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JACK GRIMES: IN THE MAKING by The Oracle When Jack Grimes makes his AFL debut at some stage this year or the next, the event will be something of a fairytale given that he will be playing for the club he has supported all of his life. Grimes will run out onto the ground wearing the number 16 on the back of his jumper. A decade ago when he was just eight years old, that same number was awarded to Chelsea teenager Travis Johnstone, the first selection overall at the previous year's AFL National Draft. Johnstone has now gone to Brisbane and leaves behind him an eventful but unfulfilled career with the Melbourne Football Club. To many followers of the game, he appeared as a player who could never match his inherent brilliance and talent with the passion necessary to take the next step up to football stardom. However, the betting is that the career of his replacement Grimes from Hurstbridge FC, who stands at 186.3 cm and weighs 81.6 kg, is also gifted with sublime skills and plays in the midfield, will follow a much different path. Not that there's anything wrong with a 10 year career at the sport's highest level but when you're among the elite, it's important that you at least fulfill if not exceed your potential. Even at his tender young age, Grimes has been identified not only as long term footballer of quality but also as a future leader. In recent years he has captained the Victoria Metro Under 16's and Under 18's and the strong Northern Knights TAC Cup team which produced a number of first round draft choices in last November's AFL National Draft. Grimes himself was among them at number fourteen, Melbourne’s second selection overall. He is also an AIS/AFL scholarship graduate which automatically places him in the elite of the country's young footballers and it was with that academy that he toured South Africa and was eventually awarded the Ben Mitchell Medal for his leadership and role-model potential. Ironically, he trained with the Demons whilst in the AIS programme. Alan McConnell, the academy's high performance coach said this about Grimes, who earned All-Australian honours for his performances at the national under 18 championships in July:- "Jack is an exceptional kick with both his right and left foot, he's a good reader of the play and he's got exceptional endurance as quantified by his testing. "He's an excellent leader … he's played his best football for the Northern Knights in the finals; when the games were most in the balance was when Jack played his best football. "There were a couple of matches last year where he turned the game with his ability to read the play and influenced the game with his use of the ball." [Grimes living out his backyard dream] Grimes was one of the stars at the championships and relished his role as skipper of the Victorian Metro side. He was one of its few winners (along with fellow Demon draftee Addam Maric) in the opening game when the Vics were surprisingly well beaten by the young Sandgroper team. He and Maric were the only Victorian goal kickers (with two each) in the first half and despite the WA's dominance, Grimes led by example encouraging his teammates on to better things. In adversity, his leadership skills were a shining light to his team. The same can be said of his leadership and example when the Metro boys easily won their two other games – against South Australia and Vic Country. In the latter game, Grimes also showed his versatility when moved forward by kicking three goals in five minutes of slashing football. Soon after that game Grimes suffered an injury setback when he was diagnosed with stress fractures in his back. The injury is one that needs management but Grimes has already impressed training and should be back to full fitness during the practice match period even though there is no rush for a fully fledged AFL debut too soon. As Melbourne development coach Kelly O'Donnell tells melbournefc.au: "Jack Grimes has had an interrupted pre-season with some physical things that he's had to work through from last year. He's probably had the most interrupted time out of the new guys but he's very diligent and switched on and understands what he needs to do." It's an open secret that Melbourne’s recruiters rated Grimes highly and might even have been tempted to select him with their earlier choice had Larke Medallist Cale Morton not been available at pick four. Whilst that proposition can never be definitively tested, it's clear that apart from his natural skills and ability, excellent decision making and great fitness, his natural leadership qualities would not have missed the attention of Craig Cameron, the now departed (to Richmond) Demon recruiting manager. That he may one day skipper the AFL club that he supported as a kid is a thought for well into the future but for now we can safely say that it's a fairytale that's definitely in the making …

by The Oracle When Jack Grimes makes his AFL debut at some stage this year or the next, the event will be something of a fairytale given that he will be playing for the club he has supported all of his life. Grimes will run out onto the ground wearing the number 16 on the back of his jumper. A decade ago when he was just eight years old, that same number was awarded to Chelsea teenager Travis Johnstone, the first selection overall at the previous year's AFL National Draft. Johnstone has now gone to Brisbane and leaves behind him an eventful but unfulfilled career with the Melbourne Football Club. To many followers of the game, he appeared as a player who could never match his inherent brilliance and talent with the passion necessary to take the next step up to football stardom. However, the betting is that the career of his replacement Grimes from Hurstbridge FC, who stands at 186.3 cm and weighs 81.6 kg, is also gifted with sublime skills and plays in the midfield, will follow a much different path. Not that there's anything wrong with a 10 year career at the sport's highest level but when you're among the elite, it's important that you at least fulfill if not exceed your potential. Even at his tender young age, Grimes has been identified not only as long term footballer of quality but also as a future leader. In recent years he has captained the Victoria Metro Under 16's and Under 18's and the strong Northern Knights TAC Cup team which produced a number of first round draft choices in last November's AFL National Draft. Grimes himself was among them at number fourteen, Melbourne’s second selection overall. He is also an AIS/AFL scholarship graduate which automatically places him in the elite of the country's young footballers and it was with that academy that he toured South Africa and was eventually awarded the Ben Mitchell Medal for his leadership and role-model potential. Ironically, he trained with the Demons whilst in the AIS programme. Alan McConnell, the academy's high performance coach said this about Grimes, who earned All-Australian honours for his performances at the national under 18 championships in July:- "Jack is an exceptional kick with both his right and left foot, he's a good reader of the play and he's got exceptional endurance as quantified by his testing. "He's an excellent leader … he's played his best football for the Northern Knights in the finals; when the games were most in the balance was when Jack played his best football. "There were a couple of matches last year where he turned the game with his ability to read the play and influenced the game with his use of the ball." [Grimes living out his backyard dream] Grimes was one of the stars at the championships and relished his role as skipper of the Victorian Metro side. He was one of its few winners (along with fellow Demon draftee Addam Maric) in the opening game when the Vics were surprisingly well beaten by the young Sandgroper team. He and Maric were the only Victorian goal kickers (with two each) in the first half and despite the WA's dominance, Grimes led by example encouraging his teammates on to better things. In adversity, his leadership skills were a shining light to his team. The same can be said of his leadership and example when the Metro boys easily won their two other games – against South Australia and Vic Country. In the latter game, Grimes also showed his versatility when moved forward by kicking three goals in five minutes of slashing football. Soon after that game Grimes suffered an injury setback when he was diagnosed with stress fractures in his back. The injury is one that needs management but Grimes has already impressed training and should be back to full fitness during the practice match period even though there is no rush for a fully fledged AFL debut too soon. As Melbourne development coach Kelly O'Donnell tells melbournefc.au: "Jack Grimes has had an interrupted pre-season with some physical things that he's had to work through from last year. He's probably had the most interrupted time out of the new guys but he's very diligent and switched on and understands what he needs to do." It's an open secret that Melbourne’s recruiters rated Grimes highly and might even have been tempted to select him with their earlier choice had Larke Medallist Cale Morton not been available at pick four. Whilst that proposition can never be definitively tested, it's clear that apart from his natural skills and ability, excellent decision making and great fitness, his natural leadership qualities would not have missed the attention of Craig Cameron, the now departed (to Richmond) Demon recruiting manager. That he may one day skipper the AFL club that he supported as a kid is a thought for well into the future but for now we can safely say that it's a fairytale that's definitely in the making …

Done (but hopefully it will fade quickly into oblivion).

It was reported in the West Australian - Eagles star recruit in foreshore incident. He wasn't underated by Stevo who was a big fan in THE YEAR OF DRAFTING DANGEROUSLY.

Any updates? Did we make it?

JOSH MAHONEY INTERVIEW (thanks to Alpha 33) Josh Mahoney, one of the new breed of Melbournefc assistant coaches under Dean Bailey was heard this week on SEN's MORNING GLORY programme. After introducing Josh and reeling off his career achievements at the many clubs with which he played, the Morning Glory team asked Josh about the appointment of David Neitz as captain for a ninth season and about the makeup of the club's leadership group for 2008. Tim Watson: The guys that went out of the leadership Brad Green and Jeff White, what was the reason behind that? Josh Mahoney: It's just a weight of numbers thing. When it's a voting system and guys are giving 5,4,3,2,1 you've got have a cut off somewhere and in the end seven was a big enough group as a leadership. Those guys are still considered to be great leaders of the club. They just couldn't quite get in. Tim Watson: Andy Maher believes its bunkum this whole idea of a big leadership group like this and I'm not putting words into his mouth... Andrew Maher: … I like the word "bunkum" … Tim Watson: How much time did the coaching staff spend debating the merits of what style of leadership group you eventually arrived at? Josh Mahoney: At the end of the day we decided that we wanted to get leading players to come on board as part of our leadership team and that was just part of the programme. It's the players who vote for the leadership group and they eventually came out with the number to be involved. If it had come out to be that there were three clear leaders at the club and they were the only guys who got votes then that would have been the leadership group. It came out that there was a good spread of leaders at the club and that’s how we came up with the number of seven. Andrew Maher: Josh, you've recently stepped out of playing ranks. Do you think the leadership group notion of having six or seven or eight or nine or ten as is the case at some clubs, blokes sharing the load. Do you think it actually works? Josh Mahoney: I've come out of a system at Port Adelaide where it worked exceptionally well and I think with the amount of responsibility now that's placed on players it's good to share the load among guys to go to different functions and being able to take on different responsibilities. It's a bit too much now to just have one captain and two vice captains. They can take on different roles but it’s good to spread the load as much as you can. Bill Brownless: And what's your role down there Josh? Josh Mahoney: I'm in charge of the forward line down at Melbourne where we’ve got a good group of young guys and experienced heads so it's a nice little mix. Bill Brownless: What are we going to do. Are we going to see some change up there? Maybe moving Neita. Get him out of the goal square and put someone else there? Josh Mahoney: I think that's the way that footy's going. You can't just plonk blokes in the goal square any more but Neita's raring to go and fighting fit at the moment so I'm sure he'd want to be pushing up the ground a lot more this year. Andrew Maher: You're coming from outside. Who's surprised you? What players have caught your eye this early in the season? Josh Mahoney: I think the main thing is that there is a group of young guys that I probably didn't know a lot about who got a little bit of chance to play last year – Col Garland, James Frawley and Simon Buckley as well – they're probably the young blokes at the moment who are real standouts. Overall though it's just the work ethic of players like Brock McLean, Nathan Jones and Brad Miller – their work ethic is as good as I've seen. Bill Brownless: How's Aaron Davey going? Josh Mahoney: Yeah, Aaron had a bit of an interrupted start to the pre season but now he's pretty much into full training and the more and more videos and tapes I watch of these players I'm getting more and more excited about coaching them. Bill Brownless: You'd like to see him going through the middle a bit more, don't you Tim? Tim Watson: Yeah, well if he's got the engine you'd play him more up the ground wouldn't you? Josh Mahoney: Yes, I think it's good to have those pinch hit players would can go through the midfield to play a little burst of five minutes and we're definitely thinking of doing something like that this year. Tim Watson: And Josh, what's the view of the Melbourne Football Club coaching crew about the NAB Cup change of rules with a maximum of 16 player interchanges per quarter? Josh Mahoney: We're not really that fussed about it. We think it was something that was eventually going to evolve. Things were getting a little out of hand with the amount of interchanges that were happening with clubs and the AFL has spoken about it over the last two years that something was going to be done and this is the first little step to controlling it. It just means that you're probably going to have to manage to plan your interchanges a little bit better throughout the game. It'll be interesting to see with the numbers they've come up with how it goes especially with eight people on the interchange bench as well. Tim Watson: And what about, are you going to be playing your stars in the NAB Cup? Josh Mahoney: We're interested to see how everyone's going. We'll play the guys who are fit and raring to go. If blokes aren't ready to go we won't be rushing them in just to play. At this stage we'll be playing the guys who have done the majority of the pre season and are fit and ready to go. Andrew Maher: How's Ricky Petterd going after his horrific injury Josh? Josh Mahoney: Yeah, Rick's been on a modified programme as well for a little while. He's tracking along pretty well, he's joining in the sessions and probably doing about 75% of the sessions. The great thing is we've got very experienced guys in our fitness staff with Bohdan Babijczuk leading the guys. They do a great job and they're getting the guys fit and making sure they get the K's in their legs even if they're not in full training. Andrew Maher: You guys have got the hands on the reins in a big year for the Melbourne footy club. A 150th year I know the club’s doing heaps of work to make the most of this significant milestone. There’s a nice fresh feel about the Melbourne Football Club this year and we're very excited about what you blokes can deliver. Thanks for joining us and we'll catch up during the year. For more about the 2008 leadership group - see DEMONS' SEVEN MAGNIFICENT IN DIFFERENT WAYS

