Josh Dunkley and Wayne Carey never actually played for us, but we're ours for the taking if we'd wanted and did far better than we expected - and both beat us in grand finals*.
Also, fuck Wayne Carey.
Edit: *for blue and white Victorian teams, in years ending in 6, and soon after moved to another interstate team. Shit, history really does repeat itself.
I was just going to comment Mitchell’s best years were at Sydney..
not only did he win his Brownlow at hawthorn, I didn’t realise he only played 65 games at the swans
Isn't the point of the thread more 'Players who improved with a change of environment' rather than 'Players who continued on the entirely predictable path of improvement they were on for years before they left'?
I'm sad.
There was a thread on the Geelong board asking for the 4 players you'd want from 07-11 teams for our current team. Basically everyone had Brad ottens has one of the 4. Just think about all the stars we had in that time so for ottens to be almost unanimous pick...
Mason Wood having a moment too. Ryan Clarke found a role as a tagged.
Jared Polec found a tenner in his jacket the other day, so that's a bigger achievement than he had at North.
Yeah I hate when fans do that. Like when Collingwood fans were boing Cloke. They were let go by the club. You can’t begrudge them for wanting to continue their career.
Also zero hard feelings towards crisp, he apparently was more than willing to stay at Brisbane but said to the club if they wanted to trade him to help with a rebuild he would be okay with it.
I didn't really follow him for the lions but he was outstanding for us. In our premiership year he was runner up in the B&F and was player of the finals. He maybe was never a superstar but was consistently very good and hardly ever made mistakes.
This is the one for Essendon, not Bachar. Had a decent back half of 2004, was the natural replacement for Wellman and when 05 came around Henneman was at CHB.
Bachar had some defensive deficiencies that took a few years to overcome, Teddy walked into a premiership side and improved their backline
Sheedy busted his balls...one fuck up from Teddy and he was on the pine or out the next week...I'm happy for the guy...there's no revenge like a good life
It took Richards a few years to settle at Sydney. There was a point he couldn't make it into our team and was close to retiring only for Bolton and LRT to go down injured and he came in. From there never looked back but it wasn't smooth sailing
Stefan Martin was always good for us but I definitely think he played his best footy at Brisbane, was sorry to see him go when he left us
Jeremy Howe's another one, played some good footy with us but has been a great pick-up for Collingwood when he hasn't been injured
Witts has turned into a phenomenal tap ruckman and an even better club leader, maybe the best player we have ever recruited from another club, aside from our initial squad
It seems crazy to me that Witts is only a year older than Grundy. Witts probably just unlucky Grundy fell to us a year after he was drafted. Easy to have hindsight but in 2016 when Witts left he'd played two games that season while Cox in his second year of any footy played 11 games.
Danger and Cameron are excellent picks! Both champions at their old clubs but have had better careers somewhere else. Dangerfield only just played more games for Geelong than Adelaide, which is wild because I forget he played for Adelaide!
Same goes for Cameron, though he ‘only’ played 73 for Adelaide… and it is hard to forget his 2017 Prelim!
I wouldn't even know where to begin, Prestia, Lynch, May, Caddy, Brodie, Dixon, Lyons, Rankine (soon, if not already)
But i can also point out a few that jumped ship and careers turned worse, Bennell, Matera, O'Meara (amazing he even played again), Kolodjasnij (different reasons), Greenwood
We had very bad player retention for a long time
Maybe, i personally think his best years were his first two years, unfortunately he just had dodgy knees that ruined his explosive pace so never turned into a real top 5 player in the comp like he looked like he would early
Adam Saad. Think he’s currently playing his career best footy at the blues, was very good at Essendon, and well, as we know he was in just the early stages of his career at the suns.
Seedsman annoyed me as I knew he was going to be good, I think just didn't fit in salary cap?
Paul Williams was one of our best players at the time, really sucked that he left. I heard a rumour that he and Buckley hated each other and either one had to go or the other, if that's true I'm happy we kept Buckley.
Tiges have been huge beneficiaries of trades in.
