Green stays in, 4 flags and KB reckons it would be 5 if he was there in 72.
Green did not win a Best and Fairest, I am not even sure what his best finish was. He did not represent Victoria. He had several excellent finals series, but so did Paul Sproule, Bachar Houli and Shane Edwards for example. There would be absolutely no chance you would select Green to play in a back pocket in an actual game over the calibre of backmen that are in the conversation. So you would need to select him over two time Brownlow Medallist Roy Wright or Brownlow Medallist, state captain and 15 times state representative Bill Morris in one of the ruck slots. And as good as Green was, he was not of the calibre of those players. Nor would he be better than two time Champion of Colony Vic Thorp nor 5 time All Australian Alex Rance in defence. I just don’t think Michael Green was in Richmond’s best 22 all time, as good as he was, and as significant as he was to the success of the Hafey era.