Yeah, Malthouse was only an average player. Barassi and Roos would have been on a par with Matthews.
Roos was overrated as a player. Nowhere near Matthews as a player.
Yeah, funny you say that HRT. When I first went to post my reply above I said the same thing abut Roos but I checked his playing record first and it had more substance to it than I can remember at the time. 7 All Australian, 5 Fitzroy B & F, 14 State of Origin (2 capt), 2 E.J Whitten Medal, 1 AFL MVP (Leigh Matthews Award), 121 career Brownlow votes including a 2nd and a 3rd.