Opinion Names that Failed Your Expectations.

[eth-dog]

He did indeed. 14 games, 13 brownlow votes, two torn hamstrings. He was Hird-like in 2008.

After round 3 I was thinking "****, he's a fair shout for the Charlie this year". Did his Hammy a week later.

 

[TheFrenchCut]

Kav.

I still believe in #ThatHandball

 

[bombersfan4000]

I wanted Simon Eastaugh to amount to a thing, but he never did.

He dropped the F bomb on live tv after
they interviewed him after the vfl team won the GF

 

[kleanr]

Can I say Andrew Lovett?


Elliot Kav for mine. Thought we got the best player in the draft.

You sure can. Bloke had talent in spades yet we only saw it 2% of the time. He rarely chased or ran out a 4 quarter game. I attribute his downfall to his unchecked ego...and the white skunk stripe he put in his hair

 

[bomberman500]

Aaron Henneman...

Gumby and a few others had careers curtailed by injury, but for mine Henneman seemed to be given endless chances

 

[foj1]

Ricky olerenshaw played a magnificent grand final which was the pinnacle of his career.
Paul hills the same thing.
I always thought Michael Werner could be a good player.
Neale Daniher would have been an all time great but for injury.

 

[Doss]

Ricky's grand final almost bought him the best ever Essendon number 47 title alone.

But not quite! Pops!

 

[Run and carry]

I thought Todd Ridley would be an absolute star. Took a lot of hangers.

 

[yodellinhank]

Hal Hunter and Anthony Long barely showed anything at VFL level. Edwards should be in there

I remember a televised game at windy hill where Long was an absolute magnet in the first half before getting injured. So much so that he did the injury and then proceeded to get about 3 kicks whilst trying to get off the field.

Julian Kirzner.

Luke Davis. Ripper pre season and supposedly in line for senior selection early, only to get injured and disappear.

Also Andrew Lee, not from a thought he'd be any good, more a guy i had hoped would become something as he had #32

 

[naraku]

Melksham

So stoked we got him in the draft and backed him up to about 2 years before he left.

Darcy Daniher
Injury got him looked solid.

Darren Walsh & Tyson Slatterly.

Both looked good in there brief careers but neither could quite cut it and make it at AFl level.

Unfortunately, Long looks destined for that list now.

 

[Philzsay]

Lewis Blackmore.

When this 19yo kid kicked 4 goals on debut in the latter part of 1905 I was thinking "You beauty, we have found one!"

Then when he followed that up kicking one of our only four goals the next week, and again one of our only four goals the week after in our Semi Final loss to Fitzroy, it took away some of the pain of bowing out of the finals without much of a whimper knowing we had a kid with the potential to lead us to a 3rd Premiership.

Alas it was not to be, with Blackmore playing just 3 games in 1906 and only one in 1907 before retiring to work at a farm with his brother in NSW.


A footnote, he later enlisted after the declaration of WW1, dieing in the Battle of Pozieres in France in 1916 at just the age of 30.

 

[Doss]

You young buck Philzsay.

 

[Mad Bomber Sean]

I wonder how soon we will be talking about Aaron Francis in the breath as Gumby, Laycock, Johns, Neagle Lovett etc

 

[Doss]

Hopefully not at all.





misery gutses!

 

[yodellinhank]

Hopefully not at all.





misery gutses!

What if the sentence was "Geez I'm glad francis came good, unlike..."

 

[Mad Bomber Sean]

I hope y'all are right. I sure want this guy to prove me wrong.

 

[Doss]

What if the sentence was "Geez I'm glad francis came good, unlike..."

Bettererer!

 

[bombersfan4000]

Aaron Henneman...

Gumby and a few others had careers curtailed by injury, but for mine Henneman seemed to be given endless chances

Henneman was a flog! There had been a bit of press about him when sheedy moved him to the forward line. He kicked a few goals In a low scoring game whilst playing there & mouthed off a bit in the media that week!

 

[yaco55]

Sheedy cost us Richards because he preferred to play Henneman - Henneman was barely EDFL standard.

 

[Vindicater]

I thought Neagle would come good...

 

[Doss]

He came good on the pies.

 

[CricketXI]

Ty Zantuck

I didn't know too much about him at the time we traded him in, but the fact that Sheedy wanted him set my expectations that he was going to deliver.

I first saw him play at Football Park where he shanked that kick for goal out on the full.

 

[carnthedons]

Sheedy cost us Richards because he preferred to play Henneman - Henneman was barely EDFL standard.

We’ve had our share of questionable KPPs. Hennemann, Matty Banks, Johns, Neagle, Lalich. Ted Richards was used mainly as a HFF as I recall.

I thought Bradley was going to be a star CHB. Damn pick 6 curse. Francis, you better buck the trend.

 

[yodellinhank]

We’ve had our share of questionable KPPs. Hennemann, Matty Banks, Johns, Neagle, Lalich. Ted Richards was used mainly as a HFF as I recall.

I thought Bradley was going to be a star CHB. Damn pick 6 curse. Francis, you better buck the trend.

Ross Lyon made a comment when talking about Zac Dawson (think it was when he brought him over to freo), that he looked at Kevin Sheedy's sides and the backline was built with a big bodied key player. It's true Sheedy seemed to love a big lump down back.

But you look at his premiership sides (and i think that's what Lyon may have even specified) and the key backs actually seem a little slight or undersized. They were either tall and thin or shorter (for a KPD) if they were big bodied.

Weston, Walsh, Daniher, Harvey, Feltcher, Wallis, Solomon...

 

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Leroy Jetta