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| Dustin is taking an indefinite leave from footy as reported this morning at richmond headquarters at punt Rd oval |
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23 YIPPEE!!!
YIPPEE 23!!!
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| Word around he looking at retiring stay tuned |
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What'sinaname 
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There's probably nothing more he can achieve. Will be remembered as one of the greatest ever players.
If you lined up his achievements and stats, I wouldn't be surprised if he was in the top 5 of the greatest players of all time.
3 x Premiership
3 x Norm Smith
Brownlow Medallist.
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| Caro reckons he'll return... but whether it'll be the old Dusty she dunno. |
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K
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Looks like no Dusty, no Richmond.
Gotta watch all of Richmond's Q4s to see them slaughtered!! |
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Pies4shaw 
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| What'sinaname wrote: | There's probably nothing more he can achieve. Will be remembered as one of the greatest ever players.
If you lined up his achievements and stats, I wouldn't be surprised if he was in the top 5 of the greatest players of all time.
3 x Premiership
3 x Norm Smith
Brownlow Medallist. |
Is he in the top 5 at Richmond? He's been good in a weakened 18-team competition but I doubt he'd get in ahead of Bartlett, Hart, Dyer, Bourke or Clay. He's certainly not top 5 all-time in the competition. Frankly, I'm not sure where he might have got a game in the good Richmond teams of the late 60s and early 70s. Barrott was twice as good - though seldom fit - so, he wouldn't have played the centre unless Barrott wasn't right - and then there's the small question of getting a game ahead of Barrott's back-up (Ian Stewart), there was no spot on a wing, you couldn't even consider picking him ahead of Bartlett, so he'd have to sneak in on a half-forward flank. He might have made that spot his own after Roger Dean retired, I suppose. |
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23 YIPPEE!!!
YIPPEE 23!!!
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| Word is he is back in the gym working out. Bummer. |
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What'sinaname
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | What'sinaname wrote: | There's probably nothing more he can achieve. Will be remembered as one of the greatest ever players.
If you lined up his achievements and stats, I wouldn't be surprised if he was in the top 5 of the greatest players of all time.
3 x Premiership
3 x Norm Smith
Brownlow Medallist. |
Is he in the top 5 at Richmond? He's been good in a weakened 18-team competition but I doubt he'd get in ahead of Bartlett, Hart, Dyer, Bourke or Clay. He's certainly not top 5 all-time in the competition. Frankly, I'm not sure where he might have got a game in the good Richmond teams of the late 60s and early 70s. Barrott was twice as good - though seldom fit - so, he wouldn't have played the centre unless Barrott wasn't right - and then there's the small question of getting a game ahead of Barrott's back-up (Ian Stewart), there was no spot on a wing, you couldn't even consider picking him ahead of Bartlett, so he'd have to sneak in on a half-forward flank. He might have made that spot his own after Roger Dean retired, I suppose. |
He is better than all of those player listed.
They were all good players in a weak VFL era where standout athletes looked good as 95% of the players were plodders who earned a living doing something else. Football was a recreation for them. It was equivalent to VFL standard (or even worse) today. |
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Pies4shaw
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| So, when you say "all time", what you mean is "amongst current players, playing as full-time professionals and under modern fitness and training regimes"? |
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What'sinaname
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | So, when you say "all time", what you mean is "amongst current players, playing as full-time professionals and under modern fitness and training regimes"? |
Martin has dominated a competition of elite athletes. The players you listed dominated a competition made up of social players. |
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Pies4shaw
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| That would be a "yes", then, I guess. Thus, your claim that Martin is one of the best of "all-time" is just an unedifying assertion that he's one of the better players of very recent times - and, of course, when training methods evolve and Martin is not "elite" (whatever that means) by comparison with emerging future-current players, he would fade back into mediocrity. It's not even worth bothering with such a conversation, really. |
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K
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| 90 nice wrote: | | Word is he is back in the gym working out. Bummer. |
The Tiggers look dead even with him. |
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Presti35 
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Sounds like he'll be back to face the Pies.
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What'sinaname
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| Wont matter as he's only the 1,178th best player to ever play for Richmond, |
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23 YIPPEE!!!
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| Dimma says more like the week after the Pies game |
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