Rucci's Top Ten Players

[CK]

Hard to really judge players pre-1920, as no-one here saw any of them play, but surprised "Bunny" Daly doesn't get more of a mention along the way. Agree with reogernumber10 about "Wacka" Scott though - surely deserved a mention somewhere, and would have thought Bruce Schultz, who admittedly played much of his career in Ken Farmer's shadow, would make a top 50 somewhere. Then again, hard to ignore Tim Evans on the same basis.

Agree, thought, that Ken Farmer should surely be top 3. An average that may never be broken, when compared to total goals scored.

[evans01]

wot no Bruce Light or Tim Evan's.....disgrace....

[BUZZ]

wot no Bruce Light or Tim Evan's.....disgrace....

Scott Hodges????????

[Leaping Lindner]

wot no Bruce Light or Tim Evan's.....disgrace....

Scott Hodges????????

It's a Top Ten of ALL time!!!!

[BUZZ]

wot no Bruce Light or Tim Evan's.....disgrace....

Scott Hodges????????

It's a Top Ten of ALL time!!!!

Your point being..........?

[Leaping Lindner]

wot no Bruce Light or Tim Evan's.....disgrace....

Scott Hodges????????

It's a Top Ten of ALL time!!!!

Your point being..........?

You seriously think Scott Hodges is in the top ten best SANFL players of all time? Even allowing for the fact that he played quite a bit of AFL so technically doesn't qualify for this list.
He might make the best Top 10 Port players of all time, but not the SANFL.

[BUZZ]

AFL he played 38 games in 7 years, he wasnt known for his AFL career or achievements, the Crows blew that....
Still has a figure of 153 goals in a season (SA record), a Magery Medal and 8 flags to his name, will never, ever see that again from a full forward or any player in this competition nor a simular competition.
Made the team of the century in the greatest team of the century, Port that is, so why is there no justification?

[Leaping Lindner]

AFL he played 38 games in 7 years, he wasnt known for his AFL career or achievements, the Crows blew that....
Still has a figure of 153 goals in a season (SA record), a Magery Medal and 8 flags to his name, will never, ever see that again from a full forward or any player in this competition nor a simular competition.
Made the team of the century in the greatest team of the century, Port that is, so why is there no justification?

Statistically Tim Evans has a better goal average and played more games. Also remember whilst Hodges had an outstanding 1990 he did only top the leading goalkickers three times(1990,1994 and 1996 for three centuries). Evans did it six times (1977,78,80,81,82,84 for three centuries).
Then look at Ken Farmer's record. Topped the leading goalkickers 11 seasons in a row with a century plus in each of those seasons and played 224 games for a average of 6.33 goals per game (Hodges 3.77 - in 183 games - and Evans 4.2 - in 248 games).

[BUZZ]

AFL he played 38 games in 7 years, he wasnt known for his AFL career or achievements, the Crows blew that....
Still has a figure of 153 goals in a season (SA record), a Magery Medal and 8 flags to his name, will never, ever see that again from a full forward or any player in this competition nor a simular competition.
Made the team of the century in the greatest team of the century, Port that is, so why is there no justification?

Statistically Tim Evans has a better goal average and played more games. Also remember whilst Hodges had an outstanding 1990 he did only top the leading goalkickers three times(1990,1994 and 1996 for three centuries). Evans did it six times (1977,78,80,81,82,84 for three centuries).
Then look at Ken Farmer's record. Topped the leading goalkickers 11 seasons in a row with a century plus in each of those seasons and played 224 games for a average of 6.33 goals per game (Hodges 3.77 - in 183 games - and Evans 4.2 - in 248 games).

Fair call and you have done your homework by the looks.
A few points in my last post like 8 flags, as you and i stated a record 1990 season plus a Megary Medal, Hall of Fame Inductee and SANFL life member counteract only just for what Farmer and Evans had achieved. Scott did also win 3 medals in the name of the aboved bloke aswell and kicked 100 AFL goals. Top 5 in my opinion

[36 flags]

Blight, Platten, Cahill all played over 100 sanfl games. Craig Bradley 99 games. All top 10 players imho

[JK]

didn't Blighty only play 10 - 15 games fewer with the Peckers then the Roos ?

No, some of them were with the Warriors

[Dirko]

didn't Blighty only play 10 - 15 games fewer with the Peckers then the Roos ?

No, some of them were with the Warriors

Warriors
Peckers

[McAlmanac]

Fair call and you have done your homework by the looks.

Take LL on with historical facts at your own peril.

A few points in my last post like 8 flags, as you and i stated a record 1990 season plus a Megary Medal, Hall of Fame Inductee and SANFL life member counteract only just for what Farmer and Evans had achieved. Scott did also win 3 medals in the name of the aboved bloke aswell and kicked 100 AFL goals. Top 5 in my opinion

Rex Johns was 4 times leading SANFL goalkicker in a golden premiership-laden era for Port. Reckon he's Top 5 too?

[rogernumber10]

As a Norwood man, I'm just going to re-state my point. Ken Farmer is completely dudded by pretty much every historian of our game, including the SA ones, due to the fact he played in the era he did.

6.33 goals every single week. Unbelievable.
He's a goal better per game than both Coleman and Hudson, who are rightly Hall of Fame Legends, but he just happened to do it for twice as long as Coleman at highest level and twice as long as Hudson at the highest level, and nearly the same length of time for Hudson at all levels.

All the old stuff I've read is that teams playing North regularly spent one hour picking their team and three hours thinking about Farmer -- double-teaming him, man in the space, belting him, occasionally triple-teaming him etc. He played 200 odd-games when that was a hell of a lot of games and his record in state footy (when it meant something in that era) was just as brilliant.

He gets nowhere near the recognition in my view and I think he starts two at worst on a list of all-time SANFL players and I'm ready even as a non-North person to argue his case against some bloke who wore 10 for the same club, but I know I'm picking a fair fight there (mainly because 10 is invariably worn by very fine players of whichever club they play for )

[GWW]

Certainly agree, its a joke Farmer wasn't in top 3.

I mentioned it elsewhere, but seriously can anyone suggest how Carey could be at 3?

[rogernumber10]

Certainly agree, its a joke Farmer wasn't in top 3.

I mentioned it elsewhere, but seriously can anyone suggest how Carey could be at 3?

I could only think it was based on weight somehow

[GWW]

Certainly agree, its a joke Farmer wasn't in top 3.

I mentioned it elsewhere, but seriously can anyone suggest how Carey could be at 3?

I could only think it was based on weight somehow

Noooo coz then Grenville would be number 1

[rogernumber10]

On that basis, Grenville would be a well-deserved one, three and four There was a man could take a hanger, and I could never work out how he could get that high off the ground. He was great to watch for those couple of years until football correctness finally took over and he was eased out.

[Macca19]

You seriously think Scott Hodges is in the top ten best SANFL players of all time? Even allowing for the fact that he played quite a bit of AFL so technically doesn't qualify for this list.
He might make the best Top 10 Port players of all time, but not the SANFL.

Id have him in the top 20 SANFL players of all time. He had a fantastic all round career but for me its his finals record which should definately have him in there. He was a massive player in big games.

[dudleydawson]

You seriously think Scott Hodges is in the top ten best SANFL players of all time? Even allowing for the fact that he played quite a bit of AFL so technically doesn't qualify for this list.
He might make the best Top 10 Port players of all time, but not the SANFL.

Id have him in the top 20 SANFL players of all time. He had a fantastic all round career but for me its his finals record which should definately have him in there. He was a massive player in big games.

He won many GF's of his own boot but never received the medal, 94 being the more memorable one.