Your Favourite Ever Players Who Weren't Absolute Topliners

[azabob]

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I was only young when he came to our club but I loved watching Glenn Coleman. Protected our champion in C.Grant and just tried his guts out week in, week out.

I remember one day he broke the point post and I thought, gee surely the news will run with these like they did when Leigh Matthews broke it. But not a single word....

[Twodogs]

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I was only young when he came to our club but I loved watching Glenn Coleman. Protected our champion in C.Grant and just tried his guts out week in, week out.

Good nomination. He was a great value pick up.

[Twodogs]

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I remember one day he broke the point post and I thought, gee surely the news will run with these like they did when Leigh Matthews broke it. But not a single word....

I remember that well. one of the trainers had to stand there with a little league point post as a replacement.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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Cameron Faulkner was one player I really wanted to become a star, he always looked like he worked tirelessly to become better, but always had issues finding the ball.

I liked him too. Nice kid too.

Kicked an absolute beauty from the boundary line v Richmond at the MCG one day. Might have been 05 or 6.

As you said, he just couldn't find enough of the ball.

[Sedat]

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Ian Williams? Why didn't he make it? He had all the talent in the World.

When I got my first Dogs jumper in the early 80's I had the choice of numbers. Could have taken any one of Hawk, Purser, Wally, Jock, Beaser, Kennedy, Super - instead I choose the #5 of Ian Williams. Absolutely loved him in 83/84.

Loved the Lally nomination - he was simply electric in 1985, which was also one of my fondest years supporting the Dogs.

But my absolutely favourite year as a Dogs supporter was 1992, seeing as we ceased to exist 2 years earlier and our rapid climb up the ladder was such a pleasant surprise. There were a number of unsung players in that year who I loved, none more than Danny Del Re. No mean feat to kick over 70 goals in a single season - he pantsed Langford and Frawley that year and then kicked 8 goals in a losing final, which frankly was as a brilliant an individual performance on the big stage as we've ever seen from a Dogs key forward. The afro and the snozz shouldn't take away from his exceptional year in 92 - and he also topped our goalkicking again in 93. Also loved Michael Frost around that time - anyone else remember when he did an 'Ablett' in the final at Waverley against the Saints and plucked the ball out of the ruck contest and kicked a goal in one motion? That game is almost my favourite ever game as a Dogs supporter - St Kilda were supposed to smash us with their superstars like Lockett, Loewe, Winmar and Harvey, and we made then all look second rate. We were 12 goals up in the last qtr and then let them kick a whole bunch of junk time goals to make the score respectable, but it was a clinical flogging

[Happy Days]

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There were a number of unsung players in that year who I loved, none more than Danny Del Re. No mean feat to kick over 70 goals in a single season - he pantsed Langford and Frawley that year and then kicked 8 goals in a losing final, which frankly was as a brilliant an individual performance on the big stage as we've ever seen from a Dogs key forward. The afro and the snozz shouldn't take away from his exceptional year in 92 - and he also topped our goalkicking again in 93.

Why exactly did he fall off so dramatically?

[Bornadog]

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Why exactly did he fall off so dramatically?

Here is a great interview TCD did some time ago: link

[Sedat]

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Why exactly did he fall off so dramatically?

Just didn't click with Joycey when he took over from Wheels. Quite similar to what happened to Simon Atkins, Danny got the best out of himself under Terry Wheeler's coaching.

I've always loved the unfashionable types who you can tell give their absolute all for the team. Kritter was one who would frequently have to play much bigger than he was and sacrifice for the team. Prior to his broken leg, Dale Morris would have been comprehensively beaten less than 10 times throughout his entire career - just a brilliant team-oriented player who gives every fibre of his being to the team cause. I was absolutely gutted when we lost the 2009 PF but of all the players I was shattered for, the sight of Morris hobbling around on a fractured leg after absolutely pantsing Reiwoldt in the first half of that match was gut-wrenching.

[bulldogtragic]

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I always liked Matty Robbins. Was it last round 2002 or so he took Collingwood to school with a bag of goals?

[I'm Not Bitter Anymore!]

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Rod McPherson, Micky Egan, Fish, Alby Smedts, Groena, Crofty, Critter, Michael Ford, Skipper, Streeta, Kingsley Hunter really flogging the memory now

[anfo27]

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Super McPherson, Steve Kolynuik & Kretuik. Loved Matty Robbins & Mitch Hahn. Had the opportunity to have a few drinks with Mitch & he was ripping bloke.

[josie]

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I think Morris is a top liner - an absolute star before & after broken leg.

Having only become a member & regular game goer since 1998....I loved Kretiuk, Crofty, Robbins, Romero and my one of my all time faves Hahn. Also had a soft spot for Cookie. And I loved Paul Hudson's accuracy at goal (perhaps he was a topliner considering our dearth of good forwards).

[Flamethrower]

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This thread takes me down memory lane.

I was a big Mocca Dunstan fan when I first followed the Doggies.

In the 80's Shorty Daniels and Murray Rance were my favourites.

In the 90's it was Billy the Kid Kolyniuk and Brett Monty Montgomery.

Recently my favourites have included Dale Morris, Matthew Robbins and Liam Picken.

[Remi Moses]

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I wouldn't say Mocca wasn't a top liner.
I'd go Croft from the 90's followed by galaxy.
The 80's I'd have Micky Egan.

[bulldogtragic]

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I wouldn't say Mocca wasn't a top liner.
I'd go Croft from the 90's followed by galaxy.
The 80's I'd have Micky Egan.

I put Crofty in the top liner class. When backs were 000% to smash Carey, Crofty was better than 50/50 I think. Assuming memory is right, that elevates him surely?