SA Footy

In recent years the Redbacks have recruited some high profile duds.
Unlike a few decades ago when 3 of the greatest ever cricketers played here.
Here is my collection of
DUDS
GOOD
CHAMPS

DUDS in alphbetical order

AHMED
ELLIOTT [ at this stage only]
DAVISON
FLEMING[always injured]
FLOWER
SMALL
WRIGHT
YAGMICH

GOOD

BEVAN[ hardly qualifies]
JENNER
MALLETT
MCINTYRE

CHAMPS

GARNER
RICHARDS
SOBERS

I may have missed a couple, but gee we have had some DUDS in recent years.

gary cosier but he played everywhere

i wouldn't call him a dud

bayman wrote:gary cosier but he played everywhere

Started in Victoria, and yes in the good catergory for sure.
Manos was borderline, as from memory he did not excel and was closer to a dud.

I'd hardly call Kevin Wright a Dud, playing in a winning shield team and whilst not setting the world on fire with the bat, contibuted to the team and was a solid keeper arguably the 3rd best in the country 1980-82 behind Marsh and Rixon....

1980 Tassie Medalist wrote:I'd hardly call Kevin Wright a Dud, playing in a winning shield team and whilst not setting the world on fire with the bat, contibuted to the team and was a solid keeper arguably the 3rd best in the country 1980-82 behind Marsh and Rixon....

Yes very good call TASSIE .

I should have had 4 catergories.

DUD/GOOD/VERY GOOD/CHAMPS

small + WRIGHT are in the good class.

Top of the DUD list: Mark Higgs

MW wrote:Top of the DUD list: Mark Higgs

Another one well posetd MW.
He made about 160 not out in his first SA state game
It was first game of the year from memory,
and then CRASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH.

Hey mal, cant believe you missed out the cult figure Hooogggggyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!

Also Jeff Crowe, David Fitzgerald and Peter Anderson.

Other good recruits were

John Inverarity
Andrew Hilditch
Jamie Siddons
Darren Berry
Darren Lehmann (when we got him back from Vic )
Colin Miller
James Brayshaw
Paul Wilson
Joe Scuderi

More average ones
Brad Wigney
Geoff Parker
David Fitzgerald

And if you want to go back a bit further, some guy called Bradman did OK.

Did Colin Miller ever really do anything with us? I remember him as only being average, didn't he only ever turn into a decent cricketer when moving to Tasmania, when he took up spin bowling??

Ecky wrote:Other good recruits were

John Inverarity
Andrew Hilditch
Jamie Siddons
Darren Berry
Darren Lehmann (when we got him back from Vic )
Colin Miller
James Brayshaw
Paul Wilson
Joe Scuderi

More average ones
Brad Wigney
Geoff Parker
David Fitzgerald

And if you want to go back a bit further, some guy called Bradman did OK.

it cant be bradman when the title says 1966-2006
that geoff parker he also played footy for south adelaide

Which category would you place Lance Gibbs in?

GWW wrote:Did Colin Miller ever really do anything with us? I remember him as only being average, didn't he only ever turn into a decent cricketer when moving to Tasmania, when he took up spin bowling??

Miller took 44 wickets (average 25) for us in 1989/90.

PS Another dud was Denis Hickey, and another who did OK (in one season I think) was Rod McCurdy.

bayman wrote:

Ecky wrote:Other good recruits were

John Inverarity
Andrew Hilditch
Jamie Siddons
Darren Berry
Darren Lehmann (when we got him back from Vic )
Colin Miller
James Brayshaw
Paul Wilson
Joe Scuderi

More average ones
Brad Wigney
Geoff Parker
David Fitzgerald

And if you want to go back a bit further, some guy called Bradman did OK.

it cant be bradman when the title says 1966-2006
that geoff parker he also played footy for south adelaide

Would have been a lot better off getting Jamie Cox i think.

NEW RATINGS

DUDS

AHMED.......... 1 the worst ever
ANDERSON.....4
HIGGS.......... 4
ELLIOTT.........4 not yet
DAVISON...... 4
FLEMING....... 3 sorry Damien only coz of injuries
FLOWER........ 3 the biggest flop for a champion player
HICKEY..........3 fast but flop
PARKER.........3
WIGNEY.........3
YAGMICH...... 3

GOOD

BERRY............5
CROWE..........6
FITZGERALD...5
McCURDY.......6 played at Woodville, great socialiser
SCUDERI........6 could have been better
SMALL............5
WILSON..........6
WRIGHT.........6

VERY GOOD

BEVAN...........8 if qualifies
BRAYSHAW....7
COSIER.........8 had to face great bowlers, very underated
HILDITCH......8
HOGG............9 great drinker as well
INVERARITY...7
JENNER..........8
MALLETT........9
MCINTYRE......7
MILLER...........7
SIDDONS.......7



CHAMPIONS

GARNER........10
REB..............10 despite deserting his state
RICHARDS....10
SOBERS........11 the Bradman of allrounders, my favourite all time player

We may have 'poached' Sir Donald Bradman from NSW
but they have avenged that by poaching Sir REB.

From what REB said on the forum he was born in NSW but lives in QLD now.

Whats the goss on Ahmed and Yagmic, are they recruits from recent years who never got past grade cricket, or do they go back to the 60's and 70's (before some of us can remember )

GWW wrote:From what REB said on the forum he was born in NSW but lives in QLD now.

Whats the goss on Ahmed and Yagmic, are they recruits from recent years who never got past grade cricket, or do they go back to the 60's and 70's (before some of us can remember )

Dennis Yagmich was a keeper from WA [might have played a test in Packer era]
Yagmich was a fair keeper who did a job.

Younis Ahmed was a Pakastani test cricketer who played a year here and I think
his best effort was one half century as a batsman.
He had a big reputation.
Should have been sacked earlier but I think Don Bradman said to have him in the line up.
I think Coca Cola sponsored him for a $1 a run[cheap investment]
Played late 70s I think.
The biggest dud without doubt.

mal wrote:Younis Ahmed was a Pakastani test cricketer who played a year here and I think

He is probably best known for having the record for the longest gap between test appearances (in terms of tests missed): 104 tests between 1969/70 and 1986/87.

PS I just found his record for SA: 6 matches in 1972/73, 289 runs at 26.27

Younis Ahmed
26073 first class runs ...ave 40-68
4 tests....177 runs...ave 29-50...highest score 62
5 matches SA...9 Innings....264 runs...ave 29-33 highest score 69

Not as bad as I thought.
At the time he was playing there was a lot of talk about his expectations
and his failures for SA.

Had a call from a mate who says that Barry Richards was sponsored for $1 per run
by Coca Cola