All Time Fantasy Draft: Clubs

[AFEV]

So is Sid back up now with Richmond?

I think we're up to Boomzie but can't hurt to move on I suppose.

Jack Dyer. Mostly due to positional needs.



B: Glelnn Archer, Geoff Southby, Reg Hickey
HB: Keith Greig, Albert Collier, Bruce Doull
C: _______, Jack Clarke, Robert DiPierdomenico
HF: _______, Bernie Quinlan, Jack Mueller
F: Jack Moriarty, Gordon Coventry, Doug Wade
R: Jack Dyer, Dick Reynolds, Ron Barassi

INT: Michael Tuck, _______, _______, _______

[Boomz]

Sorry guys just been distracted. Les Foote for my skipped pick.

FB: Albert Chadwick, Jack Regan ___
HB: ___ Paul Roos ___
C: George Moloney, Greg Williams, James Hird
HF: Garry Wilson, Wayne Carey, Craig Bradley
FF: Dick Lee, Jason Dunstall ___
R: Jim Stynes ___ Gary Ablett Jr
I/C: Albert Thurgood, Les Foote, ___

[Ringo]

I will select the great Kevin Bartlett

Bartlett was a rover and goalkicker who was known as 'Hungry' due to his unwillingness to handball. He is known for great evasiveness and stamina, he could win a game off his own boot. A winner of five premierships with Richmond, he also won the Norm Smith Medal in 1980 after kicking seven goals in the Grand Final. With 403 games, only Michael Tuck of Hawthorn has played more VFL/AFL games. Bartlett was renowned for his skill and concentration on the game and was instrumental in many Tiger wins.

Bartlett grew up barracking for the Footscray Football Club, and watched their only premiership in 1954. As a teenager, he walked from his home in Lennox St, Richmond to the Punt Road Oval, where he was greeted by Richmond's Fourth coach Bill Boromeo. It was this chance meeting that set in the motion for Bartlett to eventually play at Richmond. He began his career with the under 17's side where he won the goalkicking and the best and fairest in 1962. In 1963, he won the Best and Fairest in the under 19's and Richmond made the under 19's final series. Bartlett however was injured seconds into the first final against Geelong, which resulted him being taken to the Prince Henry Hospital where it was revealed that a cyst was embedded in his hip. It was while waiting for the ambulance to collect him in the MCG change rooms, that he first met Jack Dyer. Dyer had appeared at the match on advice of Richmond under 19's coach Ray Jordon â€" and visited Bartlett in the rooms to tell him he will be okay. The following year for Bartlett (1964) involved rehabilitation, as he still experienced pain around his hip area.


Team Structure:
FB: Gary Ayres; David Dench; Kelvin Moore;
HB: Dick Grigg  ______ Nathan Buckley
C: Todd Viney: Michael Voss ___
HF: Allan Ruthven; Alex Jesaulenko; Gary Ablett Snr
FF: ___ Norm Smith; Peter Daicos
R:Simon Madden  ___ Kevin Bartlett
I/C: Robert Walls; Tim Watson: Wayne Schimmelbusch.

[BratPack]

Not really a pressing need but I can't pass up the great Royce Hart with the #3 pick

[DazBurg]

i/ll take francis bourke

Recruited from Nathalia, Francis Bourke overcame a heart murmur to become one of Richmond's greatest ever players - quite an accolade when you consider the number of out-and-out champions whose names grace the Punt Road honour board. Initially a wingman, Bourke later excelled in defence where his courage, pace, anticipation and refusal to be beaten made him ideally suited. Known affectionately as 'Saint Francis', Bourke represented Richmond in 302 VFL games and his state on 13 occasions. He won the Tigers' top award in 1970, and was a member of five Richmond premiership teams. Following his retirement, Bourke coached Richmond to the 1982 grand final, which was disappointingly lost against arch rivals Carlton. When the side slumped to 10th place the following year, Bourke's brief VFL coaching career came to a peremptory end, but no coach since has managed to steer the Tigers beyond the preliminary final.

