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5 hours ago, A F said:

Oooh, I feel like Werridee.

Here goes!

Jetta May Bowey

Lever Frawley Whelan

Langdon Oliver Yze

Lyon Schwarz Fritsch

Farmer Neitz K Pickett

Gawn Petracca J Viney

Stynes White Green Jones 

Note, I was born in 1987, so don't remember Flower. Jackovich was great fun, but didn't play long enough. Loved T Viney's toughness, but like his son, his disposal was a killer. Bruce was a very dangerous player on his day. The Febeys and the McDonalds (Junior in particular) were good value, Tingay was solid, Jurrah was brilliant and Woey is unlucky not to make the list.

Omg, I forgot Flash!

 

Ok, I still feel bad, so here's my 3rd best XXII. This time I swear there will be no others. If you miss the cut here, bad luck!

FB: Bizzle, Shanahan, Hopgood

HB: Watts, Garland, M. Febey 

C: Dyson, G. Lovett, Vince

HF: Grinter, Hogan, Harmes

FF: Fritsch, S. Smith, K. Pickett

FOLL: Jolly, Rigoni, Moloney

INT: Simmonds*, Sylvia, Walsh, Ward

*I suspect Grundy will surpass, however I'd like to see a season of him first.

I'll give it a go.

B:    Whelan      May              Wight

HB: B Lovett     Hardeman    A Johnson

C:   Alves          Wells            Flower

HF: Lyon           Shwarz         Yze

F    Farmer        Neitz            Fritsch

R:   Gawn         Oliver            Petracca

I/C:    Moore    B Wilson        Green       

Can't believe I couldn't find a spot for Jimmy, Trav Johnstone, Tingay, Laurie Fowler, or Cam Bruce. They would be my emergencies.

Also, my interchange has 1 ruck, 1 midfield, 1 forward, 1 back. 

And no other team of ANY era, would get a kick against that centre line. Pity both Alves and Wells left for success elsewhere.

 

I go back to the losing 1958 Grand Final which I watched with my 6 year old and four year old sister. I was 8, knew zilsch anout 'Footy'. As my daughter said not that long ago : Why do you always barrack for losers?

Fowler, Tas Johnson, May

Brett Lovett, Lyon, Hardeman

Alves, Mann, Flower

Green, Schwartz, Davey

Farmer, Neitz, Petracca

Gawn, Barassi, Oliver

Whelan, S.Smith, Stynes, Travis Johnstone, Dixon, Wight, Wilson, Moore.

 

 

 

Edited by Monbon

It is difficult when some people have not seen the greats like Stynes, FLOWER, Alves, Jurrah(a cameo !!),Neitz,Hardeman, Matty Whelan/Jetta (would not like to separate them), Garry Lyon (watch the Youtube when he kicked 10 goals in a final !!), Brian Wilson (B'Low medallist) , Shane  Woewodin ( B'low Medallist).

How do you compare Brian Dixon against Stan Alves vs Langdon . Ditterich vs Gawn or Viney T/Viney J vs Barassi

Will have to admit though that the current crop have some all time greats of MFC in Gawny, Petracca, Oliver plus a few "potentials"

Nostalgia glosses over some issues, but the modern footballer is bigger, faster and in some ways more skillful . Robbie Flower would have been up with any of them though.

A positive posting !!!


Fowler  May  Tassie Johnson

AJohnson  Hardeman  Yze

Flower.  H Mann  Alves

RRobertson. Ox.  Lyon

Fritsch. Neita.  Farmer

Gawn  Oliver  Wells

Stynes  Trac  TViney  Jones

And yes, I am old.

 

3 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

Fowler  May  Tassie Johnson

AJohnson  Hardeman  Yze

Flower.  H Mann  Alves

RRobertson. Ox.  Lyon

Fritsch. Neita.  Farmer

Gawn  Oliver  Wells

Stynes  Trac  TViney  Jones

And yes, I am old.

 

We have many players in common.

Hibberd      May      Lever

Bowey       Petty      Salem

Brayshaw     Petracca     Langdon

Pickett      McDonald    Harmes

Neal-Bullen    Brown    Fritsch

Gawn     Oliver     Viney

Jackson      Spargo     Rivers    Sparrow

🏆

 

Steven Febey seems to be the forgotten man of Demonland!

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23 hours ago, Frosticles said:

It's hilarious being old -- I'd have to find room for Robbie Flower, Greg Wells, Brian Wilson, Peter Moore and a few others

Got the same problem....too many greats! Many were the best ever across the whole League.