JOSH MAHONEY INTERVIEW (thanks to Alpha 33) Josh Mahoney, one of the new breed of Melbournefc assistant coaches under Dean Bailey was heard this week on SEN's MORNING GLORY programme. After introducing Josh and reeling off his career achievements at the many clubs with which he played, the Morning Glory team asked Josh about the appointment of David Neitz as captain for a ninth season and about the makeup of the club's leadership group for 2008. Tim Watson: The guys that went out of the leadership Brad Green and Jeff White, what was the reason behind that? Josh Mahoney: It's just a weight of numbers thing. When it's a voting system and guys are giving 5,4,3,2,1 you've got have a cut off somewhere and in the end seven was a big enough group as a leadership. Those guys are still considered to be great leaders of the club. They just couldn't quite get in. Tim Watson: Andy Maher believes its bunkum this whole idea of a big leadership group like this and I'm not putting words into his mouth... Andrew Maher: … I like the word "bunkum" … Tim Watson: How much time did the coaching staff spend debating the merits of what style of leadership group you eventually arrived at? Josh Mahoney: At the end of the day we decided that we wanted to get leading players to come on board as part of our leadership team and that was just part of the programme. It's the players who vote for the leadership group and they eventually came out with the number to be involved. If it had come out to be that there were three clear leaders at the club and they were the only guys who got votes then that would have been the leadership group. It came out that there was a good spread of leaders at the club and that’s how we came up with the number of seven. Andrew Maher: Josh, you've recently stepped out of playing ranks. Do you think the leadership group notion of having six or seven or eight or nine or ten as is the case at some clubs, blokes sharing the load. Do you think it actually works? Josh Mahoney: I've come out of a system at Port Adelaide where it worked exceptionally well and I think with the amount of responsibility now that's placed on players it's good to share the load among guys to go to different functions and being able to take on different responsibilities. It's a bit too much now to just have one captain and two vice captains. They can take on different roles but it’s good to spread the load as much as you can. Bill Brownless: And what's your role down there Josh? Josh Mahoney: I'm in charge of the forward line down at Melbourne where we’ve got a good group of young guys and experienced heads so it's a nice little mix. Bill Brownless: What are we going to do. Are we going to see some change up there? Maybe moving Neita. Get him out of the goal square and put someone else there? Josh Mahoney: I think that's the way that footy's going. You can't just plonk blokes in the goal square any more but Neita's raring to go and fighting fit at the moment so I'm sure he'd want to be pushing up the ground a lot more this year. Andrew Maher: You're coming from outside. Who's surprised you? What players have caught your eye this early in the season? Josh Mahoney: I think the main thing is that there is a group of young guys that I probably didn't know a lot about who got a little bit of chance to play last year – Col Garland, James Frawley and Simon Buckley as well – they're probably the young blokes at the moment who are real standouts. Overall though it's just the work ethic of players like Brock McLean, Nathan Jones and Brad Miller – their work ethic is as good as I've seen. Bill Brownless: How's Aaron Davey going? Josh Mahoney: Yeah, Aaron had a bit of an interrupted start to the pre season but now he's pretty much into full training and the more and more videos and tapes I watch of these players I'm getting more and more excited about coaching them. Bill Brownless: You'd like to see him going through the middle a bit more, don't you Tim? Tim Watson: Yeah, well if he's got the engine you'd play him more up the ground wouldn't you? Josh Mahoney: Yes, I think it's good to have those pinch hit players would can go through the midfield to play a little burst of five minutes and we're definitely thinking of doing something like that this year. Tim Watson: And Josh, what's the view of the Melbourne Football Club coaching crew about the NAB Cup change of rules with a maximum of 16 player interchanges per quarter? Josh Mahoney: We're not really that fussed about it. We think it was something that was eventually going to evolve. Things were getting a little out of hand with the amount of interchanges that were happening with clubs and the AFL has spoken about it over the last two years that something was going to be done and this is the first little step to controlling it. It just means that you're probably going to have to manage to plan your interchanges a little bit better throughout the game. It'll be interesting to see with the numbers they've come up with how it goes especially with eight people on the interchange bench as well. Tim Watson: And what about, are you going to be playing your stars in the NAB Cup? Josh Mahoney: We're interested to see how everyone's going. We'll play the guys who are fit and raring to go. If blokes aren't ready to go we won't be rushing them in just to play. At this stage we'll be playing the guys who have done the majority of the pre season and are fit and ready to go. Andrew Maher: How's Ricky Petterd going after his horrific injury Josh? Josh Mahoney: Yeah, Rick's been on a modified programme as well for a little while. He's tracking along pretty well, he's joining in the sessions and probably doing about 75% of the sessions. The great thing is we've got very experienced guys in our fitness staff with Bohdan Babijczuk leading the guys. They do a great job and they're getting the guys fit and making sure they get the K's in their legs even if they're not in full training. Andrew Maher: You guys have got the hands on the reins in a big year for the Melbourne footy club. A 150th year I know the club’s doing heaps of work to make the most of this significant milestone. There’s a nice fresh feel about the Melbourne Football Club this year and we're very excited about what you blokes can deliver. Thanks for joining us and we'll catch up during the year. For more about the 2008 leadership group - see DEMONS' SEVEN MAGNIFICENT IN DIFFERENT WAYS

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Training today was at Trinity Playing Fields in Bulleen. I took some photos from the sidelines but most of the action was a fair distance away. You can click on the link below to see the photos - Training Photos

The Dee-vas were founded by Jacquie MacLeod-Smith, Jan Fewtrell, Fay Donlevy, Jenny Loveridge and Lynne Craven who proposed the idea of a women’s support group to the MELBOURNEfc board in November 2006. The Dee-Vas aim to: * Provide a social and business network for women within the Club through a range of functions, * Provide a support network for all females within the Club - staff, player mothers and partners and supporters, * Provide a forum for the female supporters of MELBOURNEfc to share their passion for the red and blue, * Make a financial contribution to MELBOURNEfc, * Cultivate and strengthen positive support of MELBOURNEfc among female members and supporters While Supporter Groups of MELBOURNEfc operate separately to the Club, they are an important part of the Club’s network of support and the work they do assists the Club in many ways. For more information, see DEE-VAS

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS - INDEX [Numbers 41 - 59] by the Professor Number 41 1953 – 1954 Frank ‘Bluey’ Adams (No. 6, 1955 – 1964) 1968 Euan Campbell 1969 Blair Campbell 1972 Steve Kerley (No. 49, 1971; No. 9, 1973 – 1974) 1976 – 1980 Chris Woodman 1981 – 1982 David McGlashan 1986 – 1987 Steve Turner 1988 – 1995 Peter Rohde 1998 Nathan D. Brown (No. 25 - ) 2001 Darren Jolly (No. 11, 2002 - 2004) 2003 – 2007 Nathan Carroll Number 42 1966 John W. Hamilton 1973 John Morgan 1974 Ted Carroll (No. 37, 1975 – 1977) 1980 Russell Rowe 1981 Jamie Barham 1985 Brett Hutchinson 1987 – 1988 Brad Sparks 1991 Fabian Francis 1993 Scott Simister 1997 Russell Robertson 1999 - 2004 Peter Walsh Number 43 1953 Ron McKenzie 1967 Tony Sullivan (No. 4, 1968 – 1979) 1969 David Hayes 1970 Terry Davey 1971 Gordon Lawrie 1973 – 1974 Frank Giampaolo (No. 22, 1975 – 1977) 1975 Ray Smith (No. 7, 1976) 1976 – 1981 Greg Hutchison (No. 52, 1975; No. 18, 1982 – 1984) 1983 – 1984 Frank Rugolo (No. 34, 1985; No. 17, 1986) 1985 – 1986 Paul Payne (No. 19, 1987 -1988) 1986 Len Gandini 1991 - 1992 Andrew Ford 1998 - 2005 Guy Rigoni 2007 - Jace Bode Number 44 1962 Alec Ingwersen 1966 Les Harrison 1967 Tom Quinn 1968 Phil Rhoden (No. 38, 1969) 1969 Mark Mitchell 1978 David Code 1980 - 1981 Stephen Bickford 1982 - 1983 Scott Sutcliffe 1984 - 1986 John Fidge 1991 David Schwarz (No. 5, 1992 - 2002)… 1992 - 1993 Sean Charles (No. 18, 1994; No. 1, 1995 – 1997) 1995 Adem Yze (No. 13, 1996 - ) 1997 - 2000 Alistair Nicholson (No. 8, 2001 – 2002) 2005 - 2006 Shannon Motlop Number 45 1960 Peter Baker 1966 John Quirk 1969 - 1970 Danny Jennings 1971 - 1972 Henry Ritterman (No. 22, 1973) 1973 Greg MacDonald 1979 Peter Giles (No. 4, 1980 - 1987) 1981 Russell Dickson 1983 Glenn Boland (No. 27, 1984) 1984 Graeme Yeats (No. 8, 1985 – 1995) 1986 - 1991 Ricky Jackson 1992 Wayne Lamb 1996 - 1997 Todd McHardy 1999 Troy Longmuir 2000 - Matthew Whelan Number 46 1966 Adrian Bowden (No. 23, 1967) 1967 Max Walker (No. 1, 1968 - 1972) 1969 Ray Sampson 1972 Geoff Harrold 1975 - 1976 Glenn Walley 1982 Peter Tossol (No. 21, 1983 - 1984) 1983 - 1984 Mike Reynolds (No. 21, 1986) 1985 - 1986 Darren Louttit 1990 Matthew Mahoney (No. 10, 1992) 1992 Haydn Robins (No. 15, 1993) 1998 Hayden Lamaro 1999 - 2000 Troy Simmonds (No. 11, 2001) Number 47 1978 Paul Thompson 1981 Des O’Dwyer (No. 27, 1978; No. 24, 1982) 1982 - 1986 Alan Jarrott 1989 John Ahern 1999 - 2000 Ben Beams (No. 19, 2001) Number 48 1965 Robert Gormly 1969 Daryl Powell 1971 Michael John Collins (No. 12, 1972 - 1974) 1977 Brett Marchant 1979 John Wallace 1981 John Tossol 1984 Ross Fisher 1985 Stephen Newport (No. 34, 1986 - 1990) 1989 Luke Beveridge (No. 24, 1990 - 1992) 1991 Darren Cuthbertson (No. 9, 1992 – 1993) 1997 Brent Grgic (No. 4, 1998 – 2001) 1998 Matthew Bishop (No. 18, 1999) Number 49 1966 John Murnane (No. 27, 1967) 1968 Graeme Aubrey 1971 Peter Williamson (No. 54, 1972; No. 30, 1973 – 1974) 1971 Steve Kerley (No. 41, 1972; No. 9, 1973 – 1974) 1973 Ian McGuinness 1978 Michael Rea 1982 Stuart McKenzie 1992 Brian Stynes 1998 - 1999 Daniel Ward (No. 26, 1999, also 2000; No. 10, 2001 – 2002) 1999 - 2000 Luke Williams (No. 26, 2001 - 2002) Number 50 1962 Garry Byers (No. 1, 1963) 1966 Ken Jungwirth 1969 Greg Wells (No. 11, 1970 – 1980) 1969 Robert D. McKenzie (No. 10, 1970; No. 2, 1971 – 1972) 1971 – 1972 Shane McSpeerin (No. 20, 1973) 1974 Neil McMullin 1975 Colin Graham (No. 27, 1976 – 1978) 1979 Tony Elshaug No. 33, 1980 – 1983) 1980 Paul O’Brien (No. 40, 1981 – 1983) 1981 Ian Todd 1986 Brett Lovett (No. 17, 1987 – 1997) 1991 Kevin Dyson (No. 23, 1991 – 1995 – wore both 50 and 23 in 1991) Number 51 1966 Ken Osborne (No. 36, 1967 – 1968) 1974 Peter Keays (No. 16, 1975 – 1977) 1987 Glenn Lovett (No. 6, 1989 – 1998) 1989 John Howat (No. 28, 1990 – 1992) Number 52 1966 Robert Langford (No. 30, 1967) 1975 Greg Hutchison (No. 43, 1976 – 1981; No. 18, 1982 – 1984) 1982 Steve McCarthy (No. 24, 1983) 1989 Stephen Tingay (No. 15, 1990 – 1991; No. 2, 1992 – 1999) Number 53 1966 Brent Jones (No. 34, 1967 – 1971) 1966 Anthony Hirst 1985 Joe Rugolo (No. 26, 1986 – 1987) Number 54 1972 Peter Williamson (No. 49, 1971; No. 30, 1973 – 1974) 1973 Neil Chamberlain (No. 14, 1974 – 1976) 1974 Mike Power 1981 Trevor Korn 1990 Brent Heaver (No. 38, 1991) 1997 James McDonald (No. 23, 1998 - ) Number 55 Never worn in a senior AFL/VFL match Number 56 1984 Paul Earley Number 57 1985 Greg Sizer Number 58 1984 Michael Howard Number 59 1986 Andrew Dale

