The most average player ever

[RedmanWasHere]

Farren Ray

YOU BLOODY BASTARD!

Beaten to it.

200+ games but none stand out.

 

[Engimal v3]

Nah, was a genuine gun before his achilles injury. Couldn't kick over a tin can afterwards and was slow as mud, but was still a tackling machine and won a us a fair few games with insane clearance work.

What a pointless injury. Just snapped it while running, and it cut years off his career. Makes me mad just thinking about it.

 

[captain cotch 9]

Chris Hyde (born 9 August 1982) is a former Australian rules football player for the Richmond Football Club.
He retired in 2008 after playing 93 games, and now works for the NSW Game Council as the Game Manager for the Snowy/South East region.
He continues to play football for the Albury Tigers in the Ovens & Murray Football League.

 

[tazaa]

Damien Peverill

Why is Peverill black?

 

[Tony Harrison]

Nah, was a genuine gun before his achilles injury. Couldn't kick over a tin can afterwards and was slow as mud, but was still a tackling machine and won a us a fair few games with insane clearance work.

What a pointless injury. Just snapped it while running, and it cut years off his career. Makes me mad just thinking about it.

Now he's got over a two hour commute to his new club.
That's further than Moggs to Melbourne, Danger.

 

[gordo2016]

Brad Miller

157 games across 11 seasons (14.4 per year)
8 Brownlow votes

11.2 disposals, 5.3 marks, 0.8 goals

Very average key forward. The only remarkable thing about him was his missus.

His missus should tell Robbo and Ash to take a hike. They are both knobs.

 

[SCRAY72]

From my team
In no particular order. Will cap at 20 because too painul to list all if them.
Jim Plunkett
Patrick Wiggins
Mark Athorn
Alistair Ford
Garry Merrington
Ilija Grgic
Simon Cox
Mark Alvey
Ben Sexton
Brad Nicholson
Michael Talia
Jarryd Grant
Nathan Djerkurra
Patrick Veszpremi
Christian Howard
Tim Walsh
Bruce Reid
Jeff Berry
Mark Cullen
Brodie Moles

 

[Tony Harrison]

His missus should tell Robbo and Ash to take a hike. They are both knobs.

They broke up.

 

[gordo2016]

From my team
In no particular order. Will cap at 20 because too painul to list all if them.
Jim Plunkett
Patrick Wiggins
Mark Athorn
Alistair Ford
Garry Merrington
Ilija Grgic
Simon Cox
Mark Alvey
Ben Sexton
Brad Nicholson
Michael Talia
Jarryd Grant
Nathan Djerkurra
Patrick Veszpremi
Christian Howard
Tim Walsh
Bruce Reid
Jeff Berry
Mark Cullen
Brodie Moles

Agree with you Scray expect for Garry Merrington. I never saw him play but have a friend who did and said he was a fairly decent player. One of the worst players I saw for the dogs was a player called Mark Komp. It has got me stuffed how he got a game. His kicking was a disgrace.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Did Daniel Harford play too many games to qualify?

 

[demondavey]

Rayden Tallis
Dale Lewis
Mil Hanna
Sam Butler
Rowan Jones
Jason Blake
Shayne Breuer
Andrew Wills
David Mensch
Brent Heaver
Peter Somerville

 

[demondavey]

Agree with you Scray expect for Garry Merrington. I never saw him play but have a friend who did and said he was a fairly decent player. One of the worst players I saw for the dogs was a player called Mark Komp. It has got me stuffed how he got a game. His kicking was a disgrace.

Awful surname 'komp'.

Do you reckon his nickname was Kompo? Or Kompensation?

 

[demondavey]

Henry Slattery. Everything about him was average.

Pick 46 in the draft, 96 games over 8 years. Wore the number 20 and averaged 10 disposals (5 kicks, 5 handballs) and 3 marks a game.

Looks very average as well.... very typical looking person, no real redeeming features.

 

[Franc de Borges]

Non chemically-enhanced Jobe Watson.

 

[gavaniacono]

Awful surname 'komp'.

Do you reckon his nickname was Kompo? Or Kompensation?

Kompost.
As in Heap.

 

[gavaniacono]

Kmac
Tank
George
Butler
Broad

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Corey Jones - 157 games for 216 goals.
Aaron Edwards - Good mark, but a largely average forward.
Daniel Harris - Actually a handy player for a long while.
Leigh Adams - Was also a decent player, let down by injuries and concussions.
Lachie Hansen - Never lived up to his draft position, but had a good couple years 2013-14.
Scott McMahon - 120 games, mostly as a defender averaging 14.5 disposals a match, handy player, but nothing special.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

From my team
In no particular order. Will cap at 20 because too painul to list all if them.
Jim Plunkett
Patrick Wiggins
Mark Athorn
Alistair Ford
Garry Merrington
Ilija Grgic
Simon Cox
Mark Alvey
Ben Sexton
Brad Nicholson
Michael Talia
Jarryd Grant
Nathan Djerkurra
Patrick Veszpremi
Christian Howard
Tim Walsh
Bruce Reid
Jeff Berry
Mark Cullen
Brodie Moles

A lot of these were just plain not up to it.

We’re after genuine average here.

 

[Franc de Borges]

Loved his efforts for us thus far, but in terms of current players I reckon Alex Silvagni fits the mould.

 

[kangaspurs]

Corey Jones - 157 games for 216 goals.
Aaron Edwards - Good mark, but a largely average forward.
Daniel Harris - Actually a handy player for a long while.
Leigh Adams - Was also a decent player, let down by injuries and concussions.
Lachie Hansen - Never lived up to his draft position, but had a good couple years 2013-14.
Scott McMahon - 120 games, mostly as a defender averaging 14.5 disposals a match, handy player, but nothing special.

I was going to say Scott McMahon as well. Funny guy and a good clubman but is perfect for this thread.

I'd also put forward Shannon Watt. 155 games and apparently didn't poll a single Brownlow vote in his career. Also, according to Wikipedia, Watt was one of the last individuals to have played every minute of every game for an entire season on the ground (no interchange time) in 2003, a feat practically unheard of in the modern era. That is the most average accolade of all time.

 

[Goggin Our Best]

Ty Zantuck?

Bary Young was the bloke i was thinking of

I googled Richmond /Essendon players - got his name from that list - see he played for Hawthorn at the end to

 

[RedmanWasHere]

I'd like to put forward Nathan Lovett-Murray.

He was a decent player and that's it.

Nothing more.

Likewise Robert Copeland.

 

[YEOLO]

Tom Sheridan.

His the kind of player that annoys every fan. Good enough to always be in the best 22-25 (thus always managing to get a contract extension and at least 10 games a year), but just an average player with not a single standout quality and therefore never going to really improve.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Ryan Schoenmakers. 9 years in the system and still no redeeming features.

 

[TerryWallet]

Henry Slattery. Everything about him was average.

Pick 46 in the draft, 96 games over 8 years. Wore the number 20 and averaged 10 disposals (5 kicks, 5 handballs) and 3 marks a game.

Hank was gonna be my pick too. 2 time winner of The Ben Kinnear Stringless Guitar Award for extreme vanillaness.