SA Footy

Name a few nicknames PAST OR PRESENT of players from your CLUB and why are they called that name

Myself i Know nicknames BUT dont know how they ORRIGINATED

EG P.MUERET ( FLIES ) WESTIES

Milan (spoof) Faletic???????

"Diamond Jim" Tilbrook. Michael "Flash" Graham. Rick, "Jumbo Prince," Davies. Roger "Wombat," Rigney.

36 flags wrote:Milan (spoof) Faletic???????

yep he was called that when he played for West torrens

Garry "Macca" Mcintosh
Andrew "Jars" Jarman

Doreen Smith

super, fud, bluey, jack, studley

Rodney Love (former South player) was known as Passion Fingers

North Adelaide Footy club has Mudguts the sprigger & Shorty the ball steward.

... from North Adelaide

Mike Parsons "bristles" (?)
Peter Simmons "goony goony" (?)
Brenton Phillips "sticks" (after John Phillips)
Brenton Anderson "snake" (?)
Paul Arnold "PA" (initials)
Matthew Campbell "alby" (after Alby Menzel Nwd - cult following)
Russell Gehling "russell jellyfish" (?)
John Crouch "yabbie" (?)
Mike Doszna "no doze" (someone once stuck a packet of No Doze in his locker)
David Wildy "malt" (?)
Bruce Gehling "buster" (becuase of his immense strength)
Trevor Grenfell "boof" (if you knew boof it would be obvious)
Jack Hamilton "snowy" (?)
Bob Hammond "half case" (refer below)
Stanley Hancock "wagga" (?)
Darel Hart "barney rubble" (from the Flinstones - look-a-like)
Steven Hay "powerhouse" or "power" (so powerful)
Alan Howard "speed' (?)
Bohdan Jaworskyj "bugsy" (?)
Mark Jeffries "joffa" (?)
Stephen Kerley "oscar" (?)
Malcolm Kirk "berserk" (because he was an it rhymed with his name)
Theo Lindner "hank" (?)
Daryl Lowry "butch" (?)
Stephen Molloy "molly zucker" (?)
Danny Neve "ralph" (?)
Mike Patterson "swamp fox" (had the wry tactical intelligence of a swamp fox)
John Phillips "sticks" (?)
Paul Rhigas "cyril" (after soccer player Cyril Rhigas)
Stephen Riley "bullet" (?)
Rodney Robran "joe" (?)
David Sanders "sheep" (just followed everything everyone else did)
Damian Squire "squizzy" (common nickname if Squire as surname)
Craig Stanbridge "stanley' (dervice from Stanbridge)
Alan Stringer "alby' (after Alby Menzel Nwd - cult following)
Simon Trenorden "le bon" (after Duran Duran lead singer)
Adam Trzesinski "trigger" (easier to say than Trzesinski)
Darryl Wintle "tubby" (his build I presume)

just to name a few

I find it hard to believe that Bob Hammond had the nick name "half case" when at North as he aquired the ownership in the Half Case Warehouse business when he went to Norwood???

drebin wrote:I find it hard to believe that Bob Hammond had the nick name "half case" when at North as he aquired the ownership in the Half Case Warehouse business when he went to Norwood???

Yeah I know, just slipped that one in for a bit of humour. Friend of the Hammond family and I have called him "half case" since the era you referred to.

DOC wrote:Rodney Love (former South player) was known as Passion Fingers

I know from my time in the ADF that anyone called passion fingers is ususlly a cluster f***k i.e. passion fingers= anything they touch they usually f***k

Roger Woodcock.....splinter xxxx.....too obvious
Neil Button...bear....built like one
Jim Theile.....baby bear....built like one but younger than Butto
Rodney Seecamp....architect....Mr.Football set up the play....the Architect sketch !
Rodney Pope.....Rocket....ultra quick...cough cough.
Rodney Maynard...rocket....red hair ?
Bryce Campbell ...rocket....dynamite ?
Michael Taylor...kingo...from Kingston SE
Scott Direen...sponge....soaked up everything I guess
Ron Kneebone..tank....ever tried stopping a tank ?
Brian Sawley...pongo....family name
Phil Gallagher.....manos....no neck
Glen Rosser...black duck....had a black.........
Phil Carmen...magic.....ever see him play and wonder how he could do that ?
Robert Oatey...RO.....too obvious
Robbie Neil.....scratcher.....also obvious
Neville Roberts...rocky....tough and hard and never gave up....OK and the headguard at Torrens.
Chris Prime.....tractor....too easy
Danny Jenkins....jerker....namesake



Time !!!!...think of some more later.

Thanks for your replies on nicknames people

still would like to know how they EVENTULATED

E.G. P.Carey. "SUPER" probably because he was a SUPER PLAYER

A few from Centrals in my time....

Peter & David Green - Greeny (original I know !!)
Elijah Ware - Noodles (curly hair)
Jason Mackenzie - Buckets (hands the size of a bucket)
Matthew Slade - Bomber (not sure)
Marco Bello - Dinga (Bello - Bell - Ding - Dinga ???)
Ian Callinan - Nutta, Wingnut (has big ears !!)
Grant Coffee - Coff, GC (from the name)
James & Chris Gowans - Gowsa (" ")
Chad O'Sullivan - Sully (" ")
Luke McCabe - Stan (I think something to do with a relative of his ?)
Trent Goodrem - Goody, Delta (name and of course his sister)
Simon Luhrs - Lurka (from the name)
Jonathon Giles - Joffa (not sure)
Nathan Steinberner - Steiny, Larger (like the beer)
Kym Vivian - Milky (like his dad Peter, white as a ghost)
Brent Guerra - Goo (from the name)
Yves Sibenaler - Evil, Sibba (" ")
Gary Ellis - Nugget (was short and stumpy)


I'm sure there are plenty more, that's all I can think of for now....

Brent Guerra- "man child" . At least that's what KG kept calling him during a broadcast. That was before any rug appeared and he had the testosterone fuelled scalp.

Big P,

Stan McCabe played cricket in the Bradman era.......

Gavin Colville - Scratcher
Mark Passador - Passa, The Door

Blood Nut/Fire Crutch/Fanta Fants- all WWT players...