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS - INDEX [Numbers 41 - 59] by the Professor Number 41 1953 – 1954 Frank ‘Bluey’ Adams (No. 6, 1955 – 1964) 1968 Euan Campbell 1969 Blair Campbell 1972 Steve Kerley (No. 49, 1971; No. 9, 1973 – 1974) 1976 – 1980 Chris Woodman 1981 – 1982 David McGlashan 1986 – 1987 Steve Turner 1988 – 1995 Peter Rohde 1998 Nathan D. Brown (No. 25 - ) 2001 Darren Jolly (No. 11, 2002 - 2004) 2003 – 2007 Nathan Carroll Number 42 1966 John W. Hamilton 1973 John Morgan 1974 Ted Carroll (No. 37, 1975 – 1977) 1980 Russell Rowe 1981 Jamie Barham 1985 Brett Hutchinson 1987 – 1988 Brad Sparks 1991 Fabian Francis 1993 Scott Simister 1997 Russell Robertson 1999 - 2004 Peter Walsh Number 43 1953 Ron McKenzie 1967 Tony Sullivan (No. 4, 1968 – 1979) 1969 David Hayes 1970 Terry Davey 1971 Gordon Lawrie 1973 – 1974 Frank Giampaolo (No. 22, 1975 – 1977) 1975 Ray Smith (No. 7, 1976) 1976 – 1981 Greg Hutchison (No. 52, 1975; No. 18, 1982 – 1984) 1983 – 1984 Frank Rugolo (No. 34, 1985; No. 17, 1986) 1985 – 1986 Paul Payne (No. 19, 1987 -1988) 1986 Len Gandini 1991 - 1992 Andrew Ford 1998 - 2005 Guy Rigoni 2007 - Jace Bode Number 44 1962 Alec Ingwersen 1966 Les Harrison 1967 Tom Quinn 1968 Phil Rhoden (No. 38, 1969) 1969 Mark Mitchell 1978 David Code 1980 - 1981 Stephen Bickford 1982 - 1983 Scott Sutcliffe 1984 - 1986 John Fidge 1991 David Schwarz (No. 5, 1992 - 2002)… 1992 - 1993 Sean Charles (No. 18, 1994; No. 1, 1995 – 1997) 1995 Adem Yze (No. 13, 1996 - ) 1997 - 2000 Alistair Nicholson (No. 8, 2001 – 2002) 2005 - 2006 Shannon Motlop Number 45 1960 Peter Baker 1966 John Quirk 1969 - 1970 Danny Jennings 1971 - 1972 Henry Ritterman (No. 22, 1973) 1973 Greg MacDonald 1979 Peter Giles (No. 4, 1980 - 1987) 1981 Russell Dickson 1983 Glenn Boland (No. 27, 1984) 1984 Graeme Yeats (No. 8, 1985 – 1995) 1986 - 1991 Ricky Jackson 1992 Wayne Lamb 1996 - 1997 Todd McHardy 1999 Troy Longmuir 2000 - Matthew Whelan Number 46 1966 Adrian Bowden (No. 23, 1967) 1967 Max Walker (No. 1, 1968 - 1972) 1969 Ray Sampson 1972 Geoff Harrold 1975 - 1976 Glenn Walley 1982 Peter Tossol (No. 21, 1983 - 1984) 1983 - 1984 Mike Reynolds (No. 21, 1986) 1985 - 1986 Darren Louttit 1990 Matthew Mahoney (No. 10, 1992) 1992 Haydn Robins (No. 15, 1993) 1998 Hayden Lamaro 1999 - 2000 Troy Simmonds (No. 11, 2001) Number 47 1978 Paul Thompson 1981 Des O’Dwyer (No. 27, 1978; No. 24, 1982) 1982 - 1986 Alan Jarrott 1989 John Ahern 1999 - 2000 Ben Beams (No. 19, 2001) Number 48 1965 Robert Gormly 1969 Daryl Powell 1971 Michael John Collins (No. 12, 1972 - 1974) 1977 Brett Marchant 1979 John Wallace 1981 John Tossol 1984 Ross Fisher 1985 Stephen Newport (No. 34, 1986 - 1990) 1989 Luke Beveridge (No. 24, 1990 - 1992) 1991 Darren Cuthbertson (No. 9, 1992 – 1993) 1997 Brent Grgic (No. 4, 1998 – 2001) 1998 Matthew Bishop (No. 18, 1999) Number 49 1966 John Murnane (No. 27, 1967) 1968 Graeme Aubrey 1971 Peter Williamson (No. 54, 1972; No. 30, 1973 – 1974) 1971 Steve Kerley (No. 41, 1972; No. 9, 1973 – 1974) 1973 Ian McGuinness 1978 Michael Rea 1982 Stuart McKenzie 1992 Brian Stynes 1998 - 1999 Daniel Ward (No. 26, 1999, also 2000; No. 10, 2001 – 2002) 1999 - 2000 Luke Williams (No. 26, 2001 - 2002) Number 50 1962 Garry Byers (No. 1, 1963) 1966 Ken Jungwirth 1969 Greg Wells (No. 11, 1970 – 1980) 1969 Robert D. McKenzie (No. 10, 1970; No. 2, 1971 – 1972) 1971 – 1972 Shane McSpeerin (No. 20, 1973) 1974 Neil McMullin 1975 Colin Graham (No. 27, 1976 – 1978) 1979 Tony Elshaug No. 33, 1980 – 1983) 1980 Paul O’Brien (No. 40, 1981 – 1983) 1981 Ian Todd 1986 Brett Lovett (No. 17, 1987 – 1997) 1991 Kevin Dyson (No. 23, 1991 – 1995 – wore both 50 and 23 in 1991) Number 51 1966 Ken Osborne (No. 36, 1967 – 1968) 1974 Peter Keays (No. 16, 1975 – 1977) 1987 Glenn Lovett (No. 6, 1989 – 1998) 1989 John Howat (No. 28, 1990 – 1992) Number 52 1966 Robert Langford (No. 30, 1967) 1975 Greg Hutchison (No. 43, 1976 – 1981; No. 18, 1982 – 1984) 1982 Steve McCarthy (No. 24, 1983) 1989 Stephen Tingay (No. 15, 1990 – 1991; No. 2, 1992 – 1999) Number 53 1966 Brent Jones (No. 34, 1967 – 1971) 1966 Anthony Hirst 1985 Joe Rugolo (No. 26, 1986 – 1987) Number 54 1972 Peter Williamson (No. 49, 1971; No. 30, 1973 – 1974) 1973 Neil Chamberlain (No. 14, 1974 – 1976) 1974 Mike Power 1981 Trevor Korn 1990 Brent Heaver (No. 38, 1991) 1997 James McDonald (No. 23, 1998 - ) Number 55 Never worn in a senior AFL/VFL match Number 56 1984 Paul Earley Number 57 1985 Greg Sizer Number 58 1984 Michael Howard Number 59 1986 Andrew Dale

