The best young players you've seen at the club

[bulldogtragic]

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One of the not so obvious for me was Harbrow, watched him in an inter-club game and thought we had a find.

Scotty West
Jarrad Harbrow - great intraclub

Looks like I was a couple of minutes slow, damn this prelim replay finishing as I was posting.

[Twodogs]

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One of the not so obvious for me was Harbrow, watched him in an inter-club game and thought we had a find.

Scotty West
Jarrad Harbrow - great intraclub

Rocket had Harbrow and Hill play on one another right throughout their first preseason. It was great to watch.

[merantau]

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Our current crop of young players are top shelf. From years gone by Quinlan, Templeton, Hawkins, Dempsey, McLean, Super, Scotty West, Rohan Smith, Johnno, Scott Wynd, were all very good from the off.

[GVGjr]

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Two that stand out to me are Rohan Smith and Brad Johnson.

Smith was a half forward flanker when I first saw him playing for us. He was hard to miss with his mega mullet but the things that always stood out about his game was his balance, pace and kicking skills. He cut the mullet just before he played his first senior game.

Brad Johnson was just a great player as a youngster and he could run up and down the wings with great pace all game.

[Twodogs]

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Two that stand out to me are Rohan Smith and Brad Johnson.

Smith was a half forward flanker when I first saw him playing for us. He was hard to miss with his mega mullet but the things that always stood out about his game was his balance, pace and kicking skills. He cut the mullet just before he played his first senior game.

Brad Johnson was just a great player as a youngster and he could run up and down the wings with great pace all game.

The mullet was still there in his first game-his mum was not happy. He wore #31 and kicked a goal from deep in the dead pocket at the Barkly st end against St Kilda. I've only ever seen Jim Edmond kick a goal from the same position.

[bulldogtragic]

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Rocket had Harbrow and Hill play on one another right throughout their first preseason. It was great to watch.

As Akermanis labelled them, 'The Brothers' in Hill, Stack, Lynch & Harbrow - I thought we'd finally found ourselves some great indigenous talent for the longer term. Alas, Harbrow is the only real success and I honestly have no idea how Hill gets a game at West Coast.

[Twodogs]

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As Akermanis labelled them, 'The Brothers' in Hill, Stack, Lynch & Harbrow - I thought we'd finally found ourselves some great indigenous talent for the longer term. Alas, Harbrow is the only real success and I honestly have no idea how Hill gets a game at West Coast.

The problem was we set up a bloke called Jason Mifsud in place to tutor and mentor the four indigineous players we took at that draft but he shot through after five minutes to take up an AFL position and left the club and the indigineous players in the lurch. I hope the job he took with the AFL was worth it because he pissed all over us for it.

[Mofra]

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I remember the (2011?) intraclub and some short-arsed rookie with dreadlocks just kept finding the ball everywhere.
I left the game annoyed that our mids had regressed to the point where some rookie kid nobody else seemed to rate was probably the best player on the day thinking we're in for a long hard few years.

[The Pie Man]

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I remember the (2011?) intraclub and some short-arsed rookie with dreadlocks just kept finding the ball everywhere.
I left the game annoyed that our mids had regressed to the point where some rookie kid nobody else seemed to rate was probably the best player on the day thinking we're in for a long hard few years.

...and so it came to pass.... The first blocks of our first successful rebuild

Macrae/Stringer/Bont are the best I've seen come in as teenagers since Cameron & Grant

[Ozza]

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I remember being at a president dinner function early in the season, in Bontempelli's first year - at the time, Bonti hadn't 'broken out' yet, it was actually a week before the Collingwood game where he shone for the first time. This night was when we lost to Brisbane - which was a low, low night for us.

Matt Boyd must have been injured, as he was speaking at the function. In the Q&A part, I remember Boydy saying that Bonti was the most talented player he had seen at the club. As much as I was excited by what he said, I remember thinking 'gee big call when you've played with Grant, Johnson, Aker, West, Griffen & Cooney'.

[kruder]

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Cameron Faulkner easily the best draft bio that has ever entered the club

[Eastdog]

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Let's see:

Scotty West
Chris Grant
Scotty Wynd
Brad Johnson
Luke Darcy
Rohan Smith
Caleb Daniel
Mitch Wallis
Libba Jnr
The Bont
Toby Maclean
Jackson Macrae
Luke Dahlhouse
JJ
Jake Stringer
Lachie Hunter
Tom Boyd

That is a great list of names

[Bulldog4life]

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Hard to go past Brian "Choco" Royal for me. In his first year for the Bulldogs, he won the Charles Sutton Medal, the Club's Best and Fairest award.Not sure if that has been repeated but I doubt it. A great player for the doggies and a standout for me.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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The best young one's that I instantly thought 'woah this is something special here', irrespective of what they ultimately finished up like. some of these were when i heard them on radio - because I never got to see many games as a kid, and the only time I got to see us on TV was when we moved to the outback and only had ABC...my Dad couldn't change the channel on me then so I got to watch the highlights on The Winners each week!

Brian Royal
Steve Wallis
Steve and Rod Macpherson
John Georgiades
Ron James
Chris Grant
Leon Cameron
Rohan Smith
Brad Johnson
Luke Darcy
Daniel Hargreaves
Nathan Brown
Patrick Bowden
Ryan Griffen
Malcolm Lynch
Callan Ward
Marcus Bontempelli

[Twodogs]

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Brian Royal won the B&F in his first year straight from Bairnsdale. That R1 1983 side when him and Steve Wallis and Andrew Purser and Jim Sewell and Chris Hansen all playing their first game with us changed expectations. Five weeks in and we are 4 and 1 and we've already won more games than we did the previous two years combined.