Resource Published Lists: Teams of the Year / Best Players of all time / Best Teams lists / Players of a season
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Not officially chosen teams, so either should be removed, or placed in a "media teams" section in the Guide. And as a number of you probably know, the Sporting Life magazine during these years also chose annual "All Australian" teams for soccer, rugby league and rugby union.
The Guide should also have the 1980 and 1988 teams in the Carnival section, not the year-by-year "National" section.
VFL Umpire Jack McMurray 1956
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They 're the best I have ever seen - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 5 May 1956
UNFLINCHING courage, versatility, quick thinking, and a sound knowledge of the game are the attributes that made League champions like Dick Reynolds and Bobby Rose. They ...
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When The Encyclopedia of League Footballers was first published in 1991, the publishers named their Five Greatest Living Footballers at a public book launch. Ted Whitten was ranked number one, Leigh Matthews number two, followed by the three surviving triple-Brownlow medallists Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ian Stewart. Does anybody recall this event or have knowledge on the exact rankings of the medallists? (I have named them alphabetically).
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1939 Alec Eason tries to name best players "but only as I saw them when I played against them"
Best player: Cazaly
2nd Best: Joe Slater
Link. Alex. Eason Declares that Essendon Had Best Ruck - Cazaly Greatest Player - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 8 Apr 1939
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Best player: Cazaly
2nd Best: Joe Slater
Link. Alex. Eason Declares that Essendon Had Best Ruck - Cazaly Greatest Player - Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954) - 8 Apr 1939
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Bill Faul who played for South Melbourne in their glory year
picked this team in "Sports Novels' mag Aug 1952
Martin Bolger (Rich) Jack Regan (Rich) Syd Coventry (Coll)
Eric Huxtable (Carl) Reg Hickey (Geel) Jack Baggot ( Rich)
Herb Matthews (South) Marcus Whelan (coll) Chicken Smallhorn (Fitz)
Keith Shea (Carl) Laurie Nash (SM) Jack Collins (melb)
Norman Ware (Fscy) Bob Pratt (SM) Haydn Bunton (Fitz)
Jack Dyer (Rich) Leeta Collier Dick Reynolds (Ess)
"That's a team from the thirties"
said Bill "and if you could pick a side from todays'
players to beat it, you're Mandrake."
Most a obvious, Bolger and Huxatable might require Wikipedia
picked this team in "Sports Novels' mag Aug 1952
Martin Bolger (Rich) Jack Regan (Rich) Syd Coventry (Coll)
Eric Huxtable (Carl) Reg Hickey (Geel) Jack Baggot ( Rich)
Herb Matthews (South) Marcus Whelan (coll) Chicken Smallhorn (Fitz)
Keith Shea (Carl) Laurie Nash (SM) Jack Collins (melb)
Norman Ware (Fscy) Bob Pratt (SM) Haydn Bunton (Fitz)
Jack Dyer (Rich) Leeta Collier Dick Reynolds (Ess)
"That's a team from the thirties"
said Bill "and if you could pick a side from todays'
players to beat it, you're Mandrake."
Most a obvious, Bolger and Huxatable might require Wikipedia
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They nearly got it right Rhett lol. For everyones benefit the definitive best 10 players in order are
1 Wayne Carey
2 Leigh Matthews
3 Garry Ablett Snr (most talented sportsmen in any code anywhere for clarification check his YouTube highlights incredible also 7.5 goals a game in 93 is like he came down a division)
4 Tony Lockett
5 Ted Whitten
6 Lance Franklin
7 Hayden Bunton Snr
8 Garry Ablett Jnr
9 Dick Reynolds
10 Bob Skilton
Who is your top ten Rhett?
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Nah, I'm not gonna to turn this thread into what each posters top 10 is. That can be for another thread though.
This thread is just for published lists in newspapers/books/websites etc
No worries all good
