Big John - best player I've ever seen.
Jezza - Saw him kick 6 in 15 minutes at Princes Park.
Kouta - The last quarter of the '99 PF was the best quarter of football I've seen from anyone, ever.
Doormat - Revolutionised the defensive game, superb balance and anticipation.
Diesel - Unstoppable, superb skills, tough as nails.

Kouta in 2000
Sticks
SOS
Williams
Bradley

Ive only gone for retired players

Nick
Jezza
Fitzpatrick
Doull
Deisel

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Stay tuned We're in for a BUMPY ride

Sticks
SOS
Braddles
Macca
Williams

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Go to http://www.snoutslouts.org/ for a look at the mighty GFC...

Embarassment of riches really, but yes, a 3 time B&F should have been mentioned before now.

Just goes to show how underrated he really was.

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"The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Jinn 15-05-2005

"there’s more chance of me becoming the full forward for the [Western Bulldogs] than there is of any change in the Labor Party." Julia Gillard 18-05-2010

Yeah but can he coach

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Jezza - I was at the G in 1970 GF!
Big Nick - scary and better than good!
Kouta - breathtaking in the late 90's!
Sticks - presence
Bradley - was our barometer, when he played well, so did we!

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"our electorate seeks less to be informed and more to be validated." Sad times.

1. Greg Williams

2. Jezza

3. Stephen Kernahan

4. Craig Bradley

5. Kouta

'snip'

But that is my Top 5!

Budzy, im with you just about all the way...in a near impossible task.

1 Jezza......did the uncanny every week......the 6 goals in 15 minutes...i was there too and it was even better than it sounds as he kicked 6 goals in 12 minutes to the scoreboard end and he just happened to be playing on the Victorian state side full back, one Barry Davis and totally bamboozled him.
2 Big Nick....they dont make players like him any more.
3 Doull........there could never be a better defender than him, such longevity too.
4 Diesel...... if only all his games were with us, but just a genius with a sherrin in his hand
5 Sos......... So good for so long in so many roles.

Apologies to a litany of glittering stars, all the obvious mentioned elsewhere

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I wore number 25 on the back of my jumper 40 years ago..... yes, pre Marchesani !!

3 of the 6 were from free kicks if I remember, Essendon* triple teamed him and he had three players hanging off him when he went for the ball.
Scores were fairly even at half time, Jezza put the game away in the first half of the third quarter.
He was much quicker than he appeared also, I remember one day he easily outsprinted Neville Fields in a one on one when Fields was regarded as one of the quickest players around.
We had a kick to kick with him one day on the Cross Keys oval when he was bar manager of the pub, he was into the breeze and kicking them 20 metres over our heads in a suit and street shoes.
Jezza was a one off, and a great bloke to boot.

Whaa??

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There's so much I could say...

I only started going to the footy as a kid when Jezza was past his best, from about 1977. So I'm going to leave him out, although from everything I've seen, heard and read, in my opinion he's our best-ever player.

Best I've seen:

1. SOS. Has any player ever been able to keep a legendary full-forward under control one week, and kick 10 goals against a fullback the quality of Chris Langford the next week? SOS could, and did. Un-freaking-believable. And the fact that he's a son of a Carlton great doesn't hurt either.

2. Bruce Doull. Maybe I didn't see the very best of Doull, but what I did see was enough. Back then, contested footy was the norm. And if the ball went towards Bruce Doull's opponent, you just always... always knew that Doully would win the footy for us. He was like the sunrise: something wonderful that you could depend upon.

3. Greg Williams. I still don't really know how he did what he did. Watching Diesel play was like watching someone who was on a different plane to the other players out there. Freakishly brilliant, hard as nails, uncompromising yet with laugh-out-loud tricks in close. His greatest gift was he made everyone else around him 10% better than they actually were. Like Judd can.

4. Ken Hunter. The most courageous player I've ever seen in the game; not just in a Carlton jumper. People talk about Glenn Archer (and rightly so) but it's easier to put your body on the line when it's built like a brick shithouse. Kenny Hunter was built like a hills hoist, yet constantly threw himself into harm's way for the benefit of the team. Had a fair bit of skill to go with it too. I loved Kenny Hunter as a player: my all-time favourite.

5. Sticks Kernahan. In his youth, a genuinely talented CHF. In his latter years, more a stay at home key forward. But always a PRESENCE on the ground, and always a leader. Teams thrive with quality leadership, and Sticks gave us that and more. He was a leader by deed, and by words. And 7 goals in a side that was humiliated in THAT grand final should tell you all you need to know about the quality of the man: Sticks would never give in. Never.

Look at the players who I saw play, but who've missed out:

Bradley
Koutoufides
Madden
Johnston
Ratten
Jezza
Fitzpatrick
The Buzz
Ashman
Harmes
Sheldon
McClure
And on and on

Shit, I was lucky

top 5 (that i have seen)

1. Sticks
2. Diesel
3. SoS
4. Kouta
5. The Juddstar