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Your favourite player who never quite made it
« on: March 03, 2008, 04:35:30 AM »
We all had a player(s) who we had a soft spot for who never quite kicked on the way we hoped whether that be due to form, lack of opprotunities or injuries.

So who was your favourite player(s) who never quite made it?


Limit to players who played less than 50 games.

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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2008, 04:52:14 AM »
Justin Plapp
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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2008, 05:29:20 AM »
Trent Nicholls
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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2008, 05:57:49 AM »

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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2008, 07:46:53 AM »
I thought about Marty McGrath but in all honesty he wasn't really a favourite although after his 5 goal debut out of nowhere I was quite excited only to have him gone at the end of the season.

I've had to bend the rule here slightly but there is one player that I think never made it and should have. Although he played 68 games for us and 9 for Essendon he would have to be one of the most irritating players we have had on our list. He had the skill and the agro we so desperately need at Richmond. When he first appeared on the scene I really thought we had a player and at one stage he was my favourite. Little did I know he was a complete head case and a waste of space and oxygen. A player that makes me more angry than any other failed player we have had on our list. If you haven't already guessed, it is one Ty Zantuck.

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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2008, 07:54:56 AM »
How far back are we allowed to go ?

For mine:  Ken Stonehouse and
              Greg Naylor

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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2008, 09:15:53 AM »
Anthony Banik

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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2008, 12:09:42 PM »
Richo.

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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2008, 12:47:28 PM »
Richo.

My first laugh for the day.

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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2008, 12:53:58 PM »
Neville Roberts .... probably didn't hang around long enough to cement a place in the side. 

Although Geoff Raines & Barry Rowlings were about to come onto the seen in a big way might have seen GR push him out rather then keep him.

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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2008, 06:36:44 PM »
Andy Goodwin
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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2008, 10:53:36 PM »
Brett Evans
Barry Young
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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2008, 11:07:28 PM »
Brett Evans

Yep.

I was hoping Matty Dundas would become a gun goalsneak for us but he never really got a go. 5 goals from 8 games for the Tiges.
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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2008, 01:39:19 AM »
Simon Clark
Chris Pym
Cory Young

All very good U19 players in the 80s but just didn't have it at senior level to last in the big league.
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Re: Your favourite player who never quite made it
« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2008, 06:32:42 AM »
Dragga  though not sure how many games he played
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