Opinion Top 10 favourite Geelong players of all time

[Vdubs]

Yep - but they're highlights
They aren't going to show the bad kicks and handballs of anybody
Kelly could be really good, but I don't think he was as switched-on all the time as others

But it's all opinion - and my views should in no way affect or change what you feel
I just like the discussion. Feel free to tell me to sod off

good points- when I say highlights- the whole 07 prelim- first viewing after that game live.
Anyway, I could write out a very different list of other favourites too, like Jacko, Brownless, Lindner, Bruns, Kevin Higgins, Barnes, Marshall, Walker, Polly Farmer, Sharrock, Clarke snr, Jefferies, on any given day, such is our talent pool and enjoyability factor.

 

[allrighty]

Is that Shannon Neale or Scratcher Neal?

Off the top of my head:

1. Neville Bruns
2. GAS
3. Ken Hinkley
4. Bruce Lindner
5. Mark Jackson
6. Corey Enright
7. Joel Selwood
8. Max Rooke
9. Tom Stewart
10. SJ

Robert Scratcher

 

[allrighty]

I forgot BEws in mine. I love the fact that despite being small, never took a backwards step. Firey, but a top bloke and honest

James Kelly was too laconic for mine, and I saw him turn over the ball too many times

Me too, top player top bloke

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

GAS
GAJ
Brownless
Hocking
Couch
Ricciardi
Hawkins
Burns
Mansfield
Isaac Smith

7

Isaac Smith

Age

37

Ht

188cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

13.0

5star

HB

8.4

5star

M

5.5

5star

T

2.9

4star

CL

1.7

4star

D

19.4

4star

K

11.1

4star

HB

8.3

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

2.5

3star

CL

1.3

4star

D

19.2

5star

K

10.6

4star

HB

8.6

5star

M

7.6

5star

T

2.0

4star

CL

0.6

3star

J Selwood

I cheated

 

[Sttew]

GAS
GAJ
Brownless
Hocking
Couch
Ricciardi
Hawkins
Burns
Mansfield
Isaac Smith

Mine is

GAS
Hawkins
GAJ
Dangerfield
Selwood
Stevie J
Buddha Hocking
Jimmy Bartel
Tom Stewart
Paul Chapman

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Mine is

GAS
Hawkins
GAJ
Dangerfield
Selwood
Stevie J
Buddha Hocking
Jimmy Bartel
Tom Stewart
Paul Chapman

Big Billy did well in losing Grabd finals in the 90s. Kicked 3, 4 and 3 respectively.

 

[Sttew]

Big Billy did well in losing Grabd finals in the 90s. Kicked 3, 4 and 3 respectively.

I’d have him between 11 and 20. Just my view

 

[Vdubs]

Mine is

GAS
Hawkins
GAJ
Dangerfield
Selwood
Stevie J
Buddha Hocking
Jimmy Bartel
Tom Stewart
Paul Chapman

Mine

Snr-5
Jnr-29


Danger-35
Turner-9
Buddha-32
Goggin-35
Wojo-40
Varcoe-5
Newman-17
Chapman-35

Unlucky- Cameron -5

35 and 5 are certainly memorable numbers for Cats players.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Enjoyed watching Robert Scott and Paul Brown play in 1992. That game against Brisbane I think Ablett got 9 and Scott 6

37.17
11.9


Lol

 

[Goggin Our Best]

Enjoyed watching Robert Scott and Paul Brown play in 1992. That game against Brisbane I think Ablett got 9 and Scott 6

37.17
11.9


Lol

Returning the favour , seeing you bumped this thread , and ive enjoyed reading part of the thread

But heres your side the Magpies top 10 going back from the 60s onward , and hopefully i havent left out some all time great !!!

(1) N Buckley
(2) L Thompson
(3) P Moore
(4) W Richardson
(5) P Daicos (Nick will be in their but later on )
(6)P McKenna
(7)D Tuddenham
(8)J Greening
(9)D Swan
(10) R Dunne

Come on VDubs youve allways got a soft spot for the Magpies give us your top 10

 

[Vdubs]

Returning the favour , seeing you bumped this thread , and ive enjoyed reading part of the thread

But heres your side the Magpies top 10 going back from the 60s onward , and hopefully i havent left out some all time great !!!

