Dogs in new homes?

[Dry Rot]

IIRC Wallace made sweeping changes eg trading Cameron in 1999 to get some new blood.

Ten years on, and we've had a mixed bag trading.

Early on, we got players like Harrison, Bandy, Koops, Street, Garlick (not bad), Winmar and of course the mighty Jade Rawlings.

Not a good score card there.

But more recently we've done very well under Eade with Aker, Hudson and Welsh.

But what about the other side of the ledger?

IIRC clubs who have received Dogs players haven't done so well. Bowden, Power, Brown (pretty good till he broke his leg), McMahon - it seems our rejects haven't really gone onto glory anywhere, except a bloke who's name escapes me who IIRC got a flag with Port. I suppose Ray has done OK at Saints.

Have I missed someone? Is it fair to say that most who left us in the last decade were duds?

[chef]

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Luke Penny did alright at the Saints until his body failed him.

[Hotdog60]

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except a bloke who's name escapes me who IIRC got a flag with Port.

Brett Montgomery went and came back again.

Shane Birss went to ST. Kilda and played 20 games over 2 seasons

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Luke Penny did alright at the Saints until his heart failed him.

Edited for accuracy

Not keen on doing the hard yards, young Luke.

[ledge]

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Ray already has a grand final under his belt and is doing okay.

[Twodogs]

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it seems our rejects haven't really gone onto glory anywhere, except a bloke who's name escapes me who IIRC got a flag with Port.

Brett Montgomery went and came back again.

I think it's Josh Mahoney that DR is talking about.

[Doc26]

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Edited for accuracy

Not keen on doing the hard yards, young Luke.

Here's hoping Andrejs doesn't follow a similar path to Luke.

[Studentlib]

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But we got pretty good value out of Huddo Mark One version. Was a Wallace success from memory.

[Ozza]

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Illija Grgic, Daniel Hargreaves, James Cook and Mark Alvey all failed elsewhere.

Josh Mahoney, Shane Ellen and Monty won flags elsewhere.

Remember the string of blokes (stars at other clubs) we got in the twilight of their careers.
Phil Krakour, Nicky Winmar, Richard Osborne, Andrew Wills!! (coming off a big year with Freo).

[LostDog]

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Bernard Toohey

[ledge]

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I think we did very well with those players except Wills.

Osborne was brilliant for us, remember he was really in trouble with a major head injury before he came to us.

Duperouzel was good too but the players we got for Dempsey were a disaster.

In all i think in the 70s and 80s what players we picked up were mostly duds , but lately we get a decent return from most.

[Cyberdoggie]

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Brad Hardie.

Brownlow medalist, went to Brisbane for various reasons.
Never really starred, didn't help that he was up at the bears in the experimental phase at carrara. He also got fat and that was that.

[Studentlib]

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Not to forget the young wingman who went back to Adelaide with (claimed?) homesickness and played in some Crow premierships from memory. Can't remember his name. Was that the real story?

[ledge]

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Was that Shane Ellen? kicked 6 goals in a grand final i think.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: Dogs in new homes?

Not to forget the young wingman who went back to Adelaide with (claimed?) homesickness and played in some Crow premierships from memory. Can't remember his name. Was that the real story?

Kym Koster, then did his knee upon his return to the Whitten Oval.