Good reminiscing here.  Agree Steve Febey - played 88 and 2000 GF and Ingerson warrant looks. Trent Rivers will be there soon

Born in ‘64

A bit off topic but I’d love to see how our 1975/76 ‘centreline’ of Alves, Wells and Flower would go against our current day version of Langdon, Oliver and Hunter. 

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3 minutes ago, FarNorthernD said:

Born in ‘64

A bit off topic but I’d love to see how our 1975/76 ‘centreline’ of Alves, Wells and Flower would go against our current day version of Langdon, Oliver and Hunter. 

Because of this thread, I have been asking myself the same question.

Oliver is the best player of the 6, followed closely by Flower (I hate relegating Robbie to no. 2 but Oliver is now the best Dees player I have seen).

Alves and Wells are a cut above Langdon and Hunter. They were both very very accomplished players.

5 minutes ago, Maldonboy38 said:

Because of this thread, I have been asking myself the same question.

Oliver is the best player of the 6, followed closely by Flower (I hate relegating Robbie to no. 2 but Oliver is now the best Dees player I have seen).

Alves and Wells are a cut above Langdon and Hunter. They were both very very accomplished players.

I’d still have Flower just over Oliver but I understand how some may not. 

Too hard to pick just 22 and I go back to the 50s.

The only absolute locks are Barassi, Flower, Schwarz, Neitz, Lyon, Brett Lovett and Hardeman. Any combination of 22 would not be the best without these seven.

B. Beckwith/Crompton/A Johnson; Tas Johnson/Smith/May; Bob Miller/Wight/Hughes

HB. B Lovett; Neitz; Hardeman

C. Flower; Wells/Wilson/Oliver; Dixon/Alves/ Langdon

HF. Lyon; Schwarz; H Mann/Yze/Davey

F. Ger Healy/Farmer/Robertson; Jacovich/Jurrah/Bennett; Stynes/Baker/O'Dwyer

R. Gawn/White; Barassi; Petracca/Woewodin/

Mix them up any way and you get a great team. But except for the incomparable and untouchable seven, I am not game to make the final choice.

There may be others but 65 years of memories is too much for me to sort through.


None of these teams are complete without Allen Jakovich.

Do yourself a favour and look for some of his highlights on YouTube. 

B: A.Johnson, S.May, S.Wight
HB: B.Lovett, G.Lyon, S.Febey
C: S.Tingay, B.Wilson, R.Flower
HF: A.Yze, D.Schwarz, Gerard Healy
F: J.Farmer, D.Neitz, A.Jakovich
R: M.Gawn, C.Oliver, C.Petracca
INT: J.Stynes, T.Viney, S.Stretch, C.Bruce

On 4/9/2023 at 11:08 AM, DubDee said:

Todays team is the best MFC 22 i’ve ever seen

As much as love players from the 90’s and 2000’s my “best” team would be made up mostly of the current team.

We look even better than 2021.

36 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

As much as love players from the 90’s and 2000’s my “best” team would be made up mostly of the current team.

We look even better than 2021.

Hope you choose to echo that sentiment on the gameday thread at some point Clint...

Is this a team to win games? Or just best team on paper?

Because you can't have two floaters Lever and Rivers in the same team 


54 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

We look even better than 2021.

We do because we have evolved very nicely since 2021.

We have retained 80% of the side whom the core is now 25+ games more experienced.
We have topped up with two All Australian and B+F winning standard players in Hunter and Grundy.
We have elevated 3 VFL premiership players into our 22 with McVee, Chandler and JVR. 

An improvement has been made to every line of the field, what a joy. 

50 minutes ago, FritschyBusiness said:

We do because we have evolved very nicely since 2021.

We have retained 80% of the side whom the core is now 25+ games more experienced.
We have topped up with two All Australian and B+F winning standard players in Hunter and Grundy.
We have elevated 3 VFL premiership players into our 22 with McVee, Chandler and JVR. 

An improvement has been made to every line of the field, what a joy. 

And with a bit of luck, an extra piece of silverware for the trophy cabinet.

B Whelan May S.Febey

HB Yze Lever J.McDonald

C Langdon Jones Bruce

HF Schwarz Neitz Green

F Farmer Fritsch Davey

Fol Gawn Petracca Oliver

Int: White K.Pickett J.Viney Jurrah 

Sub: Melksham 

Emg: Watts Salem Magner

Edited by Clayton spirit

 

So hard not to let Nostalgia put the Swooper/Balme/Danniher era players above the current crop. 

Reality is that the current era side are by far the best Melbourne team in my lifetime. But will always have a soft spot for the guys that were my hero's growing up. 

OPs team is hard to argue with

7 hours ago, tiers said:

B Lovett; Neitz; Hardeman

Love this HB line

What a great player Gary Hardeman was

My centre line would be

Flower Mann Alves


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