Our 5 best players?

[dukedog]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Bont. Libba. Wood. T. Boyd. JJ.

Players I think are an absolute loss for the team if they wern't playing.
As opposed to the 'best' players....

[LostDoggy]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Hard to define what best means. If I was picking a fictional perfect team to play against the Martians and was allowed 5 Bulldogs in good health, I'd take Bont, Libba, Morris, Macrae and Murphy.

[Hotdog60]

Re: Our 5 best players?

No mention of Wallis in these list. He was doing alright until the leg.
It's Bont and then throw a blanket over a dozen others.
Hard call.

[GVGjr]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Very difficult to do.

Bontempelli
Dahlhaus
Johannisen
Liberatore
Macrae

Morris, Picken, Wood and MBoyd all unlucky

[comrade]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Bont
Libba
Stringer
JJ
Morris

Wood, Macrae and Dahl very stiff. Expecting Hunter & Tom Boyd to push up into consideration in 2017.

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Of course it is hard to pick a top 5.

Even a top 5 drafted 2012 and later is bloody good.

Bont
Macrae
Stringer
T Boyd
L Hunter

Pity we have no elite players (according to Nathan Burke). If we did they might threaten for a flag.

[Twodogs]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Of course it is hard to pick a top 5.

Even a top 5 drafted 2012 and later is bloody good.

Bont
Macrae
Stringer
T Boyd
L Hunter

Pity we have no elite players (according to Nathan Burke). If we did they might threaten for a flag.

I wonder if something like that counts against you when it comes to deciding the line up next year? It was right at the end of the year too so everybody remembers it.

[1eyedog]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Hard to define what best means. If I was picking a fictional perfect team to play against the Martians and was allowed 5 Bulldogs in good health, I'd take Bont, Libba, Morris, Macrae and Murphy.

Just according to you is fine. Most important is fine as per OP as well.

[Bornadog]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Based on 2016 form guide.

Bont
Macrae
Libba
Picken
JJ

[ratsmac]

Re: Our 5 best players?

This is so hard. If I do this for the next 5 days I'll have a different list every time. Here I go...

1. Bont (obviously)
2. Murphy
3. Dahl
4. Libba
5. M. Boyd

Apologies to Morris, Macrae, Wood, Stringer, Picken and so on

[FrediKanoute]

Re: Our 5 best players?

For men its about hurt factor, so

Bont
Libba
JJ
Wood
Picken

Give these guys space, time and the ball and they will murder you

[The Underdog]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Is it on exposed form because I'm struggling to see how people are rating Tom Boyd in our best 5. Sure he was near BOG in the GF and had a very important Prelim but his form before that is best described as patchy.

To rate him currently above a bunch of his teammates seems presumptuous. On potential future impact sure, but he's a ways of current top 5 I'd suggest. As for mine I agree there is a lot of players around a similar mark which make it tough. In no particular order.
Bont, Dahlhaus, M. Boyd, Liberatore, Wood.
A fit Murphy probably takes Boyd's spot.

Morris is immensely important. Macrae, Wallis and Hunter are very close and Stringer on talent should be in there but his form this year was crap.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Our 5 best players?

1. The Bont
2.Lukey D
3.JMac
4.Libba
5.JJ

Apologies to 17 others

[merantau]

Re: Our 5 best players?

Does anyone have info on the personel who made up pur '85 Prelim side? Many think this was our best team since '54. I'm interested in the age breakdown compared to current 22.

These are the players I remember: Hawkins, Kennedy, Royal, Hardie, Sewell, Daniels, Purser, Egan, Super, Peter Foster, Mark Kellett, Beasley, Bamblett, Wallis, Maylin, Rod Macpherson, Buhagiar, Brian Cordy, Neil Cordy, Ian Williams, Emmett Dunne. Darren Baxter
My impression is that a lot of these players were gone by 1988 whereas with our current team we could have the bulk of them around for another 7 - 10 years.

[merantau]

Re: Our 5 best players?

I forgot Jim Edmond