Best Hero to zero story....

[Gary]

Satchmo...agree about zero for these guys...but Powell never exceeded that, & Kinnear never made it to hero status.

[reigning premier]

Originally posted by reigning premier
He was fantastic for us.. for about three games.... The rest were absolute crap...

To busy complaining and crying about how tough it was being an AFL footballer... poor little darling...

[Frog]

Gary Buchenara ... Great player, lousy coach

[AnnieH]

Originally posted by reigning premier
To busy complaining and crying about how tough it was being an AFL footballer... poor little darling...

Poor little MUMMY's darling.
Sook

[Chow-Chicker]

Jason Saddington, Silvio Foschini, Paul Morwood....

[ItsAllGoodes]

Originally posted by Gary
I agree with NMW about Pitura...but you have to be a bit long in the tooth to know the story.
He had me so excited in the early 70's with his looooong left foot kicking & kicked some great goals from memory...an absolute champ in the making..then shot through to Richmond...& faded quickly into obscurity.

A story made all the better by the fact that we received Graham Teasdale (Brownlow medallist), Brian 'Whale' Roberts (3rd in a Brownlow IIRC) and Francis Jackson (a better than average HBF) in exchange

(Almost made up for the Daniher-Fields transfer)

[Gary]

Thanks for continuing that story "Its all Goodes".
An incredible trade in retrospect.
Chow Chicker..this thread is about hero to zero...Saddington never was a hero...Foschini was a 5 minute (OK 1 year) hero of sorts in a very weak team...Paul Morwood was a solid but never great (hero) player...especially after he returned from Collingwood.

[big bear]

Plugger's comeback lacked a lot. Maybe not zero but close.

[Gary]

Another response to "Its all Goodes".
Nothing will ever explain the Fields - Daniher trade...it left me speechless when it happened...Fields was already showing signs of fade...& was always "iffy" anyway. Knew him a bit & skills were silky at his best but always vulnerable. Daniher had just given us a great year in tandem with Teasdale...arguably the worst Swans trade ever made.

[Chow-Chicker]

Originally posted by Gary
Another response to "Its all Goodes".
Nothing will ever explain the Fields - Daniher trade...it left me speechless when it happened...Fields was already showing signs of fade...& was always "iffy" anyway. Knew him a bit & skills were silky at his best but always vulnerable. Daniher had just given us a great year in tandem with Teasdale...arguably the worst Swans trade ever made.

We threw in Neale Daniher just for the hell of it, and was reputedly, the best of the Danihers if not for his crippling knee injuries.

[swantastic]

John Roberts after talking all those spekies to nothing.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Chow-Chicker
Jason Saddington, Silvio Foschini, Paul Morwood....

Silvio Foschini is an interesting one.

Knew a bloke at the time who was a close friend of his and he said he came back to Melbourne simply because he was desperately homesick.

Unfortunately he went to the club closest to home being the Aints who were bigger Aints back then than they are now. He did play some good footy for them but suffered a very bad shoulder injury. So I wouldn't say he went to zero.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Chow-Chicker
We threw in Neale Daniher just for the hell of it, and was reputedly, the best of the Danihers if not for his crippling knee injuries.

Just as well we threw Neale in. If he had stayed and played umpteen games with us he would probably be coaching us.

[Chow-Chicker]

What about Bernie Evans. Was a terrific player for us and went on to play 30 odd games for Carlton (I think he played in their losing 1986 GF and missed the premiership the following year with suspension)........well I guess he didn't go to zero....

[Nico]

Re: Best Hero to zero story....

Originally posted by Ajn
The other article on RWO Chat made me think of the reverse with players we have lost and how they went at other clubs....

My award winner for this catagory is Barry Mitchell who went from star player to deadbeat at two different clubs

P.S. Warrick Capper is not too far behind (perhaps needs his own catagory!!)

Mitchell is not a bad call. In the season before he defected he was feeding off the ruckmen's marks and running around behind them for the free handpass. There were rumours he was leaving and just appeared to be getting cheap stats to lift or justify his price. Didn't get missed at the Western Oval one day by those in the outer when we were kicking into a howling gale and he was taking the handpass and kicking about all of 2 metres to the opposition.

Didn't kick much further with the wind the little weasel.