Opinion Top 5 players for each game range

[worbod]

Something to discuss until next season begins for whoever is interested. It was hard to think of a succinct title for this thread, but you should understand once you start reading. Who are the five greatest players within each numerical game range? To begin, who are the five greatest players who played between 90 and 99 games? Here’s my opinion, considering only retired players:


John Coleman (98)
Gordon Collis (95)
Neil Crompton (99)
Laurie Nash (99)
Colin Watson (93)


Thus, the next game range would be between 100 and 109


Phil Baker (106)
Phil Carman (100)
Brendan Edwards (109)
Fred Fanning (104)
Polly Farmer (101)


and so on:

110-119

Darrel Baldock (119)
Haydn Bunton (119)
Barry Cable (115)
Fred Goldsmith (119)
Gilbert McAdam (114)

120-129

Ted Freyer (124)
Peter Hudson (129)
Sam Kekovich (128)
Alistair Lord (122)
Stuart Spencer (122)

130-139

Colin Austen (136)
Bill Barrot (134)
Syd Jackson (136)
Ted Johnson (136)
Stan Judkins (133)

140-149

Jim Krakouer (147)
Phil Krakouer (148)
Bill Morris (140)
Fred Swift (146)
Ivor Warne-Smith (146)

150-159

Simon Beasley (154)
Allan Hopkins (151)
Bob Pratt (158)
Bob Rose (152)
Wilfred Smallhorn (150)

 

[worbod]

160-169

Don Cordner (166)
Les Foote (167)
Tony Modra (165)
Shaun Rehn (167)
Neil Roberts (169)

170-179

Malcolm Blight (178)
Vic Cumberland (176)
Hassa Mann (178)
Kelvin Templeton (177)
Marcus Whelan (173)

180-189

Peter Bedford (186)
Royce Hart (187)
Cyril Rioli (189)
John Schultz (188)
Bernie Smith (183)

190-199

Roy Cazaly (198)
Peter McKenna (191)
Bill Mohr (195)
Jack Regan (196)
Roy Wright (195)

200-209

Wayne Johnston (209)
Michael Roach (200)
Ian Stewart (205)
Soapy Vallence (204)
John Worsfold (209)

 

[worbod]

210-219

Percy Beames (213)
Dermot Brereton (211)
Albert Collier (217)
Gerard Healy (211)
Jack Mueller (216)

220-229

Allen Aylett (220)
Syd Coventry (227)
Gary Lyon (226)
Alan Ruthven (222)
Norm Smith (227)

230-239

Trevor Barker (230)
Ross Glendinning (230)
Darren Jarman (230)
Paul Kelly (234)
Bob Skilton (237)

240-249

Gary Ablett sr (248)
Robert DiPierdomenico (240)
Jeff Farmer (249)
Reg Hickey (245)
Peter Moore (249)

250-259

Ron Barassi (254)
Peter Daicos (250)
James Hird (253)
John Platten (258)
Greg Williams (250)

 

[worbod]

260-269

Gary Ayres (269)
Jason Dunstall (269)
Peter Knights (264)
Jim Stynes (264)
Garry Wilson (268)

270-279

Wayne Carey (272)
Robert Flower (272)
Alex Jesaulenko (279)
Chris Judd (279)
Anthony Koutoufides (278)

280-289

Nathan Buckley (280)
Tony Liberatore (283)
Tony Lockett (281)
Matthew Scarlett (284)
Michael Voss (289)

290-299

Dean Cox (290)
Keith Greig (294)
Bill Hutchison (290)
Stevie Johnson (293)
Jack Titus (294)

300-309

Gordon Coventry (306)
Wayne Schimmelbusch (306)
Len Thompson (301)
Gavin Wanganeen (300)
Tim Watson (307)

 

[worbod]

310-319

Glenn Archer (311)
Terry Daniher (313)
Jack Dyer (312)
Mark Ricciuto (312)
Stephen Silvagni (312)

