I would like to add Fatui Attata to that list but for the opposite reasons. I still remember seeing this huge Islander dude at Victoria Park playing in the reserves, I thought he was going to be a star. As a 15yo kid standing on beer cans and yelling out "Go Woodsman" in the deepest voice I could muster at that age and all the crowd around me agreeing with me. Anyway, Fatui looked huge to a kid like me and I waited and waited and watched him but he never made it. Along with Brent Tuckey, they both still feature in the odd dream for me as I still wait for them to develop into the big KF that I had hoped for.
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He would have been if his shoulders wern't held together with hot glueI thought Sean Rusling was going to be a goal kicking machine.
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I was too hard on him when he left and too soft on him when he came back
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Alan Toovey - nuff said
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I also forgot to mention, I thought Brad Dick would become a goal kicking machine alongside Neon Leon but alas due to his knee reconstruction we never saw him at his best.
I also thought Shannon Cox had a tremendous amount of football smarts, sadly his application and attitude to playing league footy was nowhere near his talent.
I also thought Shannon Cox had a tremendous amount of football smarts, sadly his application and attitude to playing league footy was nowhere near his talent.
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The most compelling evidence I could produce requires that you watch a Daisy highlight reel. Pendles couldn't do what he did when on fire. Thomas was a more spectacular and dynamic player:
The best of Daisy
New Blue Dale Thomas produced quite the highlights reel in his eight years at Collingwoodwww.afl.com.au
Wow!! I'd forgotten how freakish he could be.
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Pendles was more productive and better, but Daisy used to turn the tide. When the team was looking flat - Thomas would turn the intensity dial up to 11, do something awesome and lift the whole team.
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I used to laugh at opposition supporters who were stuck in the cliche of the long haired flashy flanker being soft - he was bloody ferocious.
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Another I thought would be an absolute star in early 2000 was Damien Adkins.
He was such a spark forward of the footy, he had pace, goal smarts and loved to celebrate when he kicked one.
Sadly, a combination of osteitis pubis and other players coming in and going past him didn't help him either.
That also reminded me of how aside from the 2002 and 2003 grand finals, Ryan Lonie's first 3-4 years at Collingwood were super. He came straight in and just looked at home. He ended up being superseded by blokes like H Shaw and Thomas as his career went on though but my goodness his daring runs were great to watch and he kicked the football beautifully.
He was such a spark forward of the footy, he had pace, goal smarts and loved to celebrate when he kicked one.
Sadly, a combination of osteitis pubis and other players coming in and going past him didn't help him either.
That also reminded me of how aside from the 2002 and 2003 grand finals, Ryan Lonie's first 3-4 years at Collingwood were super. He came straight in and just looked at home. He ended up being superseded by blokes like H Shaw and Thomas as his career went on though but my goodness his daring runs were great to watch and he kicked the football beautifully.
sr36
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Lonie was good in the 2002 granny. The less said about 2003 the better.
