North Melbourne and AFL great Wayne Carey has named the best 20 players he has seen.
Carey, a dual Kangaroos premiership captain and seven-time All-Australian, revealed his top 20 from 1987 onwards in a column for The Age.
Lance Franklin, Dustin Martin and Gary Ablett Jnr are the only active players who made the champion forward’s final list.
“It does include plenty of players from the '90s and that's down, in part, to the fact it was a time everyone had an opponent. There were no easy touches,” Carey told The Age.
Below are Wayne Carey’s top 20 players:
- Jason Dunstall
- Michael Voss
- James Hird
- Tony Lockett
- Chris Judd
- Robert Harvey
- Greg Williams
- Lance Franklin
- Gary Ablett Snr
- Nathan Buckley
- Mark Ricciuto
- Adam Goodes
- Glen Jakovich
- Andrew McLeod
- Dustin Martin
- Jonathan Brown
- Stephen Silvagni
- Matthew Richardson
- Gary Ablett Jnr
- Paul Kelly
Carey booted 727 goals in 272 games and was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2010.