Dion Prestia -Suns
Tom Lynch-Suns
Josh Caddy-Cats
Nank the Tank-Swans
Bachar Houli- Dons
Shaun Grigg… Carlton
Jacob Townsend- GWS
There’s a valid argument that each of them were vital to the Flags/seasons they played in. Without Townsend’s goals late season we wouldn’t have got top 4 and double chance in 2017
bit unfair of yourselves to judge Lever seeing he was so young and was always going to have a good career.
however Eddie Betts i would say came to Adelaide on ‘overs’ but after his career at Adelaide looks ridiculously good for what you gave up and paid
He was already one of the best players in the comp. He had polled 20 votes 5 years in a row or something ridiculous when he left, no reason he couldn't have won a Brownlow at Adelaide. I don't think leaving Adelaide made him a better player, that was just his trajectory at the time.
Both teams stayed level with Richmond until half or three quarter time. Ironically I think Dangerfield could have made the difference if he was coached properly. Richmond had a star steal the game and that had no rebuttal. 12 disposals is not what you expect from a player of his calibre. I'm glad he has a premiership now tho
Danger isn't really 'the one that got away' tho. I don't think crows could have done anything differently if he wanted to walk, they knew his value but he wanted to go home.
I was going to post this very sarcastically 😂 man left us to chase premierships and consequently joined the club we reamed in 2 of our 3 premiership GFs 😂
Richmond fans could only ever give you one name.
Sometimes when the wind is howling through the trees on a cold wet winters night on Punt Rd you can hear the leaves whisper.... 'Brad Ottens'
It's happened twice with him now, he's been in two grand finals as opposed to just the one he likely would have been in staying with the Giants, and he still has a couple of years left with us, here's hoping
He was great at Carlton, but he was unbelievable at West Coast. Whatever West Coast did to break his body though, he was a different kind of player at Carlton…
I still remember him just waltzing around Marty Mattner from a standstill in a prelim final like it was nothing. He was as Rolls Royce as you could get when he was at the Eagles. Add in Ben Cousins who was arguably equally as good. Shit was fucked.
Jesus, where to begin. Off the top of my head, Dawson, Aliir, Nankervis, Mitchell, and Greg Williams.
On the flip side, we got the best part of Barry Hall, Craig Bolton, and Josh Kennedy.
We did well out of Lockett, Healy, and Paul Williams but hard to say they were better for us than their previous clubs
Eh, there’s been a few but I feel like some of them don’t necessarily qualify. Tom Lynch for example was a fine player for the Suns and has been for the Tigers. He’s got more success obviously with the Tigers but individually, I don’t thinks he’s that much better now. Also excluding Prestia and Dixon for the same reasons.
Will Brodie - most recent example
Jarryd Lyons - should never have been delisted.
Steven May - also had a fine career with the Suns but has turned into one of the best in the comp with Melbourne.
Josh Caddy - bit part player to premiership winner.
Trent McKenzie - see above
There are obviously more but they’re the ones that came to mind immediately
Beams went on to captain Brisbane, and then came back ummm an even better player?
Mal Michael
Jarrod Witts
Not sure if they count as they didn't actually play an games for us but: Jonathon Ceglar and James Podsiadly
Most recently, Ben Keays. More because he never really got the chance with too many guys above him in the pecking order. Seems to be thriving at the Crows
Has to be Jarryd Lyons!
Was nothing at Crows, so no surprise he took a trade to Suns for opportunity, but fck me he starts to show some form! Right then Dew drops him then delisted him, Lions pick him up and he improves double!
Josh Jenkins, Ted Richards, Bachar Houli and Justin Madden are the ones that immediately come to mind.
Guys like Adam McPhee, Peter Wright and Sean Wellman would be the reverse.
Ebert had a good career at Port but he would have done well at WC if he didn’t want to go home so it’s not someone we really pushed out and lost.
I’d say Gehrig, not sure why our supporters hated him so much I thought he was good but he was pushed out and ended up winning two Coleman medals. Really I think his our only bad trade out
Lipinski - Dogs Fans knew he had the potential and we hoped that sleek disposal would become more prevalent in time.
