I enjoy watching him play

[Throughandthrough]

A pretty common phrase on this site.


Which players do (did) you enjoy watch play?

And to flip that which players don't you enjoy watch play?


Doesn't mean they are (or aren't ) worthy of selection


I'll start

I found Cooney and Grant as possibly the two players ive enjoyed the most. Grant as he was incredibly awesome, Cooney as he never looked like he was trying but amazingly effortless with his silky skills. And the crowd yelling "coon" was terrific

And Kelvin Templeton had a big impression on me as a young fella. Was devo when he left


On the negative I never warmed to the other Grant. Maybe because for such a high draft pick he gave back not much

[boydogs]

Bonts, Stringer & Dahlhaus are just electric. So skillful and fast

Barry Hall & Brian Lake were good to watch marking everything at each end

[Maddog37]

Love watching Dale Morris. He is fearless and so strong in the contest. He competes at maximum effort every time all the time.

I'm very excited to see the progression of Toby Mc as he looks very talented and very competitive.

Bont and Jake are special as is Libba.

I am hoping Jack Mac gets a bit of his evasiveness back into his game too as he sells candy better than nearly anyone.

[Throughandthrough]

Bonts, Stringer & Dahlhaus are just electric. So skillful and fast

Barry Hall & Brian Lake were good to watch marking everything at each end

One million apologies for not including Barry Hall in my opeNing post.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

Call me crazy, but I did enjoy watching Aker run around for us. He was hopeless when we needed him in finals, but was good value in the H&A seasons prior to the fall-out.

I loved Matty Robbins, was one of my favourite players. Gave everything and had some tricks too.

[Twodogs]

I would have walked 500 miles just to watch Les Bamblett torment opposition defenders for four quarters. Lal was the most spectacularly laconic footballer there ever was.

When he was on song, and that was most of the time, Doug Hawkins could tear a game apart in ten minutes of devastation. He made classy players look silly, tough guys cry in frustration.

Scott West nearly always won a contest. Loved watching scooter go about gathering possesions the way a good opening batsman gathers runs. Quiet and unobtrusive with a deft touch here and a flick there and before you knew he had 30.

[Twodogs]

Call me crazy, but I did enjoy watching Aker run around for us. He was hopeless when we needed him in finals, but was good value in the H&A seasons prior to the fall-out.

I loved Matty Robbins, was one of my favourite players. Gave everything and had some tricks too.

When he kicked the sealer in Brisbane one year and made the quiet signal to the crowd was funny.

[Greystache]

Brian Lake at his peak was as dominant as any player I've seen, which is quite a feat for a full back.

I was a big fan of P Hudson in 98 and 99. Tory Dickson kicking a bag from a handful of opportunities is pretty awesome too.

[bulldogtragic]

A lot of the above.

Scott Wynd. Courage personified.
The Monty Sandwich. Kissing the robo dog at the start of his career and winning us a final at the back end. Could he take a speccy too!
Players who could kick both legs well: Leon Cameron, Aker, Bobby etc.
Matty Dent was a real favourite of mine. Hardest bloke to put our jumper on and that's saying something.
Shane Thorne

[AndrewP6]

Aker, Bazza, Coons... when on song, loved watching them. The former #16 too. Gilbee's kicking.
As a young kid, Simon Beasley and Jim Edmond.
J. Hill I found endlessly frustrating. J.Grant I tired of waiting for him to light up (so too did the coaching group apparently).

[bornadog]

Of the current batch of players, the obvious ones in - Stringer and the Bont. They both do freakish things.

Going back - Dempsey, Templeton and loved Geoff Jennings

In the 80's, Beasley in 1985 kicking over 100 goals and Bamblett 50 and the magic of Doug Hawkins. Especially loved the toughness of Rick Kennedy.

Chris Grant one of my all time favourites.

[F'scary]

I enjoy watching JJ get the ball and take off for one of his runs. At the game, more than once I have heard opposition supporters begrudgingly acknowledging his leg speed and basically saying they could do with him in their team.

[LostDoggy]

Thread needs more Murphy.

Absolute silk. Loved watching him dominate as a CHF as much as I kove watching him now.

[lemmon]

Dale Morris. Having played my god-awful local career as an undersized backman, there's something phenomenal about seeing him get a fist in from nowhere or tie a ball up at ground level against a more slick opponent. We talk about small forwards having tricks but Dale has every little backman's cheat in the book

[Scraggers]

Doug Hawkins ... The reason I became a Bulldog supporter.
He had the ball on a string.