320-329

Jason Akermanis (325)
Gary Dempsey (329)
John Nicholls (328)
Dick Reynolds (320)
Ted Whitten (321)

330-339

David Cloke (333)
Leigh Matthews (332)
Kevin Murray (333)
John Rantall (336)
Nick Riewoldt (336)


and the rest: 340-439

Adam Goodes (372)
Robert Harvey (383)
Luke Hodge (346)
Andrew McLeod (340)
Bernie Quinlan (366)

 

[jsdsgn]

Very hard considering we have to actually find out games played of everyone before we can rank and its too much hard work
your list looks good but i have no idea if youve missed anyone. ill trust that you havent though

it'd be interesting to do this for current afl players but widen the gaps
1-50
51-100
101-150
151-200
201-250
251-300
300+

We should all try and fill this in.

great thread idea though

 

[worbod]

Very hard considering we have to actually find out games played of everyone before we can rank and its too much hard work
your list looks good but i have no idea if youve missed anyone. ill trust that you havent though

Obviously I had a bit of time on my hands to make this list. I used this link from AFL Tables to sort through the groups of players:

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/biglists/bg2.txt

Of course, the higher the total of games the easier it is to pick five players because fewer people have made it beyond 300 games than beyond 200 and 100. Also, some groups were hard to decide, for example, I left Stephen Kernahan and Dane Swan out of the 250s whereas there are most likely other people who would not make that choice.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Something to discuss until next season begins for whoever is interested. It was hard to think of a succinct title for this thread, but you should understand once you start reading. Who are the five greatest players within each numerical game range? To begin, who are the five greatest players who played between 90 and 99 games? Here’s my opinion, considering only retired players:


150-159

Simon Beasley (154)
Allan Hopkins (151)
Bob Pratt (158)
Bob Rose (152)
Wilfred Smallhorn (150)

Gary Buckenara is easily ahead of 3 of these blokes.

 

[Procrastinator35]

320-329

Jason Akermanis (325)
Gary Dempsey (329)
John Nicholls (328)
Dick Reynolds (320)
Ted Whitten (321)

Sam Mitchell @ 329 has Ackermanis measure every day of the week.

 

[masai]

Sam Mitchell @ 329 has Ackermanis measure every day of the week.

Mitchell and Acker are both darn fine players, happy to call them elite without a doubt.

Both with reputations as pricks, but Acker with the addiction of verbal shite.

Ackers ability to push forward and punch through goals from both sides of his body, in my mind puts his nose in front.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Mitchell and Acker are both darn fine players, happy to call them elite without a doubt.

Both with reputations as pricks, but Acker with the addiction of verbal shite.

Ackers ability to push forward and punch through goals from both sides of his body, in my mind puts his nose in front.

Mitchell has 5 Hawk B&F awards, second only to Matthews…..He was also the central driving force behind our 4 Flags....His finals record is second to none at our club.

He also has 2x the Brownlow votes of the peroxide motor-mouth,

You take the pivotal gun over the flanker every day of the week…..Sam Mitchell was a Champion in the true sense of the word…..Acker, not so much.

 

[Cold Sober]

Gary Buckenara is easily ahead of 3 of these blokes.

nah, he played for Hawthorn.

 

[Cold Sober]

Sam Mitchell @ 329 has Ackermanis measure every day of the week.

nah, he played for Hawthorn

 

[Procrastinator35]

nah, he played for Hawthorn

Well I guess that settles it then.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I reckon it'd be more of a difficult enterprise & far more interesting by way of debate, trying to find the Top 5 from the 0-100 range, the 100-200 range & so on.

Here's mine

0-99 games: Coleman,
100-199: Hudson, Blight, Hart, Bunton, Baldock.
200-299: Ablett, Carey, Dunstall, Jesaulenko, Lockett.
300-399: Matthews, Dempsey, Quinlan, Nicholls, Coventry.
400-499: Tuck, Bartlett, Fletcher, Harvey, Burgoyne.