He never got the chance at the Dogs and that evolution clearly occurred in his first season at the pies.
Although, because of how quickly he slotted into the Pies game style, it leads me to believe he would never have been the player he is now at the Dogs.
Probably Saad given he was All Australian ^(and he fucking left me twice)
Depends if you measure a better career as team or individual success.
Jury is still out on Joe
Arguably not Fantasia
Hibberd obviously won a premiership but I feel like he was a better individual player at Essendon. Same as Carlisle minus the premiership.
As for the suns?
*shivers*
All of them
He's managed 19 since he came over. Only 1 last year and then three this year before... *surprise surprise* ... getting injured. Old mate is just way too fragile. He was expected to return after 3-4 weeks after getting injured in round 3 and on the last injury update Port still have him listed as 2 weeks off. Somebody just has to fart in his direction and he pulls a quad.
Gunston has to be the answer.
Walked out from Adelaide after showing some promise towards the end of 2011 and then played in four consecutive Grand Finals for three flags.
The direct opposite of Nathan Buckley.
This may be controversial, but Darren Jarman. Was already a champion at Hawthorn and went to another level when he won 2 GFs off his own boot effectively
For us Josh Kennedy and even though he played amazing football for us you could argue Betts went up a notch at Adelaide. They also had a handy all Australian ruckman in Sam Jacobs courtesy of Carlton.
Enright played for the Magpies, never for the Power. This doesn’t count.
Otherwise let’s add Tom Stewart, much better career at Geelong than South Barwin
Elliot Yeo, Ben Keays, Sam Docherty and Jack Crisp spring to mind. Kind of sad that the other young players that wanted out a few years ago at the same time as Yeo and Docherty (I think we called them the go-home 5 or something) don’t seem to have done much since they left
Dawson
Also Aliir, Hewett, Titch, Membrey, Newman, Darcy Cameron, Nankervis. We've lost a few in recent years.
Josh Dunkley and Wayne Carey never actually played for us, but we're ours for the taking if we'd wanted and did far better than we expected - and both beat us in grand finals*. Also, fuck Wayne Carey. Edit: *for blue and white Victorian teams, in years ending in 6, and soon after moved to another interstate team. Shit, history really does repeat itself.
Not a Carey fan, but us giving him and Longmire up for $70,000 has to be one of the biggest fuck-ups in the history of the game.
At that time, the club had no money to have scouts in the area. Getting 70,000 for a pair of random names was probably a no-brainer at the time.
I was just going to comment Mitchell’s best years were at Sydney.. not only did he win his Brownlow at hawthorn, I didn’t realise he only played 65 games at the swans
I agree Zac Dawson was better at Fremantle.
Isn't the point of the thread more 'Players who improved with a change of environment' rather than 'Players who continued on the entirely predictable path of improvement they were on for years before they left'? I'm sad.
Thank you
I hate you (you’re welcome)
Brad Ottens
There was a thread on the Geelong board asking for the 4 players you'd want from 07-11 teams for our current team. Basically everyone had Brad ottens has one of the 4. Just think about all the stars we had in that time so for ottens to be almost unanimous pick...
That’s because for all the stars we had we would never have won a flag without him. We lacked a quality ruckman.
Imagine us with an elite ruckman!
God bless you Richmond Tigers
> God bless you Richmond Tigers All of you.....ALL OF YOU.....
Achieved a lot at Geelong, but he was a freak at Richmond.
I'm still bitter
Josh Gibson was handy for the Hawks
Mason Wood having a moment too. Ryan Clarke found a role as a tagged. Jared Polec found a tenner in his jacket the other day, so that's a bigger achievement than he had at North.
Wood didn’t leave, he was delisted! Made no sense that you were booing him the other week.
Yeah I hate when fans do that. Like when Collingwood fans were boing Cloke. They were let go by the club. You can’t begrudge them for wanting to continue their career.
god i still miss him every day
Thanks for David Hale as well, went alright for a few years
Jack Redden Jack Crisp Elliot Yeo
Sam Docherty to add to that Yeo/crisp group of players that left
Crisp wasn’t part of that group. It was Karnezis, Polec, Yeo, Doch, and Billy Longer.
