J Johnson would ragdoll M Gleeson so badly he’d need to undergo a concussion test.
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That’s true, but also J Johnson would have struggled to run out one full quarter of modern football, so Gleese would just have to avoid him early on.
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If Gleeson avoided M Johnson for one full quarter, the 2000 side would be up by 12x goals.
Playing M Gleeson on M Johnson doesn’t bear thinking about.
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Why would a half back be playing on an inside mid anyway?
It’s not like Gleeson goes to JPK these days.
You’re right. I misread it.
If M Gleeson was playing M Long, the 2000 side would be up by 15x goals by 1/4 time.
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The 2000 side would be up by 15 goals at 1/4 time, regardless of what M Gleeson does.
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Anyone who says 1 is an utter fool. It’s not infinity, and is completely indeterminate.
If you take 2x/x and have x approach 0, then all the way to 0, the ratio is 2.
But if you do the same thing with x/2x, the ratio is always 0.5
You just cannot determine it.
It’s like those arguments that say 1+2+3+4+5+… = -1/12. Half-way through the logic, they treat infinity as a normal number and do things like subtracting infinity from twice infinity and declaring it to be zero.
But lots of people are intellectually limited in that they don’t understand the rigorous nature of mathematics.
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That 2000 forward line would monster and destroy our current backline.
The only one who could maybe do ok on Lloyd would be Ambrose, but even that’s a stretch. Can you imagine Hurley or Hartley playing on Lloyd…
Bags and Moorcroft would be a great duel. They would probably both just belt the living suitcases out of each other off the ball
The real question is…Would the 1996 (and still current) Lightning Cup champions beat the non conquering 2018 AFLX team?
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Who would play on Hird?
Hurley when forward?
Absolutely nobody when on ball?
I honestly don’t know who would even stand a chance on Hird.
When Hurley goes forward, Wellman would take him and beat him in the air and then kill him on the rebound
Let’s all be honest though Sheedy would have worsfold for breakfast
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Oh no, I meant would Hurley take Hird, when Hird is forward?
Actually, if you look at the few guys who had success shutting Hird down (D Kellaway, B Scott), I’d give Ambrose a crack.
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Moorcroft was a pretty decent player, but if Dean Rioli was not injured, he would have been in that side.
Is that because the 2000 Team didn’t lose a game on it’s way to preseason dominance?
If Hird was even 90% fit for that GF, he would have eaten Scott for breakfast, and shat him out at half-time !
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Wasn’t the only time he struggled on Scott.
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Oh, very sorry man I completely misread what you meant.
When Hird went forward, yeah Hurley would have to be the one to take him. Bags could maybe do ok. But Hurley would have to get first crack
Ambrose v.s Hird would be pretty interesting. Seeing them contest a 50/50 ball would be one hell of a sight to see
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Yes. We played Lions in Brisbane early in 2002 and they toweled us up. It really showed how the Lions were so much quicker than us. Hird was our best player and got an easy 30 possession game as Scott followed a few metres behind. The difference in class was clear to see. I was there and came away with the realisation that even though we may have won the flag in 2001 if we had a fit team, the Lions had gone past us quickly. It hurt.
Then there was the no rules game at Etihad in 2004(?). We lost again but it was great to see Hird fighting with the Scott brothers. He was so fired up. We kept up with them for 3 quarters. They were a great team and I hated them for dethroning us.
That 2004 game was ■■■■■■ depressing.
Especially as we’d finally got them the year before.
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Yep.
Travelled up with the wife and friends for that early encounter in 2002.
It was obvious very early in the game that we just couldn’t go with them.
We really needed to pinch that Flag in 2001 (and it would have been a pinch) whilst they were still GF inexperienced.
Unfortunately, we just couldn’t put a big enough gap on them in those 2 middle quarters.
I knew when Voss put that ugly floater thru from the boundary that the era was probably over, but I never thought it would take this long to get into a Top 4 again, and another opportunity.
You got me reminiscing, thus this post is longer than I intended.
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