Think Tank Worst players ever - The Hall of Shame

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Ariel Steinberg lost Essendon the final against Norf, then delisted last year before the players were banned. Essendon then chose Sam Grimley ahead of him

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Sam Grimley
Mitch Thorp
Beau Dowler
Brent Renouf
Josh Thurgood
Jarrad Boumann

We really have had plenty of spud talls over the last decade
 
Ariel Steinberg lost Essendon the final against Norf, then delisted last year before the players were banned. Essendon then chose Sam Grimley ahead of him

Ex hawks
Sam Grimley
Mitch Thorp
Beau Dowler
Brent Renouf
Josh Thurgood
Jarrad Boumann

We really have had plenty of spud talls over the last decade

Wasn't it supposedly Steinberg's mum who called up Eddie's show too and put the nail in Essendon's PR spin in the first year of the drug saga?
 
Wasn't it supposedly Steinberg's mum who called up Eddie's show too and put the nail in Essendon's PR spin in the first year of the drug saga?
I didn't realise he was part of the 34. I would have thought that no one could be that bad after taken PEDs
 

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I didn't realise he was part of the 34. I would have thought that no one could be that bad after taken PEDs

I'm not even sure if he was in the end. As for the bolded, I'm pretty sure Leroy Jetta was one of the 34.
 
"When you're talking football, you're talking Stephen Jurica", said no one ever. Except Bruce McAvaney. Back in 1995, as Richmond's young forward slotted his fifth against Essendon, Bruce must have felt his trousers tighten as he gutteraly exclaimed Jurica to be the next big thing in footy.

No one could blame him at the time. The football world was bearing witness to the end of the likes of Ablett, Dunstall and Locket, and it needed new heroes. Goal kickers. Big and powerful forwards who demanded the footy and were good for ten or so bags a year.

But Stephen Jurica had a head like one of those Japanese watermelons you see that are grown into a cubic shape. It seemed to dominate his physical being to such an extent that if he looked in a particular direction his body would follow through sheer inertia.

He played two good games (four and five goal performances) that can only be ascribed to the above physical phenomena combined with pure chance. To wit: from full forward, Jurica catches a glimpse of a seagull on the wing; turns his head and his body follows. Before he knows it he's ten meters clear and Nick Daffy has put the ball in his lap.

Despite his promising debut season, Jurica played five more games over the next two years before copping the axe, which must have been of a custom design.

"Stephen Jurica... one of the greats"
This was coined by our very own Bruce. I kid you not.
Must've been one of those two good games you speak of.
 

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Let me present to you Shannon Watt.... he even looks like a spud!

The worst part is that he represented us for 155 games! :eek: :huh: :oops:

155 games. 0 Brownlow votes.

Who?

Shannon was probably the most elusive player I have ever seen play the game.... not great when you are supposed to be a key defender! In fact, I'm convinced he was allergic to both leather and people.

You see, when an opposition player was marking inside forward 50 or running into an open goal, you had to switch the tv to panoramic view where on the rare occasion, you would catch a glimpse of him flailing in the distance.

Shannon also happened to be the ultimate troll. Not only did he manage to troll Norf supporters for 155 embarrassing games, he managed to troll every other clubs' supporters as well!

How, you might ask? Well let me explain

You may recall a time where a long time, spud forward of yours, inexplicitly managed to kick a bag in a game, giving you hope that he may in fact "make it" after all? Well, that was courtesy of Shannon Watt. And I have no doubt, reality would have returned to you the following week when your spud of a forward returned to being a spud again.

I'm not sure if Mofra's Bottom 50 goes back far enough, but if it did, Shannon Watt would have no doubt, won it multiple times!
 
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So many spuds. So fresh in the mind.

Assuming Bottom 50 rules apply and it's 20 games played minimum, I'll go James Sellar. Underrated amongst the all time first round draft pick failures. Some Richmondesque drafting from the Camries, and some Melbournesque recruiting when we picked him up :oops:

Dimitri "Huggies ambassador" Toumpas rates a mention. For the love of god can someone tell Kenny that all the elbow grease in the world isn't making that turd get any shinier.

Of the under 20 gamers, special mention goes to the immensely unlikeable Tom Gillies and the lumbering Troy Davis, whose nickname was "Truck". The "Shit" was silent.
 
So many spuds. So fresh in the mind.

Assuming Bottom 50 rules apply and it's 20 games played minimum, I'll go James Sellar. Underrated amongst the all time first round draft pick failures. Some Richmondesque drafting from the Camries, and some Melbournesque recruiting when we picked him up :oops:

Dimitri "Huggies ambassador" Toumpas rates a mention. For the love of god can someone tell Kenny that all the elbow grease in the world isn't making that turd get any shinier.

Of the under 20 gamers, special mention goes to the immensely unlikeable Tom Gillies and the lumbering Troy Davis, whose nickname was "Truck". The "Shit" was silent.

Toumpas and Sellar are just examples of the Tambling phenomenon. Highly rated juniors that didn’t pan out at their first club (usually a struggling club), so someone else takes a punt on them in the hope that it was the previous club's fault.

Tambling, JON, Toumpas, C.Morton, Gysberts, Gorringe, O'Rourke, Plowman, the list goes on.
 
Relton's are the best people
 

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