TOP 5 OF 2000'S

[eaglehaslanded]

Obviously Central has dominated the 2000's but I come to thinking about what the top 5 of the 2000's would be. Here's what I come up with:

1: Central (10 Grand Finals & 8 Premierships
2: Eagles (5 Grand Finals & 1 Premiership)
3: Sturt (2 Grand Finals & 1 Premiership)
4: North (1 Grand Final)
5: Port (Played 6/10 finals series)

What are others thoughts ?

[Cambridge Clarrie]

Central
Eagles
Sturt
North
Glenelg

[eaglehaslanded]

Central
Eagles
Sturt
North
Glenelg

Glenelg - how do you come to that conclusion CC ?

[eaglehaslanded]

Who voted for Norwood - surely you can't be serious. They made 3 of 10 finals series and didn't finish above 3rd. West at least played in 4 of 10 finals series and played off in a GF.

[Cambridge Clarrie]

Central
Eagles
Sturt
North
Glenelg

Glenelg - how do you come to that conclusion CC ?

I know they were dismal in the first half of the decade but they have been dominant in the last couple of years and have made a Grand Final which is more than Port did. Only an opinion...

[Brucetiki]

Top 3 is very easy

Centrals (10 GF's, 8 Premierships)
Eagles (5GF's, 1 Premiership, 9 Finals series)
Sturt (2GF's, 1 Premiership, 8 Finals series)

4-5 are pretty tough

I've given 4 to North (1 GF, 5 Finals Series, but 1 wooden spoon)

5th I wasn't sure whether to give to West (1 GF, 4 finals series, but 4 wooden spoons) or Glenelg (1GF, 3 finals series, but 3 wooden spoons). However, I've decided to just give it to West.

So my ladder for the 2000's is

Centrals
Eagles
Sturt
North
West

Glenelg
Port (6 finals series)
Norwood (4 finals series, 1 wooden spoon)
South (1 finals series, 1 wooden spoon)

[eaglehaslanded]

Central
Eagles
Sturt
North
Glenelg

Glenelg - how do you come to that conclusion CC ?

I know they were dismal in the first half of the decade but they have been dominant in the last couple of years and have made a Grand Final which is more than Port did. Only an opinion...

True, true - I didn't know how to pick the last couple apart. West and Glenelg both played in a GF but Port made more finals series.

[doggies4eva]

Centrals
Eagles
Sturt
daylight
more daylight

[whufc]

1.Central

DAYLIGHT

2.Sturt
3.Eagles

DAYLIGHT

4. Glenelg
5. North

[Hondo]

I am not on my computer so don't have the exact stats handy but of the 60 or so finals since 1999; Sturt, Centrals and the Eagles have won something like 44 of the them. 75% won by only 3 teams Centrals have 22 of the 44.

I think North were 4th ranked and after that I can't remember but it was down to teams that had won only about 2 finals in that time.

An amazing era of dominance by 1 team but also by those 3 teams v the other 6.

[spell_check]

That stat goes:
Central 22
Eagles 13
Sturt 9
North 5
Norwood 3
Glenelg 2
Port 2
South 1
West 1

[spell_check]

And just for fun, guess which team has lost the least amount of finals in the past 10 years?

South 1
Central 2
Glenelg 5
Norwood 5
West 5
North 7
Port 8
Sturt 11
Eagles 14

[am Bays]

I'll vote next year when the 00s actually finish...

also I hope we've actually might justify a spot in the top five.....

[csbowes]

Centrals
Eagles
Sturt
Port
Norwood if based on minor round performances...

but when you add in major round performances...

Centrals
Eagles
Sturt
North
Glenelg (only just over Port cos of the grannie)

[JK]

Top 3 is very easy

Centrals (10 GF's, 8 Premierships)
Eagles (5GF's, 1 Premiership, 9 Finals series)
Sturt (2GF's, 1 Premiership, 8 Finals series)

4-5 are pretty tough

I've given 4 to North (1 GF, 5 Finals Series, but 1 wooden spoon)

5th I wasn't sure whether to give to West (1 GF, 4 finals series, but 4 wooden spoons) or Glenelg (1GF, 3 finals series, but 3 wooden spoons). However, I've decided to just give it to West.

So my ladder for the 2000's is

Centrals
Eagles
Sturt
North
West

Glenelg
Port (6 finals series)
Norwood (4 finals series, 1 wooden spoon)
South (1 finals series, 1 wooden spoon)

Sadly, this was exactly my line of thinking on the way to the identical selection(s).

[Dirko]

Based on average FINAL ladder positions the table would be;

Central
Eagles
Sturt
Port
North Adelaide

Norwood
Glenelg
West Adelaide
South Adelaide

[Wedgie]

If you'd told me at the end of 2003 (our worst ever and we were almost closed down) that most people would rate North the 4th best side of the decade I would have had you committed to an asylum! How bad are the 5 clubs below them going?

[doggies4eva]

Using Spelly's stats above if you score a finals win as +1 and a loss as -1 teh table looks like:

Central 20
South 0
Eagles -1
Sturt -2
North -2
Norwood -2
Glenelg -3
West -4
Port -6

That might be a bit flattering to the doggies because their 2 losses were in GFs which should probably be scored higher. But it makes South look good

[Wedgie]

Using Spelly's stats above if you score a finals win as +1 and a loss as -1 teh table looks like:

Central 20
South 0
Eagles -1
Sturt -2
North -2
Norwood -2
Glenelg -3
West -4
Port -6

That might be a bit flattering to the doggies because their 2 losses were in GFs which should probably be scored higher. But it make South look good

Damn, those Magpies are finals chokers!

[Grahaml]

How are sturt ahead on this poll? Eagles are miles ahead of them over the entire decade.

Top 3 are very easy.
1. Dogs. No argument against that.
2. Eagles. Made 50% of the GFs over the 10 years, missed finals only last year IIRC and often were a top 3 side.
3. Sturt. Only other side to make the GF more than once and winning a flag makes then 3rd in my book.

After that it's much tougher. West, Glenelg and North made 1 GF each, but all 3 were really, really bad at some time as well. Minor round wins, finals wins, final placings etc would probably throw up totally different sides for 4th and 5th. I think west were too bad for too long, and were mid range most of the time they weren't terrible while North were a decent side for longer than Glenelg were. So I would go for
4. North.
5. Glenelg.
6. West.

Can't really see any reason for Norwood, Port or South sitting ahead of those 3 even though they all had their moments of course. South were so bad for most of the time, and barely better than mid table at best so they can win another spoon. Port and Norwood are so similar in my view, both had patches of being reasonable, but I think Port on percentage. Just a little more being decent and a little less being crap than Norwood. So the last placings on my ladder go to
7. Port.
8. Norwood.
9. South.