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Sainters08
10 Dec 2007, 20:43
who do you think has had a better career, without being bias

Robert Harvey

- 358 Games (only 9 other players have done so)
- 208 Goals
- Brownlow Medal winner: 1997, 1998
- 2nd most Brownlow votes in AFL/VFL History
- Only player to ever have received Brownlow votes in more than 100 games
- Only VFL/AFL player to ever play in 21 consecutive seasons.
- Leigh Matthews Trophy: 1997
- St Kilda Best and Fairest: 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998
- All-Australian: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003
- Michael Tuck Medal winner: 2004
- E. J. Whitten Medal winner: 1992, 1993, 1996

James Hird

253 games
343 goals
Brownlow Medal winner - 1996
All Australian - 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003
Essendon Best and Fairest - 1994, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2007Norm Smith Medal winner - 2000
International Rules Series - 2000 (captain), 2004
Jim Stynes Medal - 2000
Essendon captain - 1998-2005
Essendon premiership side - 1993, 2000 (Captain)
G.O.B
10 Dec 2007, 21:40
Harvey has probably had the better "career" but having said that...I would still take Hird ahead of him every day of the week.
Merv
10 Dec 2007, 21:54
WTH is the Leigh Mathews Trophy?
Monkeyboy
11 Dec 2007, 07:26
I would say the two time premiership player. And i would also say that the other bloke would swap with him in a heartbeat, so i guess Hird has had the better career.
Who has won more awards - Harvey
Who is the better footballer - Hird
Aussie Joe
11 Dec 2007, 07:29
Hird. He has the one medal that counts, PREMIERSHIP MEDAL.
MinerBoy
11 Dec 2007, 08:41
WTH is the Leigh Mathews Trophy?

AFLPA MVP
MinerBoy
11 Dec 2007, 08:42
Who has won more awards - Harvey
Who is the better footballer - Hird

Agreed.
mick13
11 Dec 2007, 15:23
Hird. He has the one medal that counts, PREMIERSHIP MEDAL.


Saw this being debated a couple days ago.

Why does Hird having one medal which Harvey doesn't have make him the better player. Hird didn't win a premiership by himself...

Will you guys change your mind if the saints won the flag this year, hope they do just to see what you think then. :P
Rockford
11 Dec 2007, 16:09
Saw this being debated a couple days ago.

Why does Hird having one medal which Harvey doesn't have make him the better player. Hird didn't win a premiership by himself...

Will you guys change your mind if the saints won the flag this year, hope they do just to see what you think then. :P

You asked which player has had the better career. It stands to reason that the goal of a player is to win Premierships, Hird has done that twice in his career, so, Hird has had the better career.
bhorjus
11 Dec 2007, 21:39
Very similair.

Hird just. The premierships get him over the line.
The Zebra
11 Dec 2007, 21:42
Saw this being debated a couple days ago.

Why does Hird having one medal which Harvey doesn't have make him the better player. Hird didn't win a premiership by himself...


The premierships don't make him a better player, but they make his career better. Hird had the better career.

And who was the better player? Hird.
brettman135
11 Dec 2007, 23:02
I would love to win a premeirship let alone 2 so yer i think hird has had the better career
wce4premiership
12 Dec 2007, 10:54
Hird won 2 premierships, isn't that the goal of the afl career?
J-Ro-20
12 Dec 2007, 14:27
I voted Harvey, because he is a running machine & Hird missed so many games through injury
Raskolnikov
12 Dec 2007, 15:51
I love Robert Harvey but Hird easily.
stifler's mom
12 Dec 2007, 19:36
Hird easily. Ask Malcolm Blight, he didn't bother tagging Harvey because he believed that he got a fair bit of possesion backward of centre and that he wasn't damaging with the ones he got.