Players who always/never played well against your club

[Blues2001]

Please don't shout me down or ignore me because we've done this topic before because I haven't been around here long enough to know.

Anyway, for the Blues, Lockett and Mercuri are two that love(d) to play well against us.
I remember that day at Moorabin in 89 and a day in 91' at Waverley, 10 and 13 goals respectively. He was the one player who SOS just couldn't really cope with very well. Although I remember once we put Dorotich on him and he killed him can you believe.
Mercuri between say 97-99 use to love to pretty much tear us apart. He couldn't put a foot wrong against us.

As for those who never played well against us, that would have to be Carey or Dunstall. Neither saved their best for Carlton it seemed, SOS always seemed to lift for them. Even though we didn't beat north between 96-99 it was never because of him. So I've never thought North were a one man team.
Dunstall never kicked a big bag against us. In the 1990's he was extremely quiet in Carlton games.

What players fit this mould when playing your club(s)?

 

[ah_19]

vs the eagles
players that played well against us were stafford and spider

hird never played well against us, morisson always shut him out completely same with holland, mctosh always shut him out

 

[Shinboners]

Garry Hocking always seemed to save his best for games against North. I think at one stage, he got the 3 Brownlow votes in 5 straight North vs Geelong matches.

The '98 Grand Final apart, Darren Jarman always seemed to struggle against us. John Blakey would be the minder allocated to him and always kept him quiet.

 

[Darky]

Ditto what Shinners said about Hocking and Jarman.

A few years ago, when Paul Hudson was still at Hawthorn, Rossy Smith used to have his measure, and Robert Scott was pretty reliable on Peter Matera.

After a couple of big bags by Jason Dunstall in the late 80s, Martyn and especially Longmire did really well on him in the 90s.

 

[Anton Grbac]

'Hi Ho Saverio'. Rocca always saved his best for us. Averaged almost 7 a game.
Going back a few years, Daicos never did a lot against us. Gary O'Donnell usually kept him pretty much in check. Apart from his two pearlers in the '90 GF, i never really saw much of his brilliance.

where's wally?

 

[Bloodstained Angel]

I'm gonna cop alot of laughs for this, but ...

It seems the Dockers are one team that we just can't seem to handle. They always lift for us and we have had some real problems trying to handle these guys over the years.

In fact it got so bad during the 90's when it was a given fact : Sydney were Fremantle's 'bunnies'

... and our chief tormenter over the years has been (believe it or not) SHAUM MCMANUS.

During 1995-97 especially, nobody seemed to crack the SCG Walnut as well as the hard running Dockers, they had that small but fat ground worked out perfectly and McManus' dashing runs down the flanks literally used to make most Swans fans pull their hair out in frustration.

So, Shaun McManus, take a bow son, at least you knew how to play against the hapless Swans !

cheers

 

[FIGJAM]

I've always found it odd that Peter Matera hasn't been able to do anything whatsoever against the Pies.

I might be proved wrong, but I think we are his bogey team!

 

[Mr Ripper]

Michael Roach! Even in his latter years when he was a crock with that gammy back, he'd kick his 7 or 8 against the Roys. Chris Grant was only a 17 year old recruit when he played the first of many dominant games against Fitzroy; well before he ascended to AFL stardom. Come to think of it, the entire Footscray side seemed to grow a leg when they fronted up against the Roys.

On the other hand, Nicky Winmar always struggled when matched up against Michael Gale; Brian Taylor used to get embarrassed by Gary Pert and Shaun Rehn was Peter Sartori's bunny!

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[windyhill]

Good question,totally agree with Wally,Daicos did stuff all against us,while Rocca toyed with us.

 

[Arch]

Originally posted by Wally:
'Hi Ho Saverio'. Rocca always saved his best for us. Averaged almost 7 a game.

you got in first didnt ya Wal ??? Maybe North just picked him up to try and get an edge on us alone ???? Ill be most interested to see how he goes in rnd 1.

Apart from that- Lockett never seemed to have a blinder against us that I could remember, there was always some brave soul dropping into his path.

 

[TigerTank]

Steve Alessio is useless if you ask most Essendon supporters, but every time I see him against the Tigers he looks like a star.

In days past Ablett saved his best for Richmond, as did Dunstall until Scott Turner finally worked out how to play against him.

As for the opposite end of the equation, Nathan Bower used to play one good game a year - against Peter Matera, while Ross Funcke had a pretty good record against Farmer.

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[Catman]

Dunstall always flogged us when he played us. So much so that we even played the great man on him once, only for a quarter mind you.

 

[Anton Grbac]

Originally posted by Arch:
you got in first didnt ya Wal ??? Maybe North just picked him up to try and get an edge on us alone ???? Ill be most interested to see how he goes in rnd 1.

Apart from that- Lockett never seemed to have a blinder against us that I could remember, there was always some brave soul dropping into his path.

Sorry Arch,
That's twice i've got in first!
I posted a reply in the 'Great you don't rate' thread about Plugger. Mentioning Wally's very good record on the big fella.

where's wally?

 

[Waltzing Woof Biscuit]

In my youth, just about anybody and everybody seemed to play a cracker against the poor doggies. But West Coast seemed to have a really good run against us, and I recall Peter Sumich always relishing the thought of running amuk in our backline. Kicked 13 against us once.



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[Arch]

Originally posted by Wally:
Sorry Arch,
That's twice i've got in first!
I posted a reply in the 'Great you don't rate' thread about Plugger. Mentioning Wally's very good record on the big fella.

where's wally?

DOH !!! oh well. I try

 

[greggo]

During the long one-sided rivalry between WC and the dockers it always seemed like Brett Heady played above his ability. In later derbys Chad Morrison did the same.

 

[JUBJUB]

The whole Geelong footy team struggle everytime we play Hawthorn.

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[gocatsgo]

Here is one out of the blocks!

Allen Jokovich always seemed to give Geelong hell. Dunstall of course loved to play against Geelong, even got his hundred at Geelong one year.

1992 In round 1 Dunstall kicked 12 and in round 2 Jokovich kicked 11.

Matera only ever played one good game against Geelong and since then Riccardi has had his measure.

 

[JUBJUB]

But GOCAT Matera did it in the game that counted.

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[The Dutchman!]

Good topic this.

Funny, great minds think alike...

First call would also definitely be Sav Snr - particularly that Anzac Day game he kicked 10 and should have had more when he took that speccie over Rhino - how such a heavy man got that far off the ground is beyong me.

Underperformer: I would say the whole Carlton football club (1981 - 1990) including three premiership years - if they beat up 5 times in that period I would be very surprised...

Dutchy

PS. AH_19 - I see to recall two games when Jimmy Hird carved up the Eagles - 93 and 96 finals series games... don't know about last year as I didn't see them.

 

[Mr Ripper]

gocatsgo recalled:
Matera only ever played one good game against Geelong and since then Riccardi has had his measure.

I think you'll find Matera knocked up about 30 kicks in the '92 Second Semi as well!

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[Ms.Storm]

Darren Gasper and many tiges like Kellaway and Knights always do well against the Demons.
Budda Hocking is another.
James Hird (unfortunately) too.

Cheers.
GO DEMONS
GO STORM

 

[jod23]

I always thought Jakovich vs Carey was great to watch and with my WCE glasses on i will say that Carey has never really taken apart the Eagles cos Jako was always there.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Watching a vid of the '86 1st Semi last night, it occurred to me that Tony Morwood always played well against the Roys. Very well in fact. He had to though, cos Capper rarely got a touch on Perty.

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[Mr Ripper]

Simon Minton-Connell used to kill us too!

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