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Draft order.

  1. RedmanWasHere - Dick Reynolds
  2. Shermy - John Coleman
  3. Bipolarbear - James Hird
  4. Pweter - Simon Madden
  5. Soprano 4 Pyros - Tim Watson
  6. BrunoV - Paul Salmon
  7. Jmoo Hird - Jobe Watson
  8. Boncer34 - Matthew Lloyd
  9. Eth-dog - Dustin Fletcher
  10. Eth-dog - Bill Hutchinson
  11. boncer34 - Terry Daniher
  12. Jmoo Hird - Michael Long
  13. Bruno V - Mark Mecuri
  14. Sporno 4 Pyros - Gavin Wanganeen
  15. Pweter - Jack Clarke
  16. Bipolarbear - Albert Thurgood
  17. Shermy - Scott Lucas
  18. Redmanwashere - David Hille
  19. Redmanwashere - Don McKenzie
  20. Shermy - Wally Buttsworth
  21. Bipolarbear - Ken Fraser
  22. Pweter -Tom Fitzmaurice
  23. Sporno 4 Pyros - John Birt
  24. BrunoV - Leon Baker
  25. Jmoo Wan - Joe Daniher
  26. Boncer34 - Geoff Blethyn
  27. Eth-Dog - Graham Moss
  28. Eth-Dog - Alan Noonan
  29. Boncer34 - Mark Thompson
  30. Jmoo Wan - Jake Stringer
  31. Bruno V - Neale Daniher
  32. Sporno 4 Pyros - Mark Harvey
  33. Pweter - Paul Vander Haar
  34. Bruno v - Paddy Ryder
  35. Shermy - Darren Bewick
  36. Redmanwashere - Zac Merrett
  37. Redmanwashere - Keith Forbes
  38. Shermy - Joe Misiti
  39. Bipolar Bear - Garry O'Donnell
  40. Pweter - Darren Williams
  41. Sporno 4 Pyros - Roger Merrett
  42. Bipolar Bear - Fred Baring
  43. Jmoo Wan - James Kelly
  44. Boncer34 - Brendon Goddard
  45. eth-dog - Ron Evans
  46. Eth-dog - Michael Hurley
  47. Boncer34 - Cale Hooker
  48. Jmoo Wan - Justin Madden
  49. Bipolar Bear - Jason Johnson
  50. Sporno 4 Pyros - Kevin Walsh
  51. Pweter - Anthony Daniher
  52. Bipolar Bear - Geoff Leek
  53. Shermy - Sean Well man
  54. Redmanwashere - Barry Davis
  55. Redmanwashere - Garry Foulds
  56. Shermy - Steven Alessio
  57. Bipolar Bear - Damian Hardwick
  58. Pweter - Scott Cummings
  59. Sporno 4 Pyros - AMT
  60. BrunoV - Merv Neagle
  61. Jmoo Hird - Ted Richards
  62. Boncer34 - John Barnes
  63. eth-dog - Hugh Mitchell
  64. eth-dog - Adam Cooney
  65. Boncer34 - Bill Busbridge
  66. Jmoo Hird - Reg Burgess
  67. BrunoV - Ken Fletcher
  68. Sporno - Billy Duckworth
  69. Pweter - Des Tuddenham
  70. Bipolar Bear - Alwyn Davey
  71. Shermy - Gary Moorcroft
  72. Redmanwashere - Ron Andrews
  73. Redmanwashere - Blake Caracella
  74. Shermy - Sean Denham
  75. Bipolar - Paul Barnard
  76. Pweter - Harold Lambert
  77. Sporno - Jack Jones
  78. BrunoV - Jake Carlisle
  79. Jmoo Cant Tag - Paul Chapman
  80. Boncer34 - Damian Cupido
  81. Eth-dog - Tom Reynolds
  82. Eth-dog - Michael Hibberd
  83. Boncer34 - Darcy Parish
  84. Jmoo Who - Dyson Heppell
  85. BrunoV - Derek Kickett
  86. Sporno - Glenn Hawker
  87. Pweter - Phil Carmen
  88. Bipolar - Alan Ezard
  89. Shermy - Adam Ramanauskas
  90. Redmanwashere - Mark Johnson
  91. Redmanwashere - Percy Ogden
  92. Shermy - Allan Hird And
  93. Bipolar bear - Mark McVeigh
