Tony Brown

stkildathunda · Sat 03 Dec 2011 12:49pm

Apparently back at the club as match day runner. Someone mentioned it on TrueSainters and someone else mentioned it on BigFooty.

From BigFooty

He can only play a handful of games for barwon heads this season due to his running duties with the saints.

saintspremiers · Sat 03 Dec 2011 12:56pm

Does this means we have sacked that fwit clown that gave away a few 50's last season?

plugger66 · Post: # 1180153Post **plugger66** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 1:01pm

saintspremiers wrote:Does this means we have sacked that fwit clown that gave away a few 50's last season?

Not necessarily.

dragit · Post: # 1180164Post **dragit** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 1:55pm

plugger66 wrote:
saintspremiers wrote:Does this means we have sacked that fwit clown that gave away a few 50's last season?
Not necessarily.

Is that runner you pluggs?

plugger66 · Post: # 1180166Post **plugger66** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 2:17pm

dragit wrote:
plugger66 wrote:
saintspremiers wrote:Does this means we have sacked that fwit clown that gave away a few 50's last season?
Not necessarily.
Is that runner you pluggs?

I dont think so unless you can run from the bar.

Ross who? · Post: # 1180178Post **Ross who?** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 3:28pm

Tony Brown has been playing at Old Hailebury in the ammos for the last few years. Has he moved in the off season???

plugger66 · Post: # 1180186Post **plugger66** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 3:58pm

Ross who? wrote:Tony Brown has been playing at Old Hailebury in the ammos for the last few years. Has he moved in the off season???

Dont think he has played there for the last 2 years.

peter lockwood · Sat 03 Dec 2011 4:07pm

pretty sure Tony has been a runner for collingwood for the last couple of years.

Pwoit · Post: # 1180190Post **Pwoit** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 4:54pm

Just need to get Jason Heatley back too coach goalkicking

Darth Vader · Sat 03 Dec 2011 5:21pm

He's a teacher at Haileybury in Brighton. Top bloke.

Royston · Post: # 1180218Post **Royston** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 6:56pm

Played a couple for Old H this year - gave it away to concertrate on the Pies running role.

Ripper bloke by all reports

PJ · Post: # 1180231Post PJ » Sat 03 Dec 2011 7:29pm

plugger66 wrote:
dragit wrote:
plugger66 wrote:
saintspremiers wrote:Does this means we have sacked that fwit clown that gave away a few 50's last season?
Not necessarily.
Is that runner you pluggs?
I dont think so unless you can run from the bar.

Gold!

sainta · Post: # 1180243Post **sainta** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 8:04pm

OMG!!! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED Tony Brown back when I was a teen. I was always a Saints fan, but the day he came to my high school* for a sports day it was love at first sight and I actually attended more games and bought a membership ever since.

*Just to clarify, no, there was no KD action at this visit.

hungry for a premiership · Sat 03 Dec 2011 8:23pm

Ahhh Tony Brown.

Flashback to '97 when we had our young brigade, who were my heroes, of plain named guns: Brown, Smith (Joel) and Jones (aus).

good times!

He wasn't excatly the most gifted athlete in the world, Brown, but was definitely a very smart footballer

dragit · Post: # 1180285Post **dragit** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 10:26pm

I asked this a few months agoâ€¦

What happened to his career with us?

Seemed to finish up pretty young, from what I remember he was a decent player?

tony74 · Post: # 1180287Post **tony74** » Sat 03 Dec 2011 10:54pm

Finished up teaching in primary school

The Redeemer · Sat 03 Dec 2011 10:55pm

sainta wrote:OMG!!! I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED Tony Brown back when I was a teen. I was always a Saints fan, but the day he came to my high school* for a sports day it was love at first sight and I actually attended more games and bought a membership ever since.

*Just to clarify, no, there was no KD action at this visit.

Liar. You felt the need to clarify....guilty madame...guilty...

bobmurray · Sat 03 Dec 2011 10:59pm

dragit wrote:I asked this a few months agoâ€¦

What happened to his career with us?

Seemed to finish up pretty young, from what I remember he was a decent player?

he wasn't good enough so he was dumped..harsh but that's footy at that level

lyonhearted · Sun 04 Dec 2011 12:01am

Tony taught my son a couple of years ago, a damned good teacher and you could not find a nicer bloke; it's fantastic to have Tony Brown back at the Saints!

Just on that note, I think it's great that we're getting some of our ex players wanting to come back and get involved with the club again, with Tony, Maxy and Sammy returning to the fold.....

wally · Post: # 1180332Post **wally** » Sun 04 Dec 2011 7:19am

From what I remember he was a very good in & under type but ordinary foot skills. A casulity of the Tim Watson era,with the loss of a couple of players & others injured he couldn't carry the midfield load,and lost form like others and lost his spot.

Eastern · Post: # 1180353Post **Eastern** » Sun 04 Dec 2011 9:21am

Browny drove a 4WD when he played for us. Came in very handy one night

!!

samoht · Post: # 1180405Post **samoht** » Sun 04 Dec 2011 12:30pm

Eastern wrote:Browny drove a 4WD when he played for us. Came in very handy one night !!

Was it a black Vitara ?

saintsRrising · Sun 04 Dec 2011 1:36pm

stkildathunda wrote:Apparently back at the club as match day runner.

Maybe Watters remembers the regular stuff ups that our runners were making the last couple of years....

Eastern · Post: # 1180499Post **Eastern** » Sun 04 Dec 2011 6:51pm

samoht wrote:
Eastern wrote:Browny drove a 4WD when he played for us. Came in very handy one night !!
Was it a black Vitara ?

Not sure, but was used in a similar fashion to those citylink/VicRoads vans that push you out of the way when you break down !!

AnythingsPossibleSaints · Sun 04 Dec 2011 7:00pm

dragit wrote:I asked this a few months agoâ€¦

What happened to his career with us?

Seemed to finish up pretty young, from what I remember he was a decent player?

Tim Watson happened to it. Browny was very good from a young age and had a terrific 1997, when he was only 20, being an integral part of our midfield and our campaign that led to a GF. He got a lot of the ball and also kicked his fair share of goals. By 22 he had played 100 games (very rare for anyone to do) but then Watson came along and was committed to rotating those in the midfield in other positions and it killed off Browny, as he was only suited to playing in the guts. So Watson moved him to other areas, or on the bench and he lost his form and by the middle of the 99 or 2000 season Browny found himself in the magoos, despite the fact he was primed to enter the best phase of his already good career.
So we had someone who easily had the ability to play 200+ games finished by about the age of 23, when we could have just been a bit more flexible and built the midfield around him being in there.
His kicking wasn't great, but it was adequate and certainly not like CJ or Jack Daniels, for instance. His main "weakness" was that he wasn't suited to playing anywhere other than centre and wasn't super-quick, but I doubt that would have been an issue had Alves (or anyone else, that didn't want to move him) continued coaching us. The game had not sped up enough by that point for his speed to have been that much of an issue. 4 or 5 years later may have been a different story, but it wasn't 4 or 5 years later by that point.

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