I reckon you are right.
The geelong and hawks teams from 07-15 sorta spoiled us a bit with how good a footy team can be with so much talent in each club
Most gf teams have a few stars and then a fairly even consistent effort around the rest of the team - see brizzy, eagles / sydney 2004-7 and collingwood 2010-11
Its the team work that just all clicks and leads to great performances.
Yea def need a lot of no frills hard workers and a some class on top
Also
Geelong from era played bomber Thompson’s “kamikaze football”
Hawthorn played Clarksons “unsocialable football”
Lethal lee took care of the v good baby bombers with “if it bleeds we can kill it” and went onto a trifecta
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Flash in the pan western bulldogs of 2016..
And Richmond of 2017..(??)...