Career highlights

    Richmond premiership player 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1980
    Richmond Team of the Century
    Jack Dyer Medal 1970
    Richmond Captain 1976â€"1977
    Richmond Coach 1982â€"1983
    Richmond Life Member 1976[2]
    Richmond Hall of Fame, inducted 2002
    Richmond "Immortal", conferred 2005
    100 Tiger Treasures "Brave Act of the Century"
    Australian Football Hall of Fame, inducted 2002
    AFL Team of the Century
    Interstate Games: 13
    Victorian captain 1977, 1980

[Boomz]

Roy Wright & Vic Thorp. Very happy to get both.

FB: Albert Chadwick, Jack Regan, Vic Thorp
HB: ___ Paul Roos ___
C: George Moloney, Greg Williams, James Hird
HF: Garry Wilson, Wayne Carey, Craig Bradley
FF: Dick Lee, Jason Dunstall ___
R: Roy Wright ___ Gary Ablett Jr
I/C: Albert Thurgood, Les Foote, Jim Stynes ___

[DazBurg]

i'll pick Jack titus

Standing just 175cm in height, and weighing in at a meagre 65.5kg, Richmond forward Jack 'Skinny' Titus could scarcely be said to look like a league footballer - until he took to the field. It was then that all of his pace, poise and extraordinary nimbleness, both of body and of mind, came to the fore. Like Kevin Bartlett in later years, he was supremely adept at keeping his lightweight frame out of trouble - or of earning free kicks on those rare instances that his incomparable skills of elusiveness failed him. Nevertheless, he was often prevented from training on Tuesday evenings as a result of knocks received on the preceding Saturday.

Recruited from Castlemaine in 1926, Titus played much of his early football on a half forward flank, before developing into one of the many highly accomplished full forwards to grace the VFL during the 1930s. When Richmond was a league power during the late 1920s and early 1930s, Titus was a prominent and influential figure. Among the best players on the ground as a half forward flanker in the Tigers' 1932 grand final defeat of Carlton, he was a near unanimous choice as best afield two years later when his six goals from full forward against South Melbourne effectively comprised the difference between the two teams.

Although he was undoubtedly a very prolific goal kicker, as his overall tally of 970 goals in 294 VFL games (at a per match average of 3.29) clearly attests, Jack Titus' contribution to the team cause always went far beyond the kicking of goals, which may be why the VFL selectors turned to him so often (14 times in all) rather than his ostensibly more prolific counterparts.

After retiring from football at the end of the 1943 season, Titus spent a year out of the game before making a one season comeback with Coburg in 1945. He immediately showed that he had lost none of his talent and nouse by booting 119 goals for the year to assist his new team to third place on the ladder. It was the second time Titus had topped the century; the first was five years earlier, when his tally of precisely 100 goals for Richmond had enabled him to top the VFL goal kicking list for the only time in his career. He was Richmond's top goal kicker eleven times, and won the club's 1941 best and fairest award.

Sixty years after his last game for the Tigers 'Skinny' Titus was a predictable choice as full forward in the club's official 'Team of the 20th Century'.

Career highlights


    Richmond Premiership Player 1932, 1934
    Richmond Best and Fairest 1929, 1941
    Richmond Leading Goalkicker 1929â€"1930, 1934â€"1942
    VFL Leading Goalkicker 1940
    Interstate Games:- 14
    Richmond Team of The Century
    Richmond Hall of Fame â€" inducted 2002
    Australian Football Hall of Fame

[BratPack]

Couple I was tossing up between but the prospect of an 800 goal kicker coming off the bench as the Power Forward is too much to resist. Matthew Richardson

[Ringo]

Tossing up between 2 players and I will select Kevin Sheedy Handy emergency or bench player

Returned to fitness, Sheedy faced an enormous challenge in 1968. Fortunately coach Tom Hafey saw something in Sheedy's willingness to listen, his determination and fierce desire for the ball. Placed in a back pocket, Sheedy consolidated his place in the senior side and then began to emerge as key player in the team's defence. He won a Victorian guernsey in 1969 and was a stand out in the Tigers' three finals games, which culminated in a second flag in three years. He finished runner-up best and fairest to claim a remarkable turn around in just two years.