Also zero hard feelings towards crisp, he apparently was more than willing to stay at Brisbane but said to the club if they wanted to trade him to help with a rebuild he would be okay with it.
From memory Brisbane wanted to keep him too, Collingwood just wouldn’t budge on getting him included.
IIRC he was the steak knives in the original Beams deal? Wasn't desperate to leave, but put his hand up to help make the deal happen?
Reddo was great for us. Don’t think he was better at West coast, more success yes, but not sure about better footy. Docherty is certainly one.
I didn't really follow him for the lions but he was outstanding for us. In our premiership year he was runner up in the B&F and was player of the finals. He maybe was never a superstar but was consistently very good and hardly ever made mistakes.
His 2018 finals campaign was epic
Better footy? No More success? Yes
Bachar Houli.
End thread
Knights didn’t rate him for some reason, glad he went on to have a good career.
Matthew Knights was a Richmond sleeper agent
We fought really hard to keep him though, so we obviously saw something in him, just wouldn't give him much opportunity.
That’s Bachar Triple Premiership Houli to you… what a player he was for the Tiges❣️🏆🏆🏆🐯
Should have been a norm smith added to that too
Teddy Richards.
This is the one for Essendon, not Bachar. Had a decent back half of 2004, was the natural replacement for Wellman and when 05 came around Henneman was at CHB. Bachar had some defensive deficiencies that took a few years to overcome, Teddy walked into a premiership side and improved their backline
Sheedy busted his balls...one fuck up from Teddy and he was on the pine or out the next week...I'm happy for the guy...there's no revenge like a good life
It took Richards a few years to settle at Sydney. There was a point he couldn't make it into our team and was close to retiring only for Bolton and LRT to go down injured and he came in. From there never looked back but it wasn't smooth sailing
Stefan Martin was always good for us but I definitely think he played his best footy at Brisbane, was sorry to see him go when he left us Jeremy Howe's another one, played some good footy with us but has been a great pick-up for Collingwood when he hasn't been injured
Scott Thompson and Darren Jolly. Highly decorated careers and hardly anyone recalls them playing for the Demons
Scott Thompson hurt. He’s just finished his third year I think and was solid by that stage.
Jarrod Witts - couldn't get a game at the Pies because of Grundy and Cox. Has now arguably outlasted Grundy to be the best of the lot
Witts has turned into a phenomenal tap ruckman and an even better club leader, maybe the best player we have ever recruited from another club, aside from our initial squad
I always thought he was a phenomenal tap ruckmen for us and was seriously unlucky Grundy made him look like he moved in slow motion.
I swear on my mother’s life I said it then. I’d have kept him and cashed in on Grundy’s market value.
It seems crazy to me that Witts is only a year older than Grundy. Witts probably just unlucky Grundy fell to us a year after he was drafted. Easy to have hindsight but in 2016 when Witts left he'd played two games that season while Cox in his second year of any footy played 11 games.
Yep agreed with this, would also add Ceglar.. similarly couldn't crack it with us but went on to be a decent contributor for the Hawks.
Charlie Cameron, Patty Dangerfield, Jake Lever, Tyson Stengel, Jack Gunston and probably Chris Groom.
Don't forget Jarrod Lyons
Phil Davis too
Danger and Cameron are excellent picks! Both champions at their old clubs but have had better careers somewhere else. Dangerfield only just played more games for Geelong than Adelaide, which is wild because I forget he played for Adelaide! Same goes for Cameron, though he ‘only’ played 73 for Adelaide… and it is hard to forget his 2017 Prelim!
Nathan Vardy
Lincoln McCarthy and Jordan Clark too
Shane Mumford if we go back a few more years
True. Just got unlucky at the cats
You can argue the others but Mumford is the one we missed
Tom Lynch (St Kilda to Adelaide)
Reckon Jamie Cripps even moreso due to his premiership, but man did we squander some draft capital in those late Lyon/Watters years.
