Melbourne's top 10 players going into 2011

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,509]

My top 10 - just overall in skill, ability, match winning ability and proven track record:

1 Brad Green

2 Col Sylvia

3 Aaron Davey

4 James Frawley

5 Mark Jamer

6 Liam Jurrah

7 Jack Grimes

8 Brent Moloney

9 Tom Scully

10 Cale Morton

Blokes like Rivers, Petterd, Dunn, Jones, Garland, MacDonald and Trengove unlucky.

Edited March 19, 2011 by Bring-Back-Powell

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This is a tough one, but here are my top ten most important MFC players this season.

In order:

1. Frawley

2. Green

3. Jamar

4. Sylvia

5. Davey

6. Grimes

7. Jurrah

8. Morton

9. Garland

10. Scully

* Sylvia keeps coming to mind as the only player who could take the number one mantle from Frawley.

C'mon Col ... time to explode!

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

1. Frawley

2. Jurrah

3. Green

4. Sylvia

5. Davey

6. Jamar

7. Grimes

8. Moloney

9. Scully

10. Trengove

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1. Frawley

2. Green

3. Sylvia

4. Davey

5. Grimes

6. Jamar

7. Jurrah

DAYLIGHT

8. Petterd

9. Rivers

=10 Moloney, Scully, Trengove, McKenzie

EDIT

If we're doing totals I need a proper number 10. Go with Trengove because he'll be up and about early this year.

Edited March 20, 2011 by the master

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1 Frawley

2 Jamar

3 Jurrah

4 Davey

5 Grimes

6 Sylvia

7 Green

8 Moloney

9 Scully

10 Garland

[Grandson of a gun 276]

1 Frawley

2 Jamar

3 Jurrah

4 Grimes

5 Garland

6 Green

7 Davey

8 McKenzie

9 Scully

10 Morton

Ranked in that order primarily because of the importance of having them fit and the importance of having these particular 10 play well all year...

[Good Times Grimes 2,396]

1. Frawley

2. Green

3. Sylvia

4. Jurrah

5. Jamar

6. Grimes

7. Davey

8. Trengove

9. Scully

10. Garland

[Good Times Grimes 2,396]

1 Frawley

2 Jamar

3 Jurrah

4 Grimes

5 Garland

6 Green

7 Davey

8 McKenzie

9 Scully

10 Morton

Ranked in that order primarily because of the importance of having them fit and the importance of having these particular 10 play well all year...

No Sylvia?

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Frawley, Jamar, Davey, Green, Jurrah, Grimes, Sylvia, Scully, Garland, Trengove

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Frawley

Sylvia

Jamar

Grimes

Davey

Green

Jurrah

Garland

McKenzie

Scully

[The Great One 99 125]

Good thread. We need to work out the totals at the end.

1. Jamar

2. Frawley

3. Sylvia

4. Davey

5. Jurrah

6. Green

7. Garland

8. Grimes

9. McKenzie

10. Petterd

Based on most important to the side, not best ability.

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Frawley

Jurrah

Sylvia

Davey

Jamar

Green

Scully

Petterd

Grimes' short kicking to a 50/50 contest means he doesn't make my top 8.

Scully, who people criticise as having a poor kick, has an action that will become Elite as early as this season.

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ATM

1. Jurrah

2. Jamar

3. Frawley

4. Davey

5. Green

6. Sylvia.

7. Grimes

8. Petterd

9. Scully

10. Rivers

Edited March 20, 2011 by btdemon

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1 Jamar

2 Frawley

3 Sylvia

4 Green

5 Davey

6 Jurrah

7 Watts

8 Scully

9 Trengove

10 Grimes

jamar #1 on the basis that if we lose him we just do not have a ready made ruck replacement.

edit: spelling. colin sylvia not colin syliva

Edited March 20, 2011 by Benno

[Grandson of a gun 276]

No Sylvia?

No. Don't get me wrong, we needs Sylvia to become an A grade star and he was great last year, but THIS YEAR I believe that the 10 I listed are the 10 most important for team structure. Once 3 or 4 of them go down we are in serious strife.

[damon the demon 57]

whoever missed mckenzie doesn't get it

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Will have a think about this one.

I'm definitely of the opinion that Jordie Mckenzie will be crucial to our success this year.

[old55 23,077]

Scully

Frawley

Watts

Trengove

Sylvia

Jurrah

Grimes

Davey

Morton

Garland

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1. Frawley

2. Green

3. Jamar

4. Jurrah

5. Scully

6. Davey

7. Sylvia

8. Jones (people seem to have forgotten how much grunt he gave us last year and how much he had improved on previous years. Those same people also tend to forget that he is now making what I consider a remarkable recovery from what was essentially a very debilitating injury that few players would come back from so quickly - we NEED his G&D and if he can take a similar step up to last season again, he will be very useful)

9. Grimes

10. Bennell (another player people have already written of... again! - his second half of last season showed that he is going to be a very very valuable player for us going ahead. His run and his innate ability to get the ball will prove essential as long as he becomes more consistent)

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whoever missed mckenzie doesn't get it

they don't get it ? let's see your top 10 damon the demon.

1 frawley

2 sylvia

3 scully

4 watts

5 trengove

6 davey

7 grimes

8 mc kenzie

9 jurrah

10 jamar

Edited March 20, 2011 by Grimes to Watts

[The Big Ticket 94]

Frawley, Jamar, Davey, Green, Jurrah, Grimes, Sylvia, Scully, Garland, Trengove

This one.

McKenzie and Morton could be easily included as well.

Edited March 21, 2011 by BattlerBailey

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Scully

Frawley

Watts

Trengove

Sylvia

Jurrah

Grimes

Davey

Jamar

Garland

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reading these lists really does highlight the loss of Bruce & Jr, not many players in each list that you can really say are proven over a reasonable period of time

Green

Davey

Frawley

Jamar

Sylvia

Grimes

Jurrah

Trengove

Scully

Garland

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If you are saying Proven track record then it is a lot different from potential or most important to the side (in terms of development etc) FWIW I have done it based on potential for 2011

1, Green

2. Davey

3. Jamar

4. Sylvia

5. Frawley

6. Scully

7. Trengove

8. Tapscott (we need to get thru the press)

9. Grimes

=10. Morton (clear the def 50)/Wona (fwd defensive pressure)

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Jurrah

If we don't get consistent first use of the ball from the centre bounce we will struggle to win games

If we don't pressure the opposition as they go into their forward 50 then a backline with King Kong and Voldemort

won't stop them kicking goals and we will struggle to win games

If we can't deliver with precision into our forward 50 we will struggle win games

Jurrah in the list because he is Jurrah