Your Favourite Ever Players Who Weren't Absolute Topliners

[bulldogtragic]

I know some may be surprised, I love supporting our good players who aren't in the class of Grant, West, Johnson etc. Rocco might have taken it a bit further than me ( ), but I'll stick up for any of our players until it's pretty clear that Rocco will start a thread.

Recently my stable included defending KMac with Fossie (where are you Fossie?), Eagleton was my boy and now with Jarrad Grant since Eagleton retired.

If I go back further to my youth in the early 90's at the Western Oval, I'd back all of the good hearted players that signed my book, jumper, scarf and posters 'during' the magoos, like Nicholson, Sir, Beveridge, Grgic, Ellen and so on.

So who over the journey were the players just underneath that struck a chord with you?

[Twodogs]

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Les Bamblett. My all time favourite footbaler of all time. Lally was a highlight reel. In 1985 he kicked 51 goals crumbing Beasley's marking contests. If the ball spilled off the pack there was Lal waddling towards it, before gathering it up and heading goal wards.



Micky Egan. If you cut the guy he bled red, white and blue. There was never a pack or opponent to big for Mick. Never a job too big or too small for the team. Never an arms's length away from his man.

[always right]

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Terry Wheeler. In a period where we were simply crap, I used to go to games and appreciate Wheel's attack on the ball and how he used to rile opposition players. Look up the term "squirrel grip" and you'll find a picture of Wheeler.

Although some would argue as to how highly rated he was, the other bloke I loved watching was Magic McLean. One of the smoother's movers we've ever seen and I used to love watching him run down blokes who thought they had the pace to cover him....Micky Conlon and Tony Elshaugh to name a couple.

In more recent times I loved Mitch Hahn and his attack on the ball. Was a master of scrapping a goal from a pack situation when everyone else had given up on it as a dead ball.

[GVGjr]

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I don't know why but I always liked Peter Quill and yet most Bulldog supporters of that era didn't rate him in the slightest.

[boydogs]

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I liked Lake & Griffen before they were 'Lake' and 'Griffen'. I also like Stringer

[Hotdog60]

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I used love watching Geoff Jennings

http://www.fnwb.com.au/videos/players/geoff-jennings/

[always right]

Re: Your Favourite Ever Players Who Weren't Absolute Topliners

I used love watching Geoff Jennings



http://www.fnwb.com.au/videos/players/geoff-jennings/

Ditto....but he was rated pretty highly.

[ratsmac]

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Mitch Hahn for me. loved they way he would split packs and kick unexpected goals.

I also loved Stephen Powell. I was shattered when he was traded/off loaded.

[lemmon]

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Was always arguing Andrejs Everitt deserved just one more shot. If he hadn't grown that extra few centimetres after his first year I still reckon he would've been an excellent player

[azabob]

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I liked Lake & Griffen before they were 'Lake' and 'Griffen'. I also like Stringer

Lake was Harris, before he was Lake. Who was Griffen, before he was Griffen? Griffin maybe?

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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When I was very very young, Jason Watts. It was around 96 when he was king of the snap goal. No idea what happened to him after that?

Mark West was another.

In later years, probably have to say Matthew Robbins. I was always a big fan and called his move forward when he was still playing down back. Very friendly too.

[SonofScray]

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I was a big fan of Greg Eppelstun. Zeno was another from my earliest memories of watching the Scraggers. More recently Dylan Addison has taken the mantle, thrown into the mix with Tiller and Christian Macri.

[Greystache]

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When I was very very young, Jason Watts. It was around 96 when he was king of the snap goal. No idea what happened to him after that?

Mark West was another.

Funnily enough I was going to say Jason Watts too. I was always impressed with his strength for his size, and he wasn't a bad mark either. I'd been wanting to see him go forward for a couple of years, then in 96 he did and won the goal kicking.

[Bulldog4life]

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When I was a kid I remember Jim Gutterson playing for full back for us. He played mainly ressies as Dave Darcy was full back in the seniors but would take off from full back bouncing the ball sometimes getting nearly to the wing. I loved watching those bounces.I have never forgotten him.

[bulldogtragic]

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I remember using a water ski glove playing juniors after Tony Campbell. Couldn't get long sleeves though. I loved Kellett and Atkins too. Kolynuik is too good for this thread to mention, but everyone loves him.

I had a shine to Matty Dent. He would make a player 'Hahn x Addison' in courage look weak. Love him now still.