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Lol at Brad Johnson in the 2000-2010 team
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Rehn is the correct choice
My goodness that’s one very talented forward line, with Matthews going forward to rest in the pocket too
And so much run from defence with some very capable stoppers. Nice team!
Why make an assumption made up games from teams from all eras would be played in the present time and conditions?Just remember its not one on one anymore.
thanks coachIt's accurate champ.
It is interesting. I would back Rance to be able to not only neutralise Carey, but also run off him and I would put Lake on Dunstall and I think he would go quite well as well. Both are attacking defenders, so when they get the ball, they can run off their opponents and turn it into an attacking opportunity.
Ablett is a bit tougher, as I am not sure who would go on him as he is a bit too small for a tall defender. Nick Smith might have to go on him and I don't know how that would work, though Smith, a few years ago, he was second to none when it came to shutting down small or medium forwards. Perhaps someone can think of a better defender though than Smith to go on Ablett, as he would have to be a small to medium defender.
Ablett played on the wing for the first period of his career..
I have a theory, and I could be wrong, that when it comes to footballers they become even better in the eyes of the general public after they have retired, especially the great players as people remember their strengths and forget those players weaknesses. Highlights I think have something to do with this as the only footage you would likely see of some of those players from the 90's or earlier would be highlights, of the players doing brilliant things. They don't include the average things, or the clumsy things, and this makes people remember these players as perhaps being even better than they actually were.
I guarantee you that in 15 years time, no one will be showing footage of Buddy dropping a simple mark, just like no one shows footage of Lockett missing the ball, and sort of stopping when his opponent runs it out of defence, or when Peter Dacos was trying to kick the ball, practically missing it entirely (if something like that happened).
I think it is why the current players on this thread are rated more harshly, as we have a clear memory of the current players weaknesses as well as their strengths, we can actively remember times when Rance got pantsed, or when Dangerfield had a stinker of a match.
Jako and SOS would have won more duels than lost against those two as brilliant as they were. FFS, Carey and Ablett could only get a goal between them on SOS in 1995 finals series from memory.Jackovich, Silvagni had their moments, when they probably broke even with the likes of Carey and Ablett.
6 x AA.Lol at Brad Johnson in the 2000-2010 team
I have a theory that those that actually lived through most of these era's can remember how dominant some of these players were in their respective era's.
Rance not only neutralizing but running off Carey?
**** me, he better be the next AFL TOTC fullback then.
Some of the greatest defenders of all time lived in the 90's and Carey and Ablett made absolute mince meat out of them, week after week.
Much more regularly than even the likes of N.Riewoldt, Franklin etc have done in their careers.
Jackovich, Silvagni had their moments, when they probably broke even with the likes of Carey and Ablett.
But dominated them? Like Rance does to some modern forwards? Haha, absolutely never.
You may dispute plenty of things about Carey in the other thread, but make no mistake, the Duck IS, not arguably, IS the greatest contested mark to ever play the game. He still holds CD records for contested marks and they only captured the last 3 years of his career.
Do you think Rance could go consistently with the greatest mark of the football in over 150 years of the game?
I think Buckley is pretty underrated in this thread as well, as well as Rob Harvey. Harvey was as good as Ben Cousins and a similar player tbh, just in a worse side without the flags.
Buckley would be an absolute zone buster in modern footy.
The teams include coaches, I'd rate Clarkson as the best out of the other two.Why make an assumption made up games from teams from all eras would be played in the present time and conditions?
We may well be playing in mud, with just 2 reserves and not 4 interchanges as an example. Hate to think what a full back of now used to forward line of opposing team filled with closer to 36 bodies would cope playing Lockett one out with all that space Plugger leading into.
No Nick Riewoldt in either team is farsical.
Just realised no Milne either dear god hilarious.
The teams include coaches, I'd rate Clarkson as the best out of the other two.
Harvey > Johnson6 x AA.
You have NFI.
You never saw him play the game.Carey also did not put on defensive pressure. I looked at his most sucessful year in terms of goals (1996) and there were 2 separate three-week stints where he laid no tackles at all, not one, so basically as soon as Rance got the ball he could do whatever he felt like as Carey would not have stopped him.
Why make an assumption made up games from teams from all eras would be played in the present time and conditions?
We may well be playing in mud, with just 2 reserves and not 4 interchanges as an example. Hate to think what a full back of now used to forward line of opposing team filled with closer to 36 bodies would cope playing Lockett one out with all that space Plugger leading into.
I used to enjoy the Ablett v Nigel Smart battles.Kicked 14 off a wing, but nah.....Nick Smith would have him covered.
So Rance easily beats Carey when Rance isn't even Richmond's #1 defender for the oppositions best key forward? and then Lake smashes one of the best and most productive 2-way running powerhouse forwards in Dunstall, an if that's not enough Nick Smith accounts for the most talented, freakiest player ever in Ablett Snr?It is interesting. I would back Rance to be able to not only neutralise Carey, but also run off him and I would put Lake on Dunstall and I think he would go quite well as well. Both are attacking defenders, so when they get the ball, they can run off their opponents and turn it into an attacking opportunity.
Ablett is a bit tougher, as I am not sure who would go on him as he is a bit too small for a tall defender. Nick Smith might have to go on him and I don't know how that would work, though Smith, a few years ago, he was second to none when it came to shutting down small or medium forwards. Perhaps someone can think of a better defender though than Smith to go on Ablett, as he would have to be a small to medium defender.
Tough choice.Harvey > Johnson
Do you think Rance could go consistently with the greatest mark of the football in over 150 years of the game?