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS - INDEX [Numbers 31 - 40] by the Professor Number 31 1913 F. Ellis (also wore No. 30, 1913) 1914 Jack Woolley 1915 A.M. ‘Max’ Hislop 1919 Leo Little (No. 3, 1920) 1920 Reginald Ellis 1921 – 1922 Fred Long 1923 – 1924 Marcus Glasscock 1925 – 1930 Colin Deane 1931 Lew Gough (No. 39, 1930) 1932 – 1934 Jack Power (No. 12, 1930 – 1931) 1936 – 1940 Ronald James Barassi 1941 – 1942 Leslie Gibbs (No. 28, 1939) 1943 Ken Levey (No. 29, 1944) 1944 Leslie Gibbs (See 1941 – 1942 above) 1944 Harry New (No. 20, 1945) 1945 Frank ‘Checker’ Hughes Jnr 1946 – 1950 Stanley Rule 1953 – 1964 Ronald Dale Barassi 1965 – 1968 Ray Groom (No. 15, 1963 – 1964) 1974 – 1975 Bill Barham 1976 Paul Goss 1978 Peter Garratt 1979 Phil Carman 1983 – 1985 Kelvin Templeton 1990 – 1992 Rod Keogh 1996 – 1998 Donald Cockatoo-Collins 2000 - Paul Wheatley Number 32 1913 Frank Lugton (No. 17, 1914) 1914 Roy Gray 1919 William Grigg 1920 Norm Henderson 1922 Pat J. Bourke (No. 30, 1921) 1926 Eric C. P. Andersen 1928 – 1937 Gordon Ogden 1938 – 1941 Dick Hingston 1942 Robert Stone (No. 7, 1943; No. 36, 1949) 1944 Jack Minnis (?, 1942; No. 29, 1943) 1945 Jim Oppy 1946 Dick Hingston (See also 1938 – 1941) 1946 – 1951 Len Dockett 1953 – 1954 Dale ‘Swede’ Anderson 1955 Fred Webster 1957 Graham Kerr 1960 – 1961 George Milner 1962 – 1969 Barrie Vagg 1970 – 1971 Barry Hodges 1974 Dennis Payne 1975 Kim Smith 1977 – 1978 Robert Walters (No. 16, 1979 – 1981) 1979 – 1980 Bruce Elliott 1981 – 1986 Shane Zantuck 1987 Steven O’Dwyer (No. 1, 1988 – 1991) 1990 – 1991 Steven Clark 1992 – 1993 Andy Goodwin 1994 – 1998 Damien Gaspar 2000 - Cameron Bruce Number 33 1914 Alf Williamson 1919 Ivor Warne-Smith (No. 14, 1925 – 1932) 1921 Alex Ogilvy 1922 - 1924 Edgar Dunbar 1925 Jack Cannan (No. 25, 1926) 1926 – 1927 Fred Dick 1930 Geoff Frood 1932 Ron Rutherford 1934 Ray ‘Bunty’ Niven 1935 Frank Halloran 1937 – 1939 Ted Buckley 1940 – 1942 Bernie Neenan 1943 Johnny Dalton 1944 Frank McGrath 1944 Warren Lewis (No. 11, 1941) 1945 Bruce Edge 1945 Ern Rowarth (No. 1, 1946 – 1947) 1947 – 1948 Des Bell (No. 36, 1946) 1948 Alan McGowan (No. 20, 1949 – 1950) 1949 – 1953 Jack Thomson 1954 – 1959 Colin Wilson 1961 – 1965 Bob Miller 1967 – 1977 Gary Hardeman (No. 11, 1981) 1978 Tony May 1979 John Dellamarta 1980 – 1983 Tony Elshaug (No. 50, 1979) 1984 – 1993 Greg Healy 1995 – 2001 Jeff Farmer (No. 8 also 1999) 2003 – 2005 Cameron Hunter 2006 – 2007 Byron Pickett Number 34 1913 Johnny Hassett (No. 1, 1915) 1914 Jack Connole (No. 27, 1919) 1919 Harry Selover 1920 Leo Dobrigh 1922 Eric Peck (No. 24, 1923) 1923 – 1924 Vern Moore (No. 24, 1922) 1926 David Duff 1927 Ernie Shaw 1928 – 1932 Ray Usher (No. 14, 1933) 1933 Jack Bennett (No. 10, 1934 – 1936) 1934 Billy Walsh 1940 – 1943 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 18, 1945;No. 28, 1946 – 1949) 1944 Neil Bencraft 1946 Arnold ‘Buddy’ Byfield 1947 – 1948 Frank Scanlan (No. 26, 1943; No. 13, 1944) 1949 Jim Shaw 1950 Arthur Pound 1951 – 1956 Ralph Lane 1960 – 1964 Len Mann 1966 Robert Russell 1967 – 1971 Brent Jones (No. 53, 1966) 1972 John Clennett (No. 5, 1973 – 1974) 1973 – 1975 Mal Owens 1977 – 1979 Tom Flower 1981 – 1982 Roger Ellingworth (No. 14, 1983 – 1984) 1985 Frank Rugolo (No. 43, 1983 – 1984; No. 17, 1986) 1986 – 1990 Stephen Newport (No. 48, 1985) 1991 Phil Egan 1994 – 1997 Dean Irving 1998 – Jeff White Number 35 1914 Jack Bacquie (No. 11, 1915, 1919 – 1920) 1919 Dave Elliman (No. 11, 1922 – 1924) 1920 Aubrey Neal 1922 – 1931, 35 Dick Taylor 1935 William Sweeney (?, 1934) 1939 Derek Symonds 1940 – 1941 Noel Ellis 1942 Danny Powell 1943 – 1945 Charles Newman 1946 – 1956 Noel McMahen 1957 – 1962 Clyde Laidlaw (No. 16, 1954 – 1956) 1964 – 1968 Don Williams (No. 25, 1953 – 1959) 1970 – 1973 Paul Callery 1974 – 1983 Steven Smith 1984 – 1986 Darryl Cox 1987 Earl Spalding (No. 5, 1988 – 1991) 1992 – 1993 Michael Pickering 1994 Brad Campbell 1995 – 1996 Trent Ormond-Allen 1997 – 2002 Anthony McDonald 2003 - 2007 Ryan Ferguson Number 36 1913 Eric Dimsey 1914 Matthew Incigneri (No. 25, 1913) 1927 Clarrie Latham (No. 39, 1928) 1935 Joe Kinnear (No. 17, 1932; No. 15, 1933; No. 2, 1934; No. 6, 1936 – 1937) 1939 – 1941 Sid Anderson 1942 Bryan Martin (No. 27, 1943) 1943 Ernie Hart 1944 Es Downey (No. 26, 1945) 1946 Des Bell (No. 33, 1947 – 1948) 1949 Robert Stone (No. 32, 1942; No. 7, 1943) 1950 Jack Mueller (No. 12, 1934 – 1949) 1951, 1954 Keith Robinson 1955 - 1957 Richard Atkinson 1964 - 1965 Peter McLean 1966 Kerry Ryan 1967 – 1968 Ken Osborne (No. 51, 1966) 1972 Col Anderson 1973 Glenn Swan 1975 – 1976 David Kelly 1978 Gary Cooke 1980 – 1981 Peter Maynard 1982 – 1988 Ted Fidge 1990 Robert Hickmott 1992 Grant Williams 1996 – 2002 Andrew Leoncelli 2004 - Aaron Davey Number 37 1929 – 1931 George Cassidy 1944 Brian Crimmins 1944 Jack Maher (No. 14, 1938 – 1940) 1945 Frank Kennedy (No. 39, 1944; No. 17, 1946 – 1947) 1946 – 1947 James Mitchell (No. 1, 1948) 1949 – 1953 Michael Woods 1957 Terry Mountain 1960 – 1967 Bernie Massey 1968 – 1969 Darryl Schwarz 1971 Bruce Brown 1972 - 1974 John Reid 1975 – 1977 Ted Carroll (No. 42, 1974) 1981 Glenn Giles 1985 – 1986 David Allday 1987 Jim Stynes (No. 11, 1988 – 1998) 1988 – 1991 David Flintoff 1992 – 1997 Andrew Lamprill 1999 Luke Ottens 2002 - 2003 Brad Miller (No. 7, 2004 -) 2006 – Matthew Warnock Number 38 1914 William Brunier (No. 21, 1915; No. 22, 1919) 1928 – 1932 Jim Moodie 1943 Harden Dean (No. 11, 1936; No. 29, 1938) 1944 Bill Scanlan (No. 18, 1943; No. 19, 1945 – 1948) 1945 Jack Stock (No. 39, 1944) 1953 – 1956 Ken Melville 1957 – 1959 Peter Brenchley (No. 39, 1958 – wore both 38 and 39 in 1958) 1960 – 1963 Ray Nilsson 1964 – 1965 Jim Leitch 1966 – 1967 Robert Dowsing (No. 2, 1968) 1968 Denis Clark (No. 2, 1966 – 1967; No. 17, 1971 – 1975) 1969 Phil Rhoden (No. 44, 1968) 1972 Wayne Delmenico (No. 24, 1973 – 1975) 1974 Peter Slade 1975 Terry Wilkins (No. 29, 1976) 1976 – 1979 Peter O’Keefe 1980 – 1981 Tony Barnes 1981 Shane Braddy 1985 – 1987 Nigel Kol 1991 Brent Heaver (No. 54, 1990) 1993 David Neitz (No. 9, 1994 - ) 1995 Martin Heppell 1996 – 1997 Darren O’Brien Number 39 1928 Clarrie Latham (No. 36, 1927) 1930 Lew Gough (No. 31, 1931) 1944 Frank Kennedy (No. 37, 1945; No. 17, 1946 – 1947) 1944 Jack Stock (No. 38, 1945) 1953 Maurie Reeves 1954 Tom Magee 1957 Bill Byrne 1958 Peter Brenchley (No. 38, 1957 – 1959, wore both 38 & 39 in 1958) 1961 – 1964 Herb Matthews Jnr 1966 – 1967 Rick Feldmann (No. 40, 1965) 1968 George Lakes (No. 9, 1969 – 1972) 1969 – 1971 Russell Colcott 1972 – 1973 Peter Dilnot 1974 Kevin Moore 1977 Mark Alves 1979 – 1981 Gerard Healy (No. 3, 1982 – 1985) 1983 Trevor Castles 1986 Jeremy Nichols 1987 – 1988 Doug Koop 1990 Stuart Cameron 1998 – 1999 Craig Smoker Number 40 1914 Alex Fraser (No. 17, 1915) 1932 W.H. ‘Jack’ Pickford 1953 Robert Constable 1964 Frank Davis (No. 6, 1965 – 1973) 1965 Rick Feldmann (No. 39, 1966 – 1967) 1966 Garry Wynd 1967 John Toll 1968 Ray Biffin (No. 19, 1969 – 1979) 1970 Lloyd Burgmann (No. 10, 1971 – 1972) 1973 John Cumming 1975 John Sparks (No. 26, 1977) 1978 – 1979 Peter Thorne (No. 8, 1984) 1981 – 1983 Paul O’Brien (No. 50, 1980) 1986 – 1987 Tony Campbell (No. 4, 1988 – 1991) 1992 Shane Burgmann 1998 Mark Bradly 2003-2007 Mark Jamar