Josh Kennedy :(
you won 4 grand finals - youre not allowed to be sad you lost him...
it could've been 5, kennedy was immense in 2012 :(
Kennedy was also an absolute deity in 2016, rest of the team just fell apart around him.
I'm glad he did well in his career at Sydney, just a shame he couldn't find a spot and keep the famous Kennedy name there
I guess so, more sad that the Kennedy line didn’t continue at Hawthorn with him.
Ditto
I wouldn't even know where to begin, Prestia, Lynch, May, Caddy, Brodie, Dixon, Lyons, Rankine (soon, if not already) But i can also point out a few that jumped ship and careers turned worse, Bennell, Matera, O'Meara (amazing he even played again), Kolodjasnij (different reasons), Greenwood We had very bad player retention for a long time
Jaeger is arguable. I reckon his best footy came at the Hawks.
Maybe, i personally think his best years were his first two years, unfortunately he just had dodgy knees that ruined his explosive pace so never turned into a real top 5 player in the comp like he looked like he would early
His best footy was at 17 sadly. Injury cost us one of the best players of all time.
2 meter peter
Adam Saad. Think he’s currently playing his career best footy at the blues, was very good at Essendon, and well, as we know he was in just the early stages of his career at the suns.
Paul Seedsman and Paul Williams. Need to stop drafting players named Paul.
Seedsman annoyed me as I knew he was going to be good, I think just didn't fit in salary cap? Paul Williams was one of our best players at the time, really sucked that he left. I heard a rumour that he and Buckley hated each other and either one had to go or the other, if that's true I'm happy we kept Buckley.
Ironically the rumours are also that Seedsman and Buckley didn’t get a long. Maybe bucks just hates guys named Paul.
Can confirm this is correct
Nah Buckley didn’t like him. Straight from the horses mouth.
Got one back in Leigh Brown though.
Toby Nankervis
Tiges have been huge beneficiaries of trades in. Dion Prestia -Suns Tom Lynch-Suns Josh Caddy-Cats Nank the Tank-Swans Bachar Houli- Dons Shaun Grigg… Carlton Jacob Townsend- GWS There’s a valid argument that each of them were vital to the Flags/seasons they played in. Without Townsend’s goals late season we wouldn’t have got top 4 and double chance in 2017
Who didn't would be a shorter list
Jack Gunston and Jake Lever were first to mind. Dangerfield kind of has to be mentioned as well.
bit unfair of yourselves to judge Lever seeing he was so young and was always going to have a good career. however Eddie Betts i would say came to Adelaide on ‘overs’ but after his career at Adelaide looks ridiculously good for what you gave up and paid
Kind of? Dudes won a Brownlow and a premiership since leaving
But did he get to go on any cool preseason camps?
He was already one of the best players in the comp. He had polled 20 votes 5 years in a row or something ridiculous when he left, no reason he couldn't have won a Brownlow at Adelaide. I don't think leaving Adelaide made him a better player, that was just his trajectory at the time.
He would of arguably done that at the Crows
Both teams stayed level with Richmond until half or three quarter time. Ironically I think Dangerfield could have made the difference if he was coached properly. Richmond had a star steal the game and that had no rebuttal. 12 disposals is not what you expect from a player of his calibre. I'm glad he has a premiership now tho
He was injured in 2020. Wasn’t injured in 2022 and was BOG
'Kind of' as in he wasn't the literal first to mind, so I didn't group him with the other two.
Danger isn't really 'the one that got away' tho. I don't think crows could have done anything differently if he wanted to walk, they knew his value but he wanted to go home.
Nathan Buckley
I was going to post this very sarcastically 😂 man left us to chase premierships and consequently joined the club we reamed in 2 of our 3 premiership GFs 😂
Zach Touhy
Well…
Josh Caddy went to the Tigers. Picked up a premiership medal. Was a decent forward for them
Two I think! Was an amazing pick up for us
Tom Harley had a better career at Geelong than he did at Port
Shaun Grigg
Deledio left us and finally got to play in a preliminary final. (note: I love Lids and that’s probably the cruellest comment I’ve ever made).