By now, Sheedy's on-field persona marked him as a "villain" to be watched. He enjoyed niggling his opponents, physically and verbally and seemed to be at the centre of every melee on the ground. Occasionally, his teammates blanched at some of his more theatrical attempts to win free kicks or fifteen-metre penalties and he had the ability to drive opposing supporters into a frenzy. Since his injury, Sheedy had lived on the edge knowing that if he failed at Richmond it would be the end of the line because of the impending five-year suspension. But he seemed to have an innate ability to read how far he could push the envelope and indeed he was never reported during his career, a fact that would surprise most who saw him play.

He was now acknowledged the best in his position in the VFL and a key personality at Punt Road. A turning point came in the 1972 season, when Sheedy played in Richmond's losing Grand Final team. In an earlier final, Sheedy had ruffled Carlton's captain coach John Nicholls, suggesting that he was finished as a player and that Richmond had the wood on the Blues. Nicholls and his men, stung by media criticism and the attitude of the Richmond players, played a whirlwind first half in the Grand Final, booting eighteen goals to lead by 45 points. Sheedy, caught embarrassingly out of position a number of times, was switched to the unfamiliar position of ruck rover for the last half. Although the Tigers lost, Sheedy was a revelation in his new role.

Now permanently playing on the ball, he set up Richmond's Grand Final win in 1973 with three goals in the first quarter. In 1974, he was best afield in the Grand Final with 30 disposals highlighted by an uncanny piece of play in the second quarter. Sheedy marked next to the goalpost, went back to apparently take his kick from the impossible angle surrounded by opposition players, then casually ran in and handballed over the head of the man on the mark to lone teammate in the goalsquare who booted the easiest goal of his life. It was this mixture of flamboyance and cunning that attracted the media to him, and Sheedy was voted player of the year by journalists.

Sheedy made good copy; during the season Richmond had appointed him as full-time promotions officer, effectively making him the first professional footballer in the VFL. In time, all of the clubs would copy this appointment and by the 1980s, most clubs had a half dozen or so players employed as promotions officers. It was a bridge between the casual Saturday afternoon era and the age of true professionalism in the 1990s.

After finishing third in 1975, Richmond began a slide down the ladder. Sheedy's standard remained high â€" in 1976 he won the best and fairest for the only time and received life membership of the club. But he was shocked when his mentor and idol Tom Hafey left the club due to a lack of support at committee level. In 1978, he was made captain but his game was now struggling and he resigned after just one year. After just four games the following season, Sheedy read the writing on the wall when he was started all of the matches on the bench. He announced his retirement and immediately became an assistant to coach Tony Jewell. Throughout the 1980 season, it was clear he was preparing for a senior coaching role. He examined every facet of the club as the team went on to take the premiership.

Career Highlights:

    Richmond premiership player 1969, 1973, 1974
    Jack Dyer Medal 1976
    Richmond captain 1978
    All-Australian coach 1993, 2000
    Australian Football Hall of Fame 2008
    Richmond Team of the Century (back pocket)
    Richmond Hall of Fame 2002
   

[AFEV]

Couple of players I was considering but going to go with Dale Weightman.

[Ringo]

As I need another Forward I will select Tony Lockett

hall of fame

Anthony T 'Tony' Lockett

One of the all-time great full-forwards who had a magnificent career at St Kilda.

St Kilda 1983-94 183 games 898 goals. Sydney 1995-97 53 games 268 goals. (b: 9 Mar 1966 191 cms 110 kgs). One of the all-time great full-forwards who had a magnificent career at St Kilda and added another chapter with his feats for Sydney. The son of a country star who Bob Davis believed was one of the best footballers not to play League football. Tony's family in Ballarat was reluctant to let him come to the city and so was he.

Coach Tony Jewell recalled that the first time he trained with the team he said: "Why would I want to play with all those big heads?" From the moment the ex-North Ballarat boy booted a goal with his first kick in League football St Kilda knew they had something special. His vice-like marking and overwhelming strength soon rocketed him to stardom and he gave a hint of things to come with 77 goals in his second season.

In 1987 he booted 117 goals to head the goalkicking and became the first full-forward to win a Brownlow. Lockett found the glare of being in the spotlight intrusive and over the years his relations with an inquisitive media were frequently strained. Although his weight was a recurring problem he had tremendous pace over the vital first five yards and once he secured front position was virtually unstoppable.

