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David Granger

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eastaugh36

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The apology in the paper was good to see but it was nearly 20 years too late, I guess he is a prime example of WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND. Due to his actions back then.

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Essendon - The greatest club with the greatest coach in the league ! Carlton- absolute hypocrites who accuse others of being cheats only for it to be found later that carlton are the "serial salary cap breachers" as quoted by our president, haha
 
Who the hell is David Granger and what are you talking about ?

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"Its like something out of the twighlighty show about the zone".
 
JubJub,
It's secret South Australian business. Nobody else cares anyway.

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oh dear, thats what you get for living in victoria, you only have knowledge of one league, the afl. David Granger was a player for Port in 1981, when during a prelim final against the bays, he did a cowardly act, he tripped a bay player breaking his leg, and he also did many other thug like acts such as punching etc. He claims that he was told to do it by the coaching staff to get port back into the game and I wouldnt disagree with him there. But the club denys it and he has been hung out to dry and now has a pretty poor life. He should never have done it even if told anyway.

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Essendon - The greatest club with the greatest coach in the league ! Carlton- absolute hypocrites who accuse others of being cheats only for it to be found later that carlton are the "serial salary cap breachers" as quoted by our president, haha
 

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Yes, Dave Grainger was an infamous thug who played for Port Adelaide back in the glory days of the SANFL in the 70's and 80's.

South Aussies or anyone else who knows a little bit of the SANFL would instantly recognise the name and shudder.

Wallis is nothing compared to Grainger, in fact any of the so-called 'tough guys' of the VFL / AFL would be really struggling to match Grainger in terms of sheer out-and-out brutality and unabashed thuggery.

He should never have been allowed on a footy field, his attitude and approach to the game were an absolute disgrace, and, at the time, he seemed to sum up perfectly the reasons why everyone loved to hate POrt.

Having said that he was also a pretty good player when all is said and done.
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granger was worse than any. His actions sparked the glenelg-port rivalry and they were more violent than anything I have ever seen in footy.
 
Hang on Easty. BSA says he played in the 70's & 80's, at which time you were either not born or just starting primary school.

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Easty its one thing basically to call Granger a thug but he could also play football, he did play CHF for what was probably the best Port team of all time. The Preliminary final you talk about was in 82 not 81. In the 81 GF he king hit Twiggy Caldwell and I think he put him in a coma. I don't agree with Granger's actions but thats what footy was like until the introduction of trail by video. It was a disgrace how the club did treat him after his 8 match suspension for his actions in 82, they just wiped their hands clean off him and treated him like he had never excisted.
 

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He out-thugged everyone Bee

Like I said he shouldn't even have been on the paddock - he should have been in Maximum Security !

Imknow as a Victorian you may find this hard to accept but it is true, if you ever saw him er, 'play' you would understand.

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The actions are legendary in the sanfl plus I have videos of it even though I wasnt very old then, the prelim was great when the bays got up by a point !
 
Granger was a class act. A fine athlete. Superb footballer. Great competitor.

One of his amazing skills was his ability to take a sceaming high mark, standing on an opponent's shoulders ... and, quite deliberately, kick his opponent in the head ... knowing that his action was perfectly legal ... as long as he held the mark!!!

As for his much publicised one-man riot in the 1982 Preliminary Final ... I think that just shows what a great team player Grave Danger really was.

What a profound tragedy that Port lost that match ... by a solitary point. Granger's selfless actions almost got Port into a Grand Final. And Granger must surely have known that, had Port managed to steal that game, he himself ... the man most responsible for the Preliminary Final win ... would have had to miss the Grand Final because of suspension.

That's what I call dedication to the team.

As for the ethics or otherwise of Granger's style of play ...

Well, I'm a man of peace. I abhor violence. And I find violence on the football field to be a blot on the Game.

But any violence perpetrated against the Glenelg Football Club is perfectly justifiable.

I wouldn't tolerate it against Carlton.

I wouldn't tolerate it against Essendon.

I might have once tolerated it against the Crows ... but only in the early days (the Cornes, McDermott, McGuiness, Liptak days ... when we used to call them the "Glenelg Crows")

But when it comes to Glenelg (puke puke) ... ANYTHING GOES

My apologies to anyone who hasn't got a clue what this is all about ... but, as someone has said earlier, it's "secret South Australian business".
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**floreat pica**
 
I'm 99.9% certain thats where he's from Mr Ripper. I could be wrong, but I'm sure I have heard that where he came from.
 

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Originally posted by AlfAndrews:


But when it comes to Glenelg (puke puke) ... ANYTHING GOES

My apologies to anyone who hasn't got a clue what this is all about ... but, as someone has said earlier, it's "secret South Australian business".
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Jeez Alf, we really are opposites aren't we ? My father and uncle both played for the Bays!!(Many moons ago, I must stress)

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alf your a hypocritical black and white piece of shit, isnt it funny how port adelaide have been renowned thru the years for their dirty actions, They are scum, with a capital S. Justice was served that year when glenelg got up by a point. The many dead heads that have represented port are laughable, back to Tim "the log" Evans etc etc.
 
Originally posted by JUBJUB:
So it was like when Robert Walls was coaching Brisbane and he got Peter Worsfold and Brad Hardie to deck a few Geelong players.
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JUBJUB, if i remember correctly, peter worsfold (thug, like his brother) ko'd Ken Hinkley in 92 when hinkley was playing a blinder. he was heading for 3 votes and as it turned out those votes would have been enough for him to tie for first in the brownlow.
 
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Originally posted by BUBBALOUIS:
Or like when Malcolm Blight told Yeates and crew to do go the knuckle in the 1989 GF?

Brereton would have done the same to us but fortunately he wasn't given the chance.
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And he still fixed you up as I recall. Didn't he kick a few that day? Bloody gutsy performance I must say. Yates, well that was pretty weak.


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