Disagree. Fletcher is a little over rated and while Glass has emerged in the last couple of years, as far as i'm concerned Scarlett is by a reasonable margin the best full back of the last 7 or 8 years.
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Disagree. Fletcher is a little over rated and while Glass has emerged in the last couple of years, as far as i'm concerned Scarlett is by a reasonable margin the best full back of the last 7 or 8 years.
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And towards the end of his career, he was still kicking bags of goals and getting 100+ a year. Between 1993 - 1996 he kicked 124, 129, 122 and 64 respectively. The averages come out at 7.3, 5.2. 5.5 and 4.1. So your excuse is very thin here. In fact, his twilight years were one of his best as a forward.
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Ha, remember when Milburn Slaughtered Silvagni
so you resort to a cheap act of snipering when you realise you have no argument to say that silvagni didn't shit all over ablett and would have done so no matter how young ablett was. typical.
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so you resort to a cheap act of snipering when you realise you have no argument to say that silvagni didn't shit all over ablett and would have done so no matter how young ablett was. typical.
Yeah, typical Carlton supporters who boo Milburn every time he gets the ball when we play you. Get over it, it was like 10 years ago.
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Yeah, very brave . . . would have received 12 weeks in todays football.Ha, remember when Milburn Slaughtered Silvagni
I'm not sure whats so confusing about that. He was being compared to Scarlett, and although hes a good player, to me Fletcher isn't in the same class as Scarlett.
Ha, remember when Milburn Slaughtered Silvagni
Yep, Milburn is a coward. We all know that but I'm not sure what that has to do with this thread.
Ha, remember when Milburn Slaughtered Silvagni
Remember 1995?
To this day I've never been able to work out how Silvagni got it...seem to come to the conclusion that because of Elliott's CUB sponsorship of the AFL at the time, money talked.
I take it that you've never watched an Essendon match before...
Think Big Nasty is spot on the money there! no need to watch essendon play!! as you said your self Zac Dawson is the best there is! watch and learn from the Cougar!!
Yet you're the one who actually bought this up in the discussion in the first place.
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IMO the best 2 fullbacks going around in the last 5 years have been Rutten,Glass & Scarlett.Rutten only had 19 goals kicked on him in 18 games,yet Glass was All-Australian???
Looking at your profile, you're 19 years old. Tut tut.
Besides, Regan had more goals kicked on him. I'll see if I can find that stat, he's had bags kicked on him from time to time and it was posted here. You also have to consider the quality of forwards he played against.
And don't give me this "Prince" rubbish, that's just a title.
You can do better than that, surely.
There were and have been better full-backs.
We all know the Jack Regan story.
What about Geoff Southby and David Dench? Combiuned they turned playing full-back into an attacking weapon, whilst stopping the likes of Hudson, McKenna, Wade, Jesaulenko etc.
And the likes of Langford weren't shithouse. There is still controversy as to how Silvagni was named in the 20..and then his selection at full-back in the actual side. Until someone can provide conclusive evidence that he was the best, then the selection will forever remain tainted.
Ablett and Williams also got in.
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Langford was great no doubt - he certainly was the one player who troubled Sticks in his prime.
Personally I thought Southby in his prime was the best I've seen. I don't think he was ever cut up by a forward (Templeton maybe?) whereas SOS got cut up more than once. Dench invented the running full-back role that Scarlett does so well today. Moore, Dench, and Southby were all ineligible for the award because they were judging it. That's the problem with getting the experts to judge - the experts themselves can't win.
But SOS was the only contender for FB that you could swing forward - not as a last resort, but as a first. I don't think any other FB in history has kicked a bag of 9. SOS was so demoralising to forwards I once saw Sav Rocca call for the bench rather than play on him. Not a thing wrong with the guy - he just didn't want to be there.
Maginness lined up on Ablett that day and Langford got moved back onto him after he kicked about 5. Still the point about your effort to revise history is to discredit Langford and once again you fail misarably, no wonder your a moderator on the Carlton Board.
Silvagni shouldn't never have been a candidate for the best fullback of the century. The best I've seen are Langford and Dench, although the football historians will tell you that Regan should have got the accolade.
No wonder Silvagni was surprised as he wasn't even the best fullback at the time that team was read out - Langford was clearly the superior. Just another case of Carlton bias.
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