Top 5 best grand final performances for no Norm Smith

[Procrastinator35]

It's been done, well sort of!! The results are included in the awards section of the AFL Record Season Guide:-

GRAND FINAL BEST ON GROUND: 1965-78
In 2001, the AFL Record named the players who were best on ground in the Grand Finals between 1965 and 1978. A panel of football and media experts was selected for each year and asked to judge the best on ground. Because there is little or no vision of Grand Finals before 1965, that was deemed to be the cut-off point. The selections were:
1965 Ted Fordham (Essendon)
1966 Ian Cooper (St Kilda)
1967 Bill Goggin (Geelong)
1968 Gary Crane (Carlton)
1969 Michael Green (Richmond)
1970 David McKay (Carlton)
1971 Kelvin Moore (Hawthorn)
1972 Robert Walls (Carlton)
1973 Kevin Bartlett (Richmond)
1974 Kevin Sheedy (Richmond)
1975 Brent Crosswell (North Melb)
1976 John Hendrie (Hawthorn)
1977 Len Thompson (Collingwood)
1977* Arnold Briedis (North Melb)
1978 Robert DiPierdomenico (Hawthorn)

*replay
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The 2001 Grand Final Football Record (pages 106-110) has more on this fascinating topic, including details of voting.
http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/R/F47J...2084?func=results-next-page&result_format=002

Hendrie in 1976 is a joke....He kicked 2.8.....Knights saved our bacon time & time again in the last quarter, taking mark after match-saving mark in defense.

Ridiculous call that one.

 

[35Daicos]

Hendrie in 1976 is a joke....He kicked 2.8.....Knights saved our bacon time & time again in the last quarter, taking mark after match-saving mark in defense.

Ridiculous call that one.

The voting was:-
John Hendrie (Haw) 6
Peter Knights (Haw) 4
Geoff Ablett (Haw) 3
Leigh Matthews (Haw) 3

Judging panel: Russell Greene, Brian Cook, Tim Watson.

Hendrie defends his "inaccuracy" in that 2001 Football Record article, which says:- Hendrie's stats show he kicked two goals eight behinds, but Hendrie says they're misleading. "I did kick about four behinds, but the rest were touched off the pack and would have been rushed behinds these days," he said.

 

[Wallaby]

The NBA 'retrospected' it's award for MVP of the All Star game. After the award was established, they did the replay analysis of all the previous games (only 3 or 4, I think) and awarded gongs.