Worst afl player you've seen (and why)

[RedmanWasHere]

The amount of players that played in St Kilda's 2009 and 2010 grand final teams that could potentially be in this conversation is remarkable..

Dawson
Gilbert
Ray
McQualter
Eddie
Raph Clarke
Gwilt
Peake
Jones

Their top end talent were elite but my god their bottom tier players were awful. Remarkable how they even made the big dance in both years playing these guys.

No idea how Dawson, Gilbert and Gwilt have lasted this long.

Raph, perfect spud.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Jarrod Oakley-Nicholls is genuinely the worst Tiger Ive seen. Absolutely useless on the field.

Worst Tiger for me too.

Just consistently dumb at "elite" level.

 

[William Wonka]

Wayne Carey

The question is worst 'Player' not 'Human being'.

 

[Magma]

i dont care that he didnt play 50 games, im saying brad moran.

i remember him 'playing' for westies down at alberton. it was cold and wet and after about 15 mins into the 2nd qtr i think he decided he couldn't be bothered anymore, put on one of the worst fake limps you'll ever see and took off through the crowd. my dad dubbed him the floater, not just cos he would randomly float around the ground, but cos he was shit too.

jason davenport too. would slot them from 50 on the boundary but 25 out directly in front, nah. think he had a thing for west coast?

 

[ioppolo]

i dont care that he didnt play 50 games, im saying brad moran.

i remember him 'playing' for westies down at alberton. it was cold and wet and after about 15 mins into the 2nd qtr i think he decided he couldn't be bothered anymore, put on one of the worst fake limps you'll ever see and took off through the crowd. my dad dubbed him the floater, not just cos he would randomly float around the ground, but cos he was shit too.

jason davenport too. would slot them from 50 on the boundary but 25 out directly in front, nah. think he had a thing for west coast?

West Coast, Davenport's bitch. Everytime.

 

[Magma]

West Coast, Davenport's bitch. Everytime.

yeah thought so. had a bit of petrenko north magic about it.

 

[Crusty Demon]

A lot of 'tap ruckmen' would fill this criteria, recruited for their height but have no other skills. Mark Blake played 99 AFL games and even played in a winning premiership side!

Jake Spencer. He must be close to 50 games.

Ill never forget him actually dropping the ball on his run up to goal after a mark at Etihad Stadium against the kangas. Must have been around 6 or 7 years ago. And he's still on our list.

 

[AlbertonBloke]

Every spud we got from Hawthorn

 

[Hobbes]

The question is worst 'Player' not 'Human being'.

David Granger has "worst human being" sewn up.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

This is obviously not related to this thread but how good is this story: a bloke by the name of Ali Dia called Southampton and Graeme Souness pretentending to be George Wea who was one of the worlds greatest soccer players at the time promoting himself as the next biggest thing in soccer. Souness signed him.. and Dia made 1 appearance for Southampton in the EPL. Ali Dia was an amateur player playing the lower leagues and couldn't kick a soccer ball to save his life. In his one and only game he was subbed on then subbed off. Southampton and Souness soon realised this guy was taking the mickey and booted him out of the club. The clips on youtube are hilarious. Simply youtube ali dia Southampton. Ali Dia now has a cult following in England.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

This is obviously not related to this thread but how good is this story: a bloke by the name of Ali Dia called Southampton and Graeme Souness pretentending to be George Wea who was one of the worlds greatest soccer players at the time promoting himself as the next biggest thing in soccer. Souness signed him.. and Dia made 1 appearance for Southampton in the EPL. Ali Dia was an amateur player playing the lower leagues and couldn't kick a soccer ball to save his life. In his one and only game he was subbed on then subbed off. Southampton and Souness soon realised this guy was taking the mickey and booted him out of the club. The clips on youtube are hilarious. Simply youtube ali dia Southampton. Ali Dia now has a cult following in England.

His agent is the greatest agent of all time pulling that one off.

Souness can never, ever, ever live this down.

 

[BC9_]

Brandon Ellis - shit hair cut, shit tattoos. Game over

I can't stand him.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

David Granger has "worst human being" sewn up.

As well as "best nickname ever".

 

[BringouttheGimp]

His agent is the greatest agent of all time pulling that one off.

Souness can never, ever, ever live this down.

It was actually Ali Dia who phoned Souness pretending to be George Wea. Haha. Brilliant. The youtube clips of Ali Dia are hilarious. Souness with his hand on his chin watching Dia train thinking wtf is this. Supporters chanting Dia's name on the bus. How Dia managed to pull it off is pure genius. Hilarious. Man I'd love to call Bucks and slap on the Collingwood guernsey one time.. this clown actually lived his dream of playing in the EPL.

 

[Falcon27]

Has anyone mentioned the most recent retiree Troy Chaplin. Not just for his football ability, but also because attempts impart on all in sundry his fount of knowledge, including his inspired rhetoric he unleashed on his former club Port whilst heading out the door for more success.

 

[ioppolo]

A LOT of posters in here are missing the point of 'worst' player ever.

 

[Jiggyman]

Ty Zantuck was a fair shit-truck.

Silvagni's miss on Sunday wasn't bad, either.

 

[Godchin]

i dont care that he didnt play 50 games, im saying brad moran.

I remember everyone blowing their load over him (me included) after his 1st game.

He looked like a star in the making but it turned out to be the only time he had 20+ touches or 10+ marks in a game and he subsequently turned to shit. He did a Dean Polo.

 

[Dinner Plates]

I created an account just to say how utterly useless David Mackay is. Seriously, homeopathic remedies would have more of an impact than him.

 

[Del165198]

Has anyone mentioned the most recent retiree Troy Chaplin. Not just for his football ability, but also because attempts impart on all in sundry his fount of knowledge, including his inspired rhetoric he unleashed on his former club Port whilst heading out the door for more success.

certainly not the worst player of all time, but a definite candidate for worst player to play 200 games.

anthony rocca would have torn him to shreds.

 

[AFDogs]

Was looking through some old St Kilda games the other day and noticed Beveridge playing, he was absolutely terrible.. trying to take the game on and be a hero and kept getting caught holding the ball or turning it over. Good coach, shit player.

Pains me to read this. Such a good coach tho

 

[Shane Hird]

Weird that Zantuck and Reimers appear in this search. 3 spuds for the price of one!

 

[Ron The Bear]

Never even heard of him.
What about the Tigers - Greg Tivendale, Mark Chaffey, Shane Tuck, the Kellaway brothers etc

Just horrendous and all played over 150 games.

All were at least top four in the b&f at some stage (Tuck four times), and A.Kellaway was AA. Honest toilers and you don't want too many in the same side.

Always used to chuckle at Frankie Peckett wrangling a new contract from the Saints with some half-decent games at the end of every year.

 

[dave123]

Tom swift

How he was drafted I have no idea ...slow which was ironical considering his name

 

[Dominator_7]

I could name a whole team we've had so many shockers over the last 16 years.

Troy Longmuir
Cain Ackland
Clem Smith
Ricky Mott
Stephen Kenna
Aaron Joseph
Trent Sporn
Blaine Johnson
Kane Lucas
Josh Bootsma
Matthew Watson
Callum Chambers
Mark Whiley
Marcus Davies
etc etc etc...

Over 50 games would have to be
Bret Thronton
Simon Wiggins
Jordan Russell
Paul Bower
Shaun Hampson (although he kicked a massive goal with his choice of missus lol)

Its been a looong 15 years LOL