Opinion Early Developers

[Saints4ever]

Players that started like a house on fire and you was sure they would be superstars that unfortunately didn’t live up to that.

Jaidyn Stephenson
Des Headland
Mark Mcgough
Mark Coughlan
Justin Koschitke

 

[The_Reaper]

He has ended up having a very good career but I think Jack Darling

 

[g_TRAIN]

In Kosi's case I'm convinced it was that massive concussion and brain injury that stopped him really becoming the star he could have been.

 

[Spirit Level]

Rhys Palmer

 

[Grrr]

Coughlan was done with injury. ACL's (2), OP, hamstrings and calves.
B&F at 21, retired 25.

 

[Bald]

Jaeger O'Meara comes to mind.

Adam Cooney as well, despite being a brownlow medalist at just 22, he was never the same player after the knee injury (from memory he and O'Meara had the same or similar injuries?)

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Nick Daffy

 

[Forward Press]

Lewis Taylor
Dyson Heppell
Rhys Palmer
Jaeger O'Meara
Jaidyn Stephenson
Daniel Rich

You can probably see where I'm going with this...

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Stevan Jurica

 

[faible]

Jaeger O'Meara comes to mind.

Adam Cooney as well, despite being a brownlow medalist at just 22, he was never the same player after the knee injury (from memory he and O'Meara had the same or similar injuries?)

Think this is it's own category, both clearly had the talent but injury meant it was curtailed by degenerative knee injuries that never went away.

Someone like Stephenson had no real injury issues, was just a bust after looking good early. Basically hit his ceiling immediately and regressed from there.

 

[Bald]

Think this is it's own category, both clearly had the talent but injury meant it was curtailed by degenerative knee injuries that never went away.

Someone like Stephenson had no real injury issues, was just a bust after looking good early. Basically hit his ceiling immediately and regressed from there.

Ah yep, that's fair.

 

[faible]

Lewis Taylor
Dyson Heppell
Rhys Palmer
Jaeger O'Meara
Jaidyn Stephenson
Daniel Rich

You can probably see where I'm going with this...

Rich? He was quite good, spent most of his career copping a forward tag because he was so damaging by foot.

 

[Forward Press]

Rich? He was quite good, spent most of his career copping a forward tag because he was so damaging by foot.

Still obviously a great career overall but I thought he would become a superstar of the competition after his Rising Star year.