Your teams biggest let down as a big name recruit ( dud )

[doggies4eva]

Not so much a recruit, But John Platten when he came back from Hawthorn.
Ive seen him play better games for the Gawler Districts 35+s

He was carrying an injury. It shows the closeness of the SANFL to the AFL - lose a little bit and a great AFL player can't even cut it in the SANFL!

Bit unfair, I heard his knees were buggered after his Hawthorn career. A great player and a nice bloke too.

That's right. You can't call a bloke who won a Magarey and a Brownlow a dud.

[rd]

Read this thread during the week and I was thinking of Jarjoura for Sturt. Get today's paper and see that he's been dropped so I take that as a sign that I'm not alone in that line of thinking !!!

[drebin]

I think O'Keefe is a bigger dud recruit and should have been dropped before Jajoura.

[rd]

I always allow a season to decide if an interstate recruit is a dud or not and Jarjoura is at that stage now. I agree however that O'Keefe with his left foot 30 metre helicopter kicks is a chance to be named in this thread in 2007...

[portentous]

Alvey-all the hype and he never played a match.

We've had plenty of dud "big fellas" over the years too. At times it seemed that the bigger the jumper, the smaller the heart.

[Blue Boy]

Craig Burrows by a mile at North.

talkin to a North supporter then and they told me they wondered what they were thinkin when they took Gilligan in the SANFL mini draft. Also they mentioned an AFL recruit around the time when Hargraves started from an AFL club he was a forward - who was that ??????

Has any one got a clue who the player to my earlier question was. Is it Burrows ???

Please roosters

[duncs7]

Not so much a recruit, But John Platten when he came back from Hawthorn.
Ive seen him play better games for the Gawler Districts 35+s

He was carrying an injury. It shows the closeness of the SANFL to the AFL - lose a little bit and a great AFL player can't even cut it in the SANFL!

Bit unfair, I heard his knees were buggered after his Hawthorn career. A great player and a nice bloke too.

That's right. You can't call a bloke who won a Magarey and a Brownlow a dud.

Mates, im definatly not being unfair, he is the mighty Elizabeth Football club's greatest son. I was just thinkin of the hype when he was to return to Centrals and the dissapointment (due to injury) that followed. Met John 1000 times great bloke, work with his brother Mick quite often. He is always up 4 a coffee at that cafe in front of the printing hub.

[am Bays]

Oh my good how could I forget 1995, David Strooper!!!!

What a disgrace to the culture of the #36 guernsey at the Bay

[ORDoubleBlues]

Read this thread during the week and I was thinking of Jarjoura for Sturt. Get today's paper and see that he's been dropped so I take that as a sign that I'm not alone in that line of thinking !!!

Must say that I actually rate Jarjoura quite highly and think that his best position would be on a half forward flank and being used in spurts on the ball as well. Big blokes like him with pace are hard to find at this level. Having said that, perhaps him getting dropped is a disciplinary issue of some sort. Thought he was actually one of our better players in the big loss to North.

On Platten, while I don't want to appear to be knocking the bloke, what happened when he came back here proved that Hawthorn were correct in letting him go and not letting him play "one more year".

[onkas-valleysvirgin]

Contessa is definately the winner from the GFC point of view.
His major achievements in his time at Glenelg were:
(a)putting on at least 2 stone.
(b)getting to the end of Tomb Raider.


Pathetic. And Marcus Baldwin wasn't far behind him....looked like Tarzan,played like Jane.

[Dissident]

Contessa is definately the winner from the GFC point of view.
His major achievements in his time at Glenelg were:
(a)putting on at least 2 stone.
(b)getting to the end of Tomb Raider.


Pathetic. And Marcus Baldwin wasn't far behind him....looked like Tarzan,played like Jane.

Tomb Raider
LOL!!!

[Sandoid]

While it' early days, Luke Jarrad has been poor so far for the Eagles, no right foot and I'm beginning to doubt he has a left one either. He had some sort of rep from the VFL.

