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Lethal belts Geelong players, Ablett sr belts Hawthorn players, but which one would you want in a team
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It must be nice living in the ivory towers that most of the big footy populace seem to have bought in the most recent real estate boom.
maybe if Matthews or Ablett just bribed a teenage girl to have an abortion or something they could live up to the lofty standards required for these days.
but I digress.
I never watched Matthews play - Ablett is the best footballer I’ve seen.
on what they actually did maybe I’d pick Matthews, seems like he starred in every portion of the ground he covered.
ablett looks like he could have gone to any part of the field and maybe been even better, but that’s speculation so we can only assess him on what he actually did do which was more specialised to one area of the field and the game, albeit in two distinctly different roles.
Maybe if I was putting together a team Matthews would be the first player I’d pick, but if I already had one and needed something to turn it from ok to great, I’d pick Ablett
Will just leave this here. Says something that they only gave him 9 votes - not even a big game by Barney's standards.
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Don’t really see what argument it wins when Ablett had games like 31 touches 14.2
at least im not the only one that hasn't seen both their careersNever saw either play so I have to take the guy with 116 less goals but 4 premierships
Matthews every day.
Matthews is rated the best player of all time by most footy pundits for a reason. He was the toughest goal-kicking midfielder ever. He kicked 91 goals from the midfield one year (rotating with the second rover to a forward pocket). Week in week out he was the reason Hawthorn would win games of football. He was incredibly consistent.Ablett was mercurial while Matthews was "tough".
Calling Leigh Matthews mercurial doesn't sound right to me (even though he was extremely good).
Matthews is rated the best player of all time by most footy pundits for a reason. He was the toughest goal-kicking midfielder ever. He kicked 91 goals from the midfield one year (rotating with the second rover to a forward pocket). Week in week out he was the reason Hawthorn would win games of football. He was incredibly consistent.
Ablett could do things Matthews couldn't. But that's not the sum of all parts in Aussie Rules. As good as he was Ablett's not in the best 5 players I've seen, or would want running out for a ''do or die'' grand final. Matthews would be first picked.
Ablett was the better player and wouldn't get suspended for 80% of his playing career in the modern era