Author Topic: Some tall timber to join our coaching panel  (Read 4429 times)

Offline yellowandback

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 4025
Re: Some tall timber to join our coaching panel
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2009, 08:58:15 PM »
Fellas, this is a done deal. Will be announced soon
It's that simple Spud
"I discussed (it) with my three daughters, my wife and my 82-year-old mum, because it has really affected me … If those comments … were made about one of my daughters, it would make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I would not have liked it at all.”

Jackstar is back

  • Guest
Re: Some tall timber to join our coaching panel
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2009, 09:12:21 PM »
Would make a decent ruck coach i would imagine - anyone has to better than what we've had the last couple of years

And importantly he's played in a premiership - has that culture right  ???  :rollin :rollin :lol

Yep, so did Steve Alessio and we burnt him ::)

Con65

  • Guest
Re: Some tall timber to join our coaching panel
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2009, 01:12:09 PM »
How did we burn Alessio?

Offline Smokey

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 9279
Re: Some tall timber to join our coaching panel
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2009, 05:46:12 PM »
A list of the last ruckmen to coach each club as best I could work it out and in relatively recent times - I might easily be wrong and happy to have it amended for accuracy.

1998 - Roger Merrett - Brisbane
1996 - Neil Balme - Melbourne
1994 - Graham Cornes - Adelaide
1987 - Ron Alexander - West Coast
1984 - Mike Patterson - Richmond
1983 - Ian Hampshire - Bulldogs
1980 - Percy Jones - Carlton
1980 - Mike Patterson - St Kilda
1976 - Murray Weideman - Collingwood
1975 - Graham Farmer - Geelong
1971 - Barry Goodingham - North Melbourne
1965 - Graham Arthur - Hawthorn


Offline WilliamPowell

  • Administrator
  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 40316
  • Better to ignore a fool than encourage one
    • One Eyed Richmond
Re: Some tall timber to join our coaching panel
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2009, 05:50:22 PM »
Would you classify Graham Cornes as a ruckman?

I always thought he was considered a CHF or FF

Not that it matters though  ;D :thumbsup
"Oh yes I am a dreamer, I still see us flying high!"

from the song "Don't Walk Away" by Pat Benatar 1988 (Wide Awake In Dreamland)

Offline Smokey

  • RFC Hall of Fame
  • *****
  • Posts: 9279
Re: Some tall timber to join our coaching panel
« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2009, 07:10:56 PM »
Would you classify Graham Cornes as a ruckman?

I always thought he was considered a CHF or FF

Not that it matters though  ;D :thumbsup

Was relying on my "very hazy now but intense at the time", local memory WP.  He started out with Glenelg when I was a kid living at Elizabeth and playing with Central Districts little league side.  Dean Farnham, Sonny Morey are a couple of local 'names' I can recall from that era but there were a swag of Eberts, Obsts, Sachses and Lindners going around with Oatey, Cahill, Kerley, Eustace, Tilbrook, Greenslade, Huppatz and heaps of others.  Anyway, I remember he was a power forward that spent some time rucking however given the vagaries of time I am happy to acknowledge that may have well been a 'once off' that has become a 'fact'.   :thumbsup

Jackstar is back

  • Guest
Re: Some tall timber to join our coaching panel
« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2009, 07:48:33 PM »
How did we burn Alessio?

Steve Alessio was Richmonds ruck coach 2005 and 2006 but got shafted by Wallace for one of his mates, Monkhurst. FACT