Mick Martyn.

[Tony Lynn 15]

This is the worst.

I am planning a whole series of these over the off season months.....tossing up at the moment between Stephen O'Reilly and Dylan McLaren.

 

[Aphrodite]

I am planning a whole series of these over the off season months.....tossing up at the moment between Stephen O'Reilly and Dylan McLaren.

They can all go in this thread.

Title will need to change.

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

They can all go in this thread.

Title will need to change.

No, no, no Aph....you of all people understand I like to do things properly so a separate thread it needs to be!

 

[Dominator_7]

This guy is one of the symbols of the darkest period in our history between 2002-2007.
My only memory of this guy is , and I cant remember the specific game, looking at the scoreboard (we were getting hammered), then looking across to him in our backline, and thinking, 'what has my Club become. We're never going to get out of this deep pool of sh1t we're in'
Yeah, I know some people will point to the last few months of Malthouse's reign of terror as a pretty dark time for the Club, and it was, but nothing, NOTHING, will ever compare to the misery we experienced in the Pagan era. Routine beltings, 3 wooden spoons in 5 years, very little talent on the list, no leadership, no money, dilapidated facilities, barely any sponsors, low membership.....

 

[Aphrodite]

No, no, no Aph....you of all people understand I like to do things properly so a separate thread it needs to be!

Blue Room it is then!

 

[ctacp]

I am planning a whole series of these over the off season months.....tossing up at the moment between Stephen O'Reilly and Dylan McLaren.

I, for one, await these threads with Macavanian excitement.

 

[Show_Me_The_Money]

We had a hell of a playing list in 2003..

Angwin, Beasy, Campbell, Davies, French, Livingston, Martyn, McCormick, McKernan, Merrington, Norman, O'Keeffe, Plunkett, Prendergast, Sporn and co..

Mate I reckon Blake Campbell could really play. Davies and Sporn too. Don't underestimate the negative effect Pagan had on our young group. A lot of these guys showed plenty under Britts the previous year but seemed to go backwards at a rate of knots once the Dark Lord got to the club.

 

[Jabba73]

Still trying, still got nothing.

 

[Faz 2000]

 

[Jabba73]

Much prettier

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

I, for one, await these threads with Macavanian excitement.

The way I see it we have 6 months to kill....and kill I will!!

 

[Thrawn]

Mate I reckon Blake Campbell could really play. Davies and Sporn too. Don't underestimate the negative effect Pagan had on our young group. A lot of these guys showed plenty under Britts the previous year but seemed to go backwards at a rate of knots once the Dark Lord got to the club.

Any of the BF vets here remember Spornstar? The Old Dark Navy's? HBF?

 

[thylacine60]

I, for one, await these threads with Macavanian excitement.

pay that.......

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

This guy is one of the symbols of the darkest period in our history between 2002-2007.
My only memory of this guy is , and I cant remember the specific game, looking at the scoreboard (we were getting hammered), then looking across to him in our backline, and thinking, 'what has my Club become. We're never going to get out of this deep pool of sh1t we're in'
Yeah, I know some people will point to the last few months of Malthouse's reign of terror as a pretty dark time for the Club, and it was, but nothing, NOTHING, will ever compare to the misery we experienced in the Pagan era. Routine beltings, 3 wooden spoons in 5 years, very little talent on the list, no leadership, no money, dilapidated facilities, barely any sponsors, low membership.....

.....but we still had each other!

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

Blue Room it is then!

Thread has legs Aph and it is football related so it definitely is not a Blue Roomer!

 

[thylacine60]

gotta say we don't need a series of threads bagging the shit out of ex-players - they did their best - just sayin'..........

 

[Jabba73]

Mick actually played? Thought he spent 6 games on the bench to get to 300.

 

[Aphrodite]

Thread has legs Aph and it is football related so it definitely is not a Blue Roomer!

Totally disagree TL.

Actually what Thy said.

 

[thylacine60]

Mick actually played? Thought he spent 6 games on the bench to get to 300.

that was sam newman........

 

[mediumsizered]

Mate I reckon Blake Campbell could really play. Davies and Sporn too. Don't underestimate the negative effect Pagan had on our young group. A lot of these guys showed plenty under Britts the previous year but seemed to go backwards at a rate of knots once the Dark Lord got to the club.

The blame for Justin Davies' failure to fulfil his potential lies with Justin Davies.

 

[Aphrodite]

gotta say we don't need a series of threads bagging the shit out of ex-players - they did their best - just sayin'..........

This!

 

[thylacine60]

The blame for Justin Davies' failure to fulfil his potential lies with Justin Davies.

injuries, young family at a young age, homesickness (shepparton!) none of it helped..........he'll always have the 3 goal finish against the pies.......

 

[Jabba73]

that was sam newman........

TFS should have benched him 15 years ago.

 

[mediumsizered]

injuries, young family at a young age, homesickness (shepparton!) none of it helped..........he'll always have the 3 goal finish against the pies.......

After that game, I really hoped the penny had dropped for Davies. Alas it was not to be.

 

[Tony Lynn 15]

injuries, young family at a young age, homesickness (shepparton!) none of it helped..........he'll always have the 3 goal finish against the pies.......

I see it slightly different.

I reckon we went through a whole decade and maybe more of pure horror and defeatism. We made poor decisions at board level, got the draft penalties and failed to embrace the changing times. Within this we as supporters clung to any young player coming through and just hoped like hell we could find some ray of light.

There were plenty of them but the one that sticks out for me was Setanta O'hAilpin. This was a bloke who did not even play Gaelic, he was a Hurler from memory and we lauded him like a number 1 draft pick because he was the only great hope we had but in reality he was just a young Irish guy who was a fantastic athlete. So much pressure was put on guys that were mid level players at best.

Justin Davies was another in my opinion, good ordinary footballer who came at a time when we all just wanted to see some new superstar come through in the Navy Blue. I often wonder sometimes did this type of pressure cause some of the player development issues we had or am I reading too much into it?