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Corrections in red. John Blakey Jude Bolton Marcus Ashcroft Russell Greene - MVP 1984; Best and fairest 1984; captained Victoria 1985; All Australian 1985 Peter Everitt - Best and fairest 2004; All Australian 1997, 2005 Peter Riccardi - Best and fairest 1998 Richard Osborne - finished runner up...

To be honest, that post (and the research) was more for my benefit than yours. I had fun. :thumbsu: I'd noticed that Hirdy included his 3 Anzac medals amongst his life achievements on his supreme court writ vs the AFL More and more in recent years, these flipping Anzac medals are starting to...

Mate… 20 is young… Especially for most of these AFL footballers who've lived sheltered lives and never left the family nest. I'm not really sure what exactly we're debating here. Rort? o_O There were no rules when it came to the expansion clubs. The gloves were off and the AFL was helping...

I'd hazard a guess that Tom Scully's dad has coached and mentored him closely for his entire life. More than most footy dads, I mean. He obviously did an amazing job at coaching up a small, average midfielder to becoming the no.1 pick. The AFL-Giants were just a start-up rabble in Sydney's...

Walkabout/Culture/Racist/SackRendell Board ---> AFL clubs have gotten way better at assimilating indigenous boys from the bush That's the real reason why clubs such as Hawthorn never bothered with recruiting aboriginal players in the past. It wasn't because they were racist. It was because it...

A more pertinent question would be "How many players have undeclared money and sweeteners which are NOT included in their team's salary cap?" What was Scully's dad on anyway? 80k? 100k? It's nothing compared to the millions his son is getting. That was all bit of a beat up, as far as I'm...

The biggest joke in all of this was that Melbourne tanked to get a priority pick in 2009. They stuffed it royally by selecting Scully and Trengove with picks 1 and 2, but they dodged a bullet when Scully took the silly money on offer from the AFL-Giants two years later. Instead of paying an...

Can we all just stop crucifying footballers for "not being honest" about their intentions to leave their club under free agency? It is totally childish and out of touch with reality to expect footballers to declare months in advance how they're gonna jump ship. Phil Davis and Nathan Bock are...

Hart was the best CHF of his time and that is where he dominated and won games for Richmond off his own boot. I'm 99% sure he would've slotted easily into the back pocket, full back, half back flank, CHB, wing, ruck rover, half forward flank, forward pocket or full forward if Tom Hafey had...

If they gave Anzac Medals to every player who was BOG vs Collingwood at the MCG, then Sam Mitchell and Luke Hodge would both have four of them. It's a joke the way people list these Anzac Medals among a player's honours and achievements. It's just another BOG for a home and away game. Two of...

Burke probably won more contested ball than at least 15-20 players on that list combined. For him, it was probably an off day if he didn't finish the game with a mild concussion.

Nathan Burke? Are you f**king kidding? He placed in the top 3 of St Kilda's best and fairest on 8 occasions He was a 4 time All-Australian He captained Victoria St. Kilda Best and Fairest: 1993, 1996, 1999 (r/up x2, third x3) St Kilda Co-Captain Represented Victoria 11 times All Australian 4...

Why? What's your problem? I'm not a mind reader, mate. If you've got an issue with something I posted then why not be a man about it instead of being a smart arse?

:D Bingo! The AFL is so compromised is every aspect, we will continue to lurch along from one f**k-up to the next.

John Winneke played 50 games from 1960 to 1962. He was Hawthorn's gun ruckman in their first ever premiership team in 1961. He retired from footy at the age of 24 to concentrate on his career as a barrister, eventually became a Victorian Supreme Court judge and served briefly as Chief Justice...

s**t thread. Normally I wouldn't bother to contribute, but I'm just amazed nobody has mentioned Shaun Hart from Brisbane. Yeah, he was a tough little tagger and he somehow won a Norm Smith playing alongside Voss, Black, Akermanis and Lappin. Possibly the least skilled footballer ever to win that...

In 1983, Geelong paid Hawthorn a $60,000 transfer fee for a wayward young bogan from the country who refused to train and had more brushes with the law (for drink driving, assault and burglary) than actual games played. Sixty grand was reasonable sum of money in those days, especially for a...

This stuff has become an obsession with the football media and fans. Every year it's the same, just the name of the player and clubs is different. I don't understand what people get out of talking about this s**t. What is there to discuss? "We don't want him. Not worth it. Overrated." Yeah...

Josh Kennedy, I'll give you, but Ben McGlynn played some good footy for Hawthorn. He had a couple of really good seasons in 2007 and 2009. Recurrent hamstring injuries wiped out his 2008 season and cost him the chance to be a part of the 2008 premiership. He was unlucky. Back then, most people...

One of the few things I enjoyed about Jeff Kennett's outspoken presidency at Hawthorn was the way he'd give the AFL s**t for being a bloated organisation with more people on it's payroll than the 16 clubs combined. Too many people within the AFL ranks who are just trying to justify their...

Joel Selwood to Geelong was another good one from around the same time. There was a dodgy medical report circulating around which showed he had some degenerative ankle or knee injury. Possibly career threatening, I remember hearing. He was every risk to be out of the game after just 3 or 4...

Okay mate, whatever you reckon… :rolleyes:

See the article below, Wookie. http://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/afl-boss-backs-tassie-footy-academy/story-fnj4f7k1-1227138878798 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AN AFL team committed to Tasmania could have access to the state’s best...

Draft tampering? Do you mean the way Sydney were able use pick 18 to select Isaac Heeney, a star in the making who would've been taken with a top 5 pick? The Sydney Swans' priority access to the kids from the "NSW Academy" is the single biggest issue of draft tampering that I can see.

You could make a case for either Lloyd or Franklin. Silly to say Lloyd is "easily" the best full forward since 1999. He kicked a few more goals than Buddy, but he also played in an era when teams scored slightly more goals than nowadays. Franklin also plays in an era where it's become more...

Let me know when you're done playing around with your time machine in the 1980's. We'll need to jump forwards and grab the Tattslotto numbers for the next 5 years to raise the capital you need. Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Richmond, Geelong and Hawthorn are not going to agree with the AFL...

It's pretty funny how the nuffies watching at home think they know more than Alastair Clarkson, Chris Scott and Ross Lyon Am I missing something? Did Basil Zempilas and Setanta O'Hailphin vote on it?

Go back to the Geelong board, you lunatic

Because everyone on Big Footy knows more than Alastair Clarkson, Ross Lyon and Chris Scott, huh? :rolleyes::thumbsu::thumbsu: I love this place.

To be fair, Fletch was pretty s**t for 3 quarters before finally getting his act together in the last