Past Players Thread

[goal sneak]

Thought i would make a thread where we could talk about past players and how great or not so great they were. Talk about your favourite moments from that player and anything else you wish to talk about.

Feel free to add a player.

i'll get the ball started with one of my all time favourites in Stephen Tingay.

Energetic, industrious and highly creative, Stephen Tingay was one of the best and most highly respected Melbourne footballers of the 1990s. Recruited from Shepparton, he made his VFL debut in 1989, and over the ensuing eleven seasons went on to play 162 games and kick 84 goals. His best season was 1994 when he finished second in Melbourne's best and fairest award and was chosen in the AFL All Australian team.

 

[turtz]

Thought i would make a thread where we could talk about past players and how great or not so great they were. Talk about your favourite moments from that player and anything else you wish to talk about.

Feel free to add a player.

i'll get the ball started with one of my all time favourites in Stephen Tingay.

Energetic, industrious and highly creative, Stephen Tingay was one of the best and most highly respected Melbourne footballers of the 1990s. Recruited from Shepparton, he made his VFL debut in 1989, and over the ensuing eleven seasons went on to play 162 games and kick 84 goals. His best season was 1994 when he finished second in Melbourne's best and fairest award and was chosen in the AFL All Australian team.

I loved stinga! However, Jeff Farmer is still my favourite past melbourne player!

 

[goDees22]

omg, 2 posts and still no mention of the Ox? A disgrace.

He was the heart and soul of the team, everyone says "he would've been a champion", but the facts are that he was STILL a champion. He completely changed his gamestyle because he had half his spring left, and managed to play for the Big V, win a B&F and fly the flag for us in a grand final, producing the highlight of the day, a nice bodyslam on jim hird. He was my favourite player as a kid, and probably always will be.

 

[Major Colvin]

Allen Jakovich

One of the reasons I started supporting this club. Loved his personality and flamboyant playing style. Talent-wise he's a good a player as I've seen. Only 47 games but they were all special. Characters of the game like him just don't exist anymore.

 

[StingaArmstrong]

My two all time favourite have been mentioned: Stephen Tingay and David Schwarz.

Stinga: Just a great player, often over looked when talking about some of Melbourne's great players. I think he is definitely up there, was an All Australian, one of the most courageous players we've ever had beautifully skilled on both feet. My favourite highlight that sums him up perfectly was a game vs Adelaide at Footy park, running full spring back with the flight eyes taking juggling mark. Had no idea what was coming but kept running and took the mark.

The Ox: Simply an inspiration, coming from his 1994 season, to then his three knee reco's and returning to become a B & F winner. An awesome player, and a legend. A true legend.

Some other favourites:
Ricky Jackson - dont know why, maybe it was his name, i was kid when he was running around though.
Garry Lyon - not much needs to be said

 

[Pipefitter]

Cant go past Allen Jackovich. Remember watching him kicking 11 one day. As a kid loved Ricky Jackson. I loved ingerson as well. He was a wall in defence.

 

[Pipefitter]

Oh how could i forget Rod Grinter. He was a dirty mongrel of a player. We players like him again...

 

[Sylvia Saint]

Nick Pesch, genuine superstar.

 

[CowboyFromHell]

Some of my all time favourites are:

Todd McHardy
Glenn Molloy
"Disco" Lamprill
Luke Norman
Damien Gapsar
Luke Ottens
Greg Doyle

All 90's Melbourne CHAMPIONS!!

 

[bringbackschwarter5]

Schwarz was a superstar,would have won a brownlow and been better then Wayne Carey if it wasnt for his three knee reco's

 

[Sylvia Saint]

Let's not forget Robert Pyman, or Darren O'Brien, Nick Carter, Dud Cockatoo-Collins brother #1, Dud Cockatoo-Collins brother #2, James Cook, Ross Funcke, Gary Moorcroft, Steven Pitt, Haydn Robbins, Clay Sampson, Craig Smoker, Hayden Lamaro and Craig Nettelbeck!!!

Sheesh, we've had our fair share of duds in recent times!

 

[davey_magik]

Where the hell is Jimmy?
I watched this guy as a 5 year old and even then I marvelled at how he ran all day and gave everything he had even if we were 10 goals down.
He was and still is a champion. I only hope our current no.11 is half as good as Jimmy was.

 

[Johnson#26]

Wow, some names here!

How about Matthew Blake? Where'd he end up? (Circa 1998/1999).

Sorry to intrude, but I love digging up the whereabouts of players from days gone by.

What's happened to Andrew Lamprill, Lamaro, Nettlebeck, Peash, McHardy and Jeff Hilton since retirement?

 

[Bartram_Class]

Who could forget Darren Kowal?

What a star he was, who was the big ruckman we had for a while there, Mark Brady or something?

