Let me start by apologising if this topic has been discussed before. If so, I'm happy for the mods to delete it or merge with the earlier discussion.

I noticed that the Melbourne Storm Grand Final jumper had players numbers on the front. See picture below. You can see #163, #167 and #119 at the bottom. I assume that this is each player's individual number in sequence since the Storm was created. (If it's not can someone please enlighten me as to what the numbers mean.)

Is there a list of every Melbourne player in sequence going back to 1858? If so, would you like to see each player wear that number on their jumper? If it's possible, I would. I also think it's an added bit of marketing which the club could make use of. It would make Robert Flower's number 2 jumper different from Stephen Tingay's and Nathan Jones; Ron Barassi's 31 different from Paul Wheatley and Bailey Fritsch. 

would be pretty cool on the back of the colar even if not visible to the cameras at least for the player to kinda keep in touch with their cap, cam mooneys forearm tattoo i think has some reference to his number and career at the cats and in cricket it is a really prominent part of being in the team. virat kohli and many others have tattoos referencing it. 

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/alltime/melbourne.html this has the function to sort by cap #

Edited October 28, 20205 yr by Turner

4 minutes ago, Turner said:

would be pretty cool on the back of the colar even if not visible to the cameras at least for the player to kinda keep in touch with their cap, cam mooneys forearm tattoo i think has some reference to his number and career at the cats and in cricket it is a really prominent part of being in the team. virat kohli and many others have tattoos referencing it. 

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/alltime/melbourne.html this has the function to sort by cap #

Thanks for the link.

Can someone check this for me? When scanning the list of players I noticed a name change before my eyes. Jack Connole changed to Jack Axxhole (spelled with two of the letter s, rather than x). Does it do the same for everyone? If so, does anyone know who manages the list and can correct this from happening. It's obviously disrespectful although I assume the tech wizard who did it thinks he/she's just being funny.

Connole played 14 games (for just one win) in 1914 and 1919 and was our 312th player. And was a very short player at 163 cm

51 minutes ago, Turner said:

would be pretty cool on the back of the colar even if not visible to the cameras at least for the player to kinda keep in touch with their cap, cam mooneys forearm tattoo i think has some reference to his number and career at the cats and in cricket it is a really prominent part of being in the team. virat kohli and many others have tattoos referencing it. 

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/alltime/melbourne.html this has the function to sort by cap #

wrong quote: this was for @La Dee-vina Comedia

Seems to be an auto Google translate feature.

 

Edited October 28, 20205 yr by deanox
Do I need to self censor screen shots from google?

39 minutes ago, Turner said:

would be pretty cool on the back of the colar even if not visible to the cameras at least for the player to kinda keep in touch with their cap, cam mooneys forearm tattoo i think has some reference to his number and career at the cats and in cricket it is a really prominent part of being in the team. virat kohli and many others have tattoos referencing it. 

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/alltime/melbourne.html this has the function to sort by cap #

I love that page.

It tells me we once had someone wear number 59, which I never knew.

2 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

I love that page.

It tells me we once had someone wear number 59, which I never knew.

It also tells me we've had about 25 players get to 200 games, and another 35 to 150 games, and about 100 more to 100 games out of 1358 players.

So historically 2% play 200 games, 4.5% get to 150 and 12% to 100.

 

When we rip on players like Omac or ANB for being "average footballers", we forget they have played 80+ games for us, and in the 15% most capped MFC players ever. They might not be superstars, but they have been successful players for us.

 

 

18 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

It tells me we once had someone wear number 59, which I never knew.

That would be the esteemed Andrew Dale in 1986.  Surprisingly, that's not the highest number worn by a Demon.

 Who wore number 67 in a senior game and, for bonus points, what was the reason?

5 minutes ago, demonstone said:

That would be the esteemed Andrew Dale in 1986.  Surprisingly, that's not the highest number worn by a Demon.

 Who wore number 67 in a senior game and, for bonus points, what was the reason?

Easy, Jeff Garlett to commerate the 50th anniversary of Indigenous Australians getting to vote. Steven May wore the same number for GC in the same game, and Nev wore #50.

Edited October 28, 20205 yr by DemonWorshipper
added context

Nailed it!

14 hours ago, deanox said:

wrong quote: this was for @La Dee-vina Comedia

Seems to be an auto Google translate feature.

 

Good pick-up. And it also explains why the player above Connole also has his name changed from Les Irwin to The Irwin.

So, not so much disrespectful behaviour as I had thought, but, instead, educated humour. I should have thought nothing less on a database about Melbourne players. 

 

I believe #55 is the lowest number never to play a senior game.