AFL footballers that you have played with or against?

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Well of course being a girl i havent played on ANY of them, but Brian Cordy is my teacher and Ayce Cordy, went to school with him and now work with him. Funny, funny kid.
Oh, and 6''7!

GABI!

Fill us in! Is he going to play football or basketball? Is he keen to play for us? Has he put on any weight at all?

[The Underdog]

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I played a year or two in juniors with Jason Snell, former Geelong player who destroyed his ankle at the G and never played again. Obviously was a gun junior in our league. Kicked 20 one day, although I kicked 8 once so it probably says more for some of the opposition we played. Heard from my mum recently that his ankle is completely rooted, had to have it fused and is in constant pain.
My U18's coach was Damien Hardwick's dad, although Damien was a bit older and had moved on to other levels by then. Was a brilliant coach and I can see if Damien's got some of his old man's traits how he's risen up the coaching ranks so fast. His old man had excellent coach white line fever, not in a bad way, but he would get right into it during his addresses.

[Bornadog]

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Played in the high school footy team with a couple of the boys who went on to play for the old reserves team from my high school and one went on to play a few games (Steele) for the firsts. Ken Fletcher was our PE teacher for a little while, and we had a few Carlton players in the 1970's as teachers as well.

[dog town]

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Played junior footy with James Kelly and Andrew Welsh. Played against Brent Reilly, Matty Egan, Aaron James (last season before he got suspended), Daniel Sipthorpe and a few other lesser lights.

The junior sides that used to play before me had Cam Wight and Matt White (richmond) playing for them so I saw a fair bit of them as juniors. Saw plenty of Brad Murphy and Matt Little (recently delisted by Hawthorn) around the junior games as well.

Almost played with ex bulldog Nick Bruton last year but his knees blew up as soon as he trained so he couldn't play.

Some of the local leagues at the moment have dozens of ex AFL players. A couple of my mates played in the Essendon League a few years ago and every week they would be up against an ex star or recently delisted player.

[Crizza]

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A few years ago at Uni games I played footy aginst David Teague, it was uni games just after he had left North.

He did alright in the game but did one almighty spew in the middle of the ground after 5 minutes of playing, not sure if it was nerves from playing against me or the booze the night before.

I played one game against Ted Richards, and the only reason I remember him was becasue everytime he did anything with the footy (which was alot) someone on the sideline would yell 'Teddy Richards you superstar'.

[BulldogBelle]

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The first year I started playing at uni [74] we played v Melbourne's Steve Smith [Law faculty I think] - think he was a chb and pretty good player. We won the flag tho!

[mjp]

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I have played with and against quite a few, but the day I found out about my future in footy was on a State Schoolboys tour in the late '80's. We played South Australia first up, and I was playing on a wing against a smallish aboriginal player - which was strange because not too many indigenous boys get a guernsey over there (you would have thought that would have been a tip off, now wouldn't you).

Anyway, the ball came out there pretty soon and I actually got a couple of touches and was thinking 'how good am I'. But by the 20minute mark of the first quarter, the worm was turning, and by the 15 minute mark of the second quarter I was on the bench (it was a BENCH back then - there was no need to add the word 'interchange' to the start of it). The only positive (if it can be seen as a positive) was that my removal led to another lamb was being slaughtered.

Anyone care to guess who it might have been? (It isn't that hard!)

[Mantis]

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I have played with and against quite a few, but the day I found out about my future in footy was on a State Schoolboys tour in the late '80's. We played South Australia first up, and I was playing on a wing against a smallish aboriginal player - which was strange because not too many indigenous boys get a guernsey over there (you would have thought that would have been a tip off, now wouldn't you).

Anyway, the ball came out there pretty soon and I actually got a couple of touches and was thinking 'how good am I'. But by the 20minute mark of the first quarter, the worm was turning, and by the 15 minute mark of the second quarter I was on the bench (it was a BENCH back then - there was no need to add the word 'interchange' to the start of it). The only positive (if it can be seen as a positive) was that my removal led to another lamb was being slaughtered.

Anyone care to guess who it might have been? (It isn't that hard!)

Wanganeen?

[mjp]

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Wanganeen?

Yep. Told you it wasn't hard. He is two years younger than me as well (and the rest of us) and we found out later that he had to be granted special permission to play...

Stupid administrators - couldn't they have let him continue making a mess of his own age group, without needing to unleash him on another one?

On a positive note, we still beat SA and Tassy (who were apparently still relevent back then - it is a disgrace what has happened to footy down there) but lost to Victoria - this was pre- Vic Country/Metro split.

[Rocket Science]

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Laced them up alongside Shannon Corcoran and Robert Bloom at high school.

Placements were arranged for both at my then school after being drafted by the Dogs from SA and Tassie respectively. Amusing thing was, both were playing weekend club football locally and neither was too interested in playing for the school, likely at the Dogs' behest, but the stubborn school heirarchy forced the issue and effectively forced them to play against their will, which naturally went down a treat. This tug of war lasted about half a season before they were again magically declared unavailable for school team selection, and were both gone by year's end.

[LostDog]

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I played against Brady Rawlings in year 8 in a high school grand final wasn't much of tagger back then. We won by 5 points I kicked 6 that day very memorable.

Trained with Russel Robertson in the North West Rep. side

I have trained with Mathew Richardson and Jade Rawlings and Ben Harrison at Devonport Blues in the TFL.

Played against Grant Birchall in the NTFL a few years back when he was with Devonport Magpies

PLayed against Tom Bellchambers a couple of times in the NTFL this year he is supposed to be a top 20 KPP pick.

[LostDog]

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Oh my how can I forget
Played a couple of years with Jason Laycock for a couple of years at East Devonport in the NTFL and a few games of Basketball in a local roster.


BIG SMOOTH Laycock top bloke

[LostDoggy]

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GABI!

Fill us in! Is he going to play football or basketball? Is he keen to play for us? Has he put on any weight at all?

WELL, i think he's pretty keen on footy, but he's so damn humble im not sure what he's doing. I'll ask him on Thursday, because i've heard him mention Basketball, so i'll clarify that later. He's looking at being put into next years draft, too young to qualify for this years.
He's a Bulldogs supporter, and he said he's most likely playing for us, IF, he gets drafted.
He wants to play for us, which is good! So he's pretty keen i think, but he's so modest he doesnt get himself pysched up, or get a big head about it which is refreshing. He's a really nice guy.

Umm he's a skinny as a lamp post, but he said something about the gym this summer, and a big pre season if he gets drafted. We have dinner when we finish, and he eats like a horse, my god! So hopefully he'll stack on a few kilos.

Haha i grill him about his Footy just about every time i work with him, i think!

[Dancin' Douggy]

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I played footy for St. Albans in the eighties and Chisholm College( Braybrook).
So I played with Steve and Rod Macpherson and Gary Walpole. Super was incredible at that level. I played against Terry Love ( Spotswood) who was a beautiful player to watch. Took hangers every week, and also against George Bisset in his twilight years for Albion. He was still an elusive bugger and he was well into his forties.
As a teenage centreman I was terrorised by Robbie Mcghie who played ruck for West Footscray. I was coached at St Albans by Ron Fenton who played 11 games for the Dogs in the 70s. I'm sure I'll remember others if I keep thinking..................

[Twodogs]

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I played against Terry Love ( Spotswood)

Played cricket with and against Terry-very promising fast bowler.

Another player to wear # 19 with distinction


It was bit weird standing in the outer and shouting "Go Love". Got some very strange looks from opposition supporters. Bit like 'Captain Darling" in Blackadder.