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Jelly Bean

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#27
B: L Davis, Presigiacomo, Clement
HB: H Shaw, Reid, Maxwell
C: Beams, Buckley, Sidebottom
HF: Thomas, Cloke, Didak
F: Medders, A Rocca, Tarrant
FOL: Jolly, Pendles, Swan
INT: Licca, Burns, Johnson, O'Brien (not lLumumba)
 

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Is it all about longevity? Or is it all about the out and out best player who may only have been great for a season?

This time around I'll treat it like a pickup game and go the best player based on their best individual year of performance:
B: Ben Johnson (2006) James Clement (2005) Leon Davis (2011)
HB: Heath Shaw (2011) Ben Reid (2011) Nick Maxwell (2009)
CEN: Steele Sidebottom (2014) Nathan Buckley (2000) Dale Thomas (2011)
HF: Alan Didak (2010) Travis Cloke (2011) Dayne Beams (2012)
F: Paul Medhurst (2008) Anthony Rocca (2003) Chris Tarrant (2003)
FOLL: Darren Jolly (2010) Scott Pendlebury (2011) Dane Swan (2010)
BENCH: Tarkyn Lockyer (2007) Scott Burns (2003) Josh Fraser (2006) Luke Ball (2011)

Apologies to: Harry O'Brien (2010) Nick Davis (2001) Paul Williams (2000) Alan Toovey (2012) Marley Williams (2014) Jamie Elliott (2014) Taylor Adams (2015) Shane O'Bree (2009) Paul Licuria (2003) Simon Prestigiacomo (2009) Shane Wakelin (2005) Nathan Brown (2015) Jack Crisp (2015).
Can't see him making the 22, but Jack Anthony 2009 ?
 

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Can't see him making the 22, but Jack Anthony 2009 ?
129 mark, 50 goal season in 2009. That's a good season.

Not better than Cloke, Tarrant or A.Rocca at their best with those guys finding more of the ball, taking more marks and contested marks etc.

That season by Jack is second team worthy from 2000-2015 though. I'd give you that.
 
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Best way of doing this is to take the 2010 GF team as the basis for the best side. Bring in five players: Buckley, Burns, Tarrant, Clement and Anthony Rocca. Tarrant replaces Blair. Burns replaces Wellingham. Buckley replaces MacCaffer. Rocca replaces Dawes. Clement replaces Toovey. Davis keeps his place in the back pocket. Side becomes something like this:
Davis N.Brown Clement
Shaw Reid Maxwell
Sidebottom Buckley Thomas
Tarrant Cloke Didak
L.Brown Rocca Beams
Jolley Pendlebury Swan
Int. Burns Johnson O'Brien Ball
 
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Best way of doing this is to take the 2010 GF team as the basis for the best side. Bring in five players: Buckley, Burns, Tarrant, Clement and Anthony Rocca. Tarrant replaces Blair. Burns replaces Wellingham. Buckley replaces MacCaffer. Rocca replaces Dawes. Clement replaces Toovey. Davis keeps his place in the back pocket. Side becomes something like this:
Davis N.Brown Clement
Shaw Reid Maxwell
Sidebottom Buckley Thomas
Tarrant Cloke Didak
L.Brown Rocca Beams
Jolley Pendlebury Swan
Int. Burns Johnson O'Brien Ball
Like the team but can Rocca ruck instead of Leigh Brown and we choose a pacier fwd / mid than Leigh? Probably keep Wellingham.
 

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Best way of doing this is to take the 2010 GF team as the basis for the best side. Bring in five players: Buckley, Burns, Tarrant, Clement and Anthony Rocca. Tarrant replaces Blair. Burns replaces Wellingham. Buckley replaces MacCaffer. Rocca replaces Dawes. Clement replaces Toovey. Davis keeps his place in the back pocket. Side becomes something like this:
Davis N.Brown Clement
Shaw Reid Maxwell
Sidebottom Buckley Thomas
Tarrant Cloke Didak
L.Brown Rocca Beams
Jolley Pendlebury Swan
Int. Burns Johnson O'Brien Ball
Actually, the better way of doing that if you are going down that path is to take the 2011 team as the baseline and adjust around that. That is by far our strongest single season team in known memory.

People keep on underrating that team v 2010 and others, but it delivered us 20 H+A wins, and a record percentage (I think we were top 2 for points for, and bottom 2 for points against).

Amazing team that fell over at the last post.
 
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Actually, the better way of doing that if you are going down that path is to take the 2011 team as the baseline and adjust around that. That is by far our strongest single season team in known memory.

People keep on underrating that team v 2010 and others, but it delivered us 20 H+A wins, and a record percentage (I think we were top 2 for points for, and bottom 2 for points against).

Amazing team that fell over at the last post.
Happy to go along with your logic. In that case you need a side to beat the 2011 Geelong premiership team. So I would play Harry O'Brien to perform a lock down job on Varcoe in the first quarter before releasing Davis onto the ground. A fit Nathan Brown is required to come into the side to perform a job on Hawkins. Failing that Prestigiacomo needs to play as that extra tall to play against either Hawkins, or if it was the Brisbane team, a player like Jonathan Brown. Buckley and Burns are needed to counter the stronger bodies at the contest, in Geelong's case Cameron Ling and Chapman, or in Brisbane's case, Voss and Black. We get back Beams who didn't play in the 2011 GF. Krakouer is more highly skilled than Elliot, so he and Didak are our small forwards and Cloke and A. Rocca are our two tall forwards. If L. Brown doesn't play we don't have a second ruck, so we have to rob our forward line of Rocca's services, to play him in the ruck when Jolley is resting.
 

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