Is Dustin Martin on track to become the greatest AFL player?By SEN
5 March 2020Dustin Martin’s CV gets better by the year.
The Richmond superstar added a best afield medal in last Friday’s State of Origin bushfire relief game to his two premierships, two Norm Smith Medals, Brownlow Medal, two best and fairest awards and three All-Australian blazers.
But where does Martin rank among the greatest to have ever played the game?
Melbourne AFLW captain Daisy Pearce believes Martin’s name should be in the conversation.
“I started thinking about the argument of who is the best player ever to have played the game,” Pearce told SEN’s Bob and Andy.
“I think Dustin Martin is the best player to have ever played the game.
“224 games, going at more than a goal a game from the midfield within all those defensive structures … he is right up there.”
SEN host Andy Maher feels Martin's list of accomplishments make for a compelling argument.
“He’s 28, if he keeps going at the same rate that he has been going for the last seven or eight years for the next four or five, there might be a chorus joining your (Pearce's) thought here,” Maher said.
“He’s done just about everything there is to do in the game. And on a lot of fronts he has done it more than once."
Martin will be key if Richmond are to win back-to-back flags for the first time since 1974.
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