Matthew Boyd - AFL Life Member

[Go_Dogs]

Quick question, where does Boyd sit amongst our all time greats?

Club captain
Premiership player
3 x Best and Fairest
3 x All Australian
Potentially a 300 game player

It's a fair resume.

[bulldogtragic]

Quick question, where does Boyd sit amongst our all time greats?

Club captain
Premiership player
3 x Best and Fairest
3 x All Australian
Potentially a 300 game player

It's a fair resume.

And AFL & WBFC life member, and he's played in the most amount of winning finals ever in our club's history. I'd have him very, very easily in the next Team of the Century, currently vice captain behind Bob. I'm assuming he's already nominated in that thread.

[whythelongface]

Quick question, where does Boyd sit amongst our all time greats?

Club captain
Premiership player
3 x Best and Fairest
3 x All Australian
Potentially a 300 game player

It's a fair resume.

It is a very good question. Hard to say. The media and supporters from other teams certainly don't rate him as highly as we do, but in reality he is probably amongst our top 10 players of the last 30 years. To be honest I think he has gotten better with age. He has been transformed by the move back to the HBF and this has certainly added to his value.

I can't speak highly enough of Matty Boyd. He is the ultimate professional who has striven to continuously improve himself as well as those around him. He may not have the natural talent as a Griffen or the pace of a JJ but what he brings to the team is a hard work ethic and professionalism that is required to succeed in the modern game. He is a huge factor of our recent success.

[ledge]

Boyd and Morris are extremely similar in how they started and how they worked hard to get where they are.
Both should be in our team of the century but it's hard to fit them all in.
Morris is the most under rated player in the AFL in my opinion because of where he has played all his career .
Boyd and Morris are the Johnno and Smith of this generation.