(1) N Buckley
(2) L Thompson
(3) P Moore
(4) W Richardson
(5) P Daicos (Nick will be in their but later on )
(6)P McKenna
(7)D Tuddenham
(8)J Greening
(9)D Swan
(10) R Dunne

Come on VDubs youve allways got a soft spot for the Magpies give us your top 10

Thankyou, with not a whole lot of thought, but the Pies I always loved watching, and pity it's only 10.
1. John Greening- the most brilliant player I'd seen until he got felled by Jim O'Dea.
2. Peter Daicos- superb goalsneak
3. Peter McKenna-brilliant FF
4. Scott Pendlebury- has usurped Buckley as the GOAT Pies
5. Nathan Buckley- the complete footballer
6. Steele Sidebottom-most underrated player in the comp.
7. Len Thompson- best ruck in the country for a while
8. Phil Carman- magical skillset
9. Barry Price- Price/McKenna rivalled Goggin/Wade
10.Nick Daicos and ascending rapidly

Unlucky- Jamie Elliott

 

[Pure_Ownage]

GAS
GAJ
----daylight

Dangerfield
Selwood
Hawkins
Brownless
Hocking
Bartel
SJ
Stewart

Obviously Farmer and Jumping Jack would have been in my top 6 as would have Wade but I never saw them play live (this is just the guys I've seen play)

Also loved the great Paul Couch and Stoneham as a kid-pre broken leg he was awesome.
Also thought Harry T was awesome some of his marking and his personality. Menzel was also poetry in motion for a short time before the injuries.

 

[Goggin Our Best]

Returning the favour , seeing you bumped this thread , and ive enjoyed reading part of the thread

But heres your side the Magpies top 10 going back from the 60s onward , and hopefully i havent left out some all time great !!!

(1) N Buckley
(2) L Thompson
(3) P Moore
(4) W Richardson
(5) P Daicos (Nick will be in their but later on )
(6)P McKenna
(7)D Tuddenham
(8)J Greening
(9)D Swan
(10) R Dunne

Come on VDubs youve allways got a soft spot for the Magpies give us your top 10

Yeah i somehow forgot Pendles - so he comes in at Number 6 - thus the previous 6-9 all drop down a rung and now Twiggy Dunne misses out

 

[Gazza Greatness]

GAS
GAJ
----daylight

Dangerfield
Selwood
Hawkins
Brownless
Hocking
Bartel
SJ
Stewart

Obviously Farmer and Jumping Jack would have been in my top 6 as would have Wade but I never saw them play live (this is just the guys I've seen play)

Also loved the great Paul Couch and Stoneham as a kid-pre broken leg he was awesome.
Also thought Harry T was awesome some of his marking and his personality. Menzel was also poetry in motion for a short time before the injuries.

Slight correction PO:

GAS (freak of nature & easily the best footballer I've ever seen)

----daylight

GAJ (son of GOAT, so say no more)

Dangerfield
M. Scarlett
Bartel
SJ (outside GAS best to watch)
Chapman
Selwood (and outstanding Captain)
Hawkins
David Clark
Hocking (unlucky)

 

[GlenMiddlemissed]

Slight correction PO:

GAS (freak of nature & easily the best footballer I've ever seen)

----daylight

GAJ (son of GOAT, so say no more)

Dangerfield
M. Scarlett
Bartel
SJ (outside GAS best to watch)
Chapman
Selwood (and outstanding Captain)
Hawkins
David Clark
Hocking (unlucky)

It looks like PO, GG and myself are of similar vintage, so not surprisingly our 10 best are similar. Mine is:

Ablett (no need to put S or J for me)
......

1 years worth of daylight (ok, slight exaggeration, but not much!)
.....

Dangerfield
Bartel
Scarlett (ok, Junior this time, his dad wasn't anywhere near as good)
Selwood (best overall clubman though)
Ablett Junior
Hawkins
Stevie J
Cameron
Blicavs (maybe controversial, but he is unique) otherwise David Clark or maybe Bruce Lindner

I wanted to mention one more, Menzel, if he had had knees, he could have been 2 or 3, I've never seen a better first 20 games (except the incomparable one, but he was almost 'mature age' when he came to us)

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Next favourite 10

Mensch
Tudor
Stewart
Hinkley
Pickering
Colbert
Lynch
Merriman lol yes
Tanner
Forssman

Gotta love the 90's. Shoulda put Kent Kingsley

Kent Kingsley

Age

47

Ht

193cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.8

2star

K

7.1

3star

HB

2.7

2star

M

4.8

5star

T

0.9

3star

G

1.9

5star

No current season stats available

D

6.8

2star

K

5.2

2star

HB

1.6

2star

M

2.4

3star

T

0.4

3star

G

1.4

5star

in there too. And Derek Hall.

