The Colin Sylvia Society: Laziest players to play for your club

[LeverPuller]

Tom Gillies, got dropped from the worst team in living memory after 148, then got injured in the VFL. The club wanted to ease him back through the development league and he cracked the shits, refusing to play. Ended up playing forward in the VFL for the rest of the year before being delisted.

Only reason he comes to mind was he surfaced for an interview last month claiming the Hawks wanted him and he would have been their Brian Lake if that had happened

 

[donkeypunchd]

More Melboure stories please! They are funny as ****.

Also more Grundy draft interview stories as well.

Col Sylvia and Beamer Moloney had a fair few...Moloney was overlooked as captain by Neeld (apparently his extra-curricular activities, namely pissing on a bar during a night out, were not viewed by Neeld as very leader-like, to the surprise of Brent) and Moloney cracked it big time, was a shadow of his 2011 form before requesting a trade to Brisbane. When Neeld was sacked he took to twitter to troll him, another display of his leadership qualities

Sylvia got picked to play in the Aussie squad for the 2011 international rules but got sacked after going on the piss the night before training and being involved in a car rollover, fleeing the scene on foot after his mate tipped the car over.

 

[Beutbrute]

I watch games on a rowing machine. It's better for you than sitting down for a couple of hours.

 

[SickQwon]

Also nominating Motflop

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Colin Sylvia.

me irl

 

[Captain_Bender]

Col Sylvia and Beamer Moloney had a fair few...Moloney was overlooked as captain by Neeld (apparently his extra-curricular activities, namely pissing on a bar during a night out, were not viewed by Neeld as very leader-like, to the surprise of Brent) and Moloney cracked it big time, was a shadow of his 2011 form before requesting a trade to Brisbane. When Neeld was sacked he took to twitter to troll him, another display of his leadership qualities

Sylvia got picked to play in the Aussie squad for the 2011 international rules but got sacked after going on the piss the night before training and being involved in a car rollover, fleeing the scene on foot after his mate tipped the car over.

Still Neeld was a pretty s**t coach he could probably take the greatest team ever and turn them into a wooden spoon side (surprising Mark Neeld never actually got Melbourne to the spoon either so bad of a coach he couldn't even do that)

 

[donkeypunchd]

Still Neeld was a pretty s**t coach he could probably take the greatest team ever and turn them into a wooden spoon side (surprising Mark Neeld never actually got Melbourne to the spoon either so bad of a coach he couldn't even do that)

Oh Neeld was s**t at the MFC, absolutely, but with those two guys as his best senior players I don't know what he or anyone else could have done.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Kyle Reimers? Did not turn up to Carlton after being traded there and spoke to Damian Barrett instead about 'sciency stuff'.

He wasn't traded but supposedly invited to train with us and never showed up. I believe Karl Norman did the same when invited to train with Melbourne.

 

[Tiger71]

Best of the lot was a board member taking questions from Caro about the tanking scandal and sending a text message addressed to his fellow board members afterwards saying 'lucky she doesn't know half of it', only to send it to her.

Haha, did that really happen?

 

[Anja_Nees]

Haha, did that really happen?

Yep. She even made a subtle reference to it in an article around the time.

 

[Rack Watts]

Leroy Jetta.
James Hird and another coach beat him in the 5k time trial.

Aaron Francis, obviously has laziness problems, it's a pity that some people are happy with "could have been a gun, if he wasn't so lazy".

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

super outside perspective, Lachy Hansen.

One of the fittest blokes at the club. He wasn't lazy, just dopey looking.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

First name I thought of.

Edit: Response to Damon_3388 re:Shannon Cox

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

 

[Ricky Vaughn]

As somebody who watches the football while doing jump squats and perfecting Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, I'll say Daniel Motlop.

 

[demondavey]

More Melboure stories please! They are funny as ****.

Also more Grundy draft interview stories as well.

Mate, we had a lot of players that could have been something. Sylvia definitely wins the contest i reckon, and Watts isn't far off.

 

[Golden_6]

I've heard Adam Cooney was a rubbish trainer and professional. I think there was a story that the Dogs wanted him out a couple of years ago because his poor standards were starting to rub off on the younger players including Stringer. That obviously fixed that issue.

 

[demondavey]

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Huge fall from grace. AA FB in 01, the guy was a genuine gun. I saw him walking out of revolver one morning about 7:30am, i was on my way to work at the time and he just stumbled out with some glamour. They were absolutely fried.

 

[Gydafud]

Floplots

 

[Page8383]

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Shocking trade. Worst in norths history I’d say - but he did have mental health issues he had to go away and deal with.
Hopefully he’s in a better space now.
Not sure if this excuses his drinking the night before a game. But ....
Tricky one

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Shocking trade. Worst in norths history I’d say - but he did have mental health issues he had to go away and deal with.
Hopefully he’s in a better space now.
Not sure if this excuses his drinking the night before a game. But ....
Tricky one

Lazy isn't the right word, but gees north got belted in this trade.

 

[hoianbulldog]

Pretty much any full forward who played before the 2000s.

Josh J Kennedy's record for a season is 70 tackles. Lance Franklin 73.

Tony Modra made 62 in his entire165 game career.

I dont rekon simon beasley would make double figures over his career.

 

[Rohan25]

I dont rekon simon beasley would make double figures over his career.

Haha, he actually didn’t! Just checked after I read your post...154 games, 8 tackles! That’s fantastic.

 

[adammania9]

Josh Green when he was at the Lions easily the poorest 'professional' at the club. Used to eat junk food everyday and play FIFA all day... he wondered why his skin folds were off the chart

Was told by someone at the club that Billy Longer used to play World of Warcraft all night, every night and missed a training session because he slept in after a 16+ hour gaming marathon.

Thank **** those flogs aren't at the club anymore.

Look at that head - definitely true

 

[hoianbulldog]

Haha, he actually didn’t! Just checked after I read your post...154 games, 8 tackles! That’s fantastic.

1 tackle every 19 games. Surely that is a record for a 100 game player post 1980.

We wasn't called "the beast" for nothing.