Ahead of North’s Top 10 greatest player countdown on Saturday night, David King has had his say.
The two-time premiership winning Kangaroo said making his list was a challenge.
"It's a tough one, Wayne's (Carey) clearly going to be number one," King said on Fox Footy.
"The Kangaroos have had 1021 players play, so this is a seriously tough task, to rank them in order from one to 10."
King's top 10 all-time greats at North Melbourne:
- Wayne Carey
- Malcolm Blight
- Keith Greig
- Brent Harvey
- David Dench
- Les Foote
- Wayne Schimmelbusch
- Anthony Stevens
- John Dudgale
- Ross Glendinning
Ron Joseph recently listed his Top 10 in the Herald Sun:
1: Wayne Carey: If you loved watching the great E.J. Whitten dominate his era of the 1950s-60s, so did Carey in the 1990s. Maybe the best player ever.
2: Barry Cable: When he first came to North his handballs were hitting his teammates on the back of their heads. Four years later he led us to six straight GFs.
3: Malcolm Blight: You would go to the game wondering what piece of magic Blighty would produce on that day. The adjective “mercurial”was coined for Malcolm.
4: Les Foote: I never saw him play but I respect the voices of so many great North people who did, and clearly be belongs very high up.
5: Allen Aylett: Would turn up to training at 6pm on Tuesdays, run a few laps and shower. Same Thursday. I saw he and Bob Skilton kick five on each other one day.
6: Keith Greig: Won back-to-back Brownlows in 1973-74 and was never out of the state side from 1971 until he did his knee in 1977.
7 : John Dugdale: The ultimate Shinboner who could play any position on the ground with equal dexterity. Was a tower of strength in some dark days.
8: Sam Kekovich: There hasn’t been a better teenage player at Arden St. Extremely fast, explosive and skilled before he suffered a series of knee injuries.
9: David Dench: To my mind there hasn’t been a better full-back than David Dench, or a better defensive sight than watching him charge out of defence.
10: Wayne Schimmelbusch: Part of Dench, Briedis, Greig and Schimmelbusch quartet that lived within five miles of North and ended up playing 1043 games in total.
