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...and how many GF's did he lose with the best player to ever play the game kicking record amounts of goals at the time?

Who won the 1995 GF? Was it the flashy forward work of Ablett and co, or was it the dour defensiveness of Silvagni and co.
(although that was Ayres, the same logic applies)

BOG on the 1995 GF was Williams, I never saw him tagging anybody.

Our next best players were Koutafides, Kernahan and Bradley, no taggers there!

I think the only defender in our top 10 on the day was Christou attacking of the HBF, hardly a dour defender!

Malcolm Blight won Back to Back flags with the theory that you just had to kick more goals than them 

I simply cannot take you seriously if you don't rate Silvagni's game.

In the 21 games leading up to that 1995 Grand Final, Ablett kicking 122 goals 82 behinds.
He kicked 4 goals or more in 20 of those 21 games. The exception was against Sydney in R2 where he kicked 3.3.
He had on average 9.7 shots on goal over that same period.
The last time he played us, he kicked 4.5.

In the Grand Final - he kicked 0.3. Silvagni was his opponent the entire game.
IMO he was 2nd BOG behind Diesel.

Gibbs Cleared to play.

I simply cannot take you seriously if you don't rate Silvagni's game.

In the 21 games leading up to that 1995 Grand Final, Ablett kicking 122 goals 82 behinds.
He kicked 4 goals or more in 20 of those 21 games. The exception was against Sydney in R2 where he kicked 3.3.
He had on average 9.7 shots on goal over that same period.
The last time he played us, he kicked 4.5.

In the Grand Final - he kicked 0.3. Silvagni was his opponent the entire game.
IMO he was 2nd BOG behind Diesel.

That can't be, he hit an Essendon player!

Further to that, remembering back, he had a huge finals series, where he kept Merrett under wraps, gave Carey a bath and then Ablett in the GF.

I still feel his retirement, more than others, left the biggest hole that we haven't filled adequately since.

Ablett would have had to play in defense to get more opportunities, the Mids and Forwards put Geelong to the sword!

Silvagni had 1 effective spoil. But I'll let you pump up his tyres and ignore the other Mids and Forwards, it's your version of history!

FWIW, I had Spalding as our second best on the day and by some margin, but he was light years behind Williams for BOG!

Yes I agree. When he went it was the loss of a true inspiration and a massive body blow for the club. I remember how gutted I was to realise we would no longer see him playing in the navy blue.

Ablett actually came up to play on the wing for some stretches of the game to get a kick....yet Silvagni stopped him there too.

Then you should recall SOS and Christou double teaming him!

So what you are saying is team defense as well as individual defense helped us win the game.

Glad we agree on how important it is to defend then.

We are debating having too many taggers, every team has the same number of defenders!