Top 10 Swans Players YOU Have ever seen.

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You'd have top scrap Rantall and Williams out of your top 10 then, and Rhys-Jones and Teaser in your hear misses for starters.

In my reply I meant that may be lists could be based on the criteria I quoted.

The players in my list are purely the best(IMO ) I have seen, plus there could be another 20 or so players included.

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In no paticular order as i thought it was too hard and they are..

1)Teaser
2)Diesel
3)Healy
4)Goodes
5)Kelly
6)Locket
7)Bayes
8)Kirk
9)Bedford
10)Cresswell

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Henwood
O'Connor
Carey
Warfe
Mathews
Rocca
Higgins
Mott
Fell
Meiklejohn

Rarely a bad game from them.

Fair go Sanecow the "Moose" was great.

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In no particular order:

Paul Kelly
Paul Roos
Adam Goodes
Michael O'Loughlin
Barry Hall
Tony Lockett
Daryn Creswell
Greg Williams
Gerard Healy
Troy Luff

[NMWBloods]

My top ten (not in any order) would be:

Lockett, Round, Bedford, Rantall, G Williams, Healy, Kelly, Goodes, Wright, Roos.

Next ten (not in any order) would be:

P Williams, Browning, Bayes, Hall, Dunkley, Cresswell, O'Loughlin, Quade, T Morwood, Carter.

Apologies to Murphy, Hounsell, Evans, Teasdale, Kirk, Capper, Schwass.

Based on following them since 1975.

[Justice]

Based upon regular attendance from 1987 on and is highly influenced by who were my favourite players over the years:

1. Greg Williams
2. Paul Kelly
3. Adam Goodes
4. Tony Lockett
5. Barry Hall
6. Mark Bayes
7. Rod Carter
8. David Murphy
9. Daryn Cresswell
10. Andrew Dunkley

Cheers

Justice

[Birdman]

1. Paul Kelly
2. Adam Goodes
3. Daryn Cresswell
4. Tony Lockett
5. Barry Hall
6. Brett Kirk
7. Mark Bayes
8. Michael O'Loughlin
9. Paul Williams
10.Wade Chapman

Loved Chapman til he went down with injury. As hard for the footy as Kirk ever was.

[Plugger46]

1. Lockett
2. Kelly
3. Diesel
4. Hall
5. Goodes
6. O'Loughlin (At his best, not so much now)
7. Roos
8. Dunkley
9. Kirk
10.Bayes

[Matt79]

1. Lockett
2. Kelly
3. Goodes
4. G Williams
5. G Healy
6. Dunkley
7. Carter
8. Roos
9. Bayes
10. Wright

[cruiser]

Since 1987, in no particular order:

Lockett
Kelly
Capper
Bayes
G. Williams
Healy
Dunkley
Goodes
MOL
Roos

I'm bound to think of someone else as soon as I hit 'submit reply'. - Hall! I left Hall out. Can I have 11?

[Damien]

Healy (all time fave), Lockett, Kelly, G Williams, Wright, Carter, Goodes, Cressa, Mitchell, Schwass.

Just couldn't include Roos on his time in Sydney, 1996 was stellar but he had an average 1995 and was fading towards the end of his career IMHO. He was a very important player of course, but I think he would be more deserving of being in a Fitzroy Top 10 list.

[Nico]

Bedford - sensational skills
Skilton - brilliance and guts personified
Teaser - Sensational Brownlow year
Williams - uncanny periferal vision and disposal skills
Rantall - mister reliable, great reader of the game
Lockett - a very straight kick amongst other outstanding attributes
Kelly - game breaker and the best at breaking the lines
Goodes - keeps getting better and who can argue with 2 Brownlows
Bayes - I liked him because he always towelled up Kernahan, brilliant kick
Hall - Pure dedication to the task and work rate

[robbieando]

Since 1988 and not in any order

Mark Bayes
Dennis Carroll
Andrew Dunkley
Adam Goodes
Barry Hall
Gerard Healy
Paul Kelly
Tony Lockett
Michael O'Loughlin
Greg Williams

[Foreign Legion]

1 The "Chimp"
2 Greg Williams
3 Tony Lockett
4 John Rantall
5 Paul Kelly
6 Barry Hall
7 "Wheels" Bedford
8 Adam Goodes
9 Tony Morwood
10 Graham Teasdale

Apologies to Micky O'Loughlin and Goodesy from the current players but a few more years might seal it.

N.B. Teaser played the greatest season of footy from an individual I have seen the year he won his Brownlow.

From memory he kicked 9 from FF in round 1, 8 from FF in round 2 and Coach Stewie said ..in the ruck Teaser.

Still remember a torpedo from inside the square at the "G" sailing over my head 15 rows back behind the goals!

Ah bugger it I'll have a stab at top 10 of all time - note I did not see any games before 1970.
I am relying upon Old Timers who have assertively told me (sometimes with pointed fingers) who were the best...can't
go before 1930 so Vic Belcher misses out. The oldest pundit I know went to his first game in 1931!


1 The "Chimp"
2 Ron Clegg - skilled but off field was easily No.1!
3 Laurie Nash - could do anything including get Bradman out and kick 18 goals in an interstate game
4 Bob Pratt - jeez he could easily be considered No.1 by some
5 Greg Williams - dual Brownlows and should have been a 3rd
6 Tony Lockett
7 John Rantall - tough, reliable and durable - great defender
8 Paul Kelly
9 Barry Hall
10 Peter Bedford - so skilled, quick and brilliant

Some reckon that Frank Johnson and Freddie Goldsmith were bloody good too.

[Foreign Legion]

1 The "Chimp"
2 Greg Williams
3 Tony Lockett
4 John Rantall
5 Paul Kelly
6 Barry Hall
7 "Wheels" Bedford
8 Adam Goodes
9 Tony Morwood
10 Graham Teasdale

Apologies to Micky O'Loughlin and Goodesy from the current players but a few more years might seal it.

N.B. Teaser played the greatest season of footy from an individual I have seen the year he won his Brownlow.

From memory he kicked 9 from FF in round 1, 8 from FF in round 2 and Coach Stewie said ..in the ruck Teaser.

Still remember a torpedo from inside the square at the "G" sailing over my head 15 rows back behind the goals!

Ah bugger it I'll have a stab at top 10 of all time - note I did not see any games before 1970.
I am relying upon Old Timers who have assertively told me (sometimes with pointed fingers) who were the best...can't
go before 1930 so Vic Belcher misses out. The oldest pundit I know went to his first game in 1931!


1 The "Chimp"
2 Ron Clegg - skilled but off field was easily No.1!
3 Laurie Nash - could do anything including get Bradman out and kick 18 goals in an interstate game
4 Bob Pratt - jeez he could easily be considered No.1 by some
5 Greg Williams - dual Brownlows and should have been a 3rd
6 Tony Lockett
7 John Rantall - tough, reliable and durable - great defender
8 Paul Kelly
9 Barry Hall
10 Peter Bedford - so skilled, quick and brilliant

Some reckon that Frank Johnson and Freddie Goldsmith were bloody good too.

Forgot about Billy Gunn and the freak - Max Papley.