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Mningasimisonda said:
Scarlett and Silvagni both had a lot of pace and agility that could hurt oppositions coming off the contest and out of the backline. That's one big similarity between them when you compare them to your average full back. They not only did they shut down and monster forwards better but they had the physical attributes and skills in spades which made them damaging far beyond your Lonergan or Lake type player we see today.
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Not denying silvagni had great skill. When he was younger and he played off the half back line and occasionally when he went forward he showed amazing skill. Was a very talented player. Pity we didn't get to see more of him up the ground.
 
Superstar swan said:
Fyfe will give it a nudge. Will win a minimum of 3 brownlows (if he can escape report), hes nearly the perfect player (only let down is skills). I think franklin will be remembered as an all time great but top 10 will be hard to crack. We already have guys like dunstall,lockett, carey, ablett in the the top 10 all time, hard to see any more forwards cracking the list
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Fyfe may win a few more brownlows but that doesn't lock him into the greatest of all time. Brownlows mean nothing, Matthews, Ablett snr and Carey are said to be some of the best of all time and never won one... Goodes has two of them and would never make the greatest of all time top 10 imo
 

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footyfan78 said:
That's right. Dunstall might squeeze into top 50 of all time but he is not the same out and out gun that Lockett was. Great player all the same, but we are talking all time here. I can understand your Hawk eyes viewing it differently.
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Coventry has not been mentioned much, any reason why. Second all time leading goalkicker behind Lockett
 
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DrEvil_ said:
Realistically even Ablett junior is far away from top 10 of all time. People have short memories.

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"Far" away? He might be on the fringe as far as top 10 goes - perhaps still more to do, but I think your memory is pretty short too - you've already forgotten just how dominant he was until recently when he got injured.
 
Ando727 said:
"Far" away? He might be on the fringe as far as top 10 goes - perhaps still more to do, but I think your memory is pretty short too - you've already forgotten just how dominant he was until recently when he got injured.
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How dominant was he? Sure he racks up a ton of stats but how many were just cheap one-twos? In all the Hawthorn Geelong games I've been too I was never really worried about Ablett as much as Enright, Chapman, and Corey.
 
Caztheconquerer said:
Coventry has not been mentioned much, any reason why. Second all time leading goalkicker behind Lockett
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Probably because we are talking league all time greats. Not Collingwood all time greats.
Having said that in terms of full forward I'm sure he sits in there with some of the best such as Coleman, Hudson and Dunstall but Pratt names got mentioned a lot more than Coventry by old timers as the best full forward of earlier times. Lockett is the best full forward according to Hudson himself and he had been around longer than us and he would have heard from creditable sources of the ability of players like Vallence, Pratt and Coventry to have some idea if Lockett was even better than Pratt.
 
Superstar swan said:
Fyfe will give it a nudge. Will win a minimum of 3 brownlows (if he can escape report), hes nearly the perfect player (only let down is skills). I think franklin will be remembered as an all time great but top 10 will be hard to crack. We already have guys like dunstall,lockett, carey, ablett in the the top 10 all time, hard to see any more forwards cracking the list
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Again, people don't realize what a high bar the top 10 all time is. There is no way that Dunstall, Lockett, Carey and Ablett Sr all get in the top 10 when you've got Coleman, Coventry, Hudson and Pratt sitting around wondering why they got booted out . I'm not sure 4 forwards should be in the top 10. Maybe both Carey and Ablett Sr are in the top 10 candidates with Lockett getting a mention if you rate longevity and Dunstall fighting it out with Hudson in the 'Best Forward (Hawthorn)' subcategory.

Fyfe needs to stay healthier, move up into the GAJ level of dominance for a few years, get another couple of Brownlows, carry Freo in the post-Pav years and then we start talking about his place all time.
 
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barmy44 said:
cant believe no one has mentioned mitch duncan yet.
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Carried the team this year when he played, but is battling injuries. If he reaches his full potential he's at least going to be our best of this era. Very different type of player to any of our best in the last 20 years.
 
ThatsjustDappa said:
Surely Enright, Chapman and Corey should be mentioned.....?
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So far Ablett, Scarlett, Bartel, Enright, Chapman and Corey have all been mentioned in a top ten of all time thread by Geelong supporters.

Now we just need to work out the 4 best players who played for other clubs over the last 118 years and our top ten is set.
 
Wild Bill said:
Why are Geelong posters clogging up this thread with players that wouldn't be in the top 200?? Corey and Duncan the top 1,000.
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If we want to go all parochial, Keith Greig and Malcolm Blight have more claim than any of them.
 

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Kingfish73 said:
But seriously, I don't think any current player makes list yet. Controversial but boomer Harvey needs a mention. Not quite top 10 but does have a long resume and many BOGs
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Boomer isn't in the ten best ever. But it does show you what a tough list it is to make.
 
footyfan78 said:
Probably because we are talking league all time greats. Not Collingwood all time greats.
Having said that in terms of full forward I'm sure he sits in there with some of the best such as Coleman, Hudson and Dunstall but Pratt names got mentioned a lot more than Coventry by old timers as the best full forward of earlier times. Lockett is the best full forward according to Hudson himself and he had been around longer than us and he would have heard from creditable sources of the ability of players like Vallence, Pratt and Coventry to have some idea if Lockett was even better than Pratt.
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Yep that's fair enough, I looked at goal averages per
footyfan78 said:
Probably because we are talking league all time greats. Not Collingwood all time greats.
Having said that in terms of full forward I'm sure he sits in there with some of the best such as Coleman, Hudson and Dunstall but Pratt names got mentioned a lot more than Coventry by old timers as the best full forward of earlier times. Lockett is the best full forward according to Hudson himself and he had been around longer than us and he would have heard from creditable sources of the ability of players like Vallence, Pratt and Coventry to have some idea if Lockett was even better than Pratt.
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fair enough, just as a comparison though Pratt over his career averaged 4.31 goals per game Coventry averaged 4.25 pretty close overall.
 
Caztheconquerer said:
Yep that's fair enough, I looked at goal averages per

fair enough, just as a comparison though Pratt over his career averaged 4.31 goals per game Coventry averaged 4.25 pretty close overall.
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Not a bad effort to get that close.
Just out of curiosity what were the other high averages of goal per game of forwards from 1920's to end of 1950's ?
 
footyfan78 said:
Not a bad effort to get that close.
Just out of curiosity what were the other high averages of goal per game of forwards from 1920's to end of 1950's ?
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John Coleman averaged 5.48 Lockett was 4.84 and peter Hudson has the best average that I have seen so far of 5.64.
 
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John Coleman averaged 5.48 Lockett was 4.84 and peter Hudson has the best average that I have seen so far of 5.64.
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I was actually asking about players from 1920's and 50's in the recent post out of interest. Lockett and Hduson is not from the era mate. he he
 

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