Fox Sports: Ratten the No.1 (Player of the decade)

molsey · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:41 am

Pre-season filler article on stats and players of the last decade with Ratten up top from his 60 odd games 2000-2003:

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 11,00.html

Sydney Blue · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:06 am

Stats never lie :thumbsup:

budzy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:17 am **Posts:** 8128

Great player.. :thumbsup:

Blue Vain · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:35 am **Posts:** 18031

Clearly demonstrates how much of an underrated player Ratten was.
It also demonstrates how overrated Hird was.

camel · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 9:21 am

Onya Ratts. As stated, very underrated player.

:thumbsup:

coryne · **Joined:** Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:11 pm **Posts:** 1226

Yep, and il'd have Bowden at what. #5 aswell .............. :roll:

lol

maxm68 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:45 pm

coryne wrote:

Yep, and il'd have Bowden at what. #5 aswell .............. :roll:

lol

yep, i laughed when i saw Bowden at 5...... loved Ratts the player, but better than Hird and Voss....... i dont think so.

Blue Blood Believer · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:55 pm

maxm68 wrote:

coryne wrote:

Yep, and il'd have Bowden at what. #5 aswell .............. :roll:

lol

yep, i laughed when i saw Bowden at 5...... loved Ratts the player, but better than Hird and Voss....... i dont think so.

But Hird and Voss didnt play for the navy blue so i dont give a flying emu's nutsack.

In all seriousness though would love to see the stats from 1995-2003 and see how they weigh up against each other.

Bowdown, the master of the cheap, uncontested mark and possie.

bondiblue · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:07 pm

Happy New Year to all.

Great find there Molsey.

Underrrated for sure.

The stats tell the story....clearances....Ratts was the Diesel when Diesel retired.

The stats tell the story, and I can't argue with stats. Ratts: player of the Decade. No question.

I'm not bias. Truly I'm not.

JackWorrall · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:12 pm

As much as I admired Ratten...

...lies, damned lies...

verbs · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:19 pm

Surprised but then again not surprised. More likely the best midfielder of the decade based on the Champion Data model. As a mid, those who get it a lot are worth their weight in gold. Those who get it a lot and also use it superbly are priceless, and it would appear Ratten was the best of them all. Good on him. His second half of the 90s was also superb.

dane · **Joined:** Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:14 am **Posts:** 22357

Peter g would surely have given him the 5 votes every week yeah?

camel · **Posted:** Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:24 pm

Fox Sports: Ratten the No.1 (Player of the decade)

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