Worst player to put on a Crows jumper?

[crows dude]

yeah you are right. we should have been able to sign as many uncontracted ex pats as we wanted, sign any SANFL player. The D Jarman debacle stuffed us up from signing Richard champion and how did we miss out on Alan Jakovich from Woodville? was he on the Dees book pre 91?
only thing that we had going for us is we had first choice of SA kids from 91-93.

We were allowed to sign as many Ex Pats as we wanted but there was basically just the four available. McGuinness, Mickan, Linder and Hughes. We then got Anderson in 1993. He was the last expat that we drafted. Jarman should have been ours as even though he had signed with Hawthorn he never went and he stayed with North and we were able to sign any of these players. Andrew Jarman and Simon Tregenza were both vfl draftees that stayed in the SANFL and chose to sign with crows. D Jarman should have been the same. He was actually a Brisbane draftee but chose to stay with North. Brisbane then traded his contact to Hawthorn who he signed with in 1990.

 

[marvin]

bit misleading those stats. spider was pretty downtrodden when trent beat him

Don't really think it's misleading. Spider was disheartened when he kept trying to drag Ormond-Allen forward and his midfield wouldn't kick it to him when he ha a decisive mismatch. The funny incident was the one time O-A beat Spider at a centre bounce as the ball went one way and 6 midfielders trying to rover Everitt's tap went the other way.

Fun fact - Ken McGregor had more hitouts than Trent did that day.

 

[Smoooothy]

Don't really think it's misleading. Spider was disheartened when he kept trying to drag Ormond-Allen forward and his midfield wouldn't kick it to him when he ha a decisive mismatch. The funny incident was the one time O-A beat Spider at a centre bounce as the ball went one way and 6 midfielders trying to rover Everitt's tap went the other way.

Fun fact - Ken McGregor had more hitouts than Trent did that day.

fun fact - TOM is a foot smaller than spider

it only happened for about a quarter anyway

 

[macca23]

Balraj Singh wins the worst player to have never played a game for the Crows very very easily. Followed by Clint Kirey second and Matthew Smith in third place.

Nice work there Ozzie.

That is definitely a fine collection of duds in any man's language.

But I definitely think that my man, the red-headed, pasty-legged Smith, wins it hands down because of his stickability.

5 years on the list without playing even one game - nor did he ever threaten to play.

5 effin years!!

What were they thinking!!

 

[Sanders]

For mine its MacKay. So many mentions of players who had one or 2 games and then vanished without a trace, but this never really harmed the club. MacKay has managed to stay in the team despite below average performances and never reaching his "peak" output of his 2nd season ever again. During this time he has held a list space that could have been used better. Has held cap space that could have been spent better. And took AFL game time away from developing kids. Seems like for the last 5 or so years I have had MacKay out of my best 22 yet he weasels back in as some player leaves or a player cops a season ending injury.

If you don’t want to taken seriously there are other ways to do it

 

[Sanders]

adam saliba would have been a brownlow medallist had he wanted it bad enough. biggest waste of talent I've ever seen

Not really. Too slow.

Poor mans andrew Jarman

 

[Sanders]

Luke Lowden must be close to the top of the list

 

[dogs105]

We were allowed to sign as many Ex Pats as we wanted but there was basically just the four available. McGuinness, Mickan, Linder and Hughes. We then got Anderson in 1993. He was the last expat that we drafted. Jarman should have been ours as even though he had signed with Hawthorn he never went and he stayed with North and we were able to sign any of these players. Andrew Jarman and Simon Tregenza were both vfl draftees that stayed in the SANFL and chose to sign with crows. D Jarman should have been the same. He was actually a Brisbane draftee but chose to stay with North. Brisbane then traded his contact to Hawthorn who he signed with in 1990.

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We were allowed 10. And not more than one from each club. And it included people who were aligned to a club by being drafted in the last 3 years but didn't go.

Ones who actually came from another club included Danny Hughes, Tony McGuinness, Bruce Lindner.

 

[Smoooothy]

Not really. Too slow.