  94. Pweter - Scott Camporeale
  95. Sporno - Bryan Wood
  96. BrunoV - Paul Weston
  97. Jmoo Wan - David Zaharakis
  98. Boncer34 - Mal Michael
  99. Eth-Dog - Brent Stanton
  100. Eth-Dog - Adam McPhee
  101. Boncer34 - Dean Rioli
  102. Jmoo Wan - Greg Anderson
  103. Bruno - Dean Solomon
  104. Sporno - Justin Blumfield
  105. Pweter - Tony Buhagiar
  106. BiPolar - Jordan Ridley
  107. Shermy - Peter Sommerville
  108. Redmanwashere - Ted Freyer
  109. Redmanwashere - Darryl Gerlach
  110. Shermy - Andrew McGrath
  111. Bipolarbear - Ted Fordham
  112. Pweter - Ian Shelton
  113. Sporno - Shane Heard
  114. Bruno - Jason Winderlich
  115. Jmoo Wan - Courtenay Dempsey
  116. Boncer34 - Andrew Lovett
  117. Eth-Dog - Justin Murphy
  118. Eth-Dog- Tom Bellchambers
  119. Boncer 34 - Adam Saad
  120. Jmoo Wan - Andrew Welsh
  121. BrunoV - Jayden Laverde
  122. Sporno - Chris Daniher
  123. Pweter - Norm McDonald
  124. Bipolar bear - Ricky Olarenshaw
  125. Shermy - Bachar Houli
  126. Redmanwashere - Bill Brittingam
  127. Redmanwashere - Alec Epis
  128. Shermy - Les Gardiner
  129. Bipolarbear - Ernie Cameron
  130. Pweter - Geoff Raines
  131. Sporno - Dylan Shiel
  132. BrunoV - Connor McKenna
  133. Jmoo Wan - Devon Smith
  134. Boncer34 - Orazio Fantasia
  135. eth-dog - David Shaw
  136. eth-dog - Matthew Stokes
  137. Boncer34 - Nick Hind
  138. Jmoo Boncer - Chris Heffernan
  139. BrunoV - James Stewart
  140. Sporno - Gordon Lane
  141. Pweter - Russell Blew
  142. Bipolar - Angus Monfries
  143. Shermy - Clyde Donaldson
  144. Redmanwashere - Neil Clarke
  145. Redmanwashere - Robin Close
  146. Shermy - Nik Cox
  147. Bipolar - Mal Pascoe
  148. Pweter - John Williams
  149. Sporno - Bob Syme
  150. Bruno - Che Cockatoo Collins
  151. Jmoo - Dean Wallis
  152. Boncer - Jimmy Sullivan
  153. eth-dog - Jake Melksham
  154. eth-dog - David Grenvold
  155. Boncer - Mark Jamar
  156. Jmoo - Ryan Crowley
  157. Bruno - Mason Redman
  158. Sporno - Gordon Abbott
  159. Pweter - Syd Barker Snr
  160. Bipolar - Mark Williams
  161. Shermy - Paddy Shea
  162. Redmanwashere - Max Crow
  163. Redmanwashere - Elton Plummer
  164. Shermy - Len Bowe
  165. Bipolar - Tayte Pears
  166. Pweter - Kyle Langford
  167. Sporno - Ted Leehane
  168. Bruno - Nathan Lovett-Murray
  169. Jmoo - Ricky Dyson
  170. Boncer - Frank Maher
  171. Eth - Heath Hocking
  172. Eth - Roy McConnell
  173. Boncer - Billy Griffith
  174. Jmoo - Charlie Payne
  175. Bruno - David Myers
  176. Sporno - Tony Elshaug
  177. Pweter - Neville Fields
  178. Bipolar
 
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FB: ??? - Mal Michael - Bill Busbridge
HB: Saad - Cale Hooker - ???
MF: Lovett - Mark Thompson - ???
HF: Cupido - Terry Daniher - Fantasia
FF: Rioli - Matthew Lloyd - Geoff Blethyn
OB: Barnes - Parish - Brendon Goddard
IC: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???
 
