Vintage Bay Mofra's Bottom 50 for 2018

[TedDougChris]

Will there be an intermission at the half way point of this countdown?

I for one cannot keep up with the pace.....

 

[hawkman]

Saint supporters claimed they won that trade at the time

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Final 10 on Christmas Eve.

 

[Mofra]

Player #25 - Josh Green

Pictured: I assume that this is the best photo they took for his profile picture

Josh Green is a red head from Tasmania who played for Essendon, because life is cruel and karma doesn't exist. He's probably left handed as well.

A former second round who played for the Brisbane Lions, Green found himself on the trade table when he asked Brisbane for $500k pa and after presumably laughing for a solid 34 minutes, said no and put him on the trade table. Essendon (desperate for a trade win, the only wins they ever manage after August) signed him as a delisted free agent and he continued to be fringe for a team that can rarely make finals let alone win them.

This year Green started ok, kicking 6 goals in his first three games (for a total of one win) before he managed 2 goals in his remaining 4 games of the year. Essendon preferred 'anyone' for most of the remaining 2018 season with Green actually playing in Essendon's best win for the year - the round 14 victory over eventual premiers West Coast where he managed no goals and 4 disposals (in total) while picking up 4 clangers. Effectively, he would have been better off not playing that day which would have also reduced his risk of sunburn. Given his complexion he is rumoured to have been nick-named 'the anti-Hird' which, in fairness, describes most AFL fans.

Josh Jenkins, the co-president of the 'Joe the Goose' club offered his immediate condolences upon Green's delisting.
Nah I joke, he got someone else to write it then just signed his name underneath it.

Fun fact: In 2014 & 2015 he was Brisbane's leading goal-kicker, which led to the AFL stepping in to offer the club assistance.
Clearly his best football was played outside of the Tulla bubble.

Anyway Josh kudos on getting signed by two AFL clubs, welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2018.

 

[carnthedons]

DERO

 

[____]

Fun fact: In 2014 & 2015 he was Brisbane's leading goal-kicker, which led to the AFL stepping in to offer the club assistance.
Clearly his best football was played outside of the Tulla bubble.

He actually was good for us in 2014 (and before), but gradually got worse under Leppa's coaching (but again who didn't get worse under Leppa)

 

[MC Bad Genius]

Player #25 - Josh Green

Pictured: I assume that this is the best photo they took for his profile picture

Josh Green is a red head from Tasmania who played for Essendon, because life is cruel and karma doesn't exist. He's probably left handed as well.

A former second round who played for the Brisbane Lions, Green found himself on the trade table when he asked Brisbane for $500k pa and after presumably laughing for a solid 34 minutes, said no and put him on the trade table. Essendon (desperate for a trade win, the only wins they ever manage after August) signed him as a delisted free agent and he continued to be fringe for a team that can rarely make finals let alone win them.

This year Green started ok, kicking 6 goals in his first three games (for a total of one win) before he managed 2 goals in his remaining 4 games of the year. Essendon preferred 'anyone' for most of the remaining 2018 season with Green actually playing in Essendon's best win for the year - the round 14 victory over eventual premiers West Coast where he managed no goals and 4 disposals (in total) while picking up 4 clangers. Effectively, he would have been better off not playing that day which would have also reduced his risk of sunburn. Given his complexion he is rumoured to have been nick-named 'the anti-Hird' which, in fairness, describes most AFL fans.

Josh Jenkins, the co-president of the 'Joe the Goose' club offered his immediate condolences upon Green's delisting.
Nah I joke, he got someone else to write it then just signed his name underneath it.

Fun fact: In 2014 & 2015 he was Brisbane's leading goal-kicker, which led to the AFL stepping in to offer the club assistance.
Clearly his best football was played outside of the Tulla bubble.

Anyway Josh kudos on getting signed by two AFL clubs, welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2018.

Get lost. That's not a footballer. That's Luke McGregor.

 

[3rd Grade Maggy]

Player #25 - Josh Green

Pictured: I assume that this is the best photo they took for his profile picture

Josh Green is a red head from Tasmania who played for Essendon, because life is cruel and karma doesn't exist. He's probably left handed as well.

A former second round who played for the Brisbane Lions, Green found himself on the trade table when he asked Brisbane for $500k pa and after presumably laughing for a solid 34 minutes, said no and put him on the trade table. Essendon (desperate for a trade win, the only wins they ever manage after August) signed him as a delisted free agent and he continued to be fringe for a team that can rarely make finals let alone win them.

