or the other way round... haha
Most disappointing flash in the pan player
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kane249
Wibble
- Oct 27, 2006
- 52,160
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Jako Darling
Team Captain
Austin Wonnaeamirri
Traded to Fremantle
That was the "then".
Nup.
Played many good games.
Greg Wilkinson is still rubbing his neck, wondering why he has sprigg marks in his neck.
Nomad12
Team Captain
- Nov 19, 2013
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Not sure if mentioned but Brad Dalziell? From memory broke the record for most touches for a debutant at the time playing for the lions, didnt look a star but could run all day and find the footy. Traded home to the eagles I think and never made it.
DarwinRoo
Brownlow Medallist
This thread has Mark McGough's name all over it.
DarwinRoo
Brownlow Medallist
Jason Heatley.
Snake_Baker
The one true King of the North
- Apr 24, 2013
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Jesse Smith. Larke Medallist. Junior superstar.
BOG in Norths 2007 semi final win over Hawthorn at 20 years of age.
Smashed his ankle early in 2008, Only played 2 more games.
Would have almost certainly been a star.
BOG in Norths 2007 semi final win over Hawthorn at 20 years of age.
Smashed his ankle early in 2008, Only played 2 more games.
Would have almost certainly been a star.
- Dec 17, 2006
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One of the most inexplicable cases was that of Brodie Atkinson in the 1990s, a North Adelaide player who was selected early in the 1992 national draft by St Kilda.
Making his debut in the Round 11 St Kilda vs. Brisbane Bears at Waverley Park (the infamous hailstorm match), Atkinson impressed so much that he was awarded 2 Brownlow Medal votes and the Norwich Rising Star nomination for the round. The next round saw St Kilda thrashed by Hawthorn at the same venue, with Atkinson again one of the Saints best for the day. Then Atkinson was omitted for the next St Kilda match and never played senior football for the Saints again, St Kilda delisting their high level draft pick at the end of that season.
Atkinson returned to the SANFL and played for North Adelaide and then Sturt where he won a Magarey Medal, and was drafted again by the Adelaide Crows in the 1998 National Draft. But 6 years on from his stint at St Kilda Atkinson managed only 5 games for the Crows in 1999, and was delisted at season's end.
Making his debut in the Round 11 St Kilda vs. Brisbane Bears at Waverley Park (the infamous hailstorm match), Atkinson impressed so much that he was awarded 2 Brownlow Medal votes and the Norwich Rising Star nomination for the round. The next round saw St Kilda thrashed by Hawthorn at the same venue, with Atkinson again one of the Saints best for the day. Then Atkinson was omitted for the next St Kilda match and never played senior football for the Saints again, St Kilda delisting their high level draft pick at the end of that season.
Atkinson returned to the SANFL and played for North Adelaide and then Sturt where he won a Magarey Medal, and was drafted again by the Adelaide Crows in the 1998 National Draft. But 6 years on from his stint at St Kilda Atkinson managed only 5 games for the Crows in 1999, and was delisted at season's end.
- Apr 10, 2014
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John Butcher.
Burst onto the scene at the end of our worst ever season, picked up a bag of 6 and another bag of 4 in that time.
Then he was doomed from 2012 onwards.
Burst onto the scene at the end of our worst ever season, picked up a bag of 6 and another bag of 4 in that time.
Then he was doomed from 2012 onwards.
iBeng
Intentionally left blank
- Apr 3, 2012
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Patrick Karnezis for mine. Started so promisingly for us, looked like a gun around the goals and had that midfield potential. Then decided he wanted to go to Collingwood, played all of 4 games after 21 for us then...just quit? Decided he didnt want it anymore.
His first season he played 11 games (2011) and kicked goals in all but one match...
His first season he played 11 games (2011) and kicked goals in all but one match...
telsor
Hall of Famer
Justin Plapp...arrived, jumped on opposition players to take some huge marks, became an immediate cult figure, and almost as quickly was worked out by opposition coaches as a one trick pony whose trick could be countered reasonably easily and his star faded rapidly (although he remained a crowd favourite).
and then for some reason, as delistment beaconed, St Kilda traded for him...
and then for some reason, as delistment beaconed, St Kilda traded for him...
Josh Bootsma
His debut and first 2 or 3 games overall were quite good for a first/second year player and had all the makings of a cult figure (funny looking, a name the crowd can yell out when he's near the ball).
Too bad he turned out to be a massive weirdo
His debut and first 2 or 3 games overall were quite good for a first/second year player and had all the makings of a cult figure (funny looking, a name the crowd can yell out when he's near the ball).
Too bad he turned out to be a massive weirdo
- May 2, 2004
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Brian Harris
- Sep 16, 2006
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Jack Anthony
chiwigi
I’ll make tears from your Wines.
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