BrunoV said:
You've hacked my PC, haven't you?

I didn't think this would get that competitive/vindictive.
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I'm going the speed kills theory
 
Chris Daniher, Raines, McKenna and Fantasia were all on my list for this double pick. Shit.

Pick 135: David Shaw. 177 games, 2 time premiership player in the 60's.
Pick 136: Mathew Stokes. With small forwards being the current flavour I think I'll take a quality one that in Geelong's dominant years was kicking around the 30 goals a year mark

FB: David Shaw - Dustin Fletcher - ???
HB: Adam McPhee - Michael Hurley - Michael Hibberd
MF: Brent Stanton - Hugh Mitchell - Justin Murphy
HF: ??? - Alan Noonan - Mathew Stokes
FF: Tom Bellchambers - Ron Evans - Tom Reynolds
OB: Graham Moss - Adam Cooney - Bill Hutchison
IC: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???
 

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FB: ??? - Mal Michael - Bill Busbridge
HB: Saad - Cale Hooker - Hind
MF: Lovett - Mark Thompson - ???
HF: Cupido - Terry Daniher - Fantasia
FF: Rioli - Matthew Lloyd - Geoff Blethyn
OB: Barnes - Parish - Brendon Goddard
IC: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???

Nick Hind - Looking at my half back line, oh what might have been.

jmoo wan
 
eth-dog said:
Chris Daniher, Raines, McKenna and Fantasia were all on my list for this double pick. sh*t.

Pick 135: David Shaw. 177 games, 2 time premiership player in the 60's.
Pick 136: Mathew Stokes. With small forwards being the current flavour I think I'll take a quality one that in Geelong's dominant years was kicking around the 30 goals a year mark

FB: David Shaw - Dustin Fletcher - ???
HB: Adam McPhee - Michael Hurley - Michael Hibberd
MF: Brent Stanton - Hugh Mitchell - Justin Murphy
HF: ??? - Alan Noonan - Mathew Stokes
FF: Tom Bellchambers - Ron Evans - Tom Reynolds
OB: Graham Moss - Adam Cooney - Bill Hutchison
IC: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???
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And there goes my other short list forward pocket. Oh what a morning!

Back to the drawing board I go.

You guys are campaigners.
 
Pweter said:
And there goes my other short list forward pocket. Oh what a morning!

Back to the drawing board I go.

You guys are campaigners.
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Oh good, I was nervous that I'd made the wrong choice and he might have slipped through to my next round because everyone had seemingly forgotten about the top ups
 
I can't trust Sporno 4 Pyros, Shermy and, of course, jmoo wan so I am going to have to go tall to ensure that my team works the way I want it to.

Big Jim Stewart, you're in.

199cm, 100kg | key forward / key defender

He's currently sitting on 77 games from 2013 to 2021 and 66 goals (18 (18) for GWS and 54 (48) for Essendon).

He's a player that we have not seen the best of but who I think has show the ability of a high quality AFL key forward and defender.

He's a big, powerful man with a good turn of speed and great work rate. While he was a fair bit lighter in 2017 he was basically our hardest working forward who was playing more as a half forward than a tall. In brief stints, at the end of 2017, the start of 2018 and then once he found some movement in 2020 he has shown the ability to kick multiple goals on quality key defenders.

He looks solid in defence and I think he's out to stamp himself as a genuinely good key defender and lynchpin of our defence for the next 3 to 5 years.

