By the numbers #5

Who is the best #5

  • Bruce Abernethy

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  • Matthew Robran (also wore 10)

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  • Ronnie Burns

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Bovo

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Righteo, moving along now. Number 5. We have a few contenders:
Bruce Abernethy, Matthew Robran (also wore 10), Kym Koster (also wore 9), Matthew Shir, Ronnie Burns, Scott Thompson.

The lucky double numbers will get two cracks at being the top dog. We have two premiership heroes in Robran and Koster....although Koster changed his number to #5 in 97 (giving club favourite Edwards the #9). Abernethy, another great Magpies player, joined the Crows in their inaugural season.

Matthew Shir was respectable but could never really make it past being a fringe player. Ronnie Burns....we expected so much from him....but everyone knows when you get players from Geelong they are duds (break the hoodoo Gore!!!)

So this leaves me with Thompson. The great Scott, Scotty Thompson. Although still playing I can't go past him as our greatest #5!! Did I mention that he is another Port Magpie :) Can't believe Craigy did not play him in that first game in 2005. After carving it up in the SANFL I don't think he has ever gone back!!
 

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Scott Thompson is the overall best player in the number and over 200 games in it. But Kym Koster wore it playing in 2 premierships.
 

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Scott Thompson is the overall best player in the number and over 200 games in it. But Kym Koster wore it playing in 2 premierships.
Agree.

Hard to top Muscles Thompson though. He may not quite be in that top tier of AFC players IMO but that next level down.
 

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Easily Thommo but if Abber would have played with us from the time he was 18 or 19 onwards it'd have been him by a mile, absolute gun of a player
 
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I was pumped when Ronnie Burns came to club. I seriously thought he was going to have an Eddie Betts type impact. But yeah, Thommo by miles.
 

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Better than Thommo? Abber was a good player but not a star at AFL/VFL level.

For me Thommo goes down as one of the clubs greatest ever players.
No disrespect to Thommo but Abber was miles better, no comparison. He was a very, very good wingman at VFL level and was basically looking to retire because his body couldn't do it anymore at that level when the Crows came a calling. Take into account I hated Port Adelaide at SANFL level but Abber was a straight up champ, you may not of been young enough to see it but when Abber was a teen he was just brilliant. The only Port player I thought was better at the same age was Bradley and there wasn't much between the two as youngsters
 

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For a while there he was our only real A grader midfielder....or at least as close as we had to one.
I think people unfairly downgrade thompson because he doesnt have the romanticism of the big 4. He is an A grader all the way. deserves to be in the pantheon, maybe with goodwin and edwards, one rung down from roo and macca
 

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Just on Abernethy it gets lost with his one-eyed Port nature but he did the Crows a few solids in the first 2 years in the comp, he'd all but hung up the boots after winning the flag with the magpies in 1990 when he was coaxed out of it so to provide some valuable VFL experience to which the playing group was severely lacking in its first year in 1991. Then in 1992 he began working as Channel 7's sports reader even doing the 'lead-ins' to the Crows game highlights packages but by mid-season with the squad injury ravaged he again came out of retirement and played a few games for the club at the back-end of the season before fully retiring & taking up the post at 7 news he still holds today.
 
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