Strongest player at each club?

[Stenglein's a Champ!]

Who would be the most physically strong players at each club?

These are my guesses;

Adelaide: Mark Ricciutto
Brisbane: Johnathon Brown
Carlton: Adam Bentick
Collingwood: Nathan Buckley and James Clement
Essendon: David Hille
Fremantle: Aaron Sandilands
Geelong: Kent Kingsley
Hawthorn: Robbie Campbell
Kangaroos: Johnathon Hay
Melbourne: David Neitz
Port Adelaide: Ryan Willits
Richmond: Matthew Richardson
St Kilda: Fraser Gehrig
Sydney: Barry Hall
West Coast: Quinten Lynch
Western Bulldogs: Mitch Hahn

I'll adjust these as people inform me.

 

[Jeremias]

I remember reading that Bentick is in the top 2 or 3 strength-wise at the Blues. Bench pressed something ridiculous

 

[Mr Magoo]

I think that you'll find that Carlile Apilate is the strongest player at Port Adelaide.

 

[bus24]

Gehrig can bench the most in the AFL, followed by Roo

 

[UpTheGuts]

Depends on how you assess "strong"... bench press, dead lift etc

At Richmond I think Chris Newman has the best bench press weight.

I stumbled across a Freo training session on holiday about 3 years ago and saw Troy Simmonds doing sets of 5-6 dead lifts on one leg with 60kgs either side, which looked a good way to lose your ability to bend over ever again. He'd be up there.

 

[Waverley73]

Who would be the most physically strong players at each club?

These are my guesses;

Adelaide: Rhett Biglands
Brisbane: Keating or Charman
Carlton: Fevola, Kouta or Lance
Collingwood: Anthony Rocca
Essendon: David Hille
Fremantle: Aaron Sandilands
Geelong: Brad Ottens
Hawthorn: Trent Croad
Kangaroos: Thommo or Hay possibly
Melbourne: Jeff White
Port Adelaide: Warren Tredrea
Richmond: Matthew Richardson
St Kilda: Fraser Gehrig
Sydney: Barry Hall
West Coast: Quinten Lynch
Western Bulldogs: Wil Minson

Unfortunately for Geelong, if Ottens is our strongest bloke he certainly hasn't got the mongrel to go with it.

 

[TheRealComptroller]

I would think David Neitz would have it over Jeff White for the Demons' strongest.

 

[Mofra]

Mitch Hahn might shade Will

 

[Crazyhawk]

Hawthorn: Zac Dawson

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Robbie Campbell is Hawthorn's strongest player.

 

[TheRealComptroller]

Unfortunately for Geelong, if Ottens is our strongest bloke he certainly hasn't got the mongrel to go with it.

They once put these stats in the members' magazine.

In 1998 it was Brett Spinks.

A few years later it was David Mensch.

As for today, Ottens seems like a fair guess. King, before his shoulders went bad, might have been the strongest.

 

[Kooley]

pound for pound, adam bentck

 

[RustyG]

I heard a rumour a few years ago,that George Greegan from the Wallabies had a training session with the Eagles while the Wallabies were in Perth.
Apparently he outlifted everyone in the club by a mile,and made the big men look kind of foolish.

 

[winty]

I read somewhere that Kant Kicksley was benching something in the neighbourhood of 135-140kg. Don't know if he's the strongest at Geelong, or was, but he'd be close to it I think. Wouldn't know it by the way he played though.

 

[Kooley]

I heard a rumour a few years ago,that George Greegan from the Wallabies had a training session with the Eagles while the Wallabies were in Perth.
Apparently he outlifted everyone in the club by a mile,and made the big men look kind of foolish.

must have been in the period when the eagles were scaling back on the juice

 

[Waverley73]

I read somewhere that Kant Kicksley was benching something in the neighbourhood of 135-140kg. Don't know if he's the strongest at Geelong, or was, but he'd be close to it I think. Wouldn't know it by the way he played though.

Might explain why he can't get his guns above his head to take a mark...