 

[StingaArmstrong]

Wow, some names here!

How about Matthew Blake? Where'd he end up? (Circa 1998/1999).

Sorry to intrude, but I love digging up the whereabouts of players from days gone by.

What's happened to Andrew Lamprill, Lamaro, Nettlebeck, Peash, McHardy and Jeff Hilton since retirement?

The only one i know about there is Andrew Lamprill. He's currently coaching Hobart in the SFL. Took over after a few weeks when they sacked the coach, took them to a prelim i think.

 

[CowboyFromHell]

Who could forget Darren Kowal?

What a star he was, who was the big ruckman we had for a while there, Mark Brady or something?

Bradly*. He was crap. REALLY crap.

Big Leigh Newton could have been anything except his body didn't agree.

My fave players were, in this order as I grew up: Ricky Jackson, Allen Jakovich, Matthew Febey, David Schwarz and Jeff Farmer. Not sure if I really have one now though.

 

[goal sneak]

Brent Girgic anyone?

My favourite was the OX too. Such a shame his career was savaged by knee injuries. Could have been one of the greatest ever.

 

[Johnson#26]

Thanks, Stinga. I think he coached/played for Vermot in the EFL for a while, too.

 

[turtz]

omg, 2 posts and still no mention of the Ox? A disgrace.

He was the heart and soul of the team, everyone says "he would've been a champion", but the facts are that he was STILL a champion. He completely changed his gamestyle because he had half his spring left, and managed to play for the Big V, win a B&F and fly the flag for us in a grand final, producing the highlight of the day, a nice bodyslam on jim hird. He was my favourite player as a kid, and probably always will be.

Oh don't get me wrong here he is in my top 3! What he did prior to those knee injuries was amazing, i remember my old man saying he would be better than carey. I cried the day he did it the first time. Then the time he did it against sydney, me and the old man nearly got in a punch on with a sydney supporter that was bagging him. It's the only time i have seen my old man get heck ing angry other than at me or my brother.

 

[goDees22]

Who could forget Darren Kowal?

What a star he was, who was the big ruckman we had for a while there, Mark Brady or something?

Mark bradly. Came back to our local league and i only saw one game of him quite a few years ago and thought he was a complete dud, played against him this year and he won the league B&F, so he obviously just took a bloody long time to get good. He'd be about 27, 28 now.

good ol' darren kowal could those shorts be any tighter, or higher? I very much doubt it, without cutting off circulation to your legs.

Stinga was a gun, he just had so many damn injuries, really dodgy hammies. He came back from the dead in 98 and had some HUGE cannons on him, had a pretty good year too.

Ingerson was our only decent defender from 97-2002 basically. He was a rock down there, kind of like carroll now, except he has a bit of support. Both took their time to get going and became invaluable down there, hopefully chopper can back it up

 

[stickman11]

Loved SS Steven Stretch. Fantastic player.

Newport was pretty good

But Wight was the best

 

[Sylvia Saint]

The Shanahan-Ingerson duo down back was the main reason we went so far in the good old days of 1998 IMO.

 

[Courtney27]

Hi everyone,

I am undertaking a PhD and am on the search for some data, specifically player positions. Most of this info is easily accessible however, finding player positions for players drafted in the early-mid nineties and who either didn't play a senior game or didn't play many has proven quite difficult!

I am using quite broad positional categories (mid, fwd or def) and while many players are moved around various positions I am looking for the position where they spent the majority of time. Please see below a list of Melbourne past players who I need positions for. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Courtney

(Sorry if I have posted in the wrong section!)

Blake, Matthew
Cockatoo-Collins, Donald
Gardiner, Clayton
Gehling, Ashley
O'Brien, Shannon
Speers, Luke
Taylor, Luke
Berry, Micah
Buckley, Niall
MacKay, Matthew
Merritt, Garry
Norrish, Jason
Panozzo, Robert
White, Nick
Clarke, Daniel
Hall, Brad
Jeffery, Brett
Kluzek, Matthew
McHardy, Todd
Norman, Luke
Ormond-Allen, Trent
Polley, Michael
Prentice, Michael
Sampson, Clay
Simister, Scott
Craig, Mitchell

 

[d33my]

Couldn't figure out what was going on when I opened this. I didn't recognise any names, I thought it was some sort of elaborate troll. Then I noticed the dates.

A site that might help you Courtney27 is demonwiki.org

 

[Tempy Tiger]

Brent Girgic anyone?

My favourite was the OX too. Such a shame his career was savaged by knee injuries. Could have been one of the greatest ever.

I loved Schwarz until he squibbed it in the Granny against Essendon. That thug Dean Wallis was belting all of our kids and the Ox shat himself. Never thought the same of him afterwards.