Lockett's breathtaking style made him one of the few men who could attract crowds on his own. In the years immediately after his Brownlow win he was dogged by injury and a series of other misfortunes breaking his ankle in 1988 and having his season cut short by suspension and groin problems in 1989. He was in devastating form early in 1990 until injuring a knee and prior to 1991 was the fittest he had ever been. When he seriously damaged the wing vertebrae in his back it seemed that he was jinxed yet again but he overcame the delayed start to the season by booting 12 goals in his return game against the Crows. He went on to kick 127 goals and earn another Coleman Medal. His tremendous form lifted St Kilda to its first finals appearance in 18 years. He subsequently kicked 15 goals in a game In 1992 he booted 132 goals including a new club record 15 against Sydney but the following year he was again dogged by injuries and missed the latter part of the season when he aggravated his back injury.

Team Structure: (Subject to final re arrangement)
FB: Gary Ayres; David Dench; Kelvin Moore;
HB: Dick Grigg  ______ Nathan Buckley
C: Todd Viney: Michael Voss ___
HF: Allan Ruthven; Alex Jesaulenko; Gary Ablett Snr
FF: Norm Smith; Tony Lockett; Peter Daicos
R:Simon Madden  ___ Kevin Bartlett
I/C: Robert Walls; Tim Watson; Kevin Sheedy; Wayne Schimmelbusch.

[BratPack]

Pretty easy pick for me with Lockett missing. Robert Harvey

[DazBurg]

my pick and am stoked that he slipped to me

Ian Stewart

The label 'legend' is bandied about quite indiscriminately these days but it would be hard to disagree with its appropriateness in the case of Ian Harlow Stewart. Born in the western Tasmanian mining settlement of Queenstown, where footballers do not have the luxury of grass to cushion their falls, Stewart is one of an elite band of just four players to have won the coveted Brownlow Medal on three separate occasions. Although neither strongly built nor especially athletic looking he was enormously tough and resilient, and his outward appearance belied enormous, some would say unique, native ability. Indefatigably accurate when kicking with either foot, Stewart was also deceptively strong overhead (in the 1966 season, for instance, he took more marks than any other player in the VFL), and so courageous that he frequently won possessions that logic told you he had no right to. He was also extraordinarily elusive, seldom being caught with the ball - small wonder that the umpires took note to the extent of awarding him more Brownlow votes than any other player of his era.

Ian Stewart's senior career began with Hobart in 1962 where he played 13 senior games and was selected in both of Tasmania's interstate games that year, against the VFA and the VFL. In the latter game, playing in the centre, he gave clear notice that he was a star in the making by outpointing his direct opponent on the day, Geelong's Alastair Lord, who later that season would win the Brownlow Medal. Wooed across the Bass Strait by St Kilda the following year he rapidly formulated an irresistible partnership with fellow Taswegian Darrel Baldock which was largely responsible in 1966 for steering the Saints to their first, and so far only, senior premiership.

After seven seasons and 127 games with St Kilda Stewart's career looked to be waning but in 1971 he moved to Richmond and immediately won another Brownlow to add to the two won previously in 1965 and 1966. While at Punt Road he linked up to great effect with another high profile Tasmanian player in the shape of Royce Hart. Stewart's 78 games with the Tigers included the victorious grand final of 1973 and took his final VFL games tally to 205. He originally retired midway through the 1974 season only to make a handful of appearances the following year before finally calling it a day for good.

Ian Stewart's selection as centreman in the official Tasmanian 'Team of the Century', which was announced in June 2004, was as inevitable as it was justified. Two years later he was inducted as an icon in Tasmanian Football's official Hall of Fame

Career highlights

    St Kilda best and fairest 1964, 1966
    St Kilda captain 1969
    St Kilda premiership player 1966
    Interstate games: 4
    Victorian state representative 1966
    Brownlow Medallist 1965 (tie), 1966, 1971
    Richmond best and fairest 1971
    Richmond premiership player 1973
    All-Australian 1966
    Australian Football Hall of Fame Inductee 1996, Legend 1997
    St Kilda Team of the Century (centre)

[Boomz]

Just got home. Picking soon.

[Boomz]

Baldock... Don't know how he lasted until now :-X My froward line is crowded as hell....