great spines

[the claw]

To add to Claw's passionate case for his fellow countryman. I watched Hudson play against Richmond in 1977 in the curtain raiser before the replay grand final.  Claw is right his main attribute was his ability to be inconspicuous. I saw him take three marks in the railway end goal square uncontested when on each occasion there were three Richmond defenders in the square.  They just kept kicking these wobbly punts up in the air that would drift in the air and land in his arms, it was great to watch.

Didn't see Coleman play but my father said he was a freak. For mine I lean toward plugger simply because Coleman and Hudson really only played at the top level during the prime of the career which makes their averages look better. Locket played from 17 well into his 30's If you take the middle 7 years of his career he was a good as any of them.

hudson kicked 110 in 77 aged 31 bill thats pretty late in his career. give hudson back the 4 yrs he missed and i have no doubt he would of kicked 11 1200 goals and he would of done it quicker than any other player.

 

[craig]

I used to work with a guy, who I won't name, but I will say his brother is a current AFL "star" player.

He was a teammate of Lionel, and nominated for the same draft.
We were watching the draft together, hoping our mate would go, and it got down to the deep dark depths of the draft, and Lionel's name got read out. The bloke got up out of his chair, screamed something about "AFL recruiters are *expetive here* idiots if they want that retard." And left the room.

I put it down to jealous rage, then I saw mr proctor play.

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He was taken in the same era as Gordon, White, Ryan, Ednie, Raidis and Careless, what names what names.
Great recruiting era for the tigers absolute Golden Era. :hihi