Pick your worst ever saints team!
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C'mon be honest, these guys were ordinary players at best. There is a reason why teams dont suceed when these people are getting regular games. How were the considered good players? A couple okay games here and there in my books doesnt make them a good player. Most of the time these players were liabilities!!degruch wrote:Dwyer, Faletic, Fode, J. Daniels, Plapp, Sziller...there's some bloddy good players on here...this threads gone to rubbish. Nick Riewoldt will be on here before too long!!!
I can only speak for the likes of Daniels, Plapp, Sziller who i only saw play, all had a crack, battlers, but end of the day simply doesnt cut it in the big time. Like i said earlier, still done more than me or anyone else on this forum... But this is the AFL and everyone is scrutinised for their ABILITY TO PLAY AT AN AFL LEVEL!!!
From memory Sziller went to East Burwood after his stint in AFL and absoluty dominated for a few more years.
The likes of Moyle, Murray, P.Bowden, N.Ries and Cranage are doing the same now earning good money on the side playing for a Balwyn team more worried about their pockets than winning games!! Go have a look at these players at a local level, this is where they belong to play!!! They dominate it, feel better about themselves in regards to abuse they are likely to cop if they played AFL and are far less scrutinised.
At the end of the day they can still say they have played at the highest level and u can never take that away from them, who go the best out of themselves.
Every club has these types of players and this thread imo is for a bit of light hearted fun to get our minds off the crap that is being dished up to us at the moment. If you dont like the idea of labelling players as duds at an AFL level, then dont open the thread, pretty simple.
Hopefully we dont end up seeing any of our current players making the dreaded squad in years to come and hope that those days are long gone!
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They are of no relation.SaintBot wrote:Wasn't given much of an opportunity (1 game), he's ripping it up in the amateur league, seems like he's kicked 8 goals every game so far this year. His brother is highly rated for this years draft, top 5 quality.3rd generation saint wrote:People, there has to be a place for Fergus Watts, only got selected because of his father.
Why can't St.Kilda people produce decent offspring?
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Oh yes, but these guys held down a place in the team week after week, and did a reasonable job...they're not the 'duds' you speak of. Frost...yeah, he was a dud. Guys like that made a handful of appearances whilst guys like Davenport got a show week after week and, at least 50% of the time, did what was asked of 'em.super dooper wrote:C'mon be honest, these guys were ordinary players at best...degruch wrote:Dwyer, Faletic, Fode, J. Daniels, Plapp, Sziller...there's some bloddy good players on here...this threads gone to rubbish. Nick Riewoldt will be on here before too long!!!
Every club has these types of players and this thread imo is for a bit of light hearted fun to get our minds off the crap that is being dished up to us at the moment. If you dont like the idea of labelling players as duds at an AFL level, then dont open the thread, pretty simple.
I'm not infuriated that anyone would suggest 'em, but to be really honest, other than being 'ordinary', there wasn't much wrong with 'em, they could all mark, kick, tackle, hold down and sometimes win a position. Plenty of genuine duds out there though.
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I was very close to putting in Mark Scott for the same reason and also Alan Sidebottom but i must say I liked Phil Cronan I thought he and Peter McConville were 2 of our most reliable defenders back then.bassoon wrote:Here's a few others.
Alan Sidebottom. Though his brother was tough and fearless, I think Alan would be scared of Fiora.
Mark Scott - one of the great goalkickers of the reserves comp, but couldn't get near the ball in the seniors.
Aldo Dipetta
And certainly not a fan of Phil Cronan.
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This post is a crack up, just what's needed!
What about some from our current list?
I'll nominate Howard - yes he's young and only played one game, but that may be all he gets and it was a shocker!
(a tad unfair I know!)
What about some from our current list?
I'll nominate Howard - yes he's young and only played one game, but that may be all he gets and it was a shocker!
(a tad unfair I know!)
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Meh, he probably was...I just thought his name looked good in the context of this thread.STILLWAITING wrote:I thought modi was ok, i had his no 15 on my jumper, or was i just desperatedegruch wrote:Ah...it's a silly name comp. What about Mordachai Bromberg? Probably not so silly if you're Jewish, eh?
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I know...I said that too. Much rather have Dwyer in his prime out there right now than Fiora or Raph...or maybe even Dwyer right now, anyone got his phone number?Shaggy wrote:I can't believe Dwyer and Jack Daniels are mentioned![]()
Faults yes ... duds definitely not. They were both very good footballers in their prime.
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Thats so bad. I feel sorry for the guy (he could have played in a premiership).bassoon wrote:Don't know about the worst, but the unluckiest must be Pat Murphy. Only played one game in his career (in 1966).
Evidently he lost a contact lens before the game, and played effectively blind.
Oppositely one of my brother's friends played one game for the Saint's seniors (not mentioned so far) but turned up late
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He is a doctor now but I would never go to him (nice bloke regardless)
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Definately agree. Mick Dwyer and Jayson Daniels were bloody good too. Daniels disposal wasn't the best but was a ball magnet.luckysaint wrote:whoever said stevie szillar needs their head read, he was a decent player
I just want to add an inclusion MAX CROW. 65 meters out big torp post high straight through the middle almost every time , 20 meters out directly in front drop punt out on the full ALMOST EVERY TIME.
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i cant remember Phil playing but i have met him a few time in his help with the western saints and he's a top blokeWinmar7Fan wrote:I was very close to putting in Mark Scott for the same reason and also Alan Sidebottom but i must say I liked Phil Cronan I thought he and Peter McConville were 2 of our most reliable defenders back then.bassoon wrote:Here's a few others.
Alan Sidebottom. Though his brother was tough and fearless, I think Alan would be scared of Fiora.
Mark Scott - one of the great goalkickers of the reserves comp, but couldn't get near the ball in the seniors.
Aldo Dipetta
And certainly not a fan of Phil Cronan.
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He was not exactly a "hard at it" player so he was nick named "Cronan the Barabarian" by the nastier fans in the Animal Enclosure.st_Trav_ofWA wrote:i cant remember Phil playing but i have met him a few time in his help with the western saints and he's a top blokeWinmar7Fan wrote:I was very close to putting in Mark Scott for the same reason and also Alan Sidebottom but i must say I liked Phil Cronan I thought he and Peter McConville were 2 of our most reliable defenders back then.bassoon wrote:Here's a few others.
Alan Sidebottom. Though his brother was tough and fearless, I think Alan would be scared of Fiora.
Mark Scott - one of the great goalkickers of the reserves comp, but couldn't get near the ball in the seniors.
Aldo Dipetta
And certainly not a fan of Phil Cronan.
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