Opinion 1960s - why only one premiership?

[you pick one]

They simply weren't.

Here's the 1963 premiership team

More than half of the team was bog average, at best

The bolded blokes were A Graders, and some of them could arguably be described as "generational talent"

:	Ian Scott	Roy West	John Watts
HB:	John Devine	Peter Walker	Stewart Lord
C:	Hugh Routley	Alistair Lord	John Brown b1937
HF:	Gordon Hynes	Fred Wooller	John Sharrock
F:	John Yeates	Doug Wade	Colin Rice
Foll:	Graham Farmer	Paul Vinar	Bill Goggin
Reserve(s):	Ken Goodland	Tony Polinelli

Multiple times interstate rep,multiple Captains and a best and fairest player among those bog average players Fred.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Haha; I’ve heard of that - was it during Alastairs Brownlow year?

Yes

 

[you pick one]

Haha; I’ve heard of that - was it during Alastairs Brownlow year?

Yes

 

[Goggin Our Best]

Yes, true, and ditto Yeates in Q4, but overall they were just average

The legendry Jack Dyer who was no mug - was commentating( radio/tv) one year and said - i think John Yeates can win the Brownlow Medal - so Yeates was ok

And i think you are also a little bit harsh on Tony Polinelli ( who did finish 2nd in a Stawell Gift - so was very quick ) but Francis Bourke when playing on the wing - part of that famed Rich centreline of Bourke/Barrot/Clay - rated Polinelli as one of his better//hardest opponents