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Yeah that GF team does look weak but it did have Matty Whelan, James McDonald & Cam Bruce missing.Melbourne 2000 by a mile.
They were the best of a crap bunch that year. Players such as Ingerson, Collins, Walsh, Febey, Powell, Rigoni, Leoncelli, Grgic, Beams..etc should never have made it that deep into September. Awful.
Bit of a harsh assesment on some of those players you named too. I'd be adding Nicholson Ward & Anthony McDonald over the bolded players. Febey played over 250 games & Powell was a gun in 2000. If he wasn't hampered by injuries the following years he would have better recognition.
Admittedly a lot of the players had the seasons of their careers like Farmer & Woewodin.
Carlton were clearly the second best team in 2000 but couldn't bury us in the QF when they had the chance in the first half & were forced to play Essendon in the PF while we played & beat an experienced Nth outfit by 50 points in the PF so its not like we snuck into the Granny.
I'd say Carlton in '99 easily has us covered. They might have better name players but as stand alone seasons go the Dee's had a great 2000 & with the momentum Melbourne had (Won 10 out of the last 11 games (Only loss was to North by a point) they might have very well pinched a flag if they didn't to have come across arguably the best side of all time.