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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog4life View Post
    Charlie Evans for me. I had his number on my jumper as a kid. Terrific back pocket player who represented the Vics but seemed to lose form quickly and went to South.
    I think Charlie may have developed eyesight problems which played a role in his early retirement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by merantau View Post
    I think Charlie may have developed eyesight problems which played a role in his early retirement.
    Thanks Merantau. He was such a good tackler. He said at the time he always tackled at the hips. Countered a number of players trying to baulk him. I remember he did wear glasses off the field.

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    Neil Cordy was a very good player no doubt but for me it has to be Tory Dickson. I will be first to admit that I was singularly unimpressed recruiting a 25? year old who'd been plying his trade uphill and down dale for half a dozen years. How wrong was I? He turned out to be an absolute gun and it was very unfortunate that injuries post-2016 reared their ugly head.
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    Quote Originally Posted by merantau View Post
    Neil Cordy was a very good player no doubt but for me it has to be Tory Dickson. I will be first to admit that I was singularly unimpressed recruiting a 25? year old who'd been plying his trade uphill and down dale for half a dozen years. How wrong was I? He turned out to be an absolute gun and it was very unfortunate that injuries post-2016 reared their ugly head.
    Agree - one of the most accurate shots for goal in AFL history.
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    #30 is a tricky one. We've got three candidates - Don McKenzie, Ross Abbey and Mathew Robbins. All played a similar number of games. Don coached us. Ross played for Victoria. Hard to pick a stand out for me.
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    Looking forward to 32.
    Our 1954 premiership players are our heroes, and it has to be said that Charlie was their hero.

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    Looking forward to 32.
    As opposed to Peter Street at 31?
    But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.

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    I will now begin on the numberd 31 - 40 starting tomorrow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by merantau View Post
    #30 is a tricky one. We've got three candidates - Don McKenzie, Ross Abbey and Mathew Robbins. All played a similar number of games. Don coached us. Ross played for Victoria. Hard to pick a stand out for me.
    Matty Robins because he kicked more goals than the other two.

    Will you do a summary of 1 to 30 at some stage?
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    Our first #31 of note was Barry Smith who played from 1960 to 1965 - 6 years, 78 games. He was a wingman who had heaps of pace and was very elusive. It was easier to tackle dust than get a hand on Barry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Matty Robins because he kicked more goals than the other two.

    Will you do a summary of 1 to 30 at some stage?
    So here is a summary of what we have so far. I'll start with #1 thru #10
    #1 Andrew Purser, #2 Bob Murphy, #3 Ted Whitten, #4 Marcus Bontempelli, #5 Matthew Boyd, #6 Brad Johnson, #7 Doug Hawkins, #8 Rick Kennedy, #9 Laurie Sandilands , #10 Easton Wood.
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    Quote Originally Posted by merantau View Post
    Our first #31 of note was Barry Smith who played from 1960 to 1965 - 6 years, 78 games. He was a wingman who had heaps of pace and was very elusive. It was easier to tackle dust than get a hand on Barry.
    With Alex "the racehorse" Gardiner on the other wing and Bobby Spargo in the centre we certainly had a speedy centre line.

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    So its a choice between James Mulligan and Tom Young?
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    Re: Bulldogs By the Numbers

    Quote Originally Posted by merantau View Post
    Our first #31 of note was Barry Smith who played from 1960 to 1965 - 6 years, 78 games. He was a wingman who had heaps of pace and was very elusive. It was easier to tackle dust than get a hand on Barry.
    Probably should just blow the siren and award the honours to KT before TwoDogs sends an invite to the Yarraville nets.
    But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1eyedog View Post
    Probably should just blow the siren and award the honours to KT before TwoDogs sends an invite to the Yarraville nets.
    Wasn't he a Melbourne player?

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