Name your most hated players in the league

[Rhino]

BlueandWhite,

Are you serious??? Damian Squire runs forward of the play and rarely wins a contested possession. That is the funniest thing I've ever heard and I almost spat my Pale Ale all over the keyboard. face it...you hate him because his brilliant and that was evidenced by the 43 possessions and five goals he got against the Panthers last year. Not even worth dignifying that comment any further in relation to the dual Magarey Medallist.

Onto serious matters:

My Club: Sturt

Three Most Hated:
1. Gowans Brothers (bitch and moan and snipe)
2. Scott Bamford (seagull)
3. Brett Backwell (see Scott Bamford)

Three 'if only they were Double Blue' players:
1. J. Clayton
2. M. McKenzie (Eagles)
3. Gowans Brothers

[Punk Rooster]

Anyone sledging Scott Bamford is a mental midget.

[MST]

Support: Sturt

Three 'disliked' players:
S. Bamford (pack skirter)
V. Rugolo (overweight/overrated)
B. Backwell (overrated. Another player who never troubles the laundry lady)

Three 'if only they were double blue' players:
J. Clayton
T. Inkster
P. Scoullar

Well I could take you task about your assessment of Bamford MST. Re Squire, he is not exactly an in an under type either - he is a creative runner as he plays on the ball and iss expected to be attacking and creative. Bamford is primarily a wingman but over the past year he has played more on the ball in bursts off the bench and has put his body (albeit a thin one!) on the line and has showed a tougher side to him and gets plenty of hard balls as well as beign attacking and creative. So be careful about your assessments of players before you stick it up others - remember everyone has a different view point of certain players.

Have to agree to disagree there Drebin.

Bamford is a smooth mover, great kick and generally skilled type but if indeed he put's his body on the line, it sure hasn't been against Sturt in recent years. Bamford is a 'link man' who will cut the opposition to ribbons IF left alone. Play a tagger, defensive strong man on him and he flounders.

The same cannot be said for Squire as, one on one, he is just about the best in the biz and has the upper body strength PLUS the speed and skills to cope with it.

Squire for mine every day of the week.

[Pseudo]

S Carter
W Mahoney
D Leys

and "B" Leys definitely on the bottom of that little pile. I once witnessed this grotesque individual pissing on the oval through the leg of his shorts while waiting for the opposition huddle to break up. There are players who are all class, and players who sometimes do something classy... and then there is Brian Leys.

[Coorong]

God you have lived a sheltered life too, similar to TB. I dont like it but happens all the time, players usually huddle around to protect "the piddler"

Remember a large pick of Merv Neagle playing for the Bombers in the melbourne sun. Just one of many.

What do they do man, put their hand up and ask the coach to leave the ground.

BUT in this case and as a bloke, Brian Leys was a very undesirable person.

[Wedgie]

Anyone who saw Bamford put his body (all 50kgs of it) on the line when he got slaughtered by a Westies player at Prospect last year (was it the Thug?) when caught under the ball would never question the guys courage, I've seen it on many occasions. The guy has courage just to step out on the ground the way he's built.
Ive seen Lucas Herbert pull out of packs or contests for various reasons and he's built like a brick shithouse, Ive never seen Banger pull out of one pack or contest, ever.

[RoosterMarty]

Anyone who saw Bamford put his body (all 50kgs of it) on the line when he got slaughtered by a Westies player at Prospect last year (was it the Thug?) when caught under the ball would never question the guys courage, I've seen it on many occasions. The guy has courage just to step out on the ground the way he's built.
Ive seen Lucas Herbert pull out of packs or contests for various reasons and he's built like a brick shithouse, Ive never seen Banger pull out of one pack or contest, ever.

Yes i remember that, got absolutely cleaned up and the game was well in our favour, i think we may have got a goal out of that? Not sure. Of course he wont be going into the packs everytime because hes not built for that, but ive seen him go in hard many times. He laid one of the greatest ever hip and shoulders one match, possibly at Richmond.

I remember that day at Alberton when we got flogged in 2003 i think, ball came in long to Herbert, and he bloody covered his eyes and completely pulled out! One of the worst things ive seen on a footy field.

[drebin]

Wedgie - It was Luke Norman and it was 2004 from memory - the pic of the clash was on the official site for ages on the home page. MST - I'm not comparing Bamford to Squire - they are different players but if you listened to 5AA tonight when Bamford was interviewed - he couldn't be a pack skirter all his career which is over 200 games - 60 in the AFL and always at his playing weight of 67 kgs. To be fair to you - you don't see him enough and then only in certain aspects of the games against Sturt. As I aid - different opinions but sweeping statements like you made will cause a reaction. Re Squire - he was always a favourite of mine and if not for McDermott pissing hm off he would still be at North - as I have said before one of the worst decisions a Senior Coach has ever made at any club. Average players don't win 2 Magerey Medals.

