WCE peak Judd was better than peak GAJ and peak Dustin Martin

[My Tilly]

No tagging during Martin's peak. Bit like today's NBA with very little defense.

Just imagine heading into a grand final and your direct match-up is someone like Jake Kolodjashnij

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Jake Kolodjashnij

Age

29

Ht

193cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.4

3star

K

6.9

3star

HB

5.6

4star

M

4.2

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

148.5

2star

D

10.6

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

3.6

2star

M

4.6

4star

T

1.2

2star

MG

115.6

2star

D

11.8

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

6.4

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

3.2

5star

MG

69.4

1star

I know he's decent but he won't exactly feature strongly on Geelong best ever defenders list.

 

[Freomaniac]

Replace Cousins and Kerr with spuds such as Murphy and Gibbs and it's no wonder Judd never got close to another flag with Carlton

true.....

Marc Murphy and Bryce Gibbs were good and serviceable mids. Both of those blokes didnt win AA selections or Brownlow medals.

Cousins and Kerr were both good. Both got AA selections. Cousins won a brownlow in 2005. Kerr finished 1 vote behind cousins in 2005.

 

[Freomaniac]

Again people are nostalgic apart from the 89 finals series his finals record was abysmal…

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I know it is off topic but 16 goals in 4 finals in 1992 isnt bad. If it was 2024 standards, that would be very good.

Ablett snr kicked 3 of the cats goals in that 1992 AFL grand final. Cats were not good enough on the day to win.

 

[Tiger 7]

You have to answer yes to this, because to answer no means you have no idea.

 

[My Tilly]

I know it is off topic but 16 goals in 4 finals in 1992 isnt bad. If it was 2024 standards, that would be very good.

Ablett snr kicked 3 of the cats goals in that 1992 AFL grand final. Cats were not good enough on the day to win.

Ablett was a brilliant finals performer.
He flipped the game in both finals against the Dogs 1992 and was good in the grand final too.

His 94 & 95 finals were inconsistent but this was when he was pigeon-holed to full forward and Geelong were smashed in both grand finals.

 

[Paracleet]

How is there 28 pages of this? Judds best footy is head and shoulders above (and it was tearing me up inside).

 

[SplintWhisky]

Dusty's 2017 is the greatest individual season by a player in the history of the game. Take Judd and GAJ best season and it doesn't come close. Only thing is that he wasn't at that level in the H&W season really, ever again. He was good but not consistently great.

Would say that 2017 peaked for Dusty at a 10, issue is all the rest of his full seasons were a 7. GAJ and Judd had much more seasons at 8 and 9 mark consistently.