Milne and daylight over the past 50 years?

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Milne and daylight over the past 50 years?

Post: # 1708949Post BackFromUSA »

Foschini?
O'Brien?
Anyone?

Or is the small forward pocket a lock?


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Post: # 1708971Post Beno88 »

Schneider easily the next best after Milne.


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Craig O'Brien 52 games and 116 goals in the Plugger era would have a claim?

Either way it is Milne by a street!


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Post: # 1708978Post prwilkinson »

BackFromUSA wrote:Craig O'Brien 52 games and 116 goals in the Plugger era would have a claim?

Either way it is Milne by a street!
Windscreens was a pretty handy player.


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A much undervalued role of the small forward is blocking so that the key marking forward can get a break on his opponent.
Milne did this so well for Fraser Gehrig.


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the question is: do you go Milne or rest an extra mid like Winmar or a freak like McAdam down there


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The mighty Rod Owen!


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Gresh is already ahead of O'Brien


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Prior to Milney, only Allan Davis was what you could call a consistently brilliant small forward. Although Flash Freddy (as a wit who wore a deerstalker and stood near us called him) was probably more brilliantly inconsistent!

You only get one Stephen Milne in a lifetime, just so glad I got to see he entire career in mine. Severely underrated and flippantly dismissed by members of the media who should know better.


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Trev from the Bush wrote:Prior to Milney, only Allan Davis was what you could call a consistently brilliant small forward. Although Flash Freddy (as a wit who wore a deerstalker and stood near us called him) was probably more brilliantly inconsistent!

You only get one Stephen Milne in a lifetime, just so glad I got to see he entire career in mine. Severely underrated and flippantly dismissed by members of the media who should know better.
I don’t know man, has there ever been a better example of a player guarding space to perfection then Andrew McQualter’s 2010... don’t want to bother with young punks like Armitage and Steven.
In the drawn GF, Andrew’s 5 second half tackles really made the difference... and I’m glad we expected nothing more from him. He had a good game


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Yeh, Minnie was seriously good in that period. Outstanding in most games and didn't get the recognition he deserved.

But one good season doesn't make a Milne.


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Has some mighty games, but couldn't do it when it counted sadly


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Post: # 1709096Post perfectionist »

spert wrote:Has some mighty games, but couldn't do it when it counted sadly
A bounce would have altered that description - he would have been the highest goalkicker in a winning GF (3) rather than equal highest in a draw (2).


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Post: # 1709124Post Bernard Shakey »

skeptic wrote:
Trev from the Bush wrote:Prior to Milney, only Allan Davis was what you could call a consistently brilliant small forward. Although Flash Freddy (as a wit who wore a deerstalker and stood near us called him) was probably more brilliantly inconsistent!

You only get one Stephen Milne in a lifetime, just so glad I got to see he entire career in mine. Severely underrated and flippantly dismissed by members of the media who should know better.
I don’t know man, has there ever been a better example of a player guarding space to perfection then Andrew McQualter’s 2010... don’t want to bother with young punks like Armitage and Steven.
In the drawn GF, Andrew’s 5 second half tackles really made the difference... and I’m glad we expected nothing more from him. He had a good game
Yeah and he basically cost us the '09 premiership!
He kicked 22 goals 7 behinds for the year. Three behinds in the Grand Final.


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Bernard Shakey wrote:
skeptic wrote:
Trev from the Bush wrote:Prior to Milney, only Allan Davis was what you could call a consistently brilliant small forward. Although Flash Freddy (as a wit who wore a deerstalker and stood near us called him) was probably more brilliantly inconsistent!

You only get one Stephen Milne in a lifetime, just so glad I got to see he entire career in mine. Severely underrated and flippantly dismissed by members of the media who should know better.
I don’t know man, has there ever been a better example of a player guarding space to perfection then Andrew McQualter’s 2010... don’t want to bother with young punks like Armitage and Steven.
In the drawn GF, Andrew’s 5 second half tackles really made the difference... and I’m glad we expected nothing more from him. He had a good game
Yeah and he basically cost us the '09 premiership!
He kicked 22 goals 7 behinds for the year. Three behinds in the Grand Final.
And there lies any comparison with S Milne. If 22 goals was his best, how far ahead of the rest was Milney? And Milney was a noted MIA come finals; opponents seem to pay more attention when you are playing for sheep stations in finals. In '09 I think Minnie kicked a goal in every game he played - until the Cats gave him the required attention and pressure.


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Post: # 1709142Post Gershwin »

We didn't see a lot of Jimmy Krakouer in a St Kilda jumper but from what I saw he was a 'special' player.


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