The best young players you've seen at the club

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  • chef
    Hall of Fame
    • Nov 2008
    • 14617
    #31
    Re: The best young players you've seen at the club

    Chris Grant is number 1 in my life time, what he did as a 17 year old KPF is still amazing.

    Caleb Daniel deserves a shout. Has looked like hes a gun from day dot.
    The curse is dead.

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      • ratsmac
        Coaching Staff
        • May 2009
        • 3975
        #32
        Re: The best young players you've seen at the club

        Originally posted by Twodogs
        I remember Chris Grant's first kick in AFL footy. He was just some gangly kid we'd taken with pick 105 in the year befores draft. But he was only 16 and he'd been picked in the firsts so the club must have seen something in him. Anyway back in those days I was a ground attendant. Sat on a stool just inside the fence at the Geelong road end in a blue coat and got payed to watch the footy.

        We were kicking to the Geelong road end and a few minutes into the first quarter Chris led out and took a mark pretty much where the 50 metre line met the boundary line on the Doug Hawkins wing side of the ground. As he lined up his shot I got off my stool and went and stood next to the goal umpire. The kick went over both our heads for a goal and while the ball went back to the centre the goal umpire asked me who the kid in #29 was. I had to look in my footy record to tell him. Then I went back and sat next to my dad (the other ground attendant) who said "Chris Grant, hmm. We'll probably never hear that name again!"
        The amazing thing about this story is Chris Grant kicking 50 metres! He didn't have a very big kick for such a big guy. He was a brilliant field kick though, that's for sure.
        They've done studies you know, 60% of the time, it works every time!
        Brian Fantana.

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          • jeemak
            Bulldog Legend
            • Oct 2010
            • 21817
            #33
            Re: The best young players you've seen at the club

            Originally posted by Bulldog4life
            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.
            Not many players kick 1.5 goals a game as a rover/pocket. Averaging one a game is good, averaging two is elite.
            TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.

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              • LostDoggy
                WOOF Member
                • Jan 2007
                • 8307
                #34
                Re: The best young players you've seen at the club

                In my 40 years of following the Dogs, my top 6 would be Hawkins, Grant, Cameron, James, Johnson and Bontempelli in no particular order. All debuted as 16-18 year olds. A player like Brian Royal was very good straight way, but did debut as a 21 year old so doesn't quite fill the brief for mine.

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                  • LostDoggy
                    WOOF Member
                    • Jan 2007
                    • 8307
                    #35
                    Re: The best young players you've seen at the club

                    Originally posted by ratsmac
                    The amazing thing about this story is Chris Grant kicking 50 metres! He didn't have a very big kick for such a big guy. He was a brilliant field kick though, that's for sure.
                    Couldn't agree more Ratsmac.
                    Turtle was the best field kick that i've ever seen.

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