 

[newton]

must have been in the period when the eagles were scaling back on the juice

ha ha

 

[jo_lions]

I don't have any stats to back it up, but Daniel Bradshaw. Those guns speak for themselves!

 

[doppleganger]

Bench press wise

Bucks & Clement pies best with 160kg

 

[newton]

Bench press wise

Bucks & Clement pies best with 160kg

wow that's really impressive

 

[murph#3]

I remember reading that Bentick is in the top 2 or 3 strength-wise at the Blues. Bench pressed something ridiculous

no doubt bentick is the strongest player at carlton. im not sure about this but i think he actually has the best bench press of all the blues.

 

[King Elvis]

Do you think the Clubs would disclose it?

Could you get the Clubs to release a list of who their top bench press is, and what they're pushing?

Regardless, size is very deceiving when it comes to benching.

Clyde Rathbone is one of the strongest in the Wallabies, and he's a winger. And I wouldn't be surprised if Gregan had shaded a lot of the Eagles, training for different things and the like.

At the Crows, I'd guess Rutten would be up there, as would Roo, probably Biglands and Thommo.

 

[Stenglein's a Champ!]

I've adjusted my original guesses.

 

[Sylvia Saint]

Bench press is a crappy way of measuring strength.

The best way of finding out the strongest player at a club would be to do a "Strongman" style comp. The events used in the Met-Rx WSM are:

* Farmer's Walk - Competitors carry heavy objects weighing from 275 - 375 lb in each hand for a set distance, and compete for the fastest time. A variation involves use of a heavy frame with parallel handles.
* Yoke Walk - A yoke, composed of a crossbar and two weighted uprights and weighing about 775-880 lb is carried across the shoulders for a set distance.
* Loading - Five heavy objects weighing 220-360 lb are loaded onto a truck bed or a similar platform over a course of about 50 ft.
* McGlashen Stones / Atlas Stones - Five heavy round stones weighing from 265-400 lb each are put on top of high platforms. The course is about 16-33 ft. long. In recent competition this is typically the final event.
* Husafell Stone - a flat, somewhat triangular rock weighing around 400 lb is carried high on the chest for distance.
* Duck Walk - a 400 lb pot with a handle is carried, suspended between the legs, over a set course.
* Power Stairs - a series of three Duck Walk implements ranging from 400-600 lb are lifted, step by step, to the top of a flight of stairs.
* Truck Pulling - Vehicles such as transport trucks, trams, boxcars or airplanes are pulled across a 100 ft. course by hand as fast as possible. Also, the vehicles may be pulled with a harness around the shoulders.
* Log Press / Stone Press - The heaviest possible load is pressed overhead, or a lighter weight is used for repetitions.
* Log Throw / Caber toss - A five meter long log is thrown for distance or for height over a bar.
* Tug of War - One on one tug of war in a single-elimination tournament.
* Pole Pushing - One on one pole pushing in a Sumo-style ring in a single-elimination tournament. The pole has handles at either end.
* Crucifix - Weights are held straight out at each side for as long a time as possible. A common variation entails weights being held out in front, using either one or both hands.
* Squat - Squatting large weights, like 900 lb of bricks, a car, or people on a platform. Recently, an apparatus has been used that drops water-filled kegs into a cage, one at a time after each successful lift. The athlete will continue until failure or time expires.
* Deadlift - Lifting weights or vehicles up to about 1,100 lb straight off the ground until knees lock in a standing position. Lift is for either maximum weight or maximum repetitions with a fixed weight. In recent years, a similar keg-loaded apparatus to that described above for the squat has been used.
* Pillars of Hercules - the athlete stands between two hinged pillars, gripping handles that prevent the pillars from falling to the side. The pillars are held for the longest possible time.
* Fingal fingers - a series of progressively heavier, hinged poles ("fingers") are lifted starting from a horizonal resting position and flipped over to the other side. The event takes its name from Fingal, a mythological Gaelic hunter-warrior.

 

[mad-saint-guy]

Aaron Fiora easily. Once saw him at the circus juggling Fraser Gehrig and Aaron Hamill in one hand with his eyes closed.