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS - INDEX [Numbers 31 - 40] by the Professor Number 31 1913 F. Ellis (also wore No. 30, 1913) 1914 Jack Woolley 1915 A.M. ‘Max’ Hislop 1919 Leo Little (No. 3, 1920) 1920 Reginald Ellis 1921 – 1922 Fred Long 1923 – 1924 Marcus Glasscock 1925 – 1930 Colin Deane 1931 Lew Gough (No. 39, 1930) 1932 – 1934 Jack Power (No. 12, 1930 – 1931) 1936 – 1940 Ronald James Barassi 1941 – 1942 Leslie Gibbs (No. 28, 1939) 1943 Ken Levey (No. 29, 1944) 1944 Leslie Gibbs (See 1941 – 1942 above) 1944 Harry New (No. 20, 1945) 1945 Frank ‘Checker’ Hughes Jnr 1946 – 1950 Stanley Rule 1953 – 1964 Ronald Dale Barassi 1965 – 1968 Ray Groom (No. 15, 1963 – 1964) 1974 – 1975 Bill Barham 1976 Paul Goss 1978 Peter Garratt 1979 Phil Carman 1983 – 1985 Kelvin Templeton 1990 – 1992 Rod Keogh 1996 – 1998 Donald Cockatoo-Collins 2000 - Paul Wheatley Number 32 1913 Frank Lugton (No. 17, 1914) 1914 Roy Gray 1919 William Grigg 1920 Norm Henderson 1922 Pat J. Bourke (No. 30, 1921) 1926 Eric C. P. Andersen 1928 – 1937 Gordon Ogden 1938 – 1941 Dick Hingston 1942 Robert Stone (No. 7, 1943; No. 36, 1949) 1944 Jack Minnis (?, 1942; No. 29, 1943) 1945 Jim Oppy 1946 Dick Hingston (See also 1938 – 1941) 1946 – 1951 Len Dockett 1953 – 1954 Dale ‘Swede’ Anderson 1955 Fred Webster 1957 Graham Kerr 1960 – 1961 George Milner 1962 – 1969 Barrie Vagg 1970 – 1971 Barry Hodges 1974 Dennis Payne 1975 Kim Smith 1977 – 1978 Robert Walters (No. 16, 1979 – 1981) 1979 – 1980 Bruce Elliott 1981 – 1986 Shane Zantuck 1987 Steven O’Dwyer (No. 1, 1988 – 1991) 1990 – 1991 Steven Clark 1992 – 1993 Andy Goodwin 1994 – 1998 Damien Gaspar 2000 - Cameron Bruce Number 33 1914 Alf Williamson 1919 Ivor Warne-Smith (No. 14, 1925 – 1932) 1921 Alex Ogilvy 1922 - 1924 Edgar Dunbar 1925 Jack Cannan (No. 25, 1926) 1926 – 1927 Fred Dick 1930 Geoff Frood 1932 Ron Rutherford 1934 Ray ‘Bunty’ Niven 1935 Frank Halloran 1937 – 1939 Ted Buckley 1940 – 1942 Bernie Neenan 1943 Johnny Dalton 1944 Frank McGrath 1944 Warren Lewis (No. 11, 1941) 1945 Bruce Edge 1945 Ern Rowarth (No. 1, 1946 – 1947) 1947 – 1948 Des Bell (No. 36, 1946) 1948 Alan McGowan (No. 20, 1949 – 1950) 1949 – 1953 Jack Thomson 1954 – 1959 Colin Wilson 1961 – 1965 Bob Miller 1967 – 1977 Gary Hardeman (No. 11, 1981) 1978 Tony May 1979 John Dellamarta 1980 – 1983 Tony Elshaug (No. 50, 1979) 1984 – 1993 Greg Healy 1995 – 2001 Jeff Farmer (No. 8 also 1999) 2003 – 2005 Cameron Hunter 2006 – 2007 Byron Pickett Number 34 1913 Johnny Hassett (No. 1, 1915) 1914 Jack Connole (No. 27, 1919) 1919 Harry Selover 1920 Leo Dobrigh 1922 Eric Peck (No. 24, 1923) 1923 – 1924 Vern Moore (No. 24, 1922) 1926 David Duff 1927 Ernie Shaw 1928 – 1932 Ray Usher (No. 14, 1933) 1933 Jack Bennett (No. 10, 1934 – 1936) 1934 Billy Walsh 1940 – 1943 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 18, 1945;No. 28, 1946 – 1949) 1944 Neil Bencraft 1946 Arnold ‘Buddy’ Byfield 1947 – 1948 Frank Scanlan (No. 26, 1943; No. 13, 1944) 1949 Jim Shaw 1950 Arthur Pound 1951 – 1956 Ralph Lane 1960 – 1964 Len Mann 1966 Robert Russell 1967 – 1971 Brent Jones (No. 53, 1966) 1972 John Clennett (No. 5, 1973 – 1974) 1973 – 1975 Mal Owens 1977 – 1979 Tom Flower 1981 – 1982 Roger Ellingworth (No. 14, 1983 – 1984) 1985 Frank Rugolo (No. 43, 1983 – 1984; No. 17, 1986) 1986 – 1990 Stephen Newport (No. 48, 1985) 1991 Phil Egan 1994 – 1997 Dean Irving 1998 – Jeff White Number 35 1914 Jack Bacquie (No. 11, 1915, 1919 – 1920) 1919 Dave Elliman (No. 11, 1922 – 1924) 1920 Aubrey Neal 1922 – 1931, 35 Dick Taylor 1935 William Sweeney (?, 1934) 1939 Derek Symonds 1940 – 1941 Noel Ellis 1942 Danny Powell 1943 – 1945 Charles Newman 1946 – 1956 Noel McMahen 1957 – 1962 Clyde Laidlaw (No. 16, 1954 – 1956) 1964 – 1968 Don Williams (No. 25, 1953 – 1959) 1970 – 1973 Paul Callery 1974 – 1983 Steven Smith 1984 – 1986 Darryl Cox 1987 Earl Spalding (No. 5, 1988 – 1991) 1992 – 1993 Michael Pickering 1994 Brad Campbell 1995 – 1996 Trent Ormond-Allen 1997 – 2002 Anthony McDonald 2003 - 2007 Ryan Ferguson Number 36 1913 Eric Dimsey 1914 Matthew Incigneri (No. 25, 1913) 1927 Clarrie Latham (No. 39, 1928) 1935 Joe Kinnear (No. 17, 1932; No. 15, 1933; No. 2, 1934; No. 6, 1936 – 1937) 1939 – 1941 Sid Anderson 1942 Bryan Martin (No. 27, 1943) 1943 Ernie Hart 1944 Es Downey (No. 26, 1945) 1946 Des Bell (No. 33, 1947 – 1948) 1949 Robert Stone (No. 32, 1942; No. 7, 1943) 1950 Jack Mueller (No. 12, 1934 – 1949) 1951, 1954 Keith Robinson 1955 - 1957 Richard Atkinson 1964 - 1965 Peter McLean 1966 Kerry Ryan 1967 – 1968 Ken Osborne (No. 51, 1966) 1972 Col Anderson 1973 Glenn Swan 1975 – 1976 David Kelly 1978 Gary Cooke 1980 – 1981 Peter Maynard 1982 – 1988 Ted Fidge 1990 Robert Hickmott 1992 Grant Williams 1996 – 2002 Andrew Leoncelli 2004 - Aaron Davey Number 37 1929 – 1931 George Cassidy 1944 Brian Crimmins 1944 Jack Maher (No. 14, 1938 – 1940) 1945 Frank Kennedy (No. 39, 1944; No. 17, 1946 – 1947) 1946 – 1947 James Mitchell (No. 1, 1948) 1949 – 1953 Michael Woods 1957 Terry Mountain 1960 – 1967 Bernie Massey 1968 – 1969 Darryl Schwarz 1971 Bruce Brown 1972 - 1974 John Reid 1975 – 1977 Ted Carroll (No. 42, 1974) 1981 Glenn Giles 1985 – 1986 David Allday 1987 Jim Stynes (No. 11, 1988 – 1998) 1988 – 1991 David Flintoff 1992 – 1997 Andrew Lamprill 1999 Luke Ottens 2002 - 2003 Brad Miller (No. 7, 2004 -) 2006 – Matthew Warnock Number 38 1914 William Brunier (No. 21, 1915; No. 22, 1919) 1928 – 1932 Jim Moodie 1943 Harden Dean (No. 11, 1936; No. 29, 1938) 1944 Bill Scanlan (No. 18, 1943; No. 19, 1945 – 1948) 1945 Jack Stock (No. 39, 1944) 1953 – 1956 Ken Melville 1957 – 1959 Peter Brenchley (No. 39, 1958 – wore both 38 and 39 in 1958) 1960 – 1963 Ray Nilsson 1964 – 1965 Jim Leitch 1966 – 1967 Robert Dowsing (No. 2, 1968) 1968 Denis Clark (No. 2, 1966 – 1967; No. 17, 1971 – 1975) 1969 Phil Rhoden (No. 44, 1968) 1972 Wayne Delmenico (No. 24, 1973 – 1975) 1974 Peter Slade 1975 Terry Wilkins (No. 29, 1976) 1976 – 1979 Peter O’Keefe 1980 – 1981 Tony Barnes 1981 Shane Braddy 1985 – 1987 Nigel Kol 1991 Brent Heaver (No. 54, 1990) 1993 David Neitz (No. 9, 1994 - ) 1995 Martin Heppell 1996 – 1997 Darren O’Brien Number 39 1928 Clarrie Latham (No. 36, 1927) 1930 Lew Gough (No. 31, 1931) 1944 Frank Kennedy (No. 37, 1945; No. 17, 1946 – 1947) 1944 Jack Stock (No. 38, 1945) 1953 Maurie Reeves 1954 Tom Magee 1957 Bill Byrne 1958 Peter Brenchley (No. 38, 1957 – 1959, wore both 38 & 39 in 1958) 1961 – 1964 Herb Matthews Jnr 1966 – 1967 Rick Feldmann (No. 40, 1965) 1968 George Lakes (No. 9, 1969 – 1972) 1969 – 1971 Russell Colcott 1972 – 1973 Peter Dilnot 1974 Kevin Moore 1977 Mark Alves 1979 – 1981 Gerard Healy (No. 3, 1982 – 1985) 1983 Trevor Castles 1986 Jeremy Nichols 1987 – 1988 Doug Koop 1990 Stuart Cameron 1998 – 1999 Craig Smoker Number 40 1914 Alex Fraser (No. 17, 1915) 1932 W.H. ‘Jack’ Pickford 1953 Robert Constable 1964 Frank Davis (No. 6, 1965 – 1973) 1965 Rick Feldmann (No. 39, 1966 – 1967) 1966 Garry Wynd 1967 John Toll 1968 Ray Biffin (No. 19, 1969 – 1979) 1970 Lloyd Burgmann (No. 10, 1971 – 1972) 1973 John Cumming 1975 John Sparks (No. 26, 1977) 1978 – 1979 Peter Thorne (No. 8, 1984) 1981 – 1983 Paul O’Brien (No. 50, 1980) 1986 – 1987 Tony Campbell (No. 4, 1988 – 1991) 1992 Shane Burgmann 1998 Mark Bradly 2003-2007 Mark Jamar

HAVING A KICK PK'S OBSERVATIONS ON FOOTY - with thanks to Franky I've been playing Australian Rules football for 47 years. I'm still working on my left foot which forever needs improvement. My fingers have been broken a couple of times over the years and I need them in my line of work so I haven't played competitively since 1988. On Sundays and Wednesdays, when I'm at home in Melbourne, I do circle work in the park with a loose coalition of men and a few children. This anarcho-syndicalist collective has been going for 15 years. We have no leader nor official status, no president, treasurer nor secretary. We are builders, taxi drivers, comedians, opera singers, writers, teachers, anaesthetists, IT public servants and surveyors who love footy. Someone buys a new ball once in a while then collects money. We run, kick, carry, bounce, lead, mark, handball, call and banter for an hour or so until we stagger to a stop. There are no teams. We do not tackle or compete though, once in a while, a few fellas fly for a mark or someone tries to sell a dummy. All that we are trying to do is to execute simple things perfectly; to drop the ball sweetly on the boot and watch it lob with pretty spin into the hands or chest of the leading man without him having to check his step; to be on the receiving end for the same result, running flat out for twenty or thirty metres to take the ball in outstretched hands and deliver a precise handpass to your mate who, timing his intersecting run to the dot, now demands the ball; to be cogs in a smooth machine, stringing a sequence of possessions together that feels like poetry, looping the leather round the oval without touching the grass, once, twice, three times, never too long before the inevitable error but no matter, pick it up and start again. Round and round we go in pure, purposeless pleasure, one ball and twenty odd men at physical prayer in their outdoor church making the thing that none of us can make on our own. Being a travelling salesman means I'm away a lot, sometimes months at a time, but the ragtag crew, some of whom I only know by first- or nick-name, will always be there, more or less, in the park when I return. I wake up in a motel room in Cairns, say, on a Sunday morning in July and think of my fellow parishioners, 3000km south, at their service, receiving their chilly communion. Later that day perhaps, after soundcheck when the heat of the day has dimmed a little, I take my scuffed old Sherrin out of the suitcase and seek out a sports ground or any piece of flat grass. If I can't get one of the band to come with me I run a few laps, bouncing the ball and kicking it to myself. These days I bounce the ball mostly with my left hand. The art of kicking is all about getting the drop of the ball right. My right hand does this instinctively. There is hardly any gap between where I let go of the ball and where it hits the boot. Not so on the left. I have to think about it more, about guiding the ball down. The drop always seems longer. And the longer the drop, the greater the margin for error. I’m running around an oval in Cairns trying not to think about how I release the ball from my left hand. When it goes right I’m not thinking about anything. My left foot will never quite catch up to my right but lately I've noticed some improvement. PK used to barrack for Melbourne before Adelaide got up and regularly wears a jumper given to him by Ricky Jackson. Although hitting 50 he stills shows his genuine skills.

HAVING A KICK - PK'S OBSERVATIONS ON FOOTY - with thanks to Franky I've been playing Australian Rules football for 47 years. I'm still working on my left foot which forever needs improvement. My fingers have been broken a couple of times over the years and I need them in my line of work so I haven't played competitively since 1988. On Sundays and Wednesdays, when I'm at home in Melbourne, I do circle work in the park with a loose coalition of men and a few children. This anarcho-syndicalist collective has been going for 15 years. We have no leader nor official status, no president, treasurer nor secretary. We are builders, taxi drivers, comedians, opera singers, writers, teachers, anaesthetists, IT public servants and surveyors who love footy. Someone buys a new ball once in a while then collects money. We run, kick, carry, bounce, lead, mark, handball, call and banter for an hour or so until we stagger to a stop. There are no teams. We do not tackle or compete though, once in a while, a few fellas fly for a mark or someone tries to sell a dummy. All that we are trying to do is to execute simple things perfectly; to drop the ball sweetly on the boot and watch it lob with pretty spin into the hands or chest of the leading man without him having to check his step; to be on the receiving end for the same result, running flat out for twenty or thirty metres to take the ball in outstretched hands and deliver a precise handpass to your mate who, timing his intersecting run to the dot, now demands the ball; to be cogs in a smooth machine, stringing a sequence of possessions together that feels like poetry, looping the leather round the oval without touching the grass, once, twice, three times, never too long before the inevitable error but no matter, pick it up and start again. Round and round we go in pure, purposeless pleasure, one ball and twenty odd men at physical prayer in their outdoor church making the thing that none of us can make on our own. Being a travelling salesman means I'm away a lot, sometimes months at a time, but the ragtag crew, some of whom I only know by first- or nick-name, will always be there, more or less, in the park when I return. I wake up in a motel room in Cairns, say, on a Sunday morning in July and think of my fellow parishioners, 3000km south, at their service, receiving their chilly communion. Later that day perhaps, after soundcheck when the heat of the day has dimmed a little, I take my scuffed old Sherrin out of the suitcase and seek out a sports ground or any piece of flat grass. If I can't get one of the band to come with me I run a few laps, bouncing the ball and kicking it to myself. These days I bounce the ball mostly with my left hand. The art of kicking is all about getting the drop of the ball right. My right hand does this instinctively. There is hardly any gap between where I let go of the ball and where it hits the boot. Not so on the left. I have to think about it more, about guiding the ball down. The drop always seems longer. And the longer the drop, the greater the margin for error. I’m running around an oval in Cairns trying not to think about how I release the ball from my left hand. When it goes right I’m not thinking about anything. My left foot will never quite catch up to my right but lately I've noticed some improvement. PK used to barrack for Melbourne before Adelaide got up and regularly wears a jumper given to him by Ricky Jackson. Although hitting 50 he stills shows his genuine skills.

