20 to 1 'Greatest Australian Sporting Legends' had Wayne Carey at number 18. Your thourghts?

Question

I will admit that he was a great player on the field but over the past few weeks he has been doing all the wrong things.

And while the show was probobly done editing 2 months ago, do you think that they should have changed the number 18 position?

And isnt it funny that he was number 18 on the show and his jersey was 18!!

lol.

Answer 1

I think he should be sent to prison and become Bubba's new playmate

Answer 2

Apart from his personal life, whatever you want to say about him, he was a great footy player love him or hate him.

I could have picked many others above him to go in the top 20 and I actually think channel nine would have had time to edit him out before it aired. Maybe they left him in for the "ratings"

He is certainly a topic of discussion at the moment!

God I hope that they throw the book at him in the US!

What a loser!!

Answer 3

my thoughts

he was no 17 on the list wasn't he

hate all shows that have a top 20 or top 100

who ever gets left out ,all we hear about is what about this person

i was a big fan his personal life has nothing to do with him being a great footballer

Answer 4

How ridiculous did Sam Newman get in I wouldn't be surprised if he did.

Hang on do you mean he was no 18 in our  20 great Aussie sporting legends and not AFL legends if so even more ridiculous.

Answer 5

I really really really dislike wayne carey as a person ( .. nb well that what I know of him as I am LUCKY enough NOT to know him personally) .... BUT as with Gary Ablett Senior.... if it comes to awards JUST dealing with their football ability ... THEN what they have done in their personal lives simply should NOT come into it ........

Wayne Carey WAS a brilliant footballer .. is one reason why he was *allowed* to get away with appalling behaviour OFF field as people would tolerate whatever c**p he did just to keep him happy and content on the field.....

Apparently also .... Carey was dumped from nine around Christmas and not this year....

he's an arrogant stupid moron .. BUT an arrogant stupid moron who COULD play brilliant football.

Answer 6

I was pissed they had wayne carey and andrew johns both are just not should be there

i agree TONY LOCKETT was the best i was hopin he was on there but when he wasnt i was not HAPPY complete not

Answer 7

very funny that he was no.18 in AFL and tv show but they probably put him there before the bad things he did

Answer 8

YOU JUST HAVE TO BE JOKING!!!!  I could name at least 20 and probably 2000 better players than Carey.  Oh lets start with Bartlett, Ablett, Brereton, Riccuito, Tuck, Doull, sheez hundreds at least.

He's about as good as Paris Hilton is s**y.  (Which she is in an obnoxious, cut-snake, bimbo, pain in the *** way I suppose ... so Carey must be good)

Answer 9

he shouldn't be on the list anyway. he was great but there are current center half forwards who are better(Jonathan Brown and Matthew Pavlich). in the case of Brown he has already achieved more than Carey ever did.and Lance Franklin could be better than them all!! By the end of his career Judd will probably be on the list. But Carey no way!

Answer 10

If that show is basing their choices on Great Sportsmen ON FIELD, then I would think Carey deserves the no. 18 spot.

If you account for his off-field dramas, then he shouldnt rate at all.

I have a feeling you were watching a repeat of that show.  I doubt they would add him in the top 20 considering all the bad media and stupid things he has done.

Answer 11

Yes  I saw it and well deserved.

Regardless of his private life.

He was a great footy player,it was just a pity he took the word player literally.

Did you notice Leigh Matthews was in there too?

It was a really good 20 to 1.

Answer 12

Obviously made when he was still on the payroll at channel 9

Wayne Carey

Wa n     Car

Answer 13

Carey was a very good player in his younger years because he had the physique to overwelm the opposition.

He became less effective when the other players got fitter and bulkier.

As for being # 18,  it should be printed on his prison cell.

Answer 14

Wayne Carey is the best player i have seen play the game

Answer 15

I think18 that's about right Carey was good but not that good but i suppose if your a kangaroos fan u would argue that Carey should of been higher up he has  let down a lot of people of late and i think that's gonna hurt his rep as it did for abblett with the drugs.  u do something bad out of footy and that's how u will be remembered .

Answer 16

Any ideas on the list would like to see it for myself

Answer 17

he's a has been

there are way more better players than him

also he has the crappest reputation at the moment :P

x

Answer 18

He shouldn't even be on the show

His reputation is in the gutter

Answer 19

BTW, since I cannot see this program or series, do you have a list of 1-20?

Thanks from Kansas USA.

Answer 20

I just think its a little cruel how some people say Wayne Carey's parents had an inkling about their kids.     Wayne's older brother is named d**k, and Wayne is reffered to as way n car.    Not fair  really.      From the age of 17 - 18 Wayne Carey has been glorified, slapped on the back, by young kids, corporate businessmen, old ladies, young ladies  told he is a champion, now "thousands" of media journos are making a living out of bagging, the Carey man, who gave millions of AFL supporters, Australia wide so much footy pleasure, for many years .   It just amuses me, when you hear of these American security people making statements to our media , about this Tall guy that whipped his girlfriend.    All Americans I have met  no NOTHING of AFL footy,.    How much are these creeps being paid to make statements, and we fall for it !!

Answer 21

rather depends on which sport, sport .....

martial arts - certainly not marital!

watched him on field a number of times, he didn't have the divine spark that Voss, Hird and Buckley had, to name three - all intelligent men incidentally.

inclined to agree that he was on the Ch 9 payroll - unless of course he's become a scientologist and they're giving him star treatment?

you really let us down putting him at 18, Ch 9.

Answer 22

If it was an AFL 20 to 1, he would of been higher up the scale.

He was a champion though,, regardless of whats happened to his personal life.

Sounds a bit like the Gary Ablett scenario doesn't it?

A champion footballer being crucified for his "out of football" indiscretions

Answer 23

Wayne Carey.  Leigh Matthews  ???   It is hard to define their actual status but there have been many great footballers in this time frame.

I am not overly concerned about off field events when it comes to basing something from a purely sporting perspective although Carey's is that of a true lowlife.

Thankfully it was not a few years down the track at the way Judd Mania is threatening he could have been number I

Answer 24

wayne carery  is a tosser

Answer 25

I am NOT an AFL fan nor do I know enough about the sport to pick great players, but I agree with the general opinion here...

I have seen MANY MANY great players that would be a lot better than him.

For him to be even put into top 20 is a joke.

My opinion.