This year Green started ok, kicking 6 goals in his first three games (for a total of one win) before he managed 2 goals in his remaining 4 games of the year. Essendon preferred 'anyone' for most of the remaining 2018 season with Green actually playing in Essendon's best win for the year - the round 14 victory over eventual premiers West Coast where he managed no goals and 4 disposals (in total) while picking up 4 clangers. Effectively, he would have been better off not playing that day which would have also reduced his risk of sunburn. Given his complexion he is rumoured to have been nick-named 'the anti-Hird' which, in fairness, describes most AFL fans.

Josh Jenkins, the co-president of the 'Joe the Goose' club offered his immediate condolences upon Green's delisting.
Nah I joke, he got someone else to write it then just signed his name underneath it.

Fun fact: In 2014 & 2015 he was Brisbane's leading goal-kicker, which led to the AFL stepping in to offer the club assistance.
Clearly his best football was played outside of the Tulla bubble.

Anyway Josh kudos on getting signed by two AFL clubs, welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2018.

Has there ever been a player that more like an Essendon player than this campaigner?

 

[Mofra]

Player #24 - Hayden Ballantyne

Pictured: Hayden struggles to understand why he is unpopular in some football circles

Ballantyne is.. still playing? Holy shit crazy Rossy really does hate developing the kids.

Hayden Ballantyne is a former all Australian in 2014 and has been in decline ever since. This year he continued to contribute to whatever the hell Lyon is intent on doing at the Dockers. Say what you will about Terry Wallace, or Mao Zedong. At least they had five year plans.

Anyway Hayden somehow managed over a goal per game this year and almost 7 effective disposals per game, while reducing his average tackle count by 40% at a time when pressure in the forward 50 has become even more important at AFL level. He's not so much off trend as anti-trend. I bet he's still on MySpace, and not ironically either.

For some reason Peel Thunder have named a part of their ground the "Hayden Ballantyne wing" which is the worst piece of labelling since Susan Boyle's album launched under the hashtag of #susanalbumparty. You surely wouldn't want to sit on any stand on that wing - it would be too short to fit under properly and topple over at the slightest contact.

Fun fact: Ballantyne almost became an Eagle at the end of 2016 but the Eagles 'ran out of money' after they signed Sam Mitchell to play for a year before moving into coaching.
Fun fact 2: At 174cm he towers over Caleb Daniel (and probably Starburns).
Fun fact 3: Matty Scarlett has three Premiership medallions, a bunch of AA medals, and describes punching Hayden as the highlight of his career.

Hayden, Ballas, well done on retirem... contracted for next year? Oh, yeah sure Freo must be in their window after shedding B&F Lachie Neale.
Crazy Rossy never change, and Haydo welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2018.

 

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

Whoa, slow down Mofra!
I can't keep up with these constant list updates.

 

[DERO]

Player #25 - Josh Green

Pictured: I assume that this is the best photo they took for his profile picture

Josh Green is a red head from Tasmania who played for Essendon, because life is cruel and karma doesn't exist. He's probably left handed as well.

A former second round who played for the Brisbane Lions, Green found himself on the trade table when he asked Brisbane for $500k pa and after presumably laughing for a solid 34 minutes, said no and put him on the trade table. Essendon (desperate for a trade win, the only wins they ever manage after August) signed him as a delisted free agent and he continued to be fringe for a team that can rarely make finals let alone win them.

This year Green started ok, kicking 6 goals in his first three games (for a total of one win) before he managed 2 goals in his remaining 4 games of the year. Essendon preferred 'anyone' for most of the remaining 2018 season with Green actually playing in Essendon's best win for the year - the round 14 victory over eventual premiers West Coast where he managed no goals and 4 disposals (in total) while picking up 4 clangers. Effectively, he would have been better off not playing that day which would have also reduced his risk of sunburn. Given his complexion he is rumoured to have been nick-named 'the anti-Hird' which, in fairness, describes most AFL fans.

Josh Jenkins, the co-president of the 'Joe the Goose' club offered his immediate condolences upon Green's delisting.
Nah I joke, he got someone else to write it then just signed his name underneath it.

Fun fact: In 2014 & 2015 he was Brisbane's leading goal-kicker, which led to the AFL stepping in to offer the club assistance.
Clearly his best football was played outside of the Tulla bubble.

Anyway Josh kudos on getting signed by two AFL clubs, welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2018.

 

[DERO]

Has there ever been a player that more like an Essendon player than this campaigner?

 

[DERO]

carnthedons

Thoughts?

 

[carnthedons]

carnthedons

Thoughts?

Mofra going after low hanging fruit and a possible injury troll. The corg deserves more respect.

