Greatest ever Eel

[HevyDevy]

This is a thread where you get to name your favourite ever Eels player, but with one exception ... you can't go the obvious choices.

Forget the Sterlings, Kennys and Ellas - I want you to name the guy that you were a huge fan of but didn't receive the accolades you believe they deserved. Or perhaps it's someone with limited ability that achieved as much as they could ever have hoped for due to effort.

You see, when i'm hungover this is what I do - start useless but entertaining threads.

Anyway, mine is David Woods - a freakish talent that would have played for Australia had it not been for injuries and the fact that he was surrounded by 12 spastics each week.

That is all.

 

[TheParraboy]

The sparrow

 

[HevyDevy]

Yes, bald at 23

 

[parra pete]

This is a thread where you get to name your favourite ever Eels player, but with one exception ... you can't go the obvious choices.

Forget the Sterlings, Kennys and Ellas - I want you to name the guy that you were a huge fan of but didn't receive the accolades you believe they deserved. Or perhaps it's someone with limited ability that achieved as much as they could ever have hoped for due to effort.

You see, when i'm hungover this is what I do - start useless but entertaining threads.

Anyway, mine is David Woods - a freakish talent that would have played for Australia had it not been for injuries and the fact that he was surrounded by 12 spastics each week.

That is all.

I know you meant nothing by it.. But mate please don't call people spastics..There but for the grace of God go you or I...or one of our kids..or one of our grandkids.
People who dedicate their time caring for spastic children are the toughest people on this earth..If the football Club had people as tough as them there would be no problems..the team would be premiers every year..

 

[Suitman]

Mick Delroy.

He scored, the greatest ever individual try I have ever seen, in any grade.
He always was a pleasure to watch. So unpredictable.

Suity

 

[HevyDevy]

And I know that you have best intentions with that post Pete, but you do need to remove that umbrella from your arse.

I mean that in the nicest possible way

 

[EELMAN JACK]

I know you meant nothing by it.. But mate please don't call people spastics..There but for the grace of God go you or I...or one of our kids..or one of our grandkids.
People who dedicate their time caring for spastic children are the toughest people on this earth..If the football Club had people as tough as them there would be no problems..the team would be premiers every year..

well said parra pete my sentiments exactly

 

[HevyDevy]

Plus, I'm pretty sure that some of our players in the 1990s were disabled ...

 

[MarkInTheStands]

I'll agree with Suity,

Mick Delroy.

I meet him and he only live about 500 metres up the Road from me, Came from my Local club (Lalor Park Kookaburra's(Just Like Brett Delaney, Just Like Feleti Mateo)).

The Local oval is named for a bloke that trained him for a While, Trevor Cavanagh, who was an absoulte Gentlemen among men.

 

[Suitman]

I'll agree with Suity,

FMD!! That's a first!! :lol:

Suity

 

[forward pass]

I'll agree with Suity,

Mick Delroy.

I meet him and he only live about 500 metres up the Road from me, Came from my Local club (Lalor Park Kookaburra's(Just Like Brett Delaney, Just Like Feleti Mateo)).

Really - did they manage to sew his head back on to his body after Farrar removed it in 86?

 

[Avenger]

Paul Taylor

 

[MarkInTheStands]

Really - did they manage to sew his head back on to his body after Farrar removed it in 86?

YEah, he went on to play for Easts for a year or so.

 

[hineyrulz]

Paul Taylor

Ditto.

 

[emjaycee]

I simply cannot go past Paul Taylor

Oops - didnt see Avengers post before posting.

 

[HevyDevy]

Plenty of players did ...


:crazy:

 

[The Colonel]

Paul Taylor, Mark Laurie, Steve Sharp and Chris King.

 

[HevyDevy]

Laurie went pretty well, true

 

[Gronk]

Phil Mann. I used to think he was super human as a kid back in the days of Cumberland Oval.

As a little fella he looked 12 foot tall !

 

[Illegal Immigrant]

Mark Laurie