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS - INDEX [Numbers 21 - 30] by the Professor Number 21 1912 Arthur Ferguson 1913 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (No. 29, 1914, 1919) 1914 Herbert Roberts 1915 William Brunier (No. 38, 1914; No. 22, 1919) 1919 – 1923 Jack House 1924 – 1925 Robert Ewer 1926 Tom O’Brien 1928 Gerry Beare 1928 William London 1929 William Coomber 1930 – 1934 E.W. ‘Bill’ Vanthoff 1935 Fred Backway (No. 10, 1937) 1936 William Ralston 1938 George McNaughton 1939 – 1941 Ron Kimberley (No. 1, 1944) 1941 – 1950 Donald Cordner 1951 John Cordner 1953, 1955 Noel Baker 1956 – 1958 D.A. ‘Peter’ Cook 1960 – 1965 Brian ‘Wrecker’ Leahy 1966 Edward Burston 1967 – 1968 Edward Lees 1969 David Hone 1970 – 1975 Graham Molloy 1976 – 1977 Allan Davis 1979 – 1981 Jim Durnan 1983 – 1984 Peter Tossol (No. 46, 1982) 1985 Les Parish 1986 Mike Reynolds 1988 – 2002 Steven Febey 2003 - Daniel Bell Number 22 1912 Bernie ‘Rookie’ Nolan 1913 Laurie Brady 1913 Carlyle Kenley (No. 1, 1914) 1914 Alec Gray (No. 14, 1915, 1919 – 1921) 1915 Rupert Lowell (No. 6, 1914) 1919 William Brunier (No. 38, 1914; No. 21, 1915) 1920 Syd Hutcheson 1921 W. Harry Bruce 1922 J. ‘Charlie’ Corby 1923 Jim Makin 1925 – 1927 Harold Moyes 1928 Claud Carr (No. 19, 1929) 1929 W.O. ‘Ossie’ Green (No. 5, 1926; No. ?, 1931) 1930 Fred S. ‘Pop’ Vine (No. 23, 1926 – 1934) 1930 – 1932 Reginald E. Conole (No. 29, 1933) 1933 – 1935 William Libbis 1936 Ken Feltscheer 1938 – 1939 Harry Harley 1940 – 1941 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath 1942 Arthur Franklin 1943 Thomas Ferguson (No. 16, 1942) 1944 Anthony Bizzaca 1944 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath (See also 1940 – 1941) 1945 Roy Stabb (No. 8, 1946 – 1947) 1945 Ernie O’Rourke (No. 27, 1946 – 1948) 1946 – 1950 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath (See also 1940 – 1941, 1944) 1951 – 1954 John Ferguson 1955 Ivan Baumgartner 1957 Ben Crameri 1958 John Kerr 1959 – 1969 Bryan Kenneally 1970 – 1972 Ray Carr 1973 Henry Ritterman (No. 45, 1971 – 1972) 1974 Charlie Pagnoccolo 1975 – 1977 Frank Giampaolo (No. 43, 1973 – 1974) 1978 – 1979 Ken Whitfort 1982 – 1989 Chris Connolly 1992 Stephen Wearne 1993 Martin Pike (No. 10, 1994) 1994 – 1996 Jeff Hilton 1997 – 2002 Shane Woewodin 2005 - Brent Moloney Number 23 1913 Campbell Brady 1914 Vic Gordon 1915 Edward Johnston (No. 20, 1919) 1919 Alex Salvado 1920 – 1922 Les Boyd 1923 – 1924 Roy James 1925 Frank Richardson 1926 – 1934 Fred S. ‘Pop’ Vine (No. 22 – 1930 also) 1935 – 1942 Ray Wartman 1943 – 1944 M. Jack Doherty 1945 Norm Leverton 1946 Ted Cordner (No. 28, 1941 – 1943) 1948 David Hardie (No. ?, 1947) 1949 – 1950 Ken Carlon 1951 – 1952 George O’Keefe 1953 – 1954 Leigh Glourey 1957 – 1962 Geoff Tunbridge 1963 – 1966 Graham Wise 1967 Adrian Bowden (No. 46, 1966) 1968 Brian ‘Doc’ Roet (No. 18, 1961 – 1965) 1969 – 1972 Peter Sinclair 1973 – 1979 Shane Fitzsimmons 1979 – 1984 N.R. ‘Kelly’ O’Donnell 1985 – 1986 Daryl Bourke 1987 – 1989 Warren Dean 1990 – 1991 Trevor Spencer 1991 – 1995 Kevin Dyson (No. 50 – 1991 also) 1996 – 1997 Alastair Clarkson 1998 - James McDonald (No. 54, 1997) Number 24 1912 Jack S. Strong 1913 Norm R. Jordan 1914 Tim Collins (No. 4, 1915) 1915 Roy Franklin 1919 Lou Salvana 1920 William McIntyre 1920 Albert W.D. Fawcett 1922 Vern Moore (No. 34, 1923 – 1924) 1923 Eric Peck (No. 34, 1922) 1924 – 1927 Harry ‘Snowy’ Davie 1928 – 1929 M.J. ‘Jack’ Haw 1930 Colin Jackson 1931 – 1944 Percy Beames 1945 – 1946 Richard Kennedy 1947 – 1949 Frank Hanna 1950 – 1951 Ray Hutchins 1953 William Morrow 1954 – 1961 Ian ‘Tiger’ Ridley 1962 – 1963 Jim Jenkinson 1966 – 1972 Ross Dillon 1973 – 1975 Wayne Delmenico (No. 38, 1972) 1976 – 1977 Graham Osborne (No. 7, 1966 – 1975) 1978 Kelvin Richards (No. 25, 1979) 1979 – 1981 Tony Martyn 1982 Des O’Dwyer (No. 27, 1978; No. 47, 1981) 1983 Steve McCarthy (No. 52, 1982) 1984 – 1989 Bret Bailey 1990 – 1992 Luke Beveridge (No. 48, 1989) 1993 – 1994 Phil Gilbert 1995 – 1996 Clay Sampson 1998 - Russell Robertson (No. 42, 1997) Number 25 1912 Ted Politz (No. 15, 1913) 1913 Matthew Incigneri (No. 36, 1914) 1914 Cliff Burge 1915 Len Incigneri (No. 28, 1913 – 1914) 1919 Alec Farrow (No. 4, 1920; No. 28, 1921) 1919 Howard Richardson 1920 Claude Bryan (No. 26, 1915) 1921 – 1924 Percy Wilson 1925 James A. Sullivan 1926 Jack Cannan (No. 33, 1925) 1927 Peter Hannan 1929 Carlyle Jones (No. 11, 1925 – 1926) 1931 William Collins 1932 William Earle 1933 Percy Streeter 1934 – 1936 Frank Kelly 1937 Albert Chandler 1938 G.F. 'Ted' Regan 1940 – 1941 Colin McLean 1942 Doug Heywood (No. 26, 1944; No. 8, 1948 – 1951) 1942 Hugh McPherson (No. 16, 1941, 1943 – 1944) 1944 – 1949 Colin McLean (See also 1940 – 1941) 1951 – 1952 Ron McMahon 1953 – 1959 Don Williams (No. 35, 1964 – 1968) 1962 – 1963, 1965 – 1966 Kerry Rattray 1967 – 1968 Geoff Whitton 1968 – 1971 Peter Weekes 1975 Barry Ough 1979 Kelvin Richards (No. 24, 1978) 1981 – 1982 Mark Jackson 1984 – 1985 Xavier Tanner 1986 – 1992 Simon Eishold 1993 – 1994 Jason Norrish 1995 – 1996 Luke Norman 2000 - 2007 Nathan D. Brown (No. 41, 1998) Number 26 1912 Hugh Odgers (No. 16, 1920) 1912 Hugh Purse (No. ?, 1915) 1913 Charlie Edwards 1914 George Walker (No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 16, 1919; No. 28, 1920) 1915 Claude Bryan (No. 25, 1920) 1919 Cyril Hall 1920 Vern Rowe 1921 Enos J. Thomas 1922 – 1923 Jack Lord Snr (No. 11, 1921) 1924 – 1925 Max Wright 1927 Charles Young 1932 – 1934 Louis Riley 1935 Jack Carr 1936 – 1940 Jack Furniss (No. 14, 1947) 1941 Mac Wilson 1942 Gordon Kramer (No. 10, 1944 – 1945) 1943 Ron C. Hobba 1943 Frank Scanlan (No. 13, 1944; No. 34, 1947 – 1948) 1944 Doug Heywood (No. 25, 1943; No. 8, 1948 – 1951) 1945 Es Downey (No. 36, 1944) 1946 Ralph Shalless (No. 27, 1943) 1948 Colin Cox (No. 9, 1949) 1950 Dave Bedford 1951 – 1955 Noel Clarke 1957 – 1962 Ian Thorogood 1963 Anthony Thiessen 1965 – 1966 Frank Vearing 1968 – 1973 Greg Parke 1974 Graham Scott 1975 – 1976 Gary Guy 1977 John Sparks (No. 40, 1975) 1978 Mark McKeon 1979 Stewart Gull 1980 – 1984 Glenn McLean 1986 – 1987 Joe Rugolo (No. 53, 1985) 1988 – 1991 Jay Viney 1992 Wayne Henwood 1993 – 1996 Greg Doyle 1999 – 2000 Daniel Ward (No. 49, 1998 – 1999; No. 10, 2001 – 2002) 2002 - 2005 Luke Williams Number 27 1912 Les Abbott 1912 – 1913 Thomas Wellington 1914 William McKenzie (No. 4, 1913, 1919; No. 6, 1912; No. 18, 1915) 1915 Jack Doubleday 1919 Jack Connole (No. 34, 1914) 1920 Harry Tampling 1921 William G. Lyte 1923 – 1924 William Carter 1924 George ‘Nugget’ Simmonds 1925 – 1933 William Tymms 1934 – 1935 Len Smith 1936 Archie Roberts (No. 6, 1932 – 1935) 1937 Stanley Penberthy 1940 – 1941 Gerry Daly (No. 16, 1939) 1942 Frank Deayton (No. 17, 1943) 1943 Ralph Shalless (No. 26, 1946) 1943 Bryan Martin (No. 36, 1942) 1944 Colin Galbraith 1945 Keith Molloy (No. 3, 1943) 1946 Gerry Daly (See 1940 – 1941 above) 1946 – 1948 Ernie O’Rourke (No. 22, 1945) 1949 – 1950 Kenneth Rollason 1951 Robert Rowse 1952 – 1953 Neil Whitaker 1956 – 1962 Dennis Jones 1965 Robin Andrew 1967 John Murnane (No. 49, 1966) 1968 – 1970 John Forster 1972 – 1973 Ross Brewer (No. 6, 1974 – 1978) 1974 Greg Wood 1976 – 1978 Colin Graham (No. 50, 1975) 1978 Des O’Dwyer (No. 47, 1981; No. 24, 1982) 1979 – 1981 Don Whitford 1984 Glenn Boland (No. 45, 1983) 1985 – 1995 J.P. 'Sean' Wight 1996 – 2001 Anthony Ingerson 2003 - Jared Rivers Number 28 1912 Clarence P. Abbott 1913 – 1914 Len Incigneri (No. 25, 1915) 1913 Percy Ellingsen 1915 Jack Huntington (No. 3, 1914; No. 19, 1919 – 1920) 1919 Matt Connors 1919 Bob Bodington (No. 18, 1920) 1919 Jack A. ‘Dodger’ Evans (No. 29, 1912; No. 8, 1913, 1915; No. 7, 1914) 1920 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 16, 1919) 1921 Alec Farrow (No. 25, 1919; No. 4, 1920) 1922 Harold Dunbar 1923 – 1928 Hugh Dunbar (No. 29, 1922) 1929 Henry McRae 1930 – 1932 W.T. ‘Webber’ Jackson 1933 Bill W. Robinson 1934 – 1938 Pat McNamara 1939 Leslie Gibbs (No. 31, 1941 – 1942, 1944) 1941 – 1943 Ted Cordner (No. 23, 1946) 1944 – 1945 Percy Taylor 1946 – 1949 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 34, 1940 – 1943; No. 18, 1945) 1950 Greg Lourey (No. 17, 1948) 1951 – 1952 William Smeaton 1953 – 1962 G.J. ‘Terry’ Gleeson 1963 – 1965 David Robbie 1967 – 1970 Derek Feldmann 1973 – 1981 Tony Dullard 1982 – 1987 David Cordner 1988 – 1989 Jamie Duursma 1990 – 1992 John Howat (No. 51, 1989) 1993 – 1996 Glenn Molloy 1997 Nick Pesch 1998 – 2002 Matthew Collins 2004 - 2006 Phil Read Number 29 1912 Jack A. ‘Dodger’ Evans (No. 8, 1913, 1915; No. 7, 1914; No. 28, 1919) 1912 – 1913 Herbert Joolen 1914 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (No. 21, 1913) 1915 Alf George (No. 3, 1912; No. 14, 1913) 1919 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (see 1914 above) 1919 Frank Cummins 1920 George Garlick 1921 Les Wallace 1922 Hugh Dunbar (No. 28, 1923 – 1928) 1923 Jack Robertson (?, 1924) 1925 – 1932 James Davidson (?, 1924) 1933 Reginald E. Conole (No. 22, 1930 – 1932) 1934 Jack Young 1935 – 1937 John ‘Jock’ Ball 1938 Harden Dean (No. 11, 1936; No. 38, 1943) 1939 – 1942 Jack O’Keefe 1942 Colin Bradley (No. 15, 1943 – 1944) 1943 Jack Minnis (No. ?, 1942; No. 32, 1944) 1944 Ken Levey (No. 31, 1943) 1946 Alfred Copsey 1946 Harry Rowe (No. ?, 1945) 1949 Raymond Jones 1951 – 1952 Kenneth McKaige 1953 – 1957 Anthony Bull 1957 Brian Dunsford 1959 – 1968 Hassa Mann 1969 Steven Arnott 1970 – 1973 Noel Leary 1974 David Murray 1976 Terry Wilkins (No. 38, 1975) 1977 – 1981 Andrew Moir 1982 – 1986 Dale Dickson 1987 Peter Kiel 1987 – 1989 Dean Chiron 1990 – 1994 Andrew Obst (No. 4, 1995 – 1997) 1995 – 1998 Shaun Smith 1999 – 2004 Chris Lamb 2007 – Michael Newton Number 30 1912 – 1913 Mick Maguire (No. 14, 1914) 1913 F. Ellis (also wore No. 31, 1913) 1914 Artie Best 1915 Michael McQuade 1919 Bill Shelton (No. 13, 1920 – 1924; No. 20, 1925) 1920 Bruce Campbell 1921 Pat J. Bourke (No. 32, 1922) 1922 Arthur H. Cambridge 1923 – 1924 Eric Donaldson 1926 R.G. ‘Bert’ Lawrence 1932 Dan Cunningham 1932 Howard Steel (No. 9, 1930 – 1931) 1933 Cliff Tyson 1935 – 1938 Jack Foster 1939 – 1943 Alby Rodda 1945 Norm Wilson (No. 20, 1946) 1946 – 1950 Alby Rodda (See also 1939 – 1943) 1951 – 1960 John Beckwith 1961 John Leahy 1965 – 1966 Kenneth Rowe 1967 Robert Langford (No. 52, 1966) 1969 – 1972 John Letcher 1973 – 1974 Peter Williamson (No. 49, 1971; No. 54, 1972) 1976 – 1983 Peter Hamilton 1984 – 1987 Peter Moore (No. 10, 1983) 1989 – 1990 Danny Seow 1991 – 1992 Paul Bryce 1993 Paul Hopgood 1996 – 1997 David Cockatoo-Collins 2000 - 2007 Simon Godfrey

