Dirtiest player we have ever had.

[1980GFVideo]

I actually mean this in a good way since years ago you had to dish it out. If you had no one dishing it out then you were easily intimidated.

Loved watching the 1980 GF on TV this afternoon. Micky Malthouse lays a tackle on Bill Picken then clearly smacks him in the face once he has him to ground.

Make them pay every time they get it was Micks game. He flattened Sam Newman the week before and was lucky to play.

Do we have anyone who intimidates these days. We were a joke back when Frawley said "every dog has his day" because all clubs knew we had no one to live up to that. Thats why Frawley withdrew it.

Can you imagine Campbell or Gaspar intimidating the crap out of the opponent. Do we have anyone today. I usually wince everytime I see us try and dish it out.

 

[scarecrow2k1]

In my lifetime its been Tim Fleming. But lately we seem to have dirty/tough players and skilled but soft players. Why can't we get a toughnut who can kick?

 

[JSFish]

Kingy does it, only problem is he's about 5 foot 1.

 

[JSFish]

In my lifetime its been Tim Fleming. But lately we seem to have dirty/tough players and skilled but soft players. Why can't we get a toughnut who can kick?

Trouble with him was he was really not good at football, and he took it too far and got suspended instead of just intimidating the opponent.

 

[scarecrow2k1]

Trouble with him was he was really not good at football, and he took it too far and got suspended instead of just intimidating the opponent.

He certainly was, and I loved him for it.

 

[Tigerdream]

We need Fleming back now and let him and Kingy loose......on the rest of our own side.

 

[krisholio14]

Mal Brown

 

[IDGAF]

David Palm

 

[krisholio14]

David Palm

pay that

 

[Richo Man]

Scotty Turner

 

[ToroHombre]

That ranga Mopsy Fraser...I never saw him but apparently once he KO'd all of the Twomey brothers in a single match against Collingwood!

 

[bragg]

would have paid money to see Aaron Fiora and David Bourke going toe to toe in the ring !!! .....absolute Slapfest !!

 

[matey]

That ranga Mopsy Fraser...I never saw him but apparently once he KO'd all of the Twomey brothers in a single match against Collingwood!

Have heard stories about this bloke and he makes Mal Brown look soft. This guy was Jack Dyers hitman!

He use to try to contact the player he would play on on the Friday night and start to torment him then.

Heard Jack Dyer once tell a story about playing a game at Victoria Park against the Pies. The Pies supporters hated Dyer and Mopsy so much they had to wait an hour or so after games to leave the ground or get harrassed by feral Pies supporters. The coast was clear and they snuck out into a car. Then a mob of Pies supporters spotted them and ran towards the vehicle. Jack Dyer could not start the car quick enough and the feral Pies supporters started to rock and kick the car and Mopsy starts to laugh his head off. Dyer siads, 'Mopsy what are you laughing at'. Mopsy replies, 'Well Jack, it ain't my car'.

 

[TigerHunter]

You know your team are a bunch of pink marshmallows when the softest types ie petifer and howat are the ones getting done for rough conduct.

 

[lousampi]

Jimmy Jess
Not really dirty, but tough really tough.
The opposition always kept an eye on the Ghost.

 

[Greggy]

Andy Goodwin......Cause he was so crap we could send him out to kill someone and it wouldnt cost us.

 

[theonlooker]

Jake King:
loved him as soon as he came on the scene last yr!!
hard at it...no fear...pretty good skills....pity hes 24 and RFC will get 10 yrs at the most out of him.

reminds me of myself in my playing days!!

 

[Tiger bait]

steven (dirty) sziller surely would have to get some sort of a mention. I play alongside him these days and hes one tough bugger

 

[genghiskhan]

I've never really known a tough Tiger side. For me, stories of Dyer, Hart etc are almost like stories of mythical mermaids. I'd much rather watch a tough and agressive team lose every week than a weak and effeminate team lose every weak as is the case now. No matter how skillful the like of Fiora and Pettifer may have been as kids, I was never fond of the decisions to draft them. They always looked weak, had weak-sounding names and history proved that they were generally quite useless.

Sheedy always had the right attitude. He always felt that you need a mix of dirty and skillful players. I think he wanted the tough players as the platform that allowed the skillful players the chance to show their skills.

 

[cormick]

Bourke was the toughest player we ever had.
But i dont think he was ever reported (maybe once?)...so not dirty.
Stafford was a bit of a dog...and i loved it .

ATM...Jackson, Connors and King probably take the bacon.
Bit sad, considering one cant get a game, one isnt a certainty and one is 2 feet tall.

Although Richo gives out if he has to, to protect teammates.
Nor does Newman, Moore (even though hes a stick) or Thursty.
And...Deledio ...cos a coupla years ago (i think the game where brown got 5 in the last quarter)...he took on BOTH C and T Cloke.
And he didnt back away.

 

[Rancid_Beasties]

Tim Fleming...in my lifetime.

Second dirtiest...probably stafford.

 

[peejay]

Ricky McClean needed a wash.

So did Robbie McGhie.

Throw in Balmey and Brown and man that was a tough team.

 

[David3030]

That ranga Mopsy Fraser...I never saw him but apparently once he KO'd all of the Twomey brothers in a single match against Collingwood!

agreed ... has to be Mopsy Fraser ... history books show he only played 84 games but was suspended for around 100.

Even Jack Dyer was scared of Mopsy and would readily tell everyone how scared of Mopsy he was

 

[David3030]

Have heard stories about this bloke and he makes Mal Brown look soft. This guy was Jack Dyers hitman!

He use to try to contact the player he would play on on the Friday night and start to torment him then.

Heard Jack Dyer once tell a story about playing a game at Victoria Park against the Pies. The Pies supporters hated Dyer and Mopsy so much they had to wait an hour or so after games to leave the ground or get harrassed by feral Pies supporters. The coast was clear and they snuck out into a car. Then a mob of Pies supporters spotted them and ran towards the vehicle. Jack Dyer could not start the car quick enough and the feral Pies supporters started to rock and kick the car and Mopsy starts to laugh his head off. Dyer siads, 'Mopsy what are you laughing at'. Mopsy replies, 'Well Jack, it ain't my car'.

My father used to tell me stories of Mopsy Fraser ... his favourite ever player ...

Ted Whitten's first game for Footscray his opponent was Mopsy Fraser ...
first 5 minutes of the first quarter Whitten goals with his first kick in football ... Mopsy goes back to line up on Whitten and says to him "don't ever embarass me like that again son, you won't see the end of the game if you do"

Whitten was shitting himself the first half as he had heard about Mopsy's famous temper and was quiet until around half way through the third quarter when he snaps another goal.

When Mopsy and Ted had taken up their positions again Mopsy waited for the ball to be bounced and turned to Whitten and said " I told you not to embarass me" and promptly put his lights out for the rest of the game.

How accurate this story is I do not know as I was way not even a scratch to my dad at the time, but I certainly hope its true as it makes a great story about a gifted but volatile footballer