Your Cult-Hero 22

[Mofra]

Ok, it's the off season so something a little left of centre.

We have had many fan favourites over the years, some with a glorious AFL career - some not so much.
Who are your favourite characters and how would your team look? I've had a go below, will probably change with time (and I reserve the right to edit it later). Some of the "more experienced" posters could add a few characters to the list that were well before my time.

B: B.Hardie ... R. Kennedy ... Z.Tsatsaris
HB: D.Southern ... C.Grant ... M.Ford
C: D.Hawkins ... M.West ... N.Kellett
HF: B.Johnson ... G.Coleman ... D.Hargraves
F: S. Minton-Connell ... J.Collins ... J.Watts
Foll: P.Street ... B(C). Royal ... T.Liberatore
Bench: Groenewegan (Capt) ... M.Frost ... W.Minson ... N.Sasche (VC)

Explanations:
Brad Hardie: He was a feisty Ranga who hated Malthouse. A shoe-in. Spent 3 hours at the start of 86 (despite being very sick) ina tent to allow young fans to get a photo of him too.
Tits Kennedy: Borderline psychopath on the field who ignored my shouts of "go Rickeddy Kennedy" at training as a kid.
Zeno Tsatsaris: Parkside boy whose pre-game routine of yoghurt & garlic always meant he'd ne easy to sniff out
Daniel Southern: Was it the haircut, the Pitbull named Pentridge, teh shark in teh bathtub or the Sumich headlock? Nup - it was the insistance on being called "Daniel", as he is obviously quite a formal fellow.
Granty: A fan favourite, classy on & off the field. Weird shaped head too.
Mick Ford: Any bloke nicknamed Fruitcake is worthy of a spot
Dougy: He was the Bulldogs in the 80s. Legend and true Westy.
Mark West: Can't believe he played so few games for us. Dread set legend.
Nige Kellett: Gets a nod simply because of that bended-back posture he held whilst running. The guy would have made a great banana smuggler.
Bradley: Rosy cheeked, smiley, good guy complex, and lifelong Bulldog. Any team that excludes him is probably invalid.
Galaxy: Goalpost slayer extraordinaire, never going to obtain his doctorate (car breakdown directions anyone?)
Danny Hargraves: Always memorable; almost missed a reserves game at Geelong because he was too shy to ask for a lift & got the train timetables mixed up. Certainly liked to "chilax" after a game too
Loaf: Our tall marking forward who couldn't mark above his head, looked like Kyle McLaughlin circa Twin peaks.
Jack Collins: A very nice man who used to buy me ice cream when he picked me up from school. May have played a bit of football and kicked 7 goals in some game in 1954.
Jason Watts: BP player who once kicked the winning goal against Freo at the WO on a multicultural day. Must have eaten all his crusts as a kid.
Streeta: Graced the field with all the co-ordination of a centipede with 98 missing legs. Biggest cheer of his career was when he had a running bounce at Jihad Stadium.
Choco: 199 games, 299 goals. Awesome stat from an 80s gun.
Libba: The human clamp, part of the wog squad that terrorised opposition midfields of the 90s.
Groenewegan: Has to be Captain, still strike fear into the hearts of Qantas cabin crews today. Quite the groundsman as it turns out too.
Frosty: Maybe the rude nut, maybe the fact that his mates would come to the WO, drink tinnies and sing & heckle him. Just gets a run.
Minno: Most players are smart on the field, and dumb off it. Wilbur is the opposite. Tried to bounce whilst being tackled. Speaks German, plays the saxomophone, studying engineering and forgot to take a centre bounce against WCE. Easy choice.
Neil Sasche; Of every past player of every team that has been interviewed, he still seems to be the best spoken. His dignity & outlook on life is first rate. Doesn't get the respect he deserves IMO.


Feel free to pick away and/or add suggestions.

[AndrewP6]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Just on Zeno Tsatsaris... he's in the Parkside FC Team of the Century - as is my Dad..

[LostDoggy]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

No beard?

[KT31]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

No Super,Wally, Sutton, Pieman or Autumn Leave's Eppleston

[Bulldog Revolution]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Micky McKenna do enough to qualify as a cult hero?