[drebin]

Craig Burrows by a mile at North.

talkin to a North supporter then and they told me they wondered what they were thinkin when they took Gilligan in the SANFL mini draft. Also they mentioned an AFL recruit around the time when Hargraves started from an AFL club he was a forward - who was that ??????

Has any one got a clue who the player to my earlier question was. Is it Burrows ???

Please roosters

That would be him - about a year before we got Hargraves. As both came from the dockers we were fearful that Hargs could trun out to be another Burrows but thank god he wasn't and he has been here 7 seasons now!

[JK]

Craig Burrows by a mile at North.

talkin to a North supporter then and they told me they wondered what they were thinkin when they took Gilligan in the SANFL mini draft. Also they mentioned an AFL recruit around the time when Hargraves started from an AFL club he was a forward - who was that ??????

Has any one got a clue who the player to my earlier question was. Is it Burrows ???

Please roosters

That would be him - about a year before we got Hargraves. As both came from the dockers we were fearful that Hargs could trun out to be another Burrows but thank god he wasn't and he has been here 7 seasons now!

lol would be interesting to know if that says more about North or the Dockers?? Either way, been a great pickup for North, ya gotta take your hats off to blokes like Hargs (Gowans, Robbie Neill types etc) who come over and actually stay for 5-plus years ...

[Blue Boy]

Craig Burrows by a mile at North.

talkin to a North supporter then and they told me they wondered what they were thinkin when they took Gilligan in the SANFL mini draft. Also they mentioned an AFL recruit around the time when Hargraves started from an AFL club he was a forward - who was that ??????

Has any one got a clue who the player to my earlier question was. Is it Burrows ???

Please roosters

That would be him - about a year before we got Hargraves. As both came from the dockers we were fearful that Hargs could trun out to be another Burrows but thank god he wasn't and he has been here 7 seasons now!

Thanks for the info - Drebin

[Interceptor]

Justin Staritski actually returned to the club after his days in Melbourne, was a more than handy player prior to trying his luck in the AFL system imho ...

Yeah I was being a bit harsh on 'Stars' there. He was a pretty good player before going to North Melbourne.

I'm still trying to remember the name of an ex-Brisbane (Bears era) player that hung around for a number of seasons at Norwood.
Generally played as a tall forward, had blonde hair I think.
Was so ordinary, they must've signed him up 'sight unseen'

[Sandoid]

Interceptor...would that be Jason Millar? Opposition supporters were always glad to see him named at CHF for the Legs.

[Interceptor]

Interceptor...would that be Jason Millar? Opposition supporters were always glad to see him named at CHF for the Legs.

Yep spot on.

[SimonH]

Millar was no matchwinner, but hung around for a few years and was good enough to get a league game in a team that was making the finals.

I'll commit sacrilege by referring to one high-profile interstate recruit who played an awful lot of football at Norwood... Craig Balme!

No-one will ever forget the 1984 GF (except for Tim Evans presumably), and Balmey was a strong team man, good with the bodywork and the fist at full-back. Not denying any of that. It was just that in his later years, for whatever reason his brother (and maybe even N. Craig if he lasted that long) decided to play him at CHF. This was a bit of a problem because he couldn't mark the ball overhead. At all. Not even uncontested. This is a fairly fundamental skill for any footballer in the modern age; even more so if you're the team's CHF. I suspect that if we were to look now at the tapes of games where C.Balme was played as a marking forward, he would've dated worse than 'The Breakfast Club'.

And no thread on high-profile recruits would be complete without mentioning Brian Adamson. He shall not grow old, as Des Foster and embittered Sturt supporters grow old...

[Aerie]

While it' early days, Luke Jarrad has been poor so far for the Eagles, no right foot and I'm beginning to doubt he has a left one either. He had some sort of rep from the VFL.

I was critical of him after the first 3 games as well, but he played well against Central. He was played on the wrong wing for most of the first three games, but was played on the left wing against Central. Can't have a guy who has no right foot on the right wing.

I reakon Jarrad will turn out alright.