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Is Neita Hall of Fame material?

Dee_Flower
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By the time his career is finished, Stephen Milne will have very similar games/goals stats to David Neitz. Would people on here be happy to see Stephen

Milne in the HOF? Probably not. So taking our MFC glasses off, I dont think he stacks up well enough in the league overall to warrant it.

If they re-did Melbourne's all time team, would Neitz make it?

Milne never played Centre Half Back and Nietz never allegedly raped anyone .

Theres two good reasons why tiprat should not be mentioned in the same breath as Nietz.

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    Neita is absolutely Hall of Fame material.......................every bit the player, if not better than Chris Grant who finds himself inducted!

    We too harshly judge our own sometimes...................Neitz was a champion!

    Neita deserves consideration, but better than Chris Grant is a huge call. Was effectively a Brownlow medallist and absolute superstar. Played all over the ground and still managed 500+ goals.

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    Mark Bickley, Dean Kemp, Glen Jackovitch, Michael Long.

    Nieta is every bit as worthy as these inclusions for mine. The big difference is the lack of a premiership medal. And it is a rather large difference.

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    Nup, but as listed in various posts above plenty of those already included must surely have got there through their clubs politicing.

    I suppose once you have a HoF you have to make sure its full,if only to make the ' Legends ' look really really special for those who didnt see them.

    POST WAR (2nd WW)

    RDB ..absolute legend

    Robbie Flower...legend

    Neita... Club legend

    Gary Lyon...legend in his own mind

    Jakovich, Jurrah...'Freak Gallery'

    Jimmy Stynes...Patron Saint

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    Nup, but as listed in various posts above plenty of those already included must surely have got there through their clubs politicing.

    I suppose once you have a HoF you have to make sure its full,if only to make the ' Legends ' look really really special for those who didnt see them.

    POST WAR (2nd WW)

    RDB ..absolute legend

    Robbie Flower...legend

    Neita... Club legend

    Gary Lyon...legend in his own mind

    Jackovitch, Jurrah...'Freak Gallery'

    Jimmy Stynes...Patron Saint

    Our 'freak gallery' category would be rather large.

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    Neita deserves consideration, but better than Chris Grant is a huge call. Was effectively a Brownlow medallist and absolute superstar. Played all over the ground and still managed 500+ goals.

    Grant was a terrific player no doubt, but I don't consider him better than Neitz................I view them about even (Neita slightly ahead for being a Demon!)

    Grant did have a great season when he polled top votes for the brownlow, but Neita also had a great season when he won the

    Coleman.

    I like to think I'm being unbiased, I just think there wasn't much between them as players, and for that reason, Neita deserves to be inducted too.

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    Grant was a terrific player no doubt, but I don't consider him better than Neitz................I view them about even (Neita slightly ahead for being a Demon!)

    Grant did have a great season when he polled top votes for the brownlow, but Neita also had a great season when he won the

    Coleman.

    I like to think I'm being unbiased, I just think there wasn't much between them as players, and for that reason, Neita deserves to be inducted too.

    While I have some sympathy for your view I have zero doubt that the wider football community considers Grant had the superior career.

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    While I have some sympathy for your view I have zero doubt that the wider football community considers Grant had the superior career.

    Grant really wasnt that good-a shocking shot at goal if the match was close.

    The captaincy didn't help.

    He underachieved.

    Nietz was better in nearly every aspect of the game except kicking points/out of bounds.

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    Grant really wasnt that good-a shocking shot at goal if the match was close.

    The captaincy didn't help.

    He underachieved.

    Nietz was better in nearly every aspect of the game except kicking points/out of bounds.

    Your post is irrelevant to the content in my post.

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    Slightly off topic, it's an indictment on the last 40 years of the club that there have been so few Melbourne players even worthy of consideration. A quick look at other clubs 2012 playing lists identifies many likely HoF inductees once they retire - Brisbane (Brown, Black), Geelong (Scarlett, Bartel, maybe Steve J, Enright and Selwood), Sydney (Goodes), Essendon (Fletcher), Carlton (Judd), Hawthorn (Hodge), Fremantle (Pavlich), Gold Coast (Ablett) and many others.

    Neitz? Borderline for mine on pure performance but maybe gets in because of the number of games plus number of games as captain plus being awarded AA in two completely different positions.

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