[KT31]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Magic Mclean.

[Missing Dog]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

I would have Lally Bamblett in there along with Rocket Mcpherson but I am sure each and every one of us will have one or two faves great team all the same Moffra.

[Mofra]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Plenty of names that could've easily been added - McLean and Bamblett were two who may have made the cut had I though of them earlier. The Beard would be starting ruckman of a second team.

A reserves team would look mighty interesting.

[Sedat]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Jason Watts: BP player who once kicked the winning goal against Freo at the WO on a multicultural day. Must have eaten all his crusts as a kid.

Had the immaculate, Peter North-style, "not-a-hair-out-of-place" porno hair. Could have been blowing a gale at the kennel and the hair would not budge.

Great list Mofra. I would have also found room on the bench for a true cult hero who only graced our team for 16 games, Mark West. When he wasn't barging through the opposition midfield Jonah Lomu style, he was either getting his shoulders reconstructed or he was getting reported and suspended.

Micky McKenna deserves a nomination purely on the back of that holding-the-ball free kick he copped against the Swans during one of our ritual hidings up in Sydney in the 80's

[LostDoggy]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Jack Di Natale

The Bulldog supporters would scream:

Di Natale, Di Natale, Di Nataleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Also way back, Cameron Mc Donald who in his spare time was a wrestler. Threw Geoff Leek over his head with a step-over toe-hold once (or something similar).

Also Terry Devery - when the team ran through the banner and out on the ground, he always ran the wrong way. In racing parlance, the Sydney way.

[Cyberdoggie]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Had the immaculate, Peter North-style, "not-a-hair-out-of-place" porno hair. Could have been blowing a gale at the kennel and the hair would not budge.

Great list Mofra. I would have also found room on the bench for a true cult hero who only graced our team for 16 games, Mark West. When he wasn't barging through the opposition midfield Jonah Lomu style, he was either getting his shoulders reconstructed or he was getting reported and suspended.

Micky McKenna deserves a nomination purely on the back of that holding-the-ball free kick he copped against the Swans during one of our ritual hidings up in Sydney in the 80's

M West was my fave, i had a 34 on my jumper at the time. Never forget some of the bumps he made. Especially the one on Justin Murphy at North Port oval while playing for Williamstown. It was a bone shattering smash right in front of where i was standing, pure awesomeness.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Thanks for the great read and a few laughs too Mofra!!

I also liked Adrian Campbell - the gloved one. He looked a bit like a gangster too IMO. I have a concrete Bulldog player garden statue that looks a lot like him with the slick black hair - except for the no. 32 I painted on his back!!

Peter Foster also deserves a mention - just because he's Peter Foster!!
(And because of the point that was paid a goal at the Western Oval, and for the carreer ending leg "trip")

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Thanks for the great read and a few laughs too Mofra!!

I also liked Adrian Campbell - the gloved one. He looked a bit like a gangster too IMO. I have a concrete Bulldog player garden statue that looks a lot like him with the slick black hair - except for the no. 32 I painted on his back!!

Wrong bloke.

It was Tony Campbell with the concrete hair. I had two of those garden gnomes and they were both called Tony - one was named after Libba and the other after Concrete-head Campbell.

[Mofra]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Wrong bloke.

It was Tony Campbell with the concrete hair. I had two of those garden gnomes and they were both called Tony - one was named after Libba and the other after Concrete-head Campbell.

Aw geez I knew there was a favourite I left out! Immaculate slicked back hair and all.

My best memory was half time vs St Kilda (Lockett era), when he was walking up the race and someone yelled out "Good on ya TC, ya killing him..... ya big poof!"

FWIW Adrian Campbell (no3, promising KPP) I remember as having the worst knee injury of the time. Apparently one of the trainers threw up when they saw it.

[Mofra]

Re: Your Cult-Hero 22

Great list Mofra. I would have also found room on the bench for a true cult hero who only graced our team for 16 games, Mark West. When he wasn't barging through the opposition midfield Jonah Lomu style, he was either getting his shoulders reconstructed or he was getting reported and suspended.

Only 16 games? Seemed his contribution was greater.

PS: He is my starting centre and one of the first guys I picked