He'll swing forward and back depending on who I'm up against.
 
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BrunoV said:
I can't trust Sporno 4 Pyros, Shermy and, of course, jmoo wan so I am going to have to go tall to ensure that my team works the way I want it to.

Big Jim Stewart, you're in.

199cm, 100kg | key forward / key defender

He's currently sitting on 77 games from 2013 to 2021 and 66 goals (18 (18) for GWS and 54 (48) for Essendon).

He's a player that we have not seen the best of but who I think has show the ability of a high quality AFL key forward and defender.

He's a big, powerful man with a good turn of speed and great work rate. While he was a fair bit lighter in 2017 he was basically our hardest working forward who was playing more as a half forward than a tall. In brief stints, at the end of 2017, the start of 2018 and then once he found some movement in 2020 he has shown the ability to kick multiple goals on quality key defenders.

He looks solid in defence and I think he's out to stamp himself as a genuinely good key defender and lynchpin of our defence for the next 3 to 5 years.

He'll swing forward and back depending on who I'm up against.
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18 + 54 doesn't equal 77.

72 league games for Stuey.
 
BrunoV said:
I can't trust Sporno 4 Pyros, Shermy and, of course, jmoo wan so I am going to have to go tall to ensure that my team works the way I want it to.

Big Jim Stewart, you're in.

199cm, 100kg | key forward / key defender

He's currently sitting on 77 games from 2013 to 2021 and 66 goals (18 (18) for GWS and 54 (48) for Essendon).

He's a player that we have not seen the best of but who I think has show the ability of a high quality AFL key forward and defender.

He's a big, powerful man with a good turn of speed and great work rate. While he was a fair bit lighter in 2017 he was basically our hardest working forward who was playing more as a half forward than a tall. In brief stints, at the end of 2017, the start of 2018 and then once he found some movement in 2020 he has shown the ability to kick multiple goals on quality key defenders.

He looks solid in defence and I think he's out to stamp himself as a genuinely good key defender and lynchpin of our defence for the next 3 to 5 years.

He'll swing forward and back depending on who I'm up against.
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After tagging in 3 guys who's next?
 

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Sorry about the delay…after jmoo wan took Heffernan I had to do some research on the guys who played in all the granny’s between 1946-51
I don’t think I have seen the name Gordon “whopper” Lane here.
131 games, 256 goals for the club
3 flags in ‘42 (6 goals), ‘46 (7 goals)& ‘49
Rated by Jack Dyer as the best centre half forward in the game.
Besides being a superb overhead mark, Lane was also a dynamic and damaging player at ground level, capable during his peak years of snapping goals with either foot from distances of up to 50 metres.

You can read more about him here: https://australianfootball.com/players/player/gordon+lane/6517
Pweter
 
Russell Blew

Pacy wingman who played in the 62 and 65 flags, finished 2nd in the B&F in 1964 and was a Vic state representative

FB: Tom Fitzmaurice - Anthony Daniher - ???
HB: Harold Lambert - Ian Shelton - Norm McDonald
C: Scott Camporeale - Jack Clarke - Russell Blew
HF: Phil Carman - Paul Vander Haar - Des Tuddenham
FF: Tony Buhagiar - Scott Cummings - ???
R: Simon Madden - Geoff Raines - Daisy Williams
INT: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???

Bipolarbear
 
Angus Monfries, 200 gamer. Good accurate kick for goal. Good for the occasional miss match. Really solid player. Shermy


B: Damien Hardwick, Fred Baring, ----
HB: Mark McVeigh, Jordan Ridley, ----
C: ----, Gary O'Donnell, Jason Johnson
R: Geoff Leek, Ernie Cameron, James Hird (c),
HF: Ted Fordham, Ken Fraser, Angus Monfries
F: Alan Ezard, Albert Thurgood, Alwyn Davey
INT: ----, ----, ----, ----
 
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Clyde Donaldson - Another google and I like the cut of his jib.

