Best team since 1980....?

Geelong 07 - Looked totally unstoppable.

Essendon 2000 - Dangerous team, very consistant & talanted back then.

Hawks 1988 - Great players, alot of potential in their team & the most hardest and yet successful footy team that year.

Essendon 1985 - To thrash the best team of the 80s is outstanding.

Carlton 1995 - To only loose 2 matches, and then thump your grand final opponent by 60 points..simply amazing

Brisbane 2002 - Im putting this down the bottom (since you said it was only for one year) but if you counted the three following premeirships they would be higher. Had (currently still have) some great players, voss was instrumental in this premiership win & had been consistant all year. Couldnt have been a better coach than Leigh Matthews to hold up the cup.

It was really hard to order them, since each and every one of these teams (in those seasons) were outstanding in their own individual way which made them so memorable.

Essendon 2000 easily. What I have never understood is why they didn't keep going. I have never enjoyed watching a team so much and that one defeat by the doggies is still the best game I have ever watched.

How does North rate in the late 90's - not a fan but they were dominant and frustrated the hell out of me cos we just couldnt beat them.

I grew up loving the Hawks in the 80's - so many great players. As for Geelong, sorry but they are chokers so can't make it to "great".

Definitely Essendon in 2000.

Another thought : Remember in 2006 how good the Crows were. ( up til Round 17 anyway, where they lost by 82 points). They were close to unstoppable, their percentage was in the 200s at one stage.

After many injuries and illnesses and a fallout in the finals, the Crows couldn't perform at the important end of the season. I'm sure the other Crows fans must remember 2006 though and the heartbreak of losing prelim final again.

I agree with Metal King, the Essendon team of 2000 was a devastating team. They dominated nearly every game by a mile and had teams constantly going backwards, I've never seen anyone do that in 30 years of watching aussie rules. The only game they lost was to the bulldogs, who flooded like never before. I actually had a $10 bet at the start of that season for the bombers to go undefeated at 300-1, just another reason to hate the bulldogs.

Essendon 2000,followed by Hawthorn 1989 and west coast eagles 1992. Carlton 1995 would be up there also. Most overrated was Geelong in 2007.

Essendon of 2000 were awesome!!! they blew every team away with an average of 50 points or more a game, Essendon only lost one game in 2000 by less then 11 points. No team has ever done this or come close.

Hell yea . that's what i replaced into thinking . there is not any participant in all NBA historic previous that won a championship all with the help of him self . and that i think of by no ability would be one . in certainty is even stupid to declare that a " participant won a championship" , the right thank you to declare this is that a team won a championship and the particular participant replaced into area of it . and of direction championships should not be used to evaluate 2 gamers . for my area in basic terms stats and guy or woman overall performance can say who's the appropriate .

easily the 200 essendon team. the damn salary cap cost them the flag in 2001. oh well, theyll be back to their fighting best in 2012

the brisbane team when they won the 3 preimeriships in a row

The Brisbane Lions team that strung the three premierships together.

I bet we wont be seeing the likes of that again for quite some time.