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Most underrated player of all time?

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This year I decided to collect every common card from scanlens to select from when I was born to now. That was from 1978 which was the 79 season to now and I found out Neville Jetta never had a common card. His best years were from 2014 to 2018. During that time Bail, Mat Jones, Pedersen, Stretch, Bugg and Kent all got a card. The biggest travesty was the 2018 season when Jetta played 25 games and Hunt only played 6 and Hunt got a card. That's 5 quality years that he didn't get a card meaning Select didn't consider Jetta worthy enough to be in the top 10 to 12 players for the year. Has there ever been a player for Melbourne more underrated than Jetta?  

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    9 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

    This year I decided to collect every common card from scanlens to select from when I was born to now. That was from 1978 which was the 79 season to now and I found out Neville Jetta never had a common card. His best years were from 2014 to 2018. During that time Bail, Mat Jones, Pedersen, Stretch, Bugg and Kent all got a card. The biggest travesty was the 2018 season when Jetta played 25 games and Hunt only played 6 and Hunt got a card. That's 5 quality years that he didn't get a card meaning Select didn't consider Jetta worthy enough to be in the top 10 to 12 players for the year. Has there ever been a player for Melbourne more underrated than Jetta?  

    Dr Turf always started his AA selections each year with 'apart from Neville Jetta, who else deserves to be All Australian side this year'

    Good judge, Dr Turf 😉

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    100% he should've been an ausltralian

    that's an appalling effort by scanlen's

    first they took out the chewing gum and then they didn't create a card for lord nev? disgraceful!

    Edited by whatwhat say what

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    10 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

    This year I decided to collect every common card from scanlens to select from when I was born to now. That was from 1978 which was the 79 season to now and I found out Neville Jetta never had a common card. His best years were from 2014 to 2018. During that time Bail, Mat Jones, Pedersen, Stretch, Bugg and Kent all got a card. The biggest travesty was the 2018 season when Jetta played 25 games and Hunt only played 6 and Hunt got a card. That's 5 quality years that he didn't get a card meaning Select didn't consider Jetta worthy enough to be in the top 10 to 12 players for the year. Has there ever been a player for Melbourne more underrated than Jetta?  

    Check out 2016 certified release #128 or 2015 honours release #131.

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    By anyone other than MFC fans… Robbie F. ☹️

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    David Schwarz for mine.

    He was Wayne Carey good before he did his knee three times.

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    3 hours ago, DeeZee said:

    David Schwarz for mine.

    He was Wayne Carey good before he did his knee three times.

    We haven’t had a better CHF since the Ox. Even after his knee recos he was bloody good

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    17 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

    This year I decided to collect every common card from scanlens to select from when I was born to now. That was from 1978 which was the 79 season to now and I found out Neville Jetta never had a common card. His best years were from 2014 to 2018. During that time Bail, Mat Jones, Pedersen, Stretch, Bugg and Kent all got a card. The biggest travesty was the 2018 season when Jetta played 25 games and Hunt only played 6 and Hunt got a card. That's 5 quality years that he didn't get a card meaning Select didn't consider Jetta worthy enough to be in the top 10 to 12 players for the year. Has there ever been a player for Melbourne more underrated than Jetta?  

    Perhaps.

    In the same way that saying Joe Piscopo is the most underrated actor of all time.

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    Nathan Brown for me. Got the absolute most out of what he had and was a master at the run and carry. If he had a slightly better kick he would have been an A-grade midfielder.

    Matty Whelan deserves a mention too, so important in the Daniher years.

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    17 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

    This year I decided to collect every common card from scanlens to select from when I was born to now. That was from 1978 which was the 79 season to now and I found out Neville Jetta never had a common card. His best years were from 2014 to 2018. During that time Bail, Mat Jones, Pedersen, Stretch, Bugg and Kent all got a card. The biggest travesty was the 2018 season when Jetta played 25 games and Hunt only played 6 and Hunt got a card. That's 5 quality years that he didn't get a card meaning Select didn't consider Jetta worthy enough to be in the top 10 to 12 players for the year. Has there ever been a player for Melbourne more underrated than Jetta?  

    Maybe Jetta was too good for a ‘common’ card? There’s plenty of cards from that time period with Jetta on them. Billy Stretch got a common card?! Yikes. 

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    3 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    Maybe Jetta was too good for a ‘common’ card? There’s plenty of cards from that time period with Jetta on them. 

    That's true he does have cards just not the common one. All the players that have been mentioned Flower, Schwarz, Brown and Whelan all had common cards.

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    I’m leaning towards Brett Lovett.

    On the surface a ‘meat and potatoes’ footballer. 
     

    Below the surface, he had the inside and outside game plus the footy smarts that made him an unassuming character on the field and when the ball was there to be won his head was over it. 
    Tough. 

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    Referencing my vintage

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    Nathan Brown. Courageous, great reader of the play. Matt Whelan and Brett Lovett worthy nominations above.

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    One is my profile pic — SO good but cut down by injury 

     

    others: Ingersole, Obst, Moo, Walsh, Whelan

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    8 minutes ago, Nudge said:

    One is my profile pic — SO good but cut down by injury 

     

    others: Ingersole, Obst, Moo, Walsh, Whelan

    Ingersole!!!

    I miss the days when games weren't all televised and you had to rely on Rex's 3AW commentary!

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    Alan Johnson

     

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    As soon as i saw this thread i thought of Anthony Ingerson.  

    He was one of the great pick ups from another club and just never let the team down.

     

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    14 minutes ago, Hawk the Demon said:

    Speaking of Wheels, I see he has left us to join the Eddie Betts Foundation.

    Nothing on the Club website.....

    Time to bring back King Nev then!!

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