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Name your top 10 retirees
- Thread starter johnson2richo2003
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1-James Hird:Lost count how many times Hird has delivered when most needed by the team.Can play him almost anywhere.
2-Micheal Voss:Although Voss didnt play this year he still was on Brisbane,s list.The modern day Midfielder.
3-Mark Ricciuto:Toss up between Roo and Buckley,Went for Roo as he got his hands dirty.
4-Nathan Buckley:Great user of the ball but was more interested in his personal profile than the teams.
5-Robert Harvey:Has carried Stkilda for so long.One player who deserved a Premiership medal.
6-Chris Grant
oesnt get the accolades he deserves.
7-Glen Archer:First bloke picked if we went to war.
8-Anthony Koutafides:Shot down in his prime due to injury.The first prototype Midfielder of the modern era.
9-Luke Darcy:Hit his straps late in his career before the dreaded Knee hit.
10-Darren *smile*/Trent Knobel/Kent Kingsley-Too hard to split ;D
*Have included both Buckley and Harvey as both are more than likely.
2-Micheal Voss:Although Voss didnt play this year he still was on Brisbane,s list.The modern day Midfielder.
3-Mark Ricciuto:Toss up between Roo and Buckley,Went for Roo as he got his hands dirty.
4-Nathan Buckley:Great user of the ball but was more interested in his personal profile than the teams.
5-Robert Harvey:Has carried Stkilda for so long.One player who deserved a Premiership medal.
6-Chris Grant
oesnt get the accolades he deserves.7-Glen Archer:First bloke picked if we went to war.
8-Anthony Koutafides:Shot down in his prime due to injury.The first prototype Midfielder of the modern era.
9-Luke Darcy:Hit his straps late in his career before the dreaded Knee hit.
10-Darren *smile*/Trent Knobel/Kent Kingsley-Too hard to split ;D
*Have included both Buckley and Harvey as both are more than likely.
1. Voss
2. Hird
3. Harvey
4. Ricciuto
5. Buckley
6. Archer
7. Koutoufides
8. Grant
9. Darcy
Some absolute champs leaving the game this year.
2. Hird
3. Harvey
4. Ricciuto
5. Buckley
6. Archer
7. Koutoufides
8. Grant
9. Darcy
Some absolute champs leaving the game this year.
If we are going to include Voss, then Ricciuto, Harvey, Voss, Hird and Buckley are a class above the rest, in that order for me. Riccuito and Macleod have been the most influential players at Adelaide, and have dragged a whole generation of midfielders at the club along with them.
Koutoufides, Grant and Darcy are the next group, again in that order. All would have been better players except for injury, all have had wonderful careers anyway.
Archer doesn't rank in the top group for me. Made a career out of chopping arms in marking contests, bending rules, intimidating and belting more talented players. Generally beat most of them but so what? I go to the footy to watch champions display their sublime skills, not to watch how the thugs stop them. Give me a hard-running, supremely talented, competitive footballer like Ricciuto any day.
Ray Hall deserves to be up there with Gaspar, Knobel and Kingsley.
Koutoufides, Grant and Darcy are the next group, again in that order. All would have been better players except for injury, all have had wonderful careers anyway.
Archer doesn't rank in the top group for me. Made a career out of chopping arms in marking contests, bending rules, intimidating and belting more talented players. Generally beat most of them but so what? I go to the footy to watch champions display their sublime skills, not to watch how the thugs stop them. Give me a hard-running, supremely talented, competitive footballer like Ricciuto any day.
Ray Hall deserves to be up there with Gaspar, Knobel and Kingsley.
TOT70 said:
Yep, I'd have Ricciuto, Voss, Hird, Harvey and personally Archer ahead of Buckley. I still prefer hardness at the ball and that is one thing Buckley misses on IMO.
tigger4eva said:
Fair enough. I'd take the 20+ possessions in the midfield, the running goals and creative midfield link work even if most of it came from receiving from others. Riccuito, Harvey and Voss would give Buckley plenty of ball.
1. Voss Sublime
2. Ricciuto
3. Harvey
4. Hird
5. Buckley
6. Koutoufides
7. Grant
8. Darcy
9. Archer
Put Roo and Harvey up because the reason they were not seen as matchwinners is because they always play 100 minutes of football...as opposed to Hird Kouta Bucks who "turn it on" and play in bursts. That aside...I would have any of those blokes in a Richmond guernsey in a heartbeat.
2. Ricciuto
3. Harvey
4. Hird
5. Buckley
6. Koutoufides
7. Grant
8. Darcy
9. Archer
Put Roo and Harvey up because the reason they were not seen as matchwinners is because they always play 100 minutes of football...as opposed to Hird Kouta Bucks who "turn it on" and play in bursts. That aside...I would have any of those blokes in a Richmond guernsey in a heartbeat.
TOT70 said:
All Brownlow medalists.
Not much you can say about these players that hasn't been said already.
Tigers of Old said:
They've got 11 toes? They're qualified concert pianists? They've been to Mars, that hasn't been said before.
The game will be the lesser next year without these guys running around for their sides. It's funny that the draft of 2006 is being hailed as the best ever, and the retirees of 2007 also the best ever...passing the baton? You'd want to hope so.
the top 10 retirees i would like to see are.
1 krakouer.
2 kingsley
3 tivendale
4 pettifer.
5 gaspar
6 hall
7 hyde
8 knobel
9 howat
10 moore.
special mention to the softest of soft jim the marshmallow bob better known as jb. apparently chronic brownus nosus has extended his career in the short term.
1 krakouer.
2 kingsley
3 tivendale
4 pettifer.
5 gaspar
6 hall
7 hyde
8 knobel
9 howat
10 moore.
special mention to the softest of soft jim the marshmallow bob better known as jb. apparently chronic brownus nosus has extended his career in the short term.