[goraw]

totally agree drebin.mcdermott was absolutly useless.we went back a hundered miles an hour every second that guy was in charge of our great club.anyway i absolutly hate those gowans twins (because there so good),ross gibbs was the biggest ******* pansy and also that white from sturt used to cut north up a lot so im glad his gone .

[Dog_ger]

Hate................................................
Bullshit...........................................!
Football is a passion.........................!
Hate today is tomorrows heroes........!

[XXXXRooster]

Herbet is crap

Patrick Wiggins, what a netballer!!!

[Adelaide Hawk]

I think 'hate' is too strong a word to use to describe an opposition player you may not like very much. I honestly can say I do not hate any player in the SANFL. I can thnk of a few over the years I was glad to see the back of

[Wedgie]

Wedgie - It was Luke Norman and it was 2004 from memory - the pic of the clash was on the official site for ages on the home page.

[RoosterMarty]

i just noticed that on the official site as the tipping logo

[am Bays]

totally agree drebin.mcdermott was absolutly useless.we went back a hundered miles an hour every second that guy was in charge of our great club.anyway i absolutly hate those gowans twins (because there so good),ross gibbs was the biggest ******* pansy and also that white from sturt used to cut north up a lot so im glad his gone .

Drebin & GORAW facts don't lie McDermott has a better coaching record at North than Barrie Robran, at least he took you blokes to finals

So if you're going to bag Bones, you've got to bag Barrie......

And while you're bagging North coaches for letting players go thank Micky Nunan for giving us the Stringers, talk about handing us two premierships.....

Gee if you had the Stringers instead of us in 85-86 would have been three in a row for the club you [you] love....

[RoosterMarty]

theres a bit of a difference as at least Barrie did a 'couple of good things' as a player at North!! Bones didnt win 3 megareys and 3 Cups!
obviously i never saw God coach North but from what ive been told we didnt have that great a side then, under Bones we had a half decent team, he got rid of some future magarey winners and a heap of other very good players, Herbert was a star back then and even played for the Crows a few times
Nunan won two premierships as well so that evens out a bit

[Wedgie]

Tassie, there's a lot of other issues to take into account especially as to why North supporters are bitter against McDermott as marty touched on.
Yes Barrie's coaching record was awful BUT at least he didn't send players away to other clubs, Magarey Medalists at that so that the coach afterwards was left with no cattle.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Mick Nunan had a bit more successful record with the players Barrie left the club with as opposed to Darel Hart's record with the players McDermott left North with.
He almost single handedly put us into a Div 2 Amateur side where Barrie left a very good nucleus of players for Nunan to work with.
Also I think we're going to be more concerned with what happened this centure as opposed to what happened when I was at primary school.

I assume you're just fishing as that's very obvious.

I wont even go into Bone's lawsuit, looking at Glenelg's current plight you'd almost think Bones had had something to do with them in recent years!

[am Bays]

theres a bit of a difference as at least Barrie did a 'couple of good things' as a player at North!! Bones didnt win 3 megareys and 3 Cups!
obviously i never saw God coach North but from what ive been told we didnt have that great a side then, under Bones we had a half decent team, he got rid of some future magarey winners and a heap of other very good players, Herbert was a star back then and even played for the Crows a few times
Nunan won two premierships as well so that evens out a bit

Not even touching Barrie's playing record as it is indisbutable he is an out and out champ....

As a bloke in his mid 30s I'd love to go back to the 70s and see Robran v Ebert would be sensational footy.

I'm merely talking coaching record. FWIW McDermott had players who couldn't make our league side in the Symonds era at Glenelg (Edwards & Carberry) playing league footy at North 1998-99. So he hardly had a good side especially once your captain (Scotty Sutherland) went down in the 5th quarter of the 1999 season at Unley. Throught the SANFL it was widely know McDermott had nothing to work with and Hart demonstrated that when he took over. I know that for a fact working with other SANFL clubs.

Finally don't blame the coach for making players leave, blame the administration for letting him do it, that is why Glenlg sacked the Stringers in 1997 after wanting to let good players go again after they handed Norwood a premiership player in 1997.

Unfortunately some of your fellow North supporters want to have a crack at Bones for making Squire leave when Nunan did the same to the Stringers

[Wedgie]

Throught the SANFL it was widely know McDermott had nothing to work with and Hart demonstrated that when he took over. I know that for a fact working with other SANFL clubs.

Absolute rubbish, you're clutching at straws now, he inherited a finals side!

We came 4th in 1997 with 12 wins.
We came 4th with 13 wins in 1998.
Last in 1999 with 2 wins.
8th (thanks to Glenelg just holding us up but we did have a worse %) in 2000 with 3 wins.

Robran inherited a team that came 8th in 1977 and 1976.

And I'm sure even you can understand that we're having a crack at someone who almost destroyed the club as opposed to someone who won 2 premierships, comparing Nunan and McDermott is laughable.

[RoosterMarty]

yeah my old man has told me that Barrie didnt have much to work with, and maybe even did the job for free because we were struggling a bit? if we had kept the players McDermott kicked out who knows what would have happened?