Liam Jarah was absolute Box Office back in the day. Only reason to watch Melbourne for a couple of years there.

Liam Jurrah was absolutely insane. I remember going to a game and watching him almost single handedly drag Melbourne across the line against my Roos. Unfortunate that he struggled so much with the lifestyle change

Chris yarran the most naturally gifted I've seen clean on both sides got the pace and can win games from half-back.

Jack Trengove was so promisng for dees and almost made a move to Richmond, but injuries caused him not to, Jimmy Toumpas and Tom Scully as well

Great clip. I saw most of McAdam's 1993 season and he was unbelievable. He could have been elite at a dozen sports.

Amazing work. Love it. So many of those names are recognizable but just fell short due to off-field issues. Sad to see.

i was employed at football park in Adelaide eons ago, and worked with their number one draft pick at the time laurance angwin. young fellow, but even training you could see that he had IT. unfortunately he fell into the, free drinks and available women, everywhere he went in adelaide (his words) and subsequently was traded to Carlton, where he was eventually delisted after turning up to training off his dial on ecstasy or something similar.

Would really love a Part 2! Your more highly scripted, edited and even speculative videos that have been coming out have been absolutely mint. You’ve gotta be my favourite footy youtuber at the minute. Please keep making this kind of content!

Great work and a really interesting list. One that as a blues supporter that is close to my heart was Fev. He did have a solid career and was a phenomenal match winner on his day but could have been a club all time great if he had pushed himself and not stuffed around like he did. Still loved watching him as their was never a dull moment with Fev on the ground.

One player you didn't mention was Phil Carmen. Was a superstar at Norwood in the SANFL from 1970 to 1974 before finally agreeing to go to Collingwood in 1975, who had been wooing him since 1971. Absolutely burst on to the VFL scene (in those days) and would have easily won the 1975 Brownlow if not for injury which kept him out of the side for 8 weeks. Being a bit of a hot head at times, and not suffering fools, was his undoing. Was traded to Melbourne, then Essendon where he had a brain fade and headbutted an over-the-top boundary umpire (I did say not suffering fools!!) and was suspended for 20 matches, and finally played one season with North Melbourne. Still regarded with awe, but could have been a hall of fame player.

Chris Yarran 119 games is hardly a waste of a career. Anyone is lucky to get 100 games in the AFL

Nice videos mate! Here are some other ideas! 1. Most controversial rule changes 2. AFL expansion club proposals 3. Why Fitzroy and South Melbourne were relocated 4. Best Indigenous players of all time 5. Best players to have never won a premiership

Hey riley, big fan of AFL from India...discovered footy and I'm loving it... Love your content, Mate... ✌🏻🙌🏻

harley grew up in the same area as me, always was a nice bloke, he made alot of people proud, was great to see him reach the heights he did

Great video mate. Sad that we didnt get to see more of those guys and plenty of others around Australia who have never made it to AFL level but have potential ability to be special

Jakovich's waste was mainly injuries which caused to lack of passion.Half of the other blokes problems were drugs and alcohol

Liam Jurrah would of been a top 5 player of the last decade had not got himself into trouble. Never got to see him in his prime. We missed out on something truly great.

Chris Yarran still hurts me, all the way from South Africa Cape Town mate

Liam "Jurricane" Jurrah moved straight from a tribe in the outback to Melbourne. Living with an assistant coach and their family, he would refuse to eat when they sat for meals. They found out later his tribe don't eat in front of women.

Great video, really hoping someone like Rachele doesn't end up on a list like this in the next 5-10 years, big fan of his season last year as a Crows fan and hope injuries don't become a common thing for him.

I think Nathan was wanting to avoid the public attention, thus is the reason why after the 2007 premiership he decided to avoid the AFL attention so he played in VFL or the Queensland AFL league. There was also a few other players who wasted their potential, Ronnie Burns for Geelong in the 90s and Adelaide in early 2000s, he left the game in only just around 8 years into his career around 2003.

this makes me so sad - so many of these men's lives could have been saved or protected if the AFL offered competent mental health support to all of its players. Clearly many of them struggled with their premature retirement and deserved more support.

Then you have players on the other side of the coin like Kane Lambert. Sometimes having set backs early in your career is a blessing, it creates character and resilience.

Good video, but hearing Yakovich over and over almost killed me.

Lance Picioane was one that I remember also from Adelaide,I know he did well at the Dandenong Stingrays prior to being drafted but he struggled at Adelaide before being traded to Hawthorn in the end.

