Our 2010 team wasn't that bad. Purtell was pretty ordinary and the likes of Burns/Walsh weren't world beaters, but there were some very good players too. Gordon in particular was incredible that year. Lewis, Jennings, Graham, Pritchard, Petero are big names who had good years, while McKendry, Cooper and Coote are no mugs either. The real drain on that team was Elliott, but we stumbled on some pretty good tactics, with short kicks the league wasn't good at dealing with yet, so him being a mug wasn't as much of a factor. Not as much anyway.
That year feels weak in retrospect because Melbourne got done for cheating. If the top 2 were Melbourne/St George the complexion of that top 8 feels very different. I think our 2010 team would stack up fine against plenty of other 3rd/4th place finishers over the years.