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    How good were North in the 1990s?

    Yeah, sure that’s true that they are are the only one of those teams I mentioned that didn’t win the minor premiership. However I was just comparing clubs against themselves during their successful era. The 2023 Lions finished second on the ladder (17-6) and didn’t win the flag but were able to...
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    How good were North in the 1990s?

    By losing the 1998 GF they did what many teams have also done. That being that strange phenomenon of a club enjoying a successful era but somehow missing the flag they most deserved; when they had their best H&A finish of that period. West Coast not winning in 1991. Geelong in 2008...
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    Amazing coincidences in football

    Since 1994 Geelong has had four Coleman medalists (Ablett 1994 & 1995, Hawkins 2020 and Cameron 2025) and in every one of those seasons the Cats have lost the Grand Final.
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    Opinion What unpopular AFL opinions do you have? - Part 2

    Apologies if this ain't original. I wonder whether Carlton wasn’t overly hurt by the draft bans they received for the salary cap breaches. Had they not been stripped of all those picks in 2002/2003 IMHO they would’ve been too good in 2005 - 2007 to finish as low on the ladder as they did to...
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    Amazing coincidences in football

    The Cats also drafted a member of the Holmes family after both seasons.
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    Players that didnt live up to their hype?

    A question to avid watchers of junior football - Who was the best and worst player since 2000 as a junior to be taken at #1? What I mean is if all the players taken at #1 since 2000 were born in the same year/in the same draft then who would be first and last picked? Nothing to do with...
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    Players that didnt live up to their hype?

    Leading into the 1999 National Draft Kevin Sheehan said Josh Fraser was the best junior footballer he had seen since Wayne Carey. He was certainly a decent AFL player, a 200 gamer who played seniors immediately, but it would have been very hard to believe in 1999 that he would never be an All...
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    Amazing coincidences in football

    In the AFL branded competition there were never back-to-back Norm Smith medalists who had never been All Australian (or members of its equivalent VFL/AFL Team of the Year) up until 2021. Now all the of the recipients since then are non-AAs.
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    Least deserving Norm Smith medal winner?

    Neither is Dean Kemp. Only a 1x AA. Should Michael Mansfield have been awarded the 1994 NSM ahead of him? That was a debate at the time. Even if Mansfield didn’t deserve it Kemp’s performance was probably one of the more lacklustre displays to be declared the GF BOG. I guess someone has to...
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    Least deserving Norm Smith medal winner?

    Wayne Harmes is one player who is adamant his own NSM is bullshit. This was way before my time and IIRC I first heard it when he appeared on that KB/Bob Davis/Doug Hawkins Fox Footy Channel show from the early 2000s, Grumpy Old Men. Credit: Google Gemini
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    Least deserving Norm Smith medal winner?

    This is kind of crazy. Since the GF has returned to the MCG not one NSM recipient has ever been an AA. Initialism overload. 😎 Although W Ashcroft will probably end up with >10 blazers. For context - in the previous twenty years only three NSM dudes were never AA: Shuey, JJ, and Embley. Also...
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    Least deserving Norm Smith medal winner?

    Dude. It’s not just about you and your team. That was happening way before Richmond won the flag and it was happening all over the world. Articles were being written about the potential value of a 2020 flag and what could be its place in history during the ten week delay between R1 and R2. This...
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    Least deserving Norm Smith medal winner?

    Don’t be so reductive. 😀 I have had the view that “compromised seasons = compromised championships” since forever. Going back to 1999 when San Antonio won the NBA championship after that season was substantially shorter due to industrial action I remember being genuinely disappointed for the...
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    Least deserving Norm Smith medal winner?

    Dustin Martin in 2020 but for nothing to do with his performance in that GF. It was undeniably BOG. However I am of the view that every achievement that happened in that uber absurd 2020 mini season shouldn’t be counted. I came to that POV very early and I’m pretty sure many (most?) others did...
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    I'm curious, how did everyone get Ablett Jnr wrong?

    IMHO one of the best fun facts in all of sports is that the player with the least impressive athleticism ever recorded at the NFL Scouting Combine is Tom Brady.
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