AFL footballers that you have played with or against?

[Dry Rot]

We have a former an AFL umpire on here, so I was wondering if anyone has played with or against any AFL/VFL footballers over the years?

Maybe it was in the juniors or when they were in their twilight playing days. Anyone claim any good scalps, or did they clean you up?

[LostDoggy]

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Against Mickey Martyn is grade 5 and 6. Scary even then.

[Mantis]

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Played against Shannon Grant in on under 10's or 11's and played on Shane Crawford while at high school.

We tagged Crawford with 4 different players (1 qtr each) with our 4 fittest blokes and he still racked up about 50 possessions, he was a machine.

[Twodogs]

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Grew up around the corner from Rohan Smith. We used to have our street footy games and test matches in his street and he'd ride his bike up and down waiting for an invitation to play-he was quite a bit younger than the rest of us. Anyhoo one day we did let him play, and it was only the once, because we didnt like being showm up by a kid.



Played juniors cricket against a club that had Merv Hughes, Tony Dodemaide and Colin Miller playing for them. I gave one of them a send off after catching him in the slips and when it came my turn to bat I made the luckiest duck I ever got. Later on played against Ken Eastwood in open age and he was good!


A couple of years ago we were playing the second day against a team who had to play a player short because one of their guys had an accident during the week and couldnt play. They asked if they could field a sub and we agreed. This guy walks out to fist slip and I think "That guy looks familar". It was Julian Weiner.

[The Coon Dog]

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I went to Tottenham North P.S. & in grade 6 we won the Grand Final. Our team had Darren Brown, Zeno Tzatzaris & Phillip O'Keefe in it. All 3 played for the Bulldogs.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Does anyone remember Grenville Dietrich?

He was this enormous man who played FF for Nth Adelaide and a few state games for SA.

About 6' 4" but made Mick Nolan look positively skinny!

He played cricket for Kilsyth (the SA one, not the one near Bayswater) and surprisingly was actually a fairly good keeper.

He really liked a drink and whenever we played at our ground we had to kick him out to lock up. Really nice bloke.

I bowled terrible leg spin (long before Warnie) that Grenville didn't rate - he told me so often enough - and vowed to hit me for 6 first ball he faced every time we played. Three times running he tried and got caught on the boundary.

We played them one year the day after his wife had a baby and he turned up to the ground with a can of Jim Bean. He was so pissed he had to be lined up at the crease to bat. He admitted that he wouldn't be trying to hit me for six because he wasn't travelling too well.

Instead, with a long pace forward and with an upright left elbow, he managed to defend the first ball straight back to me.

In 4 games I played against him I got him out for a duck 4 times.

[Twodogs]

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Was Grenville Dietrich the one who missed a SANFL game because he was having trouble balancing his pizza and a six pack while riding his pushbike and had an accident?

[whythelongface]

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I played against Sanford Wheeler about 10 years ago in the SFL - not my direct opponent but got completely owned nonetheless. He was an average AFL player but the gap between himself and others was significant.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Was Grenville Dietrich the one who missed a SANFL game because he was having trouble balancing his pizza and a six pack while riding his pushbike and had an accident?

Yep. True story, too.

[GVGjr]

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I played against Sanford Wheeler about 10 years ago in the SFL - not my direct opponent but got completely owned nonetheless. He was an average AFL player but the gap between himself and others was significant.

Wheeler just had no consistency. At his best he was capable of being a capable senior footballer.

[Twodogs]

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Jusr remembered another one.


Footscray High enetered the Herald Shield comp one year and we drew Totty Tech (IIRC) in the first round and pumped them by 10 goals. We got some nondescript Catholic school from Sunshine none of us had ever heard of and we were thinking 'how many goals'. The winner got to play a game at VFL as a curtain raiser for the old VFL night series. They beat us by 25 goals. A big monster called Allaistar Ford (or it might have been Mark Noble-I always mix them up) kept marking the balls that some kids called MacPherson, apparantly they were brothers, kept pumping the into the goal square from the half back flank.



The Catholic school lost to Assumption in the semi finals.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: AFL footballers that you have played with or against?

Jusr remembered another one.


Footscray High enetered the Herald Shield comp one year and we drew Totty Tech (IIRC) in the first round and pumped them by 10 goals. We got some nondescript Catholic school from Sunshine none of us had ever heard of and we were thinking 'how many goals'. The winner got to play a game at VFL as a curtain raiser for the old VFL night series. They beat us by 25 goals. A big monster called Allaistar Ford (or it might have been Mark Noble-I always mix them up) kept marking the balls that some kids called MacPherson, apparantly they were brothers, kept pumping the into the goal square from the half back flank.



The Catholic school lost to Assumption in the semi finals.

Chisolm College. Not Alistair Ford.

[Missing Dog]

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I went to St Bernards in Essendon.

In my year Level their were Leigh Tudor, Peter Filandia, John Barnes, Justin Stubbs (who was meant to be a gun, but I don't think he played a senior game for Essendon)

[FrediKanoute]

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Steve Kretiuk - went to school with him and played junior footy with hims as well up until u'17's. He played 1 game with us that year, dominated and then went and played under 19's with Footscray! Top bloke very unassuming!

Steve Kolyniuk - went to the same school, though he was a bit older, but we all knew him and he was destined to be a star even as a kid. He would come down to St.Albans games when he didn't have a game or was injured as well so knew him reasonably well. Was a top bloke!

Mark Mecuri - went to school with him and played schol footy with him. he was a freak. Injuries really ruined the latter party of his career, but he was a freak. I remember one game the coach balls him out at 1/4 time b/c of his crappy kicking and he acknowledges the coach and promised to stop kicking on his non-preferred foot! In another game he spent to whole time trying to take mark of the century and very nearly succeeded!

Joe Misiti - played a season at Keilor park and Joe at this stage was training with Essendon u'19's, though he was still u'16's. Anyway he came back for a game against St.Oliver's and proceeded to destroy them kicking 13 goals in a half!

I think that's it for me.....

[LostDoggy]

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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!