Retired # 5: Devon Smith - Hanging up the boots - Thanks for everything Devon! - 12/8

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2023
Last Game Played: Round 11, 2022 (inj)
Injury Status: Mid-season knee surgery no time frame yet - 15/6

My Boy Draft 2022: Claim here

 

[Bombermania]

Like this comment by Smith on Stringer

“It would be great to play with (Stringer) given what he has already done as a 22-year-old premiership player. Everyone is talking about the bad stuff they have heard and the rumours going around.
“By from what I have seen first-hand he’s a hard match-up and an unbelievable talent.
“I remember we played them in Canberra and about eight blokes tried to tackle him out of a stoppage and six didn’t lay a hand on him. He snapped a goal over his head.
“I thought, ‘Wowee, what a player’.”
(Herald Sun)

 

[Lore]

Anyone know the length of his contract?

2021, it's in one of the articles on the club website

 

[windyhill]

Rapt to have him, loved today's headline in the paper "blues wait in wings". Love carlton fans reaction to him snubbing them. Their pain makes it sweeter.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Rapt to have him, loved today's headline in the paper "blues wait in wings". Love carlton fans reaction to him snubbing them. Their pain makes it sweeter.

Your DP very much in action WH.

Still can't believe the club snagged Devon.

From his name alone, I wanted Dev more in 2011 than Kavanagh.

 

[duckdog]

Love the signing. Plus..played with his old man in the early nineties at the mighty DEVON fc in South Gippsland...True story

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Love the signing. Plus..played with his old man in the early nineties at the mighty DEVON fc in South Gippsland...True story

For all we care, his middle names could be Welshpool Won-Wron Woodside.

 

[duckdog]

For all we care, his middle names could be Welshpool Won-Wron Woodside.

Touche' ..but this was before such silliness ..When men were men and women were hairy and Devon wore only red and black (horizontal band mind you )

 

[Bombermania]

That DWWW merger was some merger.

 

[duckdog]

That DWWW merger was some merger.

You missed one....the good one

 

[yaco55]

DP will hve his work cut out finding us gems later in the draft.

 

[Yoda_]

Having had time to digest the trade it has been a great bit of business. The "Essendon to hard to deal with" moniker will no doubt be trotted out again but we 'won' this trade hands down. To gain second rounders in both 2017 & 2018 is phenomenal by AD.

Adding an automatic best 22 player with currency coming back has been a fantastic piece of business by us. Really looking forward to seeing what sort of role Devon Smith will play in 2018. We have an abundance of small/medium fwds with more incoming, hopefully Woosha sticks to the points that AD pointed out and Devon does play midfield minutes.


Time to look at Saad and get that piece of business done. Move on to Stringer with our scraps and do not sell our 2018 first at ANY costs

 

[Old Campaigner]

Anyone know the length of his contract?

Very long, it's also thick too

 

[AcuteWhistle]

Very long, it's also thick too

Length & width, some people just get it all.

 

[carnthedons]

Length, width and looks like a bogan Ryan Gosling. Fritz is winning.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Love the signing. Plus..played with his old man in the early nineties at the mighty DEVON fc in South Gippsland...True story

and, er, is that where young Devon was conceived?

 

[carnthedons]

and, er, is that where young Devon was conceived?

Explains the younger sister being called Torana

 

[BrunoV]

Apologies if this has already been done but who is the last 'Smith' we had playing for us? I can't remember one.

 

[TheGrizz]

Apologies if this has already been done but who is the last 'Smith' we had playing for us? I can't remember one.

AFL website said the first in like 40 years or something from memory, although I stand to be corrected.

 

[eth-dog]

Apologies if this has already been done but who is the last 'Smith' we had playing for us? I can't remember one.

Ray Smith in the 70's. Played 77 games.

 

[jmoo wan]

Apologies if this has already been done but who is the last 'Smith' we had playing for us? I can't remember one.

You don't remember Ray Smith from the 70s? That would be your era yeah?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Smith_(Australian_footballer)

 

[Lore]

That's some solid coverage... more than I would've expected. Maybe I'm underrating him but I feel like it's not *MASSIVE NEWS*? I mean it's not like Patrick Dangerfield just changed clubs. Slow news week is slow I guess.

 

[BrunoV]

You don't remember Ray Smith from the 70s? That would be your era yeah?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Smith_(Australian_footballer)

Me, no. My first football clear memories are of 1993, before that's its a blur with things like conceding 200 points to Hawthorn in there (unfortunately) and Geelong losing GFs.

 

[Runk]

That's some solid coverage... more than I would've expected. Maybe I'm underrating him but I feel like it's not *MASSIVE NEWS*? I mean it's not like Patrick Dangerfield just changed clubs. Slow news week is slow I guess.

Positive news coming out of Essendon by media outlets? Clearly was Jade said was accurate.

 

[Lore]

Ok which one of you fellas is Simon?
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[eDPS]

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And good mate Simon trying to take credit, jog on mate