Top 50 AFL Players

[akhoury]

As some of you might have seen Mike Sheean recently re-did his top 50. In my opinion it wasn't a bad effort and thought it would be intresting to see what my top 50 would look like. First I got all the contenders from each club and wrote them down.

Adelaide
S.Goodwin
T.Edwards
B.Rutten

Port Adelaide
S.Bourgyne
B.Lade
D.Pearce

Carlton
B.Fevola
L.Whitnall
H.Scotland

West Coast
C.Judd
B.Cousins
D.Kerr
D.Cox
D.Glass
A.Hunter
T.Stenglein

Sydney
A.Goodes
B.Hall
J.Bolton
D.Jolly
L.Barry
R.O'Keefe

Essendon
S.Lucas
D.Fletcher
J.Watson

Collingwood
J.Clement
D.Swan
H.Shaw
B.Johnson
J.Fraser
A.Didak

North Melbourne
N.Thompson
D.Harris

Hawthorn
T.Croad
S.Mitchell
L.Hodge
Z.Dawson ;D

Geelong
P.Chapman
G.Ablett
M.Scarlett

Western Bulldogs
S.West
B.Johnson
D.Cross
D.Morris
A.Cooney

Melbourne
C.Bruce
T.Johnstone
B.Mclean
D.Neitz
N.Carrol
J.Mcdonald
J.White

Brisbane
J.Brown
S.Black
L.Power

Fremantle
M.Pavlich
J.Carr
A.Sandilands
P.Bell

St.Kilda
N.Riewoldt
N.Del Santo
R.Harvey
J.Gram
S.Fisher

Richmond
T.Simmonds
A.Raines
J.Bowden
K.Johnson
M.Richardson

Now before I start just want to point out that reputation didnt have a whole lot to do with my Top 50. Most of it is based on the year they played and the position they played in.

1-C.Judd
2-S.West
3-A.Goodes
4-B.Johnson (WBD)
5-B.Cousins
6-B.Hall
7-N.Riewoldt
8-D.Kerr
9-M.Pavlich
10-S.Goodwin
11-B.Fevola
12- D.Cox
13 - S.Borgouyne
14 - B.Lade
15 - D.Glass
16 - C.Bruce
17- N.Del Santo
18 - S.Mitchell
19 - J.Bowden
20 - R. O'Keefe
21 - T.Edwards
22 - S.Lucas
23 - T. Simmonds
24 - A.Didak
25 - T.Johnstone
26 - P.Chapman
27 - J.Clement
28 - L.Hodge
29 - P.Bell
30 - B.Johson (Coll)
31 - J.White
32 - L.Whitnall
33 - J.Gram
34 - M.Scarlett
35 - R.Harvey
36 - A.Mcleod
37 - A.Raines
38 - B.Kirk
39 - A.Hunter
40 - G.Ablett
41 - T.Stenglein
42 - D.Cross
43 - N.Thompson
44 - L.Power
45 - D.Swan
46 - A.Sandilands
47 - B.Mclean
48 - S.Fisher
49 - J.Carr
50 - J.Bolton

That was real hard to do and next time around I dont think I will critisize Mike. The order was hard and isnt perfect and could be better. I think I got all the right players in there except the order is a little bit questionable.

(BTW I woke up at 6.00 am this morning for gym and have been bored all morning so I decided to give it a crack)

 

[BBC]

Congrat's AKH, it's a tough gig indeed. Mind you MS did put Adam McPhee in his top 50 last year :-[

A. Raines, J. Gram and D. Swan would not make my top 50 yet on the back of one year.

 

[akhoury]

Yeh Im pretty sure he had McPhee last year. Not only that but it was really high in the top 20. Said he was sure it was gonna be a breakout year for McPhee.

In regards to Raines, Pearce, Gram etc I based it on the year they had. They have proven nothing yet but thier years were too good to disregard. Also players like Voss, Roo, Bucks and Hird all missed out as well because I based my Top 50 on the year not on achievments from the past. The only old timer that got in was Harvs but you cant argue with that I dont think. He nearly won his 3rd brownlow! ;D

 

[Tigers of Old]

Good effort akka.

I'd have Kirk(particularly), J Bolton, Sandilands & Hunter higher.

&

Harvey, Lucas, S Mitchell & J White all lower.

Great effort though

 

[sam_reeves]

id put riewoldt ahead of hall. and i wouldnt have dustin fletcher in there.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Hard to argue against much of that, but maybe
- add the Cornes brothers at least to the list of contenders
- have McLean a fair bit higher
- hard to make a case for Raines without including Pearce as well

Well done, as you say it's a tough task.