Your club's "if only" player

[AFLQLD]

Which player in your club now, or in the recent past do you think "if only..."

It could be because of injury or a single skill deficiency or an attitudinal thing that makes you wonder how good that player could actually be.

The Lions (and now Suns) had Brennan who has an abundance of natural talent but is likely to always be remembered for the player that he didn't become. With that talent he could have been up there with the elite, if only he didn't go missing for games at a time. Sometimes there would be two minutes of sheer brilliance in two hours of "whatever" football.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Rohan, though I still think he'll come good.
Jesse White if he played like he knows he's big.

 

[Face_Plain]

Gumbleton and his injury prone body. Hopefully this time the duct tape holds together.

 

[boncer34]

If only Andrew Lovett had kept his shit together.

/thread

 

[Bluelegs]

The correct answer to this question is Jack Watts.

 

[Superstar swan]

Gaz Rohan

 

[Gavin Excell]

D Menzel

 

[tonk]

Gareth John

 

[Superstar swan]

Jack darling- if only we had drafted him when we had the chance

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Mark Coughlan

 

[treefingers]

Josh P Kennedy, if only he showed half of his talent at the hawks as he's showing at the Swans we would've locked him up on a 5 year deal and never let him leave.

 

[Gentlemen]

Mark Coughlan and Nathan Brown.

Both were amazingly talented players, Coughlan winning a B&F in his 3rd year for the club, would've been captain after Campbell retired. Then injury after injury, and when he was starting to play some consistent footy after almost 5 years of injuries, that campaigner Jade Rawlings pretty much forced him into retirement. He would've been a great leader during that '10 season.

Hopefully the same doesn't happy to Nathan Foley, massively underrated and massively injury prone.

 

[Mateyman]

Sean Rusling

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

In the recent past, Nick Davis, but I guess we can't complain.

 

[MF]

Jamie Lawson could have been a star if not for the career ending broken leg.

Gary Rohan will most likely never reach the heights he could have before his break.

 

[Super Hans]

Cooney. Wins a brownlow at what, 22? Then his knee goes. He's been great so far this season though *touch wood*

 

[And_ROOS]

Current: Menzel
Past: Lynch or Stoneham.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

If only Andrew Lovett had kept his shit together.

/thread

Probably more so for the Saints than us, cost them a flag.

 

[Humble Minion]

Adam Ramanauskas.

Could have been absolutely anything, was really starting to hit his straps as a legitimate top midfielder when he did his knee and the cancer showed up.

 

[tazhawk]

Buddy.

If only he could kick for goal like Ken Judge or Mark Williams.

 

[Black Diamond]

Jesse Smith, Winston Abraham, Robbie Tarrant (still time though).

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

If hamish hartlett was injury free for a year he would win a brownlow

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

We haven't really been around long enough, but Dom Tyson missed a lot of last year and will miss a lot this year. All different injuries.

Putting my Geelong members cap on, Daniel Menzel at the moment (hope the scans go ok on Monday). Matty Egan picked in the All Australian in just his third season and never played again missing lots of GFs in the process. Jason Snell only got 68 games before an ankle did him in at the age of 23, a full career for him could have been anything.

Going back further, Barry Stoneham. He at least played again after that horrific leg, but he was never the same.

 

[Brenton Davy]

Kurt Tippett - If only he'd been able to kick straight and actually had been dedicated to the AFC cause rather than a mercenary plick!

 

[Lach72]

Anthony Morabito. Pace and power. Would be the cream and the cake in our midfield.