Young fullbacks who were brutalised

[My Tilly]

Nathan Chapman on Ablett in 1993.
Kid tried his heart out but Ablett ultimately did as he pleased as he single-handedly dragged Geelong across the line.

 

[iameviljez]

Nathan Chapman on Ablett in 1993.
Kid tried his heart out but Ablett ultimately did as he pleased as he single-handedly dragged Geelong across the line.

I went back to AFL Tables for that game.

G Ablett: 16 touches, 8 goals 5. 1 Brownlow Vote (!!!!!).

Also half-killed Johnny Gastev (for the first occasion in two).

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Brock wasn't even that bad on the weekend, it was silver plater service to Hogan, and he also stuck 5 contested marks.

Nice way to work out you're not playing in the minor leagues anymore though.

He needs to put on another 5-10kg of muscle pretty quickly.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

I mean, at the start of the 1989 Grand Final, Chris Langford got the nice cushy job of handling Billy Brownless. Scott Maginess, in his second full season and built like a twig, got handed Gary Ablett Sr...

Sanity prevailed at half-time and probably saved Hawthorn the premiership.

Ablett was the 1 Full forward Langford always had problems with because he could beat him in the air or at ground level and was just a freak. That's why he started on Brownless that day but we ended up having no other option but to send Langford to him. Did the best he could but Ablett still kicked 4 on him I think.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I remember a Swans Vs Essendon match at North Sydney Oval years ago. Might have been a pre-season. Essendon had some 19 year old kid at fullback. Can’t remember who it was.

He was playing on Plugger.

Players took their positions before the opening bounce.

Without warning, while everyone was still pacing around, Plugger grabbed the kid by the scruff of the neck and the back of the shorts and just threw him into the ground like he was a bag of potatoes, and just walked off without looking back.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Jezza kicking 9 on Ginbey in the final round last year. Ginbey drafted as a blue chip mid. One of the craziest coaching moves I've seen in a while.

Literally no key position defenders in the Eagles line up that game, so Schofield rolled the dice on the one of the only guys who could play tall.

Doing well this year as a 3rd tall down back.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Remember that game where Pagan started Fevola at full back on Fraser Gehrig as some sort of misguided "teach you a lesson about defensive efforts" coaching move?

Gehrig kicked about 6 goals on Fev in the first quarter, and that was the end of that.

 

[Cyclops]

Mal Michael was 30 something games in when he got to watch Plugger break 1300, so young yes but not a rookie. Good learning experience really.

Mid 1990 BT was in the reserves vs Richmond, some skinny boy on him. I remember the slap of muscle as BT slammed the kid in pack after pack. The final humiliation was a rover darting away in front of the pack, the fullback followed him. I swear BT was staring at the FB as he marked it flat footed 20 metres out.

 

[marcus1232]

Fevola when he was sent to Fraser Gehrig

 

[bzparkes]

Been a while since we've seen something like McQualter just allowing unspeakable things to happen to Sandy Brock.

It doesn't always end badly. Young Matthew Scarlett in 1998 was left to handle Matthew Lloyd and gave up 6 big ones. But Geelong won that one in a final round upset.

Tim McGrath (1992/8th game) on Dunstall (12 goals) and Zac Dawson (4th game) on A Rocca (8) come to mind ... Any others?

With all the hoo-hah about Brock having 9 kicked on him, he only had 4 kicked when he was directly opposed to him. The other 5 came when he was either off the ground, or there'd been a handover.

He actually played quite well, Hogan just took 6 contested marks and had the easiest of supply he could've wished for.

If there were more 'dirty ball' entering their F50, it wouldn't have been nearly as bad.

Brady Hough had Curnow kick 10 on him a couple of years ago and he's been completely fine since.

 

[marcus1232]

In all seriousness
Rnd 4 1988 Richmond v Geelong
Paul Barlow made is debut and played on Gary Ablett Snr

Gary Ablett Senior kicked 10.4

 

[CrowToon]

McAsey played in a torrid 10 games with a wooden spoon team that led him to crack the sads and quit

 

[Corn Cobbers]

... ... Lockett??

Lockett!! 1989...