I've never seen Suban from freo, Zach Merrett from Essendon or anyone named crouch. I'm never quite sure which Collingwood player is Reid and which is brown. I've also struggled to work out who Mitch brown is and who he plays for.

 

[Sentinel]

Ryan Lester, Marco Paparone, Ryan Harwood, David Mackay, Rory Atkins, Tim Broomhead, Lee Spurr, Connor Blakely, Cam Sutcliffe, Sam Menegola, Darcy Lang, Jack Leslie, Sean Lemmens, Alex Sefton, Jarryd Lyons, Aidan Corr, Harrison Himmelberg, Tim O'Brien, Daniel Howe, Alex Neal-Bullen, Ed Vickers-Willis, Kayne Turner, Taylor Garnor, Ryan Clarke, Darcy Bryne-Jones, Jack Hombsch, Aaron Young, Sam Gray, Jimmy Webster, Jack Newnes, Seb Ross, Jack Sinclair, Blake Acres (until tonight), Jake Lloyd, Tom Papley, Harry Cunningham, Dean Towers, Harry Marsh, Tom Barrass, Dom Sheed

All names which I wouldn't recognise if they passed me in the street. At the risk of showing some ignorance.

 

[Infra Ted]

Half of the Bulldogs 22. Half of the saints 22. Half of North's 22. Half of the Blues 22.

Got a lot of nothing players.

 

[Jukesy85]

From the players named this week,
Saints - 10/22 - Longer, Ross, Webster, Newnes, Stevens, Gresham, Wright, Sinclair, Acres, Minchington
GWS - 8/22 - Kelly, Smith, Tomlinson, Hopper, Himmelberg, Corr, Matt and Adam Kennedy
This is after watching this game too!

NM - 6/22 - Williams, Vickers-Willis, Hrovat, Garner, Wood, Dumont
Adelaide - 8/22 - Matt Crouch, Mackay, Smith, Kelly, Brown, Hartigan, Lever, Atkins

Pies - 1/22 - Ramsay
Blues - 6/22 - Graham, Williamson, Plowman, C. Curnow, Smedts, Kerridge

Port - 3/22 - Clurey, Sam Gray, Houston
West Coast - 2/22 - Duggan, Mutimer

GC - 9/22 - Leslie, Joyce, Lemmens, Sexton, Lyons, Harbrow, Miller, Ah Chee, Scheer
Geelong - 5/22 - Parsons, Lang, Bews, Black, Thurlow

Dogs - 4/22 - Cordy, McLean, Dunkley, Williams
Tigers - 8/22 - Butler, Castagna, Short, Astbury, Lambert, Markov, Soldo, Ellis

Swans - 10/22 - Naismith, Nick Smith, Melican, Lloyd, Hewett, Papley, Hayward, Cunningham, Florent, Towers
Brisbane - 9/22 - Schache, Keays, Barrett, Lester, Mayes, McStay, Paparone, Gardiner, Andrews

Freo - 8/22 - Hamling, Langdon, Crozier, Taberner, Balic, Hughes, Tucker, Sutcliffe
Dons - none!

Dees - 7/22 - Pedersen, Frost, Bugg, Hannan, Kennedy-Harris, Tyson, Wagner
Hawks - 3/22 - Burton, Howe, Hardwick

107 out of 396 is 27% who's faces I don't remember. I reckon I could list 99% of current AFL-listed players (not just starting 22s), most starting 22 numbers, approximate ages, experience levels, positions, DT and SC standard, etc. I must be just really bad at faces.

 

[Looney]

A new game:
Who Am I?

 

[Baird]

A new game:
Who Am I?

Richard Douglas according to google. Surprised I didn't know what Douglas looked like.

 

[RUNVS]

Years ago now but this thread was made for Ben Mathews. Played about 200 games for the Swans, won a premiership and everything but when he retired most people on bigfooty barely seemed to know he was a real person.

 

[Looney]

Richard Douglas according to google. Surprised I didn't know what Douglas looked like.

How did you even google that?

 

[The Joker]

If i passed on the street i am certain i wouldnt recognize anyone!

 

[Cleanupsoup]

If you see a saints player, statistically speaking, you're safest bet is to call him jack

 

[ioppolo]

I wouldn't recognise many non eagle or Docker players outside of uniform tbh.

 

[Igloo]

How did you even google that?

Right click, "search google for image" (or just right click then press "s").

 

[TiggerMan22]

Tigers - 8/22 - Butler, Castagna, Short, Astbury, Lambert, Markov, Soldo, Ellis

Cmon now, look at that stache, pick him out easy once you've seen him once.

 

[NitroFan]

90% of them

 

[tropicaltiger]

Years ago now but this thread was made for Ben Mathews. Played about 200 games for the Swans, won a premiership and everything but when he retired most people on bigfooty barely seemed to know he was a real person.

remembered mainly coz he wouldnt give up the no.4 on pluggers request ??

 

[Ozil]

Have struggled with plenty at North and Brisbane for a while now.

Pretty good with numbers, could tell you how they play but just couldn't put it to a face.

 

[ossie_21]

Most of them to be fair, but criteria should be more for the 100+ gamers & more prominent players.

Biggest one for me that I just can't even start to describe him would be Josh Kelly from GWS.

 

[footyfan1978]

More than 800 listed AFL players. I'm sure many of us have them cross our paths every day or so.
I know once was talking to a few guys during a night out on the turps at the casino and they were telling me they were footballers but thought they were speaking s**t as did not recognise them. I watched their team play during next season and realised, oh yeah, you are in the AFL.. ha ha