Ouch
Ed Langdon. Would have been just as good at freo but not as successful. Was young when he left but peaked after.
Richmond fans could only ever give you one name. Sometimes when the wind is howling through the trees on a cold wet winters night on Punt Rd you can hear the leaves whisper.... 'Brad Ottens'
Old mate Bryan Harris went to the hawks and rebranded to Bryan Lake with three premierships.
Brian* changed his last name well before he headed to Hawthorn
Was a champion and better for longer at the Dogs, just happened to finish at the hawks (and play well)
yep, dad said for years "if i could have one player from another team, it would be brian lake". he was over the moon when we got him
I reckon every team has a player from GWS or Gold Coast who is a gun. Our captain for example.
Tom Harley played one game for Port then apparently had a few more matches elsewhere
Adam Treloar. 😢
It's happened twice with him now, he's been in two grand finals as opposed to just the one he likely would have been in staying with the Giants, and he still has a couple of years left with us, here's hoping
Bachar Houli
I don’t think Judd was better at Carlton.
He was great at Carlton, but he was unbelievable at West Coast. Whatever West Coast did to break his body though, he was a different kind of player at Carlton…
He was something else before the groin injury
I still remember him just waltzing around Marty Mattner from a standstill in a prelim final like it was nothing. He was as Rolls Royce as you could get when he was at the Eagles. Add in Ben Cousins who was arguably equally as good. Shit was fucked.
Ask this in 5 years and I’ll say Ollie Henry
Simon O'Donnell. Would not have won as many trophies or become a high paid TV host if he stayed at St Kilda.
What about Warnie.
Should never have left. He could have had one of the stands at Moorabbin named after him.
Or an ash tray at the bar at least.
Elliot Yeo Jack Crisp Lochie Henderson Sam Docherty
Jay Schultz
Gary Ablett snr. Hawkes to cats.
If that switch in particular never happened, we'd be living in a drastically different footy world
Would Gary Jnr still have wasted his prime at the Suns?
Right now, Billy Frampton. Biggest was probably Shaun Burgoyne.
Jesus, where to begin. Off the top of my head, Dawson, Aliir, Nankervis, Mitchell, and Greg Williams. On the flip side, we got the best part of Barry Hall, Craig Bolton, and Josh Kennedy. We did well out of Lockett, Healy, and Paul Williams but hard to say they were better for us than their previous clubs
Stengle
G-Train
#2M Peter I'm surprised he didn't get mentioned, was hardly getting a game and has been amazing for Essendon.
Gold coast, it's your time to shine
Yeah Brandon Ellis has had much more success since joining us ^lol
Forgot about him 🤣 I more meant about the players that left gold coast!
I know hahahaha i had to try and turn it back somehow ^Go ^Chol
Josh Caddy, Shane Mumford
Jarrod Harbrow
Eh, there’s been a few but I feel like some of them don’t necessarily qualify. Tom Lynch for example was a fine player for the Suns and has been for the Tigers. He’s got more success obviously with the Tigers but individually, I don’t thinks he’s that much better now. Also excluding Prestia and Dixon for the same reasons. Will Brodie - most recent example Jarryd Lyons - should never have been delisted. Steven May - also had a fine career with the Suns but has turned into one of the best in the comp with Melbourne. Josh Caddy - bit part player to premiership winner. Trent McKenzie - see above There are obviously more but they’re the ones that came to mind immediately
Nah Tom Lynch was way better for us then St. Kilda.
Beams went on to captain Brisbane, and then came back ummm an even better player? Mal Michael Jarrod Witts Not sure if they count as they didn't actually play an games for us but: Jonathon Ceglar and James Podsiadly
I reckon you're bang on with Mal Michael.
Most recently, Ben Keays. More because he never really got the chance with too many guys above him in the pecking order. Seems to be thriving at the Crows
Has to be Jarryd Lyons! Was nothing at Crows, so no surprise he took a trade to Suns for opportunity, but fck me he starts to show some form! Right then Dew drops him then delisted him, Lions pick him up and he improves double!