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After making his VFL debut with Essendon in 1913, Clyde Donaldson's career had just begun to blossom when it was interrupted by four years abroad serving with the Australian Expeditionary Force. During that time he represented the Australian Training Units in an exhibition match in London.

Donaldson resumed with the Dons in 1919, and quickly established himself as one of the finest permanent back pocket players in the game. He had as much pace as the nippiest rover and this, coupled with his strength and aerial prowess, made him extraordinarily difficult to beat. He was also a thumping kick, characteristically tearing out of his back pocket to meet the ball at full tilt before propelling it back into Essendon's attacking zone.

A member of the Same Old's 1923 and 1924 premiership teams, Donaldson was also a regular Big V representative, earning state selection in every year between 1920 and 1923 and again in 1926. He retired at the end of the 1926 season after 144 VFL games.
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RedmanWasHere
 
My side so far.

FB: M. Johnson, A. Epis, D. McKenzie.
HB: G. Foulds, R. Andrews, ?
C: ?, B. Davis, P. Ogden.
HF: D. Reynolds, B. Caracella, B. Brittingham.
F: ?, K. Forbes, ?
R: Hille, Z. Merrett, ?

Thanks for the tag, Shermy.

I'm gonna put pick 144 in the middle.

From Ringwood, I'm gonna go with Neil "Nobby" Clarke. (1957-2003.)

Pick 145 needs a fair bit of gravitas.

He will be showing us a fair amount of leadership.

He's one for the higher-ups.

Enjoy your stay, David Shaw.
 

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Bugger it, time to get some youth in my team.

Get in here Unicorn

Nik Cox

Bipolarbear
 
Shermy said:
Clyde Donaldson - Another google and I like the cut of his jib.

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After making his VFL debut with Essendon in 1913, Clyde Donaldson's career had just begun to blossom when it was interrupted by four years abroad serving with the Australian Expeditionary Force. During that time he represented the Australian Training Units in an exhibition match in London.

Donaldson resumed with the Dons in 1919, and quickly established himself as one of the finest permanent back pocket players in the game. He had as much pace as the nippiest rover and this, coupled with his strength and aerial prowess, made him extraordinarily difficult to beat. He was also a thumping kick, characteristically tearing out of his back pocket to meet the ball at full tilt before propelling it back into Essendon's attacking zone.

A member of the Same Old's 1923 and 1924 premiership teams, Donaldson was also a regular Big V representative, earning state selection in every year between 1920 and 1923 and again in 1926. He retired at the end of the 1926 season after 144 VFL games.
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RedmanWasHere
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Wow, compelling evidence of a great player.

It's what I love about this thread, also an educational journey
 
I'm gonna go with Mal Pascoe, Tasmanian football legend, who only recently passed away last year. Mal played 94 games for Essendon in the midfield, and 177 games as a triple premiership Coach/Captain for the Hobart Football Club (forward). He was one of the three P's whom were a legendary trio that have a stand at the TCA after them. He was a William Leitch Medallist (best player in Tas state league) in 1959 and led the competition in goals that year and the following. Even up until a half a decade ago, he was a regular at the club, and even handed me my first guernsey in my underwhelming playing days. Welcome to my team Mal.

Pweter
 
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Neil "Nobby" Clarke

Tenacious, determined back pocket who graduated to roles such as tagging Leigh Matthews in the 84 GF. Much loved dual premiership clubman who sadly took his own life at 45.

FB: Tom Fitzmaurice - Anthony Daniher - Nobby Clarke
HB: Harold Lambert - Ian Shelton - Norm McDonald
C: Scott Camporeale - Jack Clarke - Russell Blew
HF: Phil Carman - Paul Vander Haar - Des Tuddenham
FF: Tony Buhagiar - Scott Cummings - ???
R: Simon Madden - Geoff Raines - Daisy Williams
INT: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???

Sporno 4 Pyros
 
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