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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on January 18, 2023, 08:44:40 PM

Title: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: one-eyed on January 18, 2023, 08:44:40 PM
As per thread title - Which Richmond players did you once think were going to be elite but for whatever reason never got there?
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Andyy on January 18, 2023, 08:57:36 PM
Thought Vickery would be much better. Had talent just no heart. Same with Griffiths.

Stack. Lennon. Conca.
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: WilliamPowell on January 18, 2023, 09:35:51 PM
Ben Lennon

Looking at the players in the other thread about the 2000 list. I thought Homewood was going to be a good player. Got that one a bit wrong  :lol

Also Liam McBean, massive disappointment

And throw in Jayden Post for good measure
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: MintOnLamb on January 18, 2023, 10:23:26 PM
Mark Coughlan, so unlucky
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Hard Roar Tiger on January 18, 2023, 10:56:45 PM
Dragasevic
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Damo on January 18, 2023, 11:12:49 PM
Really depends on what you consider elite to be

I thought Lids was going to be a stuff .. best few in the comp level, but never got there

Also thought Tambling would reach far greater heights and be “elite”
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Tigeritis™©® on January 18, 2023, 11:41:59 PM
Had high expectations for JON considering he had the best highlights package Francis “Betamax” Jackson had ever seen.

Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Tiger Khosh on January 19, 2023, 12:00:37 AM
Andrew Raines. Finished second in the rising star and thought we had a father son gun on our hands. Then the tagging role got phased out of the AFL and his average skills were exposed.
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Assange Tiger 😎 on January 19, 2023, 05:51:21 AM
The tagging role saved Raines' career. Made a good go of it at Brisbane and got to punch Joel Selwood. Never tagged for us but did show some dash off half back. Did struggle for form post 2007 with us
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: 1965 on January 19, 2023, 05:52:56 AM
Justin Plapp
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: MintOnLamb on January 19, 2023, 07:04:13 AM
Cool hand Luke McGuane
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Broadsword on January 19, 2023, 07:13:00 AM
Cool hand Luke McGuane

Right now Id take him as a backup forward option for season 2023!
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Hard Roar Tiger on January 19, 2023, 09:03:20 AM
Going back in time :-
Steven James
Justin Murphy
Anthony Banik
Stephen Ryan
Stephen Jurica
Nathan Brown (until the leg injury)
Graham Polak (until the tram hit him)
I actually though Aaron Fiora would be good for about a minute  :lol
Stewart Edwards
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: georgies31 on January 19, 2023, 09:21:22 AM
Had high expectations for JON considering he had the best highlights package Francis “Betamax” Jackson had ever seen.

Wasn't Jackson it was Greg Miller.
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: FooffooValve on January 19, 2023, 11:21:56 AM
Aaron James
Ezra Poyas
Richard Tambling
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: pmac21 on January 19, 2023, 11:47:05 AM
Tambling for sure for me.  Watched his first pre season game against Pies live and thought wow, he is going to be a stuff. 
He wasn't......
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Assange Tiger 😎 on January 19, 2023, 12:01:44 PM
I did have faith in Tambo for a long time. Glad he never played against us at the G to be honest, poor bloke would have got booed out of the building by some ferals
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Tiger Khosh on January 20, 2023, 02:05:51 AM
The tagging role saved Raines' career. Made a good go of it at Brisbane and got to punch Joel Selwood. Never tagged for us but did show some dash off half back. Did struggle for form post 2007 with us

Didn’t he tag ricciuto in that infamous game against the crows where we just played keepings off for 4 quarters? Lol
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Assange Tiger 😎 on January 20, 2023, 02:40:21 AM
Haha I can't remember much from that game apart from the Bowdens kicking the ball to each other 619 times
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: mightytiges on January 20, 2023, 06:00:20 PM
Going back a fair while but I thought Craig Smith was going to be a gun in senior footy. He starred at U19s level.

The tagging role saved Raines' career. Made a good go of it at Brisbane and got to punch Joel Selwood. Never tagged for us but did show some dash off half back. Did struggle for form post 2007 with us

Didn’t he tag ricciuto in that infamous game against the crows where we just played keepings off for 4 quarters? Lol
I don't remember either, but going by the stats, Raines had 20 possies (19 uncontested). It might have been Daniel Jackson who tagged?

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/2006/011420060520.html
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: the claw on January 20, 2023, 06:11:40 PM
from word go not many at all.
Expectations have always been tempered. Anyway i think the elite tag is well and truly overused these days.
Plenty have one maybe two elite traits but fall away in many other areas.
My angst with our supporters is they tend to put on pedestals players who dont have one elite trait.
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: camboon on January 20, 2023, 08:49:54 PM
Dean Polo after his first game
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Andyy on January 21, 2023, 11:10:43 AM
Dean Polo after his first game

So true

Marty McGrath too
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: mat073 on January 21, 2023, 01:09:12 PM
Back in the 90s I thought Steven Jurica was going to be the next Tony Locket .

I alway thought that Tambling would come good - he never did

Conca was also a disappointment in the end .

Griffiths was also meant to be our forward line saviour

Polo and Raines are also notable mentions .
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Broadsword on January 22, 2023, 10:21:49 AM
RCD. The next Chris Judd. I hoped.
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: Hard Roar Tiger on January 23, 2023, 09:07:31 AM
Remember Matthew Manfield? Thought he was going to be the next Kouta  ::)
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: pmac21 on January 23, 2023, 10:57:49 AM
Remember Matthew Manfield? Thought he was going to be the next Kouta  ::)

OMG, yes, he was terrible
Title: Re: Tiger players you thought were going to be elite but never got there
Post by: mightytiges on January 23, 2023, 05:28:49 PM
Dan Foley (#37) kicking 5 goals in a half against Essendon at Windy Hill in 1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrBKKnN9HrU