Quality graphics work from you and entirely reflective of his place among our great number 15s of times past

 

[Mojorisin]

Moving at an incredible speed now

 

[TedDougChris]

Moving at an incredible speed now

I can’t keep up, need a lie down....

 

[harry000]

Been holding a piss since the start of the list.. still waiting for that intermission

 

[TedDougChris]

Been holding a piss since the start of the list.. still waiting for that intermission

 

[vjknight]

Will there be an intermission at the half way point of this countdown?

It's not as if it's gonna go on and on and on for four or five years, is it ?

#imagine

 

[Mofra]

Player #23 - Billy Hartung

Pictured: Yeah she's a great horse, runs all day. Huge heart, I just knew she'd kick into the turn

Billy Hartung is a superb runner. Unfortunately, there is more to football than running.

Billy has featured before and is a dual-delistee within the space of 12 months (Hawthorn, and North). What is amazing about Billy's departure is that shortly before and even after his delisting we had North fans not just saying he's AFL quality, but inferring he's elite (note: the following quotes are only a few months old!)

Gaff>Polec>Billy

Billy unlucky that the best two wingers are coming to replace him. He should get picked up by another team. A lot of teams could go with someone with outside pace and run. The bottom 5 for starters. Billy is still young too.

In saying that I think Gaff, Polec, Smith, and Hartung are the best pure wingers in the league. North may have gotten ridden of him as they could potentially be getting 2 of them.

Still the recruit of the season is young bill.

On 2018 form only Gaff is out performing him.

*cue sage nodding by North automatons who think he's better than Issac Smith*

Here's the rub: Billy is more terrified of contact with another man than Lyle Shelton, is not particularly damaging by foot, is so outside he needs to carry his player's pass during the game so he can re-enter the stadium after stoppages and Hawks fans seem to indicate off-field issues as a contributing factor behind his first delisting (more Hartung's entourage being a little demanding).
All this adds up to a player who racks them up big but avoid the blows, so we won't be seeing a video of Hartung with the chant of *sausage, sausage* anytime soon.

Fun fact: He holds the AFL combine beep test record with 16.6
Fun fact 2: He kicked 20 goals in an under 14s match against Dromana, although to be fair that was during bye week this year (refer to picture above for his boyish looks).

Billy boy, kudos on making it onto two AFL club lists. Welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2018.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Saint supporters claimed they won that trade at the time

It was a pretty good trade, we got Shane Savage ,and Pick 18 and Pick 19, For McEvoy 24 and 59.

The picks we got were good enough to get Matt Crouch and Toby Nankervis, leaving us to take Zach Merrett with our originial second rounder.
McEvoy goes OK but I'd rather have Savage, Crouch , Merrett and Nankurvis..

Unfortunately we got Luke Dunstan, Blake Acres and traded our second rounder on Billy.

 

[Mofra]

Pick 22 - Mitch Honeychurch

Pictured: No, that's not the work experience kid. That's Travis Cloke

Mitch Honeychurch is a small mid/forward who was on the Bulldogs list for 5 years.

At 175cm and 70kgs he was tried in multiple positions and tried his best but it just never happened for him. At that height and weight you need to be exceptionally good and Mitch was an honest toiler at best.

He wasn't going to win much contested ball at that size, but lacked the pace and footskills to be particularly damaging on the outside, and as a small forward... well, he kicked 3 goals from 13 games this year which ranked him 22nd on the Bulldogs list for goals kicked behind such big name AFL players as Fergus Greene and Bailey Dale.

Mitch Honeychurch tried but the real litmus test is that he played in 3 wins and 10 losses this year, indicating the Bulldogs played better when there was the option of selecting other players (almost any other players). Basically he's Clippy - tried to help but ended up getting in the way, ruining the format, wasting time and why are you changing the font size JUST GET OFF MY &^%$KING SCREEN YOU STUPID BLOODY PAPERCLIP &^%$ YOU BILL GATES!!!!!

Pictured: The most hated metal on the planet until Limp Bizkit started

Mitch was delisted and next year instead of playing VFL (where he is a dual premiership player) he is going to play for Vermont which was his junior club,
Fun fact: Honeychurch kicked a goal with his first kick in AFL football.

Good luck next year Mitch, you busted a gut but it never quite clicked. Welcome to this years' Bottom 50.

 

[74561347]

More like bitch honeychurch

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Thank god , i thought it was just me that had the irrational hatred for that paperclip.
Its gay as well, not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[sthmelb_dimmies]

5. Ryan Schoenmakers
4. Tex Walker
3. Cyril Rioli
2. Kurt Tippett
1. Tom Boyd