Love this video🙌🏼Allen Yakovich tho?

Great video mate. Always wondered what happened to Damien Cupido I went to primary school with his brother, his parents owned a milk bar near me for a long time

So sad to see young people with the potential for a better life, wasted on drugs.

Sean Rusling for Collingwood could have been something special but sadly he had constant injuries mostly with his shoulder.

Nathan Ablett could have easily been a million dollar player if he wanted. 195cm Ablett skills are extremely rare. Having said that, it's unlikely Geelong would have been able to hang on to him.

Tom Scully is one, I recommend breaking down the Swans Premiership Season in 2012 for next video!

On Cupidoll; everyone who knew him in the TAC would say things came too easy and he was given a free pass by everyone because he was so good. Also knocked the money for the footy trip while he was at Croydon and it was common to see him at Dirty Dak with a drink in each hand and a line on each wrist. Some others I would add to your list - Marty McGrath - Lawrence Angwin - Shane Yarran (should have entered the league earlier and stayed in longer) - Marlion Pickett (should have entered the league earlier)

An accurate description of Cupido. I'm surprised to see footage of him laying a tackle (never seen him do that in real life) and kicking with his right foot. Could kick 60 metres with his left foot no problem. As someone who went to high school with him for two years, I thought he was play no more than 50 AFL games due to his lack of application and inability to successfully hip and shoulder me (I was thinned built like the late Robbie Flower). I was slightly wrong as he played 53 AFL games.

Dan Connors is a big one. Definitely had the talent to become a great player, but had massive behavioural issues that continue to this day

Ripping content, Liam Jurrah is one of the best players I've witnessed play on the MCG, he did things I'll never see replicated

I played on damian cupido in juniors when he was at Croydon. It was always an even contest between us and he was always tough but fair. Also a gun cricketer

Media, build them up, call them champions, legends, and then can't wait to rip into them and pull them down and then put the boots in.

Great video! Really shows if you want to be a professional Aussie rules player, you need to put it lots of effort and discipline.

Great video. I’d put Nathan Freeman and Matt Scharenberg in this category as well. Also as a St Kilda supporter Jack Billings for me should be on this list, still hasn’t proved his worth. I will never get over St Kilda drafting Billings ahead of Marcus Bontempelli 😢

Harley Bennell was actually good which is a real shame

Loving the video ideas 🔥

Brent Moloney is someone I’d put down as well he was a brilliant mid fielder for Melbourne over the years during a few of their peak stages but injury started lacking his ability and then a few controversies got in the way and had costed his place with the Dees at times and then ended up retiring because he just lost the ability to maintain his injuries and able to move forward as a player.

Ashley Sampi. To a degree also Scott Cummings.

McCadam must have had some off field issues, no way a player that good could not to some degree back that up

This North fan is hoping Tarryn Thomas and Jaidyn Stephenson do not show up on a vid like this in the future.

Travis Tuck instantly came to mind, how missed?

Somehow I'm not surprised how many of these lads were WA boys. Is what it is, I guess. It's mental to think about how overrepresented Noongar players are in the AFL and how many more there could have been if not for the social issues here. Per capita, they'd probably be the single most dominant ethnic group in any sport in the world.

Jono O’Rourke was one I had high hopes for, but unfortunately couldn’t get going in the big league

The J in jakovich is not a y sound, it’s a j sound Jack o vich

Mitch Thorpe breathes a sigh of relief. Rhan Hooper also

I wonder if Fev could be on this list.

Andrew Lovett is worth a mention.

I reckon the concept of wasted talent is a funny one. Here it's presented like "they could've been great if only they were a bit different" which isn't that far from "they could've been better if only they were better". Which is fine and all. Footy, like life, is multi-faceted though and you could say personal quirks or mental skills are part of it. As a different take - you could argue John Coleman had so much more talent to give were his career not cut short. That story is well known but my take here is that the waste comes from blindingly obvious talent that didn't translate into a concrete achievement (like premierships, awards, records), for reasons largely outside the player. These are the people we know had it, top echelon stuff... but who left some greatness on the table. For Coleman, it was largely his era that was the problem. Could've been rehabbed very quickly today. Nic Nat's an intersting one too, I think he would have had 6 or so All-Aus jackets by now (and a premiership), instead of 3, but for bad timing. Honestly, look up his season by season history - clearly the most "talented" ruckman of the past decade but he's juuuust short on enough games most seasons in his prime to be eligible for AA consideration, which to me is a waste. A month or so's difference with a couple of unlucky injuries would have had him up to at least 5 for sure, which would have been a phenomenal achievement. You could make a case for Robert Harvey having his talent wasted too - most games played without a premiership. Peter Hudson too, you could say, while not wasting his talent reeeeally, could have been sitting up the top of the goal-kicking tree and achieved much greater acclaim... if his work had all been done in the same league. Edit: Oh! And Cyril as well! He achieved a lot, sure, but was one of the best with more to give, and you can't really blame him not sticking around.