 

[Goggin Our Best]

Next favourite 10
Tanner
Forssman

Gotta love the 90's. Shoulda put Kent Kingsley in there too. And Derek Hall.

" The Rifleman"

Teddy Whitten in his calls reckoned that Grant Tanner looked like Chuck Connors who starred in The Rifleman

Thus Teddy referred to Tanner as The Rifleman , and it stuck

 

[Matthew Jelley]

1. Ablett Snr
2. Ablett Jnr
3. Jeremy Cameron

5

Jeremy Cameron

Age

32

Ht

196cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.5

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

5.4

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

2.6

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

7.1

3star

HB

2.9

2star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.0

3star

G

1.9

5star

D

8.2

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.2

3star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.4

4star

G

2.0

5star

4. Steve Johnson
5. Jimmy Bartel
6. Buddha Hocking
7. Tim McGrath

Tim Mcgrath

Age

55

Ht

190cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.7

4star

K

11.1

4star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

1.3

3star

No current season stats available

D

9.6

3star

K

6.2

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

0.4

1star

T

1.2

3star

8. Ronnie Burns

Ronnie Burns

Age

52

Ht

183cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.2

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

4.7

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

1.3

3star

G

1.7

5star

No current season stats available

D

12.8

4star

K

7.8

3star

HB

5.0

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

0.4

3star

G

1.6

5star

9. Patrick Dangerfield
10. Joel Selwood

Tried not to think about it too much

 

[Vdubs]

Next favourite 10

Mensch
Tudor
Stewart
Hinkley
Pickering
Colbert
Lynch
Merriman lol yes
Tanner
Forssman

Gotta love the 90's. Shoulda put Kent Kingsley in there too. And Derek Hall.

Next 10. Any order.

1. Matt Scarlett
2. Dan Menzel
3. SJ
4. Andrew Mackie
5. Tom Hawkins
6. Bruce Lindner
7. Andrew Bews
8. Paul Couch
9. Peter Riccardi
10. Ben Graham



Next 10

1. Tom Stewart
2. Corey Enright
3. Gary Malarkey
4. Mark Blicavs
5. Joel Selwood
6. Jimmy Bartel
7. Paul Lynch
8. Ken Hinkley
9. Billy Brownless
10. David Clarke snr

Unluicky

Peter Walker, John Sharrock, Polly Farmer, Wayne Closter, Tony Polinelli, Paul Vinar- saw very little of their best but they were greats.

 

[Farmer2Goggin]

Emphasis on favourite but still a strong correlation with ability
Of those I've seen play
GAS
Farmer
GAJ
Selwood
Hawk
Bartel
SJ
Wade
Chappy
Danger/Boris/Menzel/ Wojo/Turner

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Aaron Lord was a gun. Did well at the hawks too.

 

[iameviljez]

Favourite was Ling, but the best - even better than you know who - was Gary Jnr. And I do not say that lightly

 

[Goggin Our Best]

Next favourite 10

Mensch
Tudor
Stewart
Hinkley
Pickering
Colbert
Lynch
Merriman lol yes
Tanner
Forssman

Gotta love the 90's. Shoulda put Kent Kingsley in there too. And Derek Hall.

Are you saying that as a Collingwood supporter or a Geelong sympathiser !!!

Because i have never seen a player especially a key forward who dropped as many chest marks as Mensch , it looked like he use to shut his eyes , plus he was slow , but back then he was the best we had thus he got a regular game . No wonder Geel got killed in the 95 GF we had Mensch as CHF and Handley at CHB - it was never going to work

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Are you saying that as a Collingwood supporter or a Geelong sympathiser !!!

Because i have never seen a player especially a key forward who dropped as many chest marks as Mensch , it looked like he use to shut his eyes , plus he was slow , but back then he was the best we had thus he got a regular game . No wonder Geel got killed in the 95 GF we had Mensch as CHF and Handley at CHB - it was never going to work

Haha. I enjoyed watching him play.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

What the he'll happened with Stephen Hooper number 1 pick In the draft? Like Handley he was from WA. didn't deliver and season finished after 3 years.