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You must rate Dawes very low indeed if the above is his best ever game.
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Players who played there best game in a Grand Final
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Dirty Bird
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He was bog in the first half, 2nd half he went to his traditional average self. If he remained good he should have won it.
LukeParkerno1
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Should have won it anyway.
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Some would also say Brendon Goddard (first game). He's never really recaptured that type of performance.
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As did Stanton.
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Brett Kirk in 2006, take him away and the Swans lose by 40. Played peak Judd to a draw, stepped up in the 2nd half and carried the team.
Nic Fosdike in 2005 (sorry, LRT did play a few other decent games.)
Nic Fosdike in 2005 (sorry, LRT did play a few other decent games.)
I thought LRT had a terrific game. He was my pick for BOG
While that was Essendon's last finals win, it still leaves the kaiserchief13 post as correct
He played one or two good games before that ...
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True but personally at least never saw him near that level again unfortunately
I've seen Jarman kick 9. So wasn't his best although it was up there,
Ablett played a better game the week before. Probably rank his 14 goals against the bombers in a losing side better as well.
Possibly a winner here.
From Geelong the only candidate would be Harry Taylor in 2009 against Riewoldt who was at the peak of his powers that year.
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I posted from memory and recalled watching him score a lot of goals off a half forward flank in a GF I thought was 77.
I am aware he followed Barassi to Melbourne and played some food footy largely as a centre half back as I recall. I will now have to google and confirm.
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Cool man,I think he kicked one goal over the two games. Snake Baker kicked maybe 6 in the draw. Arnold Briedas kicked a whole swag of behinds in the draw,maybe your thinking of one of those two.
If a lot of goals is 2, it must be 1976 as he didn't play in any other Grand Finals. He missed a lot in the 1977 replay though (1.4).
Kicked 5 in the SF v Richmond, could this be the match you had in mind?
Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
There was such high hopes for Dear after this game with the aging Brereton.
They were never even close to being reached.
Was unstoppable in the 91 GF.
Surely Billy James is the unequivocal winner?
He literally never played a better game than he did in the 1920 Grand Final, by any measure.
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Tony Evans 1992 - completely changed the momentum of that game in the second quarter.
Kicked 3 goals (should've kicked 4) and did the bulk of the roving work in the game, keeping the Eagles moving forward every time it looked like Geelong were getting back into it. Whilst the backs took care of Ablett & Brownless, and Matera finished it all off and deservedly won the Norm Smith, it was Evans' reading of the ball in tight that was telling. Ended up with the ball in his hand at the siren too.
But for his finals form, Evans had a relatively unremarkable career.
Kicked 3 goals (should've kicked 4) and did the bulk of the roving work in the game, keeping the Eagles moving forward every time it looked like Geelong were getting back into it. Whilst the backs took care of Ablett & Brownless, and Matera finished it all off and deservedly won the Norm Smith, it was Evans' reading of the ball in tight that was telling. Ended up with the ball in his hand at the siren too.
But for his finals form, Evans had a relatively unremarkable career.
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