Opinion Names that Failed Your Expectations.

[RedmanWasHere]

A few boards have this thread so hey what's another one.

Like the other threads, injury riddled players need not be nominated please (something for mods to nut out.)

After being traded from Freo, I thought Adam McPhee was gonna smash it after winning the B&F in 2004.

That never eventuated despite myself hanging on to a glimmer of hope he'd be consistent again.


2013-14, I thought/hoped Jackson Merrett would turn out to be a star/gun/elite player.

His brother's onto bigger and better things.


HM to Ben Howlett.

Your turn.

 

[Liberator]

Willie Dick.
And on a similar tangent, Jason Laycock. Those fragile chicken-like foot bones of his...

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Willie Dick.
And on a similar tangent, Jason Laycock. Those fragile chicken-like foot bones of his...

Laycock comfortably the worst Don for me.

 

[Run and carry]

Brad Plain and Tony Antrobus. It was sad not to see the best of him. Injuries weren't kind.

 

[tesla1962]

Wayne Beddison, 10 games in 1983 - could have been anything but missed the farm too much and went home to Dimboola. Not quite Cupido but up there.

 

[yaco55]

Wayne Beddison, 10 games in 1983 - could have been anything but missed the farm too much and went home to Dimboola. Not quite Cupido but up there.

Beddison was more talented than Cupido - He was the one who got away.

 

[tesla1962]

Beddison was more talented than Cupido - He was the one who got away.

I reckon Cupido was more talented but lazier. Different types of players though.

 

[Duckworth]

Shane Harvey. So close, and yet so far.

 

[SherbertLemon]

Bit of a recent one, but I actually really rated Yestin Eades

 

[Old Campaigner]

Pretty much anyone we've drafted and then delisted since I started paying attention to such matters

 

[Blind Turn]

Antrobus, Beddison, Plain, and Cupido are definitely up there for me.

Another one who arrived at the club when Antrobus came across was Andrew Underwood whom I thought would be a beast of a player; the original 'Muscles', pre-Marigliani.

Stephen Copping also came over a bit earlier. Managed to kick a few goals, and in finals too but turned out he was a bit one-dimensional.

Wayne Otway was during the same era. Was a very talented small forward/rover but for whatever reason left just before we became successful.

Then there's Raines and Richardson...

 

[boncer34]

Jay ****ing Nash.

Beautiful kick. Just couldn't touch the ball.

 

[Mad Bomber Sean]

Courtney Johns should get a mention here....

Gumby is a another.

 

[gdaytiger2001]

Doc Weildon for me, got so excited when we picked this bloke up in the 1995 draft.
Then on the eve of getting picked for his first game he got out on the sauce, got hit my a taxi in king street and never played again.

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

Don't mention the war.

 

[JDavey]

A few boards have this thread so hey what's another one.

Like the other threads, injury riddled players need not be nominated please (something for mods to nut out.)

After being traded from Freo, I thought Adam McPhee was gonna smash it after winning the B&F in 2004.

That never eventuated despite myself hanging on to a glimmer of hope he'd be consistent again.


2013-14, I thought/hoped Jackson Merrett would turn out to be a star/gun/elite player.

His brother's onto bigger and better things.


HM to Ben Howlett.

Your turn.

When we finally took him out of the pocket and put him on the wing and he had around 3 ~30 disposal games I thought he was going to come good to

 

[RedmanWasHere]

When we finally took him out of the pocket and put him on the wing and he had around 3 ~30 disposal games I thought he was going to come good to

That just tells me that players should play in the position they were well versed at pre-draft.

 

[VelvetSledge]

Dean Rioli. Deserved to play another 150 games but just loved pies too much.

 

[windyhill]

Cupes.
End thread.

 

[Runk]

Wayne Beddison, 10 games in 1983 - could have been anything but missed the farm too much and went home to Dimboola. Not quite Cupido but up there.

Oh WOW! There's a name I haven't heard in years!!

 

[eth-dog]

Shaun ****ing Edwards.

 

[DERO]

Aaron Francis

 

[Doss]

Ben Howlett strikes me as an odd nomination for this.

I would have thought it was always reasonably obvious that he is hard working rather than prodigiously talented type, and with that in mind his career hardly strikes me as being disappointing.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Ben Howlett strikes me as an odd nomination for this.

I would have thought it was always reasonably obvious that he is hard working rather than prodigiously talented type, and with that in mind his career hardly strikes me as being disappointing.

His first season really impressed me.

Thought he was gonna go on from there.

 

[2one2]

Tayte Pears for me