Russell Greene deserting us...

Harvey To Hayes · Fri 16 Sep 2011 12:37pm

I haven't felt this shattered by a defection since Russell Greene left all those years ago, and I was only a tacker then... Just the level of trust that has been betrayed, I know footy is a business now but it seems like there's no place for integrity in the sport at all. I honestly miss the old days as far as sport is concerned...

Saint Bev · Fri 16 Sep 2011 12:42pm

Russell Green didn't leave us, we got rid of him, surely you must know that by now.

Stillwaiting · Fri 16 Sep 2011 12:46pm

Saint Bev wrote:Russell Green didn't leave us, we got rid of him, surely you must know that by now.

we got rid of him for mark Scott and another player, can't remember thecplayet

cowboy18 · Post: # 1141502Post **cowboy18** » Fri 16 Sep 2011 12:47pm

Stillwaiting wrote:
Saint Bev wrote:Russell Green didn't leave us, we got rid of him, surely you must know that by now.
we got rid of him for mark Scott and another player, can't remember thecplayet

Tony King. plus one other too from memory. Handley?

degruch · Post: # 1141505Post **degruch** » Fri 16 Sep 2011 12:49pm

Not this again.

markinUSA · Fri 16 Sep 2011 12:50pm

In person, he said to me years ago that he turned up for training and they told him he would be playing for the Hawks on the weekend. He was shattered. (When he spoke to me) he laughed and said he was probably the only player who had trained with two teams in one week. And then he made a career of success at the Hawks; we should never have got rid of him.

perfectionist · Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:08pm

cowboy18 wrote:
Stillwaiting wrote:
Saint Bev wrote:Russell Green didn't leave us, we got rid of him, surely you must know that by now.
we got rid of him for mark Scott and another player, can't remember thecplayet
Tony King. plus one other too from memory. Handley?

No, just Mark Scott and Tony King. Robert Handley came nine years later - another dud.

plugger66 · Post: # 1141575Post **plugger66** » Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:10pm

perfectionist wrote:
cowboy18 wrote:
Stillwaiting wrote:
Saint Bev wrote:Russell Green didn't leave us, we got rid of him, surely you must know that by now.
we got rid of him for mark Scott and another player, can't remember thecplayet
Tony King. plus one other too from memory. Handley?
No, just Mark Scott and Tony King. Robert Handley came nine years later - another dud.

He came with Kitchen didnt he and that great Hawthorn left footer. Just forgotten his name at the moment. I think he had red hair.

perfectionist · Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:15pm

Peter Russo and Paul Harding came with Rob Handley.

plugger66 · Post: # 1141593Post **plugger66** » Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:16pm

perfectionist wrote:Peter Russo

Funny. No.

perfectionist · Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:21pm

Maybe you are thinking of Simon Meehan.

plugger66 · Post: # 1141617Post **plugger66** » Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:22pm

perfectionist wrote:Maybe Simon Meehan.

NO. remember now. Glen Nugent.

degruch · Post: # 1141619Post **degruch** » Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:23pm

Russell Greene threads...start in fun, end in tears.

perfectionist · Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:24pm

plugger66 wrote:
perfectionist wrote:Maybe Simon Meehan.
NO. remember now. Glen Nugent.

He came in 1995.

degruch · Post: # 1141626Post **degruch** » Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:25pm

perfectionist wrote:
plugger66 wrote:
perfectionist wrote:Maybe Simon Meehan.
NO. remember now. Glen Nugent.
He came in 1995.

He was a bit slow.

Harvey To Hayes · Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:26pm

It's not so much whether he left or got pushed, just that he was my favourite player by a street and then out of the blue one day before school the papers were saying that he'd left and gone to Hawthorn. I didn't realise that such a thing could even happen let alone to my idol - my dad tried to explain the machinations to me but I couldn't comprehend it...

Don't know why, but for some reason the happenings of the last 24 hours have stirred up the same sort of feelings...

plugger66 · Post: # 1141629Post **plugger66** » Fri 16 Sep 2011 1:27pm

perfectionist wrote:
plugger66 wrote:
perfectionist wrote:Maybe Simon Meehan.
NO. remember now. Glen Nugent.
He came in 1995.

Did he come with Kitchen because that was what I was talking about not Greene.

perfectionist · Fri 16 Sep 2011 2:30pm

Joshua

Con Gorozidis · Fri 16 Sep 2011 2:58pm

perfectionist wrote:Peter Russo and Paul Harding came with Rob Handley.

Paul Harding was awesome. Loved him. Short ruckman. Great Mo. Good player.

Sainternist · Fri 16 Sep 2011 4:50pm

Russell Greene is a top bloke.

He still had a soft spot for us even in the days he was playing at Hawthorn. I guess that he was under Yabbie's coaching again may have influenced this.

I remember seeing Greeney at a family day at Moorabbin in 1986.

He still loved the Saints and came back as an assistant.