Keyser Söze

Woosh! Right over your head...

Thanks for that, top notch effort.

Chad Cornes would love Lynden Dunn...

Col Sylvia? Dunn? Moloney? Rivers? & soon Tapscott...

And he's a bit more agile & can mark above his head.

Cheeky Nasher... I could give votes but don't have the patience to do a lengthy written justification.

So sensitive.

...and in the process you threw him under the bus for a few minor skill errors.

??! Economical use of energy, not words. Laconic is often seen as a bad thing when used to describe an athlete, but it merely means they are efficient.

Try not to be so sensitive. I agree with him. A couple of minor skill errors are meaningless to me; I place much more importance on the other things he mentioned.

Touché.

West Coast are an awful team, but Kennedy still kicked 41.19 for the 2010 season. Like his teammate Le Cras, he doesn't often miss. Imagine him in a good team that could get him the footy cleanly... Anyway, you could go through your list and pick holes in it for eternity, but that would be said no matter who had done it. It's a bloody hard thing to do and I'm not about to do it myself. But seriously -- Kennedy a 6.5? Rivers got 7! Jason Winderlich got 7! and then Cotchin only got 6.5! Marc Murphy got 7, but Hanneberry got 7.5? I could pick holes in this all night... but that would be mean.

Yeah, I know. But some just stick out as mind-boggling to me. It is, as you said, obviously a hard task and then difference of opinion has to come into it. I just can't fathom how Goddard is worth 9.5, but Hodge 8.5, or how Josh Kennedy, the best young CHF in the L doesn't rate higher than a 6.5...

MFCSS

Morton, Garland, Trengove, Blease, Dunn, Sylvia, Jones, Bate, Bennell... we will run teams off their feet.

"could be a movie star"..?! If Campbell hurt his leg / foot / anything that would cause him to limp, then there is no way he'd be using a rowing machine. Maybe just a bit of general soreness if it was an ergo, or it may have been a pilates machine? I know they have hundreds of the bloody things in the gym at AAMI Park.

I find it interesting to read such a comprehensive rating of all those players, 45. You've critically underrated a few, & similarly overrated a few, since this is essentially a prediction for performance in the 2011 season (if I understand correctly).

He was "famous"..?

Just because he has passed away, it does not make the premise of his book any less stupid or inane.

- Frawley's chase on Jetta. - Bennell shimmy on Malceski in first 8 seconds of Swans match. - Scully's entire last quarter against the Bulldogs. - Watts putting in 2nd, 3rd & 4th efforts on the ground against the Swans, eventually handballing it out, leading to a goal. - Frawley owning John Brown. - Anytime I saw Dunn's powerful mustache.

Is that one of the unwashed plebs showing a bit of green skin..?

Dross

Respect and fearing other sides is hogwash. We currently have less mature-bodied inside players than the teams that beat up on us and when the game is reduced to a focus on stoppages we can struggle. North & Hawthorn both have an abundance of solid mature-bodied inside players. We're still playing catch-up in that area.

Most AFL clubs would be in that position, would they not?

As much as I try not to take too much out of these, the write-up on Tom McDonald encourages me.