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  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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Thanks S4P.

I think it's time to start to sure up the defence. I have been watching all of the champion key defenders taken off the table but thinking to myself whether, at the best of everyone I have seen, there has ever been a more dominant aerial presence at CHB than the best of the guy I am going to take with this pick. Sure, there are more rounded defenders, guys who are better on the lead, but when it comes to planting a giant frame (who also had a reasonable leap on him) in defence and having him cut the ball off, particularly in contested marking situations, which are what is actually valuable, he wipes the floor with everyone of the last 20 years other than Hooker and McGovern.

Big Jake "The Snake" Carlisle come on down!

KPD/KPF | 200cm and 106kg

151 games and 62 goals (85 (54) for Essendon and 66(8) for St Kilda) between 2010 and 2011.

Carlisle is another guy who I think football sort of lost to the supplements saga, someone who, like Ryder, we robbed of his best football. There are relatively reliable rumours that he has his troubles off field. I tend to wonder why it couldn't have been a more solid club that he chose to go to where he might have been able keep his shit together so that he could go on to play the consistently dominant footy that would have him on par with the modern great defenders (a feat which he had the ability to pull off).

At his best he could take a game apart forward for a whole game or just swinging to change momentum. The kid of 2012 to 2013 really had the world at his feet. I tend to think his 2014 was underrated and that his forward struggles were largely the result of stagnant ball movement, developed by Thompson to protect the inability of that list to run and run out a season.

Sorry, I don't know who's next.
 
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Okay, I'm going multiple all-Australian, multiple premiership & Norm Smith medallist, giving a bit of agro to my forward line, Essendon Champion:

Paul Chapman

@boncer - you are up my man!
 
jmoo wan said:
Okay, I'm going multiple all-Australian, multiple premiership & Norm Smith medallist, giving a bit of agro to my forward line, Essendon Champion:

Paul Chapman

@boncer - you are up my man!
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Could not believe he was still on the board and was waiting for someone to nab him.
 
jmoo wan said:
Okay, I'm going multiple all-Australian, multiple premiership & Norm Smith medallist, giving a bit of agro to my forward line, Essendon Champion:

Paul Chapman

@boncer - you are up my man!
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Good tag mate.
 
I'll take the one season wonder Damian Cupido. His best was brief but brilliant.

eth-dog
 
Tom Reynolds and Michael Hibberd boncer34

FB: ??? - Dustin Fletcher - ???
HB: ??? - Michael Hurley - Michael Hibberd
MF: ??? - Hugh Mitchell - ???
HF: ??? - Alan Noonan - ???
FF: ??? - Ron Evans - Tom Reynolds
OB: Graham Moss - Adam Cooney - Bill Hutchison
IC: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???
 
eth-dog said:
Tom Reynolds and Michael Hibberd boncer34

FB: ??? - Dustin Fletcher - ???
HB: ??? - Michael Hurley - Michael Hibberd
MF: ??? - Hugh Mitchell - ???
HF: ??? - Alan Noonan - ???
FF: ??? - Ron Evans - Tom Reynolds
OB: Graham Moss - Adam Cooney - Bill Hutchison
IC: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???
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Best part about Hibberd is that he combines the size, power and intensity of a Sheedy era defender, not to mention a supposed willingness to brawl in pubs, with dash and skill of a modern counter attacking player.

He would have been equally at home, and would have displaced someone, from the 1980s all the way to the current era.

I should have known he'd be a focus for you but then upsetting jmoo's plans was extremely satisfying.
 

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BrunoV said:
Best part about Hibberd is that he combines the size, power and intensity of a Sheedy era defender, not to mention a supposed willingness to brawl in pubs, with dash and skill of a modern counter attacking player.

He would have been equally at home, and would have displaced someone, from the 1980s all the way to the current era.

I should have known he'd be a focus for you but then upsetting jmoo's plans was extremely satisfying.
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It's an interesting one. I wanted a half back and a small forward with the double this time so I picked a guy who could conceivably play as a medium or small defender with great kicking skills.
 
I've gone from a pick I thought BrunoV would like in Cupidoll to a pick I know he'll dislike in Darcy Parish.

jmoo learn to tag dickhead
 
FB: ??? - Cale Hooker - ???
HB: ??? - Bill Busbridge - ???
MF: ??? - Mark Thompson - ???
HF: ??? - Terry Daniher - ???
FF: Cupido - Matthew Lloyd - Geoff Blethyn
OB: Barnes - Parish - Brendon Goddard
IC: ??? - ??? - ??? - ???
 

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jmoo wan said:
there’s a few players that I was struggling to split for this selection, so in the end I’ve gone for the one I thought most likely BrunoV would select.

Damien Hardwick
boncer34
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He was a great pick at #57 by Bipolar Bear you ****.
 
BrunoV said:
By the way, isn't it me now?

eth-dog, eth-dog is followed by boncer and then jmoo?
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It is you once Jmoo stops picking players already taken
 
This pick caused me a bit more agonising than any other primarily because I hadn't looked up the records.

I always loved this man. He was possibly the most mercurial player of all, able to kick inverted torpedos and handle the ball as though it was an extension of his hand, an extension which was a second or 2 in the future. He could take screamers and genuinely do it all. I want to say he had a nice mean streak in him but I also don't want to celebrate what that likely represents. I suspect that, as was the case with Robbie Muir, it wasn't white line fever or the inability to control himself, which can sometimes be endearing, it was the justified retaliation to constant racial abuse. If I'm wrong, I'm happy for the man and it was just another part of his game.

As I said above, what sealed it for me was his record, a record which I am pleased to say was much more substantial than I thought it would be. He appears to have performed to the same level in the pre-West Cost WAFL, the pre-Adelaide SANFL and then the AFL.

Derek Kickett

half forward/wing/half back

259 professional games with 419 goals between 1984 and 1997. 38 (93) with West Perth, 32 (70) with Claremont, 25 (48) with Central Districts, 12 (12) with North Melbourne, 77 (94) with Essendon, 63 (73) with Sydney and 12(29) with Subiaco.
  • Leading Goal Kicker West Perth Football Club 1984
  • Claremont Premiership side 1987
  • R/Up Best & Fairest Claremont Football Club 1987
  • Record Number of Votes (46) Most in the Sandover Medal Count 1987
  • WA State of Origin player x 8 (2x Graham Moss medallist as BOG)
He still holds that record in the Sandover Meal which was 'won' by some spooge with 30 votes who didn't have the humility to hand DK the medal.

As I said above, the full weight of Kickett's record really makes him something much closer to a legend of the game who should be in the hall of fame. Seasons of between 2 to 3 goals a game in the WAFL and SANFL pre-AFL for a guy at 180cm is pretty special. Almost all of that converted to AFL where I recall he also played a lot in defence (which would explain why the goal average drops).

I probably look back on his career with Essendon with as much regret as I do for Neale Daniher. If only he had played in the 1993 premiership side he would likely have played out his days with Essendon where he belonged. I knew he played the 1990 GF but I was not aware he lasted all the way through to the 1996 GF (which was his last game).

He was a very special player.
 
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