Snr and Matthews fair enough. Debatable & likely impossible to decide.BigMart wrote:Wayne Carey
Gary Ablett Snr
Leigh Matthews
Or are we talking about Saints? Key Fwds??
But Carey; Plugger (and those 2) have him covered easily.
I feel Carey has been overrated due to the success of his team and the love affair Mike Sheehan in particular had with him.
A champion player, no doubt, but he basically couldn't mark overhead. For a player of his position, strength and ability, this was a massive weakness. He modeled his game to get around it, nearly always marking on his chest which is a credit to his reading of the ball, but when push comes to shove he was not a complete player, and at the very very top level of comparison, such a flaw rules him out of the conversation.
Carey is in the gap between Rooey and Plugger, and is closer to #12 than #4. Hard to split Carey with Dunstall.
As an aside (and a fun swipe at Carlton) all of the above mentioned are above Kernahan who I believe is the most overrated champion forward of that 10/20 year period.