Macca or Roo?

[Gary17]

You and a mate are picking a football team each to play against each other. Just like in the school yard, you take it in turns selecting a player.

The first two up for selection are McLeod and Ricciuto. You get to choose first, knowing that the other player will be picked up by your mate - you won't get both on your team.

And you choose...

 

[WAG]

Roo....







No wait. Macca.......








No wait. Roo.....








Hang on. Macca.......







No seriously. I'll take Jars .

 

[James23]

Mcleod at his peak

 

[The Karma Bus]

Racca.....

No.........

Moo.......



Forget asking me, love these 2 and D Jarman too much to split them.. You could get me to if you forced me.. With a cigarette to my eye..

 

[jo172]

If both at their peaks Macca.

Just ....

 

[jenny61_99]

Macca by a country mile.

 

[iamjason]

Wait, are we playing in this team too?

I don't want to be poleaxed, so... welcome to the team, Roo.

 

[StonesThrow]

Why a country mile?

McLeod is my favourite of the two but their careers are pretty hard to split if you ask me.

If I was picking for a school yard team I would take Roo any day of the week. f**k playing against him.

 

[jenny61_99]

Roo is my second favourite Crow player of all time. But Andy is the one that I got more pleasure out of watching over the years. His skills were sublime, he could do amazing things with the ball. You always knew something special was going to happen when he was near the ball. Never felt that with Roo. For me, Roo was the engine. He was tough, uncompromising and a damned good leader. But I never got that feeling that a miracle was in the making when he had the ball. Each to their own of course.

 

[Allefgib]

Macca by a country mile.

Hahaha.. my first as that you were going to post something like this.

hmm tough one - certainly no country mile in it IMO - at their peaks probably Roo for the leadership edge.

 

[Bicks]

Ricciuto

 

[kulak]

Even contemplating the question illustrates just how blessed we were for talent from 1997-2006.

 

[SugarShane]

Was discussing this with my mum today, we both agreed that Macca had the wood on Roo, just barely.

 

[Stiffy_18]

Macca by a country mile.

Turn it up!

This is asking a parent to pick their favourite child!

Its almost impossible to pick because their best both were unstoppable and brilliant in their own right. One had the silky skills and everything he did appeared too easy, the other just had that brute strength and leadership where he inspired everyone around him.

For me its impossible to pick. I would probably go Roo by a bee's proverbial but you almost wish you could pick 2nd just to avoid the headache

Both are all time greats and a shoe in for hall of fame.

We as a club have really been blessed by a number of genuine hall of famers that we have had in a reasonably short time. Roo, Hart, McLeod, Edwards have all played 300+ AFL games and if not for a bad run with injury earlier in his career, Goodwin would have made it 5.

When you consider that the oldest club has only David Neitz as its sole 300 game player you just realise how blessed and fortunate we have been. With all the retirements this year, it truly is a changing of the guard at West Lakes.

 

[WALL-e]

I've got Roo slightly, and in the smallest measurable amount, ahead of Norm.

But on the real, it's hard to compare them, and why do it, we're blessed to have had them both.

 

[The Karma Bus]

Different types.. Macca just awesome, elusive, evasive, skillful, magic.. Made you walk tall but in a different way..

Roo just awesome too .. Made me as a supporter feel bulletproof, or like our team was bulletproof.. Who could forget for one, that game against Carlton at Cardboard Park.. How many times he saved our beehinds.. People forget.. I want a dvd on both of them..

 

[Stiffy_18]

Different types.. Macca just awesome, elusive, evasive, skillful, magic.. Made you walk tall but in a different way..

Roo just awesome too .. Made me as a supporter feel bulletproof, or like our team was bulletproof.. Who could forget for one, that game against Carlton at Cardboard Park.. How many times he saved our beehinds.. People forget.. I want a dvd on both of them..

That game at Optus Oval when we started the year 0-3 in a torrential downpour and thunder was one of the all time great leadership games!

First he comes out and flattens Matthew Lappin with a hip and shoulder, then he just slams Lance Whitnall into the ground and single handedly drags us over the line. That was just a classic Roo game. He just had that ability to pick up the team, put it on his shoulders and drag them over the line thats why IMHO he is out greatest captain (no disrespect to Bicks). Roo had that ability to make everyone around him lift and walk taller. A great leader of man who also was a darn good player. If you needed a goal and your life depended on it, you would want the ball in Roo's hands.

 

[Schulzycrow]

While I love Roo and the things he did, Macca by a mile.

Dual Norm Smith, nuff said.

 

[Geoffa32]

I would pick Romano Negri first and let the other bloke decide between the two.............

 

[Stiffy_18]

While I love Roo and the things he did, Macca by a mile.

Dual Norm Smith, nuff said.

8 time all-australian (twice as captain)
3 time best and fairest
brownlow winner
Adelaide captain 2001-2007
AFLPA best captain (twice)

Its hardly by a mile rubbish. Its the most minimal of margins between the two.

Both true champions of the game and all time greats I am not sure many can understand where this "by mile" crap comes from.

 

[Dirty Bird]

You asked it badly

McLeod is the better player but Ricciuto would be more valuable to a team due to his unique build, and ability to hurt the other team physically

So how you asked it I had to go Roo, but if you asked who was better I'd go macca

 

[aneale]

i'd have to go with Macca, he played games out of this world, so dominant it was ridiculous.

That 98 Prelim still has to be one of the best individual performances for a guy on one leg for good part of the game and getting scragged constantly. To play on the ball like that and kick 7.0 is incredible.

 

[Mackay train12]

Since the AFL's inception, have we produced the most 300 gamers?

 

[jenny61_99]

Turn it up!

How the HELL can I be wrong about this? It's a subjective question, and that's my reply. Macca has been and always will be the better player of the two in my eyes. I've explained why. I appreciate you see it differently, it would be nice if you could reciprocate.

 

[crowman86]

Roo for this question because you would want him in your side so your not the one getting cleaned up in the school yard. For a proper match I would pick Macca first without really needing time to think, he brings much more to a team at his peak than Roo did.