I knew Harley Bennell sounded familiar Love from Perth my guy

Shows how ice is really damaging peoples lives.

should make a video on the best players to come from nowhere like late draft picks rookie draft ect Port Adelaides Robbie Gray has to be 1 of the best 5th or 6th round pick same as westhoff and look at Tom jonas dan houston all were rookie listed 💪🍐 carn pear

I feel like JHF is going to be the next bust. As a Roos supporter I’ve had to suffer through his first year and he looked completely disinterested and his attitude was shit for the whole season. He looks like he has the talent to succeed but his attitude is going to get him dropped a lot because it seems so entitled.

Wonder if Dayle Garlett is the player at the centre of the Clakson/ Fagan investigation.

What an amazing video

I always wonder what bennels career would be like if he had his head screwed on right.

6:03 Famous sport player then ends up in prison, like Ronaldinho.

Tarryn Thomas working on securing a feature spot in a potential sequel of this video...

Awesome video

Any of the very highly paid MFC players from the 80’s and 90’s. I’d also like to nominate Matthew Hayden, from cricket. Oodles of talent but he reached a stage of his career where his position might be threatened and miraculously he would pull out a great score and then relax for another year or so.

Sometimes it's injuries, sometimes people don't want to be pro athletes.. it's not always behaviour

Mark "Jacko" Jackson....Biggest waste of talent of the lot

Scott Gumbleton for Essendon. Although 100% due to injuries and through no fault of his own.

What about Cleve Hughes ?? He had such massive potential

Nathan is probably 100x happier out of the AFL system, whereas a lot of there guys ended up in jail. For him, he chose rightly.

Great vid

Albert Proud was another wasted talent. He was lucky he didn’t end up spending life in prison after bashing his girlfriend who nearly died.

Anthony Morabito is the saddest story for me

anyone notice a theme with the aboriginal players?

No more waste of talent than Phil Carmen

Have no doubt there is alot you could have placed in this list, I reckon Majak Daw could be put on here

Mc Cartin was lucky he didnt get knocked out from that handshake. Weakest chin in history

Jakovich. It does seem like its being pronounced correctly. But then.. his brother Glenn was around along time..and I remember the commentators pronounced it jack-o-vich ... I dunno

It’s sad how many of these guys are indigenous blokes and their downfall is more commonly than not drugs and alcohol

Irving mosquito has to be up there

Adrian McAdam is a sad story. He would have been an ATG and had a long career these days but the 90’s weren’t great for indigenous fellas.

I think that Nathan Ablett was more about having other commitments that directed his drive elsewhere, rather than a lack of drive. Additionally, he is even more religious than his brother, and the media calling him the "son of God", so that sort of media attention is already vexing to him (at about the same personal level as a racial slur).

Dan Conners and Sydney Stack

Chris yarran naturally gifted i still think what could have been .. I hate the AFL they offer nothing no support

You’ll Probably be able to throw tarryn thomas in that in a few years

Jacko kicked two tons in a row in SANFL

Nathan Ablett was pretty ordinary. Liam Jurrah is the best I’ve seen that never went on with it.

Laurence Angwin, one the biggest wasted talents ever. Stealing from teammates at Adelaide, drugs at Carlton . Could have been anything.

yachovich was a gun

Weres Ivring mosquito

Last photo of the video is Paul puopolo don't think he was a wasted talent

Morabitto was one unlucky fella

Probably worth learning how to pronounce the name, “Jakovich” (not Yakovich) if you’re going to make a video with him in it.

I think you're a bit unfair on jackovich. It was mainly injuries that curtailed his career not drugs and booze

Cousins suffered untreated bipolar disorder, so he was doomed from the start. His norm was our high, so he self-medicated to feel "normal." Sad.

Great video mate!

Everyone in the port Augusta love Liam jurah

Liam jurrah..!!!! 👍

Same thing happens in Nrl so many talented aboriginal players get homesick

A common theme was the wasted, talented players were mostly Aborigines.

You missed the greatest wasted talent of all time,Phil Carmen.