Might be some more, but its getting late, tonite
( dont think Mike Ahmatt RIP won woollacott did he?
good enough to win one, of course , but that was 'round Linde Nagy time.)

Brett Maher
Oscar Forman
Darren Ng

Jacob Holmes dominated at Eastern.

Championshiop

Back to Back Woolacott medal

aus rep

3 years?

Wilie J in there as well

The best player I ever saw and he only played one year was Steve Brekke in the 84 central's championship side as well as the Woollcott medallist. I guess he doesn't meet the criteria but he was awesome in his one year in Australia.

"Willie J in there as well"... fair call but he didnt represent Australia...

correct Robbo missed that part of the criteria, saw Ron's name there on the list.


So Scott Ninnis gets on the list as well as he fits all criteria

Did Rob Rose ever rep for Australia in a Ricky Grace kind of way?

The next sixers coach has to be on the list. I never forget a grand final against Forestville when Davis held Pearce and Ninnis lit up for 42 it was around the late 80's at Apollo. I hated every minute of it, but it was SSSSSpeccciallll.

Also i am throwing Mark Dalton into the mix, he did not Wollacott but his season at Murray Bridge was a tour de force, that guy was a man amongst men most nights.

Skyhook also remember the night Ninny hit the three off the Drizners inbounds pass with less than 2 seconds on the clock to put the Panthers into the GF....gold baby.


You make me also think of the night that Darryl went 50+ in double overtime from memory against the Panthers in what was the rematch to Ninny's 40 plus GF. The Panthers where basically rugby tackling Darryl to make him miss, which he did not do much of.

Mark Lampshire

Les Hody

Jason Dix played for Australia??

Scott Arnold? Championship, Defensive player of the year x 2, wollascott medal............

John and Malcolm Heard

Phil Smyth , then .

A few corrections there anon , only 1 import per team
and West Adelaide where not playing in the NBL in 1986

You are right though about the standard of the competition in state league.

Lots of players went to NBL teams from our state league as the sixers were too deep on the roster to accommodate any more talent.

I often think that the local talent would be even better if they did play imports and sixers in every team.

The jump to the NBL from our state league was not as big as it is now.

Kent - As a Pearce fan i can vividly recall the "IceMan" launching from all angles to get the eagles up in a thriller . Davis was massive also and i think the game was even televised ?

yeah you could well be right, the legendary pairing of Lynn Parnell and the little guy with the porn mo and glasses that screamed serial killer...Andrew Kaye was it commentating?

If someone has that on tape i would gladly hand over some hard earned to see it again.

Parnell and Kaye commentating brings back memories.
Made me think a bit further back to the 70s, I think Glenn Marsland probably won about five championships,and played for australia.

Actually if you follow the ORIGINAL criteria for selection ie
representing Australia
Woolacott Medal
3 years playing locally
Championship player

then a number of names mentioned while being outstanding players don't rate a vote

ie Michael Ahmatt was an outstanding player who represented Australia etc but never won a Woolacott medal
Al green still holds the record for most points in an NBL game - 71 points but didn't represent Australia

I'm surprised West Adelaide's Ken Richardson wasn't mentioned
He won at 5 premierships in a row as playing coach of West from 1978 to 1982 ( plus 1975 I think)
He won a Woolacott medal
He actually represented Australia when they played a European team at the Apollo stadium. Lindsay gaze coached the team and Richardson scored 43 pts in his only game for Australia 29 pts in the first half and 14 in the second. The plan was to get citizenship and represent Australia( as Cal Bruton, Leroy Loggins and Scot Fisher did later).

Glenn Marsland was close but didn't win a Woolacott medal. Scott Davie was also close but didn't win that elusive medal either.

Mark Lampshire would have to be right up there in all criteria as well.

Huba Nagy was as smooth a player as you could get but not sure if he won a championship...maybe pre 1967 but don't think so.

Joe M.Steve Brekke was a great pickup for centrals but the man for that team was Dan Clausen I think.

Great topic for a thread though!

Leroy Loggins would have gone close too but of course did't meet the 3 year criteria as he only played 2 years with West Adelaide. He won local a premiership( 1983), the Woolacott Medal ( 1983) and later represented Australia.//////

Alan Dawe should probably get a mention too as he fits most criteria bot got his many premierships as a coach even though he won Woolacott medals as well as representing Australia at the Olympics.

Wish I had a better memory. I went Les Hody form the early sixties 'cause he gets all criteria. But whether Huba was around in early sixties I cant recall.

Andris Blicavs.

Would like to see a final list on this at some stage.
I wonder if Mark Davis won five woollacotts and five championships? and Werner 3 woollacotts and five championships? etc...
( funny how I still get a bit excited, just at the mention of Ken Cole).

Methinks Blicavs only won the one championship once though when he had Janis Ludeks over from the US as his centre. Janis in his memorable brief stay was the most dominant centre to have ever played locally.

scott arnold...don't make me sick

and yes the final where the ice man went for 53/4 was televised, i have it on tape!! 11 triples i think, amazing to watch even though i'm not an eagles supporter.

what about ray wood??

There really should be a library for this kind of stuff. Similar to the concept of "abandonware" for old computer games - forget the copyright and distribute for old school fans or newcomers who just want to see how some of the past players used to go.

Digitise a VHS tape to a 700MB AVI that can be thrown on CDs at about $1 each and posted out for less than $5 all up?

That would be good, Isaac, for those that played juniors on the old forestville no2 court with a cement floor, while our heroes like Werner played on no1, the memories are fading away.

trav leaver

BEB 08

Peterman, start burning copies baby! I'll pay five smackers straight up!

In 1972 our state league team beat the boomers here, like to see that again.
Boomers coach branded Werner linde "uncoachable" and left him out of 72 olympics.
Lindsay Gaze brought the Olympic team here for a trial game and our guys showed they should have been selected.

(Mod: Good little story.)

trav lever... can people please stop making jokes.

will see what i can do, have also got a south v west gf from around 89/90

So who was better...Ray Wood, Trav Lever or Scott Arnold?

For me its...

1.Scott Arnold
2.Ray Wood
3.Trav Lever

I couldn't be bothered reading it all but i'm sure that someone mentioned Paul Ball Bags bell and his messed up jump hooks. have to go down as one of the greats if not at lease an honourable mention

You are all retarted if Scott Arnold can make the list!!!

Peter Ali? Only saw his last few years in the Sixers, must admit he didn't look too flash in those days but he did represent Australia in his earlier years and as a West player I assume he won a Championship at least. Did he ever win a Woollacott?

Hoops SA had a list of every Woollacott medal winner and the years they won it, going back to the first one up to now. However this has been removed at the request of one of the winners, who does not want his name mentioned on this site.

Ricky Simpson? Not sure if he won a Woolacott but remember a wicked length of the floor one handed 'Statue of Liberty' dunk through traffic at Apollo.