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS - INDEX [Numbers 21 - 30] by the Professor Number 21 1912 Arthur Ferguson 1913 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (No. 29, 1914, 1919) 1914 Herbert Roberts 1915 William Brunier (No. 38, 1914; No. 22, 1919) 1919 – 1923 Jack House 1924 – 1925 Robert Ewer 1926 Tom O’Brien 1928 Gerry Beare 1928 William London 1929 William Coomber 1930 – 1934 E.W. ‘Bill’ Vanthoff 1935 Fred Backway (No. 10, 1937) 1936 William Ralston 1938 George McNaughton 1939 – 1941 Ron Kimberley (No. 1, 1944) 1941 – 1950 Donald Cordner 1951 John Cordner 1953, 1955 Noel Baker 1956 – 1958 D.A. ‘Peter’ Cook 1960 – 1965 Brian ‘Wrecker’ Leahy 1966 Edward Burston 1967 – 1968 Edward Lees 1969 David Hone 1970 – 1975 Graham Molloy 1976 – 1977 Allan Davis 1979 – 1981 Jim Durnan 1983 – 1984 Peter Tossol (No. 46, 1982) 1985 Les Parish 1986 Mike Reynolds 1988 – 2002 Steven Febey 2003 - Daniel Bell Number 22 1912 Bernie ‘Rookie’ Nolan 1913 Laurie Brady 1913 Carlyle Kenley (No. 1, 1914) 1914 Alec Gray (No. 14, 1915, 1919 – 1921) 1915 Rupert Lowell (No. 6, 1914) 1919 William Brunier (No. 38, 1914; No. 21, 1915) 1920 Syd Hutcheson 1921 W. Harry Bruce 1922 J. ‘Charlie’ Corby 1923 Jim Makin 1925 – 1927 Harold Moyes 1928 Claud Carr (No. 19, 1929) 1929 W.O. ‘Ossie’ Green (No. 5, 1926; No. ?, 1931) 1930 Fred S. ‘Pop’ Vine (No. 23, 1926 – 1934) 1930 – 1932 Reginald E. Conole (No. 29, 1933) 1933 – 1935 William Libbis 1936 Ken Feltscheer 1938 – 1939 Harry Harley 1940 – 1941 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath 1942 Arthur Franklin 1943 Thomas Ferguson (No. 16, 1942) 1944 Anthony Bizzaca 1944 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath (See also 1940 – 1941) 1945 Roy Stabb (No. 8, 1946 – 1947) 1945 Ernie O’Rourke (No. 27, 1946 – 1948) 1946 – 1950 J.P. ‘Shane’ McGrath (See also 1940 – 1941, 1944) 1951 – 1954 John Ferguson 1955 Ivan Baumgartner 1957 Ben Crameri 1958 John Kerr 1959 – 1969 Bryan Kenneally 1970 – 1972 Ray Carr 1973 Henry Ritterman (No. 45, 1971 – 1972) 1974 Charlie Pagnoccolo 1975 – 1977 Frank Giampaolo (No. 43, 1973 – 1974) 1978 – 1979 Ken Whitfort 1982 – 1989 Chris Connolly 1992 Stephen Wearne 1993 Martin Pike (No. 10, 1994) 1994 – 1996 Jeff Hilton 1997 – 2002 Shane Woewodin 2005 - Brent Moloney Number 23 1913 Campbell Brady 1914 Vic Gordon 1915 Edward Johnston (No. 20, 1919) 1919 Alex Salvado 1920 – 1922 Les Boyd 1923 – 1924 Roy James 1925 Frank Richardson 1926 – 1934 Fred S. ‘Pop’ Vine (No. 22 – 1930 also) 1935 – 1942 Ray Wartman 1943 – 1944 M. Jack Doherty 1945 Norm Leverton 1946 Ted Cordner (No. 28, 1941 – 1943) 1948 David Hardie (No. ?, 1947) 1949 – 1950 Ken Carlon 1951 – 1952 George O’Keefe 1953 – 1954 Leigh Glourey 1957 – 1962 Geoff Tunbridge 1963 – 1966 Graham Wise 1967 Adrian Bowden (No. 46, 1966) 1968 Brian ‘Doc’ Roet (No. 18, 1961 – 1965) 1969 – 1972 Peter Sinclair 1973 – 1979 Shane Fitzsimmons 1979 – 1984 N.R. ‘Kelly’ O’Donnell 1985 – 1986 Daryl Bourke 1987 – 1989 Warren Dean 1990 – 1991 Trevor Spencer 1991 – 1995 Kevin Dyson (No. 50 – 1991 also) 1996 – 1997 Alastair Clarkson 1998 - James McDonald (No. 54, 1997) Number 24 1912 Jack S. Strong 1913 Norm R. Jordan 1914 Tim Collins (No. 4, 1915) 1915 Roy Franklin 1919 Lou Salvana 1920 William McIntyre 1920 Albert W.D. Fawcett 1922 Vern Moore (No. 34, 1923 – 1924) 1923 Eric Peck (No. 34, 1922) 1924 – 1927 Harry ‘Snowy’ Davie 1928 – 1929 M.J. ‘Jack’ Haw 1930 Colin Jackson 1931 – 1944 Percy Beames 1945 – 1946 Richard Kennedy 1947 – 1949 Frank Hanna 1950 – 1951 Ray Hutchins 1953 William Morrow 1954 – 1961 Ian ‘Tiger’ Ridley 1962 – 1963 Jim Jenkinson 1966 – 1972 Ross Dillon 1973 – 1975 Wayne Delmenico (No. 38, 1972) 1976 – 1977 Graham Osborne (No. 7, 1966 – 1975) 1978 Kelvin Richards (No. 25, 1979) 1979 – 1981 Tony Martyn 1982 Des O’Dwyer (No. 27, 1978; No. 47, 1981) 1983 Steve McCarthy (No. 52, 1982) 1984 – 1989 Bret Bailey 1990 – 1992 Luke Beveridge (No. 48, 1989) 1993 – 1994 Phil Gilbert 1995 – 1996 Clay Sampson 1998 - Russell Robertson (No. 42, 1997) Number 25 1912 Ted Politz (No. 15, 1913) 1913 Matthew Incigneri (No. 36, 1914) 1914 Cliff Burge 1915 Len Incigneri (No. 28, 1913 – 1914) 1919 Alec Farrow (No. 4, 1920; No. 28, 1921) 1919 Howard Richardson 1920 Claude Bryan (No. 26, 1915) 1921 – 1924 Percy Wilson 1925 James A. Sullivan 1926 Jack Cannan (No. 33, 1925) 1927 Peter Hannan 1929 Carlyle Jones (No. 11, 1925 – 1926) 1931 William Collins 1932 William Earle 1933 Percy Streeter 1934 – 1936 Frank Kelly 1937 Albert Chandler 1938 G.F. 'Ted' Regan 1940 – 1941 Colin McLean 1942 Doug Heywood (No. 26, 1944; No. 8, 1948 – 1951) 1942 Hugh McPherson (No. 16, 1941, 1943 – 1944) 1944 – 1949 Colin McLean (See also 1940 – 1941) 1951 – 1952 Ron McMahon 1953 – 1959 Don Williams (No. 35, 1964 – 1968) 1962 – 1963, 1965 – 1966 Kerry Rattray 1967 – 1968 Geoff Whitton 1968 – 1971 Peter Weekes 1975 Barry Ough 1979 Kelvin Richards (No. 24, 1978) 1981 – 1982 Mark Jackson 1984 – 1985 Xavier Tanner 1986 – 1992 Simon Eishold 1993 – 1994 Jason Norrish 1995 – 1996 Luke Norman 2000 - 2007 Nathan D. Brown (No. 41, 1998) Number 26 1912 Hugh Odgers (No. 16, 1920) 1912 Hugh Purse (No. ?, 1915) 1913 Charlie Edwards 1914 George Walker (No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 16, 1919; No. 28, 1920) 1915 Claude Bryan (No. 25, 1920) 1919 Cyril Hall 1920 Vern Rowe 1921 Enos J. Thomas 1922 – 1923 Jack Lord Snr (No. 11, 1921) 1924 – 1925 Max Wright 1927 Charles Young 1932 – 1934 Louis Riley 1935 Jack Carr 1936 – 1940 Jack Furniss (No. 14, 1947) 1941 Mac Wilson 1942 Gordon Kramer (No. 10, 1944 – 1945) 1943 Ron C. Hobba 1943 Frank Scanlan (No. 13, 1944; No. 34, 1947 – 1948) 1944 Doug Heywood (No. 25, 1943; No. 8, 1948 – 1951) 1945 Es Downey (No. 36, 1944) 1946 Ralph Shalless (No. 27, 1943) 1948 Colin Cox (No. 9, 1949) 1950 Dave Bedford 1951 – 1955 Noel Clarke 1957 – 1962 Ian Thorogood 1963 Anthony Thiessen 1965 – 1966 Frank Vearing 1968 – 1973 Greg Parke 1974 Graham Scott 1975 – 1976 Gary Guy 1977 John Sparks (No. 40, 1975) 1978 Mark McKeon 1979 Stewart Gull 1980 – 1984 Glenn McLean 1986 – 1987 Joe Rugolo (No. 53, 1985) 1988 – 1991 Jay Viney 1992 Wayne Henwood 1993 – 1996 Greg Doyle 1999 – 2000 Daniel Ward (No. 49, 1998 – 1999; No. 10, 2001 – 2002) 2002 - 2005 Luke Williams Number 27 1912 Les Abbott 1912 – 1913 Thomas Wellington 1914 William McKenzie (No. 4, 1913, 1919; No. 6, 1912; No. 18, 1915) 1915 Jack Doubleday 1919 Jack Connole (No. 34, 1914) 1920 Harry Tampling 1921 William G. Lyte 1923 – 1924 William Carter 1924 George ‘Nugget’ Simmonds 1925 – 1933 William Tymms 1934 – 1935 Len Smith 1936 Archie Roberts (No. 6, 1932 – 1935) 1937 Stanley Penberthy 1940 – 1941 Gerry Daly (No. 16, 1939) 1942 Frank Deayton (No. 17, 1943) 1943 Ralph Shalless (No. 26, 1946) 1943 Bryan Martin (No. 36, 1942) 1944 Colin Galbraith 1945 Keith Molloy (No. 3, 1943) 1946 Gerry Daly (See 1940 – 1941 above) 1946 – 1948 Ernie O’Rourke (No. 22, 1945) 1949 – 1950 Kenneth Rollason 1951 Robert Rowse 1952 – 1953 Neil Whitaker 1956 – 1962 Dennis Jones 1965 Robin Andrew 1967 John Murnane (No. 49, 1966) 1968 – 1970 John Forster 1972 – 1973 Ross Brewer (No. 6, 1974 – 1978) 1974 Greg Wood 1976 – 1978 Colin Graham (No. 50, 1975) 1978 Des O’Dwyer (No. 47, 1981; No. 24, 1982) 1979 – 1981 Don Whitford 1984 Glenn Boland (No. 45, 1983) 1985 – 1995 J.P. 'Sean' Wight 1996 – 2001 Anthony Ingerson 2003 - Jared Rivers Number 28 1912 Clarence P. Abbott 1913 – 1914 Len Incigneri (No. 25, 1915) 1913 Percy Ellingsen 1915 Jack Huntington (No. 3, 1914; No. 19, 1919 – 1920) 1919 Matt Connors 1919 Bob Bodington (No. 18, 1920) 1919 Jack A. ‘Dodger’ Evans (No. 29, 1912; No. 8, 1913, 1915; No. 7, 1914) 1920 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 16, 1919) 1921 Alec Farrow (No. 25, 1919; No. 4, 1920) 1922 Harold Dunbar 1923 – 1928 Hugh Dunbar (No. 29, 1922) 1929 Henry McRae 1930 – 1932 W.T. ‘Webber’ Jackson 1933 Bill W. Robinson 1934 – 1938 Pat McNamara 1939 Leslie Gibbs (No. 31, 1941 – 1942, 1944) 1941 – 1943 Ted Cordner (No. 23, 1946) 1944 – 1945 Percy Taylor 1946 – 1949 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 34, 1940 – 1943; No. 18, 1945) 1950 Greg Lourey (No. 17, 1948) 1951 – 1952 William Smeaton 1953 – 1962 G.J. ‘Terry’ Gleeson 1963 – 1965 David Robbie 1967 – 1970 Derek Feldmann 1973 – 1981 Tony Dullard 1982 – 1987 David Cordner 1988 – 1989 Jamie Duursma 1990 – 1992 John Howat (No. 51, 1989) 1993 – 1996 Glenn Molloy 1997 Nick Pesch 1998 – 2002 Matthew Collins 2004 - 2006 Phil Read Number 29 1912 Jack A. ‘Dodger’ Evans (No. 8, 1913, 1915; No. 7, 1914; No. 28, 1919) 1912 – 1913 Herbert Joolen 1914 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (No. 21, 1913) 1915 Alf George (No. 3, 1912; No. 14, 1913) 1919 Charles S. ‘Buns’ Armstrong (see 1914 above) 1919 Frank Cummins 1920 George Garlick 1921 Les Wallace 1922 Hugh Dunbar (No. 28, 1923 – 1928) 1923 Jack Robertson (?, 1924) 1925 – 1932 James Davidson (?, 1924) 1933 Reginald E. Conole (No. 22, 1930 – 1932) 1934 Jack Young 1935 – 1937 John ‘Jock’ Ball 1938 Harden Dean (No. 11, 1936; No. 38, 1943) 1939 – 1942 Jack O’Keefe 1942 Colin Bradley (No. 15, 1943 – 1944) 1943 Jack Minnis (No. ?, 1942; No. 32, 1944) 1944 Ken Levey (No. 31, 1943) 1946 Alfred Copsey 1946 Harry Rowe (No. ?, 1945) 1949 Raymond Jones 1951 – 1952 Kenneth McKaige 1953 – 1957 Anthony Bull 1957 Brian Dunsford 1959 – 1968 Hassa Mann 1969 Steven Arnott 1970 – 1973 Noel Leary 1974 David Murray 1976 Terry Wilkins (No. 38, 1975) 1977 – 1981 Andrew Moir 1982 – 1986 Dale Dickson 1987 Peter Kiel 1987 – 1989 Dean Chiron 1990 – 1994 Andrew Obst (No. 4, 1995 – 1997) 1995 – 1998 Shaun Smith 1999 – 2004 Chris Lamb 2007 – Michael Newton Number 30 1912 – 1913 Mick Maguire (No. 14, 1914) 1913 F. Ellis (also wore No. 31, 1913) 1914 Artie Best 1915 Michael McQuade 1919 Bill Shelton (No. 13, 1920 – 1924; No. 20, 1925) 1920 Bruce Campbell 1921 Pat J. Bourke (No. 32, 1922) 1922 Arthur H. Cambridge 1923 – 1924 Eric Donaldson 1926 R.G. ‘Bert’ Lawrence 1932 Dan Cunningham 1932 Howard Steel (No. 9, 1930 – 1931) 1933 Cliff Tyson 1935 – 1938 Jack Foster 1939 – 1943 Alby Rodda 1945 Norm Wilson (No. 20, 1946) 1946 – 1950 Alby Rodda (See also 1939 – 1943) 1951 – 1960 John Beckwith 1961 John Leahy 1965 – 1966 Kenneth Rowe 1967 Robert Langford (No. 52, 1966) 1969 – 1972 John Letcher 1973 – 1974 Peter Williamson (No. 49, 1971; No. 54, 1972) 1976 – 1983 Peter Hamilton 1984 – 1987 Peter Moore (No. 10, 1983) 1989 – 1990 Danny Seow 1991 – 1992 Paul Bryce 1993 Paul Hopgood 1996 – 1997 David Cockatoo-Collins 2000 - 2007 Simon Godfrey

