Who was the best recruit your club has ever drafted?

[Magpiespower]

DES DROGEMULLER

1983 Reserves Magarey Medallist and Port Adelaide premiership player!

[MightyEagles]

Norwood - ME!!!
Seriously Neville Roberts and Anthony Harvey IMHO! Jars for 90 not so good but back in 97 sensational!

I didn't know that I played for Norwood.

[MightyEagles]

The early to mid 80's North did ok with
-Darel Hart
-Peter Kreig
-Steven Sims
-John Roberts
-Craig Burton
-Kym Klomp
-Michael Armfield
off the top of my head, all from other clubs.

How about Paul Arnold from Port Pirie.

[eaglehaslanded]

Gav Colville
Steven Hall
Paul Lindsay

Couldn't argue with those names. Over the duration probably Gavin slightly ahead of the Hally and Linds.

In terms of guys from other local clubs would say Adam Grocke and Matt Cooper, both played a huge part in the 06 flag.

Agree with you whole heartedly there columbo that's why I named gav at the top of the list. I was thinking Cooper but didn't name him because I just went with interstate recruits.

[Big Phil]

From Centrals, in recent years and in no particular order...

Chris Gowans
James Gowans
Heath Hopwood
Daniel Hulm
Marco Bello
Simon Arnott
Paul Scoullar
Ian Callinan
Andrew Hayes
Chad O'Sullivan
Luke Cowan
Elijah Ware

[SABRE]

CP, SDK & fester69 - Have you forgotten the best of the best ?
How about the 'Smiling Assassin' - TWO-EIGHT - John Wynne
& speaking of West Perth boys - Brian Adamson & David Palm.
Wonder if Wynney & John Duckworth played together over there ?
Frightening combination

[fester69]

:shock: CP, SDK & fester69 - Have you forgotten the best of the best ?
How about the 'Smiling Assassin' - TWO-EIGHT - John Wynne
& speaking of West Perth boys - Brian Adamson & David Palm.
Wonder if Wynney & John Duckworth played together over there ?
Frightening combination

Sorry SABRE old chap, thought I'd only comment on MY lifetime!

[Apachebulldog]

Derrick Kickett for Central what a freak on the field UNBELIEVABLE.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Psyber]

The word "drafted" I thought implied only since the drafting of players recruited by the AFL teams to SANFL teams began.
Are we actually talking about all players simply recruited from elsewhere, rather than coming up through the juniors?
What was the intent of the thread, Old but Smart Dog?

[dash61]

For Westies, Shane Tuck, Adam and Ed Richardson, Anthony Banik, Glenn Kilpatrick, Darren Bradshaw (1 year), Tim Symes, Luke Norman and


.....Ryan Ferguson

Ability Wise For Westies
1 Ben Haynes
2 Damian Cupido

Both under achievers in their AFL careers, both have talent to burn, for me no arguement ability wise

[blueandwhite]

Gerard Bennett was very good for us, one of the few loyal recruits we've had along with Matt Smith who isn't a star but has served us well. I always enjoyed watching Nathan Turvey from Hawthorn play as well.

Nathan Turvey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yep was a great idea getting him and Jon Hassell when we knocked back the Gowans Bros.

Seriously though ,

Soapy Kantilla
Brian (the whale) Roberts.
Bob Keddie.
Gerard Bennett.
Craig Parry.
G Cornes.
R Davies.

[SABRE]

:shock: CP, SDK & fester69 - Have you forgotten the best of the best ?
How about the 'Smiling Assassin' - TWO-EIGHT - John Wynne
& speaking of West Perth boys - Brian Adamson & David Palm.
Wonder if Wynney & John Duckworth played together over there ?
Frightening combination

Sorry SABRE old chap, thought I'd only comment on MY lifetime!

Another comment like that & I might shorten it !!!

Sad news from the west, according to 'winger' on WA's Footy Goss Forum, West Perth & Norwood star from the 70's, Brian Adamson
is currently very ill in a WA institution suffering from dementia. I'm sure all SANFL followers send best wishes to Brian, his family & friends.

David Palm is reported to be coaching 'The Falcon's' juniors.
Cheers,
SABRE

[TroyGFC]

Ross Gibbs from WA.

[TroyGFC]

The Stingers from North added much needed hardness to help win 2 premierships.

[71/72]

Craig Burrows without a doubt.

[bulldog pommy]

Gilbert McAdam

[Barto]

Graham Nuske.


Did I do that right?

Nah, i'd vote for Mark O'Keefe or James Friebel for the Double Blues

Michael Friebel. I felt sorry for Friebel, wasn't his fault he didn't have a heap of ability in a side that was rubbish. Really decent bloke who tried hard though.

Mark O'Keefe was rated a bit better in a terrible side, although I thought it was a bit odd that he was made one of the vice captains at the time.

[therisingblues]

I used to wonder how O'Keefe would have done in any other SANFL side at the time. Probably still a good player, but not good enough to play the pivotal role in the center of a good SANFL side, or perhaps any other side than the cellar dwellers we were at the time. Wasn't he one of Higgins' revelations?

[Barto]

I used to wonder how O'Keefe would have done in any other SANFL side at the time. Probably still a good player, but not good enough to play the pivotal role in the center of a good SANFL side, or perhaps any other side than the cellar dwellers we were at the time. Wasn't he one of Higgins' revelations?

I thought he was one of Trigg's recruits but it's possible he was there earlier.

[Barto]

I'd like to see this thread broken up a bit though:

"who was your best recruit from another SANFL club"

"who was your best recruit from another state"

"who was the best VFL/AFL reject" etc..

Let's face it, a fair chunk of the league playing lists are made up of recruits.