Poor mans andrew Jarman

probably should have said could, not would

he was slow, but his hands were better than Andrew Jarmans. saw him play a lot at north adelaide

 

[Pugsley]

Sean Tasker

 

[jackster83]

Luke Lowden must be close to the top of the list

Lowden, Meesen and Gus Graham. Three of the most pea hearted big men you will ever see.

 

[danger_to_walker]

Matthew Golding. Averaged 5 disposals, 1 mark, and 5 hitouts over his illustrious 7 game career.

 

[Red mist]

probably should have said could, not would

he was slow, but his hands were better than Andrew Jarmans. saw him play a lot at north adelaide

He had eyes like curried marbles

 

[Ozzie]

Nice work there Ozzie.

That is definitely a fine collection of duds in any man's language.

But I definitely think that my man, the red-headed, pasty-legged Smith, wins it hands down because of his stickability.

5 years on the list without playing even one game - nor did he ever threaten to play.

5 effin years!!

What were they thinking!!

Smith at least got very close to selection IIRC. He was named and got injured at the next training session? I'm sure he an emergency a few times as well. But you have a valid point 5 freaking years is way too long.

 

[brucetiki]

Nice work there Ozzie.

That is definitely a fine collection of duds in any man's language.

But I definitely think that my man, the red-headed, pasty-legged Smith, wins it hands down because of his stickability.

5 years on the list without playing even one game - nor did he ever threaten to play.

5 effin years!!

What were they thinking!!

Paul Hunter will be getting pretty close to this stat now wouldn’t he?

 

[Samcro24]

Matthew Golding. Averaged 5 disposals, 1 mark, and 5 hitouts over his illustrious 7 game career.

Lucas Herbert with similar numbers.

Blighty made him sit on the bench on a sunny day at the MCG for THE ENTIRE GAME "to teach him"

Classic Malcolm

 

[Pugsley]

Lucas Herbert with similar numbers.

Blighty made him sit on the bench on a sunny day at the MCG for THE ENTIRE GAME "to teach him"

Classic Malcolm

I don't think he learned.

 

[marvin]

Lucas Herbert with similar numbers.

Blighty made him sit on the bench on a sunny day at the MCG for THE ENTIRE GAME "to teach him"

Classic Malcolm

Remember that game well. It was Blight's first game after quitting. Matthew Robran rucked himself to a standstill after 3 quarters. Meanwhile the Dogs swung a fresh Luke Darcy into the ruck in place of Scott Wynd in the last quarter. We coughed up a 40 point 3Q time lead to lose.

 

[marvin]

Just looking at Lucas Herbert's stats - 2 of his 14 games saw him credited with a complete set of zeroes. One was the Dogs game where he sat on the bench for 2 hours. The other was a home game against Essendon in Round 10. Did he sit that one out too?

 

[Samcro24]

Just looking at Lucas Herbert's stats - 2 of his 14 games saw him credited with a complete set of zeroes. One was the Dogs game where he sat on the bench for 2 hours. The other was a home game against Essendon in Round 10. Did he sit that one out too?

Can't remember, but I think Brett Chalmers has the distinction of two consecutive games on the bench under Cornes.

 

[Macca19]

Can't remember, but I think Brett Chalmers has the distinction of two consecutive games on the bench under Cornes.

Never got 2 in a row, but had 4 games total with complete donuts and one other where he recorded just 1 tackle. Must be some sort of record.

 

[Macca19]

Nice work there Ozzie.

That is definitely a fine collection of duds in any man's language.

But I definitely think that my man, the red-headed, pasty-legged Smith, wins it hands down because of his stickability.

5 years on the list without playing even one game - nor did he ever threaten to play.

5 effin years!!

What were they thinking!!

lol I remember your Smith hate from nearly two decades ago!

 

[Mike Smyth]

Given the number of games he's played has to be Mad Dog Mackay.

 

[marvin]

Never got 2 in a row, but had 4 games total with complete donuts and one other where he recorded just 1 tackle. Must be some sort of record.

In 1996 he played North Melbourne he played North Melbourne twice for a grand total of zero stats. That's impressive.

 

[Thetrader15]

Lowden, Meesen and Gus Graham. Three of the most pea hearted big men you will ever see.

Add Hunter to the list too