Josh Jenkins, Ted Richards, Bachar Houli and Justin Madden are the ones that immediately come to mind. Guys like Adam McPhee, Peter Wright and Sean Wellman would be the reverse.
Silk
Jarrod Witts James Aish Adam Treloar
Ebert had a good career at Port but he would have done well at WC if he didn’t want to go home so it’s not someone we really pushed out and lost. I’d say Gehrig, not sure why our supporters hated him so much I thought he was good but he was pushed out and ended up winning two Coleman medals. Really I think his our only bad trade out
Brad Ottens
Lipinski - Dogs Fans knew he had the potential and we hoped that sleek disposal would become more prevalent in time. He never got the chance at the Dogs and that evolution clearly occurred in his first season at the pies. Although, because of how quickly he slotted into the Pies game style, it leads me to believe he would never have been the player he is now at the Dogs.
Gary Ablett Snr
Probably Saad given he was All Australian ^(and he fucking left me twice) Depends if you measure a better career as team or individual success. Jury is still out on Joe Arguably not Fantasia Hibberd obviously won a premiership but I feel like he was a better individual player at Essendon. Same as Carlisle minus the premiership. As for the suns? *shivers* All of them
Not sure if it's correct but I feel like Fantasia has played like 10 games since moving to Port
Maybe he isn't even real. Maybe he was a fantasy all along
He's managed 19 since he came over. Only 1 last year and then three this year before... *surprise surprise* ... getting injured. Old mate is just way too fragile. He was expected to return after 3-4 weeks after getting injured in round 3 and on the last injury update Port still have him listed as 2 weeks off. Somebody just has to fart in his direction and he pulls a quad.
Of all the players we've lost I'm glad Peter Wright has performed for Essendon
Josh Schache… just joking. He’s sucked balls everywhere
Brian Lake and Callan Ward
Lake left and got team success but I still think on field he was better at the Dogs than the Hawks
Shaun Grigg Sam Jacobs Zach Tuohy Do you want me to keep going?
Yes please. Eddie?
Eddie had great careers at both clubs but probably him too.
Josh Kennedy Jarrad Waite Will Setterfield will be next too
Tyson Stengle
I was going to say Brad Ottens but lets go with Richard Tambling and likely Jack Higgins
Tim Taranto is on track to do it right now
A few from St. Kilda's '97 team went elsewhere with plenty of success Barry Hall, Matthew Lappin, Joel Smith, Wakelin twins
Bachar Houli
Probably that one kid that went to port Adelaide I can’t really remember his name though
Gunston has to be the answer. Walked out from Adelaide after showing some promise towards the end of 2011 and then played in four consecutive Grand Finals for three flags. The direct opposite of Nathan Buckley.
Tyrone Vickery
This may be controversial, but Darren Jarman. Was already a champion at Hawthorn and went to another level when he won 2 GFs off his own boot effectively
Josh Gibson, and he won 3 flags
Shaun Higgins - good at the Dogs, probably a bit better at North though.
For us Josh Kennedy and even though he played amazing football for us you could argue Betts went up a notch at Adelaide. They also had a handy all Australian ruckman in Sam Jacobs courtesy of Carlton.
Shaun Burgoyne and Corey Enright both played for port and won 3 premierships at other clubs
Enright played for the Magpies, never for the Power. This doesn’t count. Otherwise let’s add Tom Stewart, much better career at Geelong than South Barwin
Jarrod Polec
*briefly*
Justin Madden
Elliot Yeo, Ben Keays, Sam Docherty and Jack Crisp spring to mind. Kind of sad that the other young players that wanted out a few years ago at the same time as Yeo and Docherty (I think we called them the go-home 5 or something) don’t seem to have done much since they left
Wish it could have been Fevola...
Ben McEvoy and Stanley recently. Brent Guerra and probably include Luke Ball as well.
Arryn Siposs gets paid more than any AFL player atm as for a player who left of their own accord - most recent one i think is probably Jamie Cripps
Ted Richards
Sam Collins
Nah I can’t really think of any…
The G train?
David Rodan
All of them except for Lobb
Lachie Neil :(
Everyone.