You didn't say how many seasons he averaged 2 goals/20 disposals. It must be a lot for him to be GOAT. At least a dozen like Lethal right?
Sorry. My mistake for treating this seriously. I will be quiet.
You can just say how many seasons he had 20 and 2.
I did. The GOAT has a dozen plus 20disposal 2 goal seasons. Is that Martin?
It is all I need.
72-83 looks like 20 and 2 to me every year. I think maybe 2 goals short in 1980 and 3 goals short in 71. Depending on your source.
So, no seasons of 20/2, just some random awards, some of which were invented long after most of the greats had retired.
I would add Pavlich to that list as well.
What a shame he couldn't kick straight. Dusty kicked 19 goals 2 behinds in a preposterous run of uber-accuracy in finals to lead the Tigers to their famous b2b flags in 2019-20. And you just had to see most of those goals.
I just asked Dusty to make his case, he showed me 3 Norms, 3 Ayreses, and his all time record of being outscored by the whole opposition teams across 3 Grand Finals by only 2.66 goals per Grand Final - whilst playing mainly midfield. You got someone that beats any of those?
Or credit for being able to kick so many goals in big games for a team who defends the way Richmond did....
Either the team was remarkable, or Dusty was, or both. Seeing as the great luminaries here have ruled Richmond the weakest dynasty team in history, I think you are by implication saying Dusty is also the greatest player in history. So you must remember PB, it is not me, but you, who has made that implication.
You see PB, I searched those great Swans defensive unit teams and the greats Barry Hall, Michael O'Loughlin and Nick Davis couldn't get within a Swan's roar of Dusty's Grand Final goal kicking feats. So I went to the incredible defensive unit team that was St Kilda in your golden era of football(not mine, yours) and Goddard, Riewoldt, N, and the Schneider Man couldn't get near it. So I checked back on the great Blues backline of their triple flag dynasty teams of 79, 81, 82. And you guessed it, much like those other much feted defensive units, couldn't get a goal kicker near what Dusty did. So I went all the way back to the great Collingwood teams in the Gordon Coventry era. The revered Coventry tried valiantly, but couldn't manage getting within an average of 6 goals of opposition teams in his Grand Finals despite some shockingly low scoring games. And of course Mr Coventry had the distinct advantage of being permanently stationed at Full Forward in front of the "greatest team in history," where our Mr Martin was given the small handicap of spending 65% of his game time in the midfield in "the worst dynasty team in history." No matter, Dusty still managed to somehow pull through that with the smallest goal deficit to the whole opposition team of any player in history to play multiple Grand Finals.
Did I mention this was in the fully professional era 18 team, 18 fully funded football departments, 17 opposition teams with video students and large coaching panels trying to work out how to stop Dusty 3 times over? And when the AFL finals process had selected THE BEST of these teams and pitted them in Grand Finals against the one and only GOAT, they couldn't find teams good enough to outscore Dusty by more than 2.66 goals per Grand Final on average. And this of course while Dustin the Unbelievable was playing mainly midfield.
It is as well I will never have great-grandchildren PB. Because there is no possible way they would even believe me if I told them this.
Dusty averages within 2.66 goals of his 3 Grand Final opponents WHOLE TEAMS. Nobody else in history from any other club you choose to mention is anywhere near it. Darren Jarman, not within cooee. Isaac "Norm" Smith, not within the same solar system. Chapman, Seagull Johnson, not in the same universe. Nobody is.
