We had their take on the Defenders...now it's the forwards
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Every AFL club’s best forwards that never played togetherWe have named our defensive trios, so here are each team’s best spearheads that never lined up together in the AFL era👇
BY ED CARMINE -
STAFF WRITER
JANUARY 27, 2021
With our picks for the best defensive groups that never overlapped in the AFL era in the books, it is now time to shift our focus to the opposite end of the field.
When we think about the game’s greatest highlights, it is usually the men in the goal square that acted as architects.
When we as fans cast our minds back to the first numbers we ever had stitched onto our replica jumpers, it was usually the full forward’s digits that we selected.
They are the men that keep both the scoreboard and the turnstiles ticking.
With the AFL era now 32 years old (1990 to the present day), we here at Zero Hanger have decided to select a group of club greats on each line whose careers never overlapped.
As with our group of defenders, here are the ground rules for selection:
1. Three players must be selected from each club.
2. Even if they have played for multiple clubs, no player can be selected on the list of two teams.
3. All players must have played at least a portion of their careers from 1990 onwards.
4. As mentioned, no player can have played an in-season match with any of their colleagues during their time at their selected club.
For example, should Jason Dunstall be selected for Hawthorn, then all of his forward line friends from 1985 to 1998 will fail our criteria.
With that in mind, here is our best stab.
RichmondDavid Cloke – 1974-1982 and 1990-1991 (219 games and 272 goals)Like Vander Haar at Essendon, David Cloke’s prime came well before the dawn of the AFL era, but he gets a nod here as we were desperate to fit this list’s next name in.
Although his peak and all of his honours came prior to 1990, Cloke still managed to sign off as a professional footballer with a bag of 8.1 in his final game.
Matthew Richardson – 1993-2009 (282 games and 800 goals)Should you crunch the numbers yourself in a bid to fit Matthew Richardson onto your list, you are likely to be more understanding of Cloke’s questionable selection.
However, with a staggering 13 club goal scoring titles, three All- Australians, a Jack Dyer Medal and the most goals ever scored on the MCG, I am certain you will be glad you made the effort.
In his time at Tigerland, nobody loved the club more than ‘Richo’ and for that he was, and to an extent still is, the poster boy of the Tiger Army.
Tom Lynch – 2019-Present (44 games and 95 goals)With key forwards tending to span across generations at Richmond, coupled with their new found stability born out of recent success, an entire decade had to be jumped to find our third and final candidate.
But what a candidate Tom Lynch is.
After 131 games and eight seasons in the cellar with the Suns, Lynch requested a trade home to Victoria in an effort to spend some time at the other end of the ladder.
Now, despite only 44 games across two seasons with the Tigers, the 200 centimetre forward has proven a pivotal linchpin in Richmond’s back-to-flags in 2019 and ’20.
Although arguably yet to replicate his All-Australian form of 2016, you can rest assured it will not be long before another AA blazer or three will be hanging on Lynch’s coatrack
And for the rest
https://www.zerohanger.com/every-afl-clubs-best-forwards-that-never-played-together-2021-76038/
