Mark Alvey

[whytee]

What happened to him. How many games did he play? I went to school with him, just wondering

 

[Butane]

Try the Essendon board, thats where your good mate ended up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alvey

 

[The Coon Dog]

The year before being traded to Essendon, we attempted a deal to send him there, but it was one of those situations where the paperwork wasn't completed before the 2pm deadline.

He certainly knew how to celebrate a goal.

I understand he's back up Mildura/Wentworth these days.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

He was competing during his career with a few similar players in Robbins, Contessa and Mahoney though Robbo was the longest survivor of the bunch.

I always thought Alvey was a gutsy little player who always looked like he was going to step up the next level.

 

[bradism]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Alvey

Career highlights

• Played in a losing qualifying final against West Coast Eagles in 1999.

Ouch..

 

[Aquamarinejewel]

I always thought Alvey was a gutsy little player who always looked like he was going to step up the next level.

Yeah I thought much the same, then he did his knee I think from memory that it was the same year that Grant did his knee. He went on to Essendon and then after he was cut from the Bombers list and he wrote a scathing article about Sheedy and his time at Essendon.

 

[kookadog]

I remember Alvey as a small skillful player, we traded him to essendon, wasn't he part of the Rawlings deal?

 

[scooter600x]

A lot of people saw him as a receiver because he rarely won a contested ball but he worked enormously hard and usually when he took an uncontested mark he had a defender 20 metres behind him gasping for air.

When he did his knee and couldn't do that anymore and he had nothing else.

 

[mark west]

had the best chainsaw before brett lee.................. dont remember anything about his football, sad...............

 

[murphy2bedabest]

I remember Alvey as a small skillful player, we traded him to essendon, wasn't he part of the Rawlings deal?

yep the Veale deal curse got him

 

[paul scholes]

Got a lot of his kicks in the 3rd row of the telstra dome. Had a purple patch for a while there,had a dime a dozen of his type.

 

[memberforever]

When he did his knee, it really stuffed him up. I played in a bulldogs Golf day that year and he was there, but not playing. I couldn't believe the amount of weight he put on, he was really fat.

The best game he played was Grants 250th game, his precison kicking (almost as good as Gilbee) was a great treat that day at the G.

 

[Hillite]

Coached Wentworth ( his home town i think) in the Sunraysia Football League for the last two years after knocking back an offer from Port Adelaide. Broke his leg in the first game of the 2006 season may have played at the end of 2006 his side went out in the preliminary in 2006 (i think) In 2007 he broke his jaw first or second game came back and again his side went out early in the finals.
Don't quote me though.

 

[boydsno1]

i liked alvey. though he played well more times then not.

 

[Throughandthrough]

Coached Wentworth ( his home town i think) in the Sunraysia Football League for the last two years after knocking back an offer from Port Adelaide. Broke his leg in the first game of the 2006 season may have played at the end of 2006 his side went out in the preliminary in 2006 (i think) In 2007 he broke his jaw first or second game came back and again his side went out early in the finals.
Don't quote me though.

Didn't make many friends @ Port Adelaide Magpies....

Very "interesting" chain of events. Allegedly.

 

[Pigdog]

Mark Alvey = Sheepdog