With the names of our offensive and defensive trios already on the whiteboard, it is now time to list the men that link the two together โ the midfielders.
Due to their aerobic and ball winning capacities, modern midfielders receive plaudits and pay packets far beyond their part-time predecessors.
These players at the coalface are regularly seen as their club's blue-chip talent, with their output integral to securing victory.
Like the previous pair of catalogues, the same four rules for selection apply for our third and final list:
1. Three players must be selected from each club.
2. Even if they have played for multiple clubs, no player can be selected on the list of two teams.
3. All players must have played at least a portion of their careers from 1990 onwards.
4. Most importantly, no player can have played an in-season match with any of their colleagues during their time at their selected club.
To up the ante, we have also added a fifth point of criteria: aย ruckman must also be selected for each team.
For example, should Brodie Grundy be selected for Collingwood, then all of his midfield mates between 2013 and the present day become ineligible.
With all this in mind, here is our best stab.
Let us know how we have gone and which clubs you feel have fared best.
Port Adelaide
Gavin Wanganeen โ 1997-2006
If Anthony Stevens was the heart and soul of North, then Gavin Wanganeen without doubt holds that title over at Alberton.
Despite being named the club's inaugural captain in the AFL, Wanganeen initially failed to continue his All-Australian form with the Bombers, but by the early 2000s, he was well and truly back to his best.
By the time he hung up boots at the end of 2006, Wanganeen had added another pair of All-Australians, a best and fairest and another flag to his mantle.
Cameron Cloke โ 2010 (1 game)
Alright, before you bite my head off, remember that Port Adelaide, in their AFL form, is only 25 years old.
For this reason, the vast majority of their star players have crossed generations and to fit in names like those that bookend him, we have had to select a man with one game to his name.
Trust me when I say the less said about the man in the number 47 guernsey's solitary appearance, the better.
Ollie Wines โ 2013-Present (141 games)
As a highly touted junior, it surprised very few when Ollie Wines was taken with a top 10 pick in 2012.
Although injuries and the subsequent surgeries have interrupted much of his time at AFL level, Wines does have a career average of 27.16 disposals and a whopping 5.76 clearances across his 141 senior games.
With numbers like that, should Wines remain fit, you can bet your bottom dollar that the Power will surge again this year.
