One Player From The Past We Need Now - Who Do You Select?

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All these great past players remind me of one thing....
We should have won more Premierships.
We should have won in 1970 1977 and arguably 1966 and 1979 , but invariably the better side won most of those years that we lost. Collingwood always punched above its weight and was good enough to get to the grand final but not good enough to win.
 

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We should have won in 1970 1977 and arguably 1966 and 1979 , but invariably the better side won most of those years that we lost. Collingwood always punched above its weight and was good enough to get to the grand final but not good enough to win.
I remember the 1977 like it was yesterday. We should not have lost that. Bloody Barrassi like in 1970.
In 1979 we should have won and the Wayne Harmes incident gave them momentum. We were in position to win and lost by 5 points.
We were in control in 1981 and stuffed that up. Think Moore had an injury in that game as did some others.
We got shafted by the umpires in 2002. No one expected us to be close.
We were in front, Tarrant does not get an obvious free kick 20 in front.
Ball goes to the other end & Lynch gets a dodgy one and they hit the front.
Then bloody Acker kicks one out of his backside and we lose.
 
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If Breidis had kicked straight in 1977 (he kicked 7 behinds) there would not have been a draw. We lost that one the minute Carman punched Tuck in the Second Semi. Put him in the GF team and we win. Little known fact we lost the replay by 27 points which was our leading margin at 3/4 time the week before. We were lucky to have that lead but then ran out of steam.

1981 we had injuries and Moore should not have played.

1979 it was just one of those wet weather games that any team could have won. Carlton got the luck but they also had the midgets, probably better suited to the conditions.
 

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If Breidis had kicked straight in 1977 (he kicked 7 behinds) there would not have been a draw. We lost that one the minute Carman punched Tuck in the Second Semi. Put him in the GF team and we win. Little known fact we lost the replay by 27 points which was our leading margin at 3/4 time the week before. We were lucky to have that lead but then ran out of steam.
Didn't help that Tommy Hafey (RIP) thrashed the team on the training track in between the draw and replay. Barrass was far easier on North.

To Collingwood's credit after the 2010 draw, they managed the boys very intelligently.
 
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And Carlton deliberately knocked out Russell Ohlsen who was playing a blinder
I'd like to blame them for also knocking out mckenna in 1970 but sadly that was friendly fire....tuddy lined up an opponent and missed! Mckenna had five goals to half time and was seeing stars in the second hakf.

More bad luck
 
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