I found this tribute written by Whispering Jack on the first anniversary of the tsunami ... ACROSS THE UNIVERSE by Whispering Jack Three hundred and sixty-five days ago the earth moved, the seas split and a wave was sent across the ocean leaving a trail of devastation that took with it a quarter of a million lives across two continents. We were touched by the tragedy; we felt its sadness and then life went on. Soon after, we could have been forgiven for thinking that despite the enormity of the event, the world remained unchanged. Seemingly, nothing did change our world in 2005. People still died whether by natural causes, by natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and hurricanes, by epidemics such as AIDS or by man’s own hand everywhere on the planet but most notably in the deserts of Darfur, in the streets of Baghdad and even in the London Underground. "Nothing's gonna change my world" These are the words of the late John Lennon. Perhaps a single individual in a vast universe may feel that there is nothing he or she can do to change our world. But we are not totally helpless - we can make a difference. Trish Broadbridge, the Melbourne Football Club and friends proved this at Phi Phi Island - at the very place where their fallen husband and comrade Troy perished in the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. Their persistence and endeavour enabled the building of a school for the children of the devastated island - the finishing touches were applied with their own bare hands. That generations of young Thai children to come will benefit from their labour bears testament to the fact that all of us can make a difference. We can change the world. We can change the world

Today is the third anniverary of the tragic Asian tsunami that took the lives of hundreds of thousands including our own Troy Broadbridge. It's a time for us all to remember with respect. Readers may wish to start working on their own compositions in honour of Troy to be posted today. Troy Broadbridge # 20 Born: 5 October 1980 Recruited from Port Adelaide Magpies (SANFL) Died: 26 December 2004, Thailand Playing Career: Debut Round 8, May 20, 2001, Melbourne vs. Essendon, at Melbourne Cricket Ground Team: Melbourne (2001-2004) 40 games, 2 goals Melbourne Most Improved Player 2001 Sandringham Premiership Team 2000 & 2004 A smile that will never be forgotten

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS - INDEX [Numbers 11 to 20] by the Professor Number 11 1912 Hedley Tomkins (No. 17, 1913) 1913 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 15, 1914; No. 12, 1915) 1914 Charlie H. Lilley (No. 6, 1913, 1915; No. 8, 1919 – 1925) 1915, 1919 – 1920 Jack Bacquie (No. 35, 1914) 1921 Jack Lord Snr (No. 26, 1922 – 1923) 1922 – 1924 Dave Elliman (No. 35, 1919) 1925 – 1928 CD ‘Derek’ Mollison (No. 16, 1923 – 1925) wore both 11 and 16 in 1925 1925 – 1926 Carlyle Jones (No. 25, 1929) 1926 Bruce Pie 1929 Art Beaumont 1931 – 1932 Frank Smith 1932 Terry Ogden 1933 Robert C Johnson (No. 16, 1926 – 1932) 1934 – 1936 Sid Meehl 1936 Harden Dean (No. 29, 1938; No. 38, 1943) 1937 Beres Reilly 1938 Sid Meehl (see also 1934 – 1936) 1939 – 1940 Harold C Ball 1941 Warren Lewis (No. 33, 1944) 1942 – 1944 Norm Matthews (?, 1935) 1945 – 1950 Gordon Bowman 1952 – 1953 Jim Wilson 1954 – 1962 Laurie Mithen 1963 – 1969 TG ‘Tony’ Anderson 1970 – 1980 Greg Wells (No. 50, 1969) 1981 Gary Hardeman (No. 33, 1967 – 1977) 1982 – 1987 Steven Icke 1988 – 1998 Jim Stynes (No. 37, 1987) 2001 Troy Simmonds (No. 46, 1999 – 2000) 2002 - 2004 Darren Jolly (No. 41, 2001) 2005 - Paul Johnson Number 12 1912 Malcolm Kennedy 1913 Jim Fitzpatrick (No. 4, 1912) 1914 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 11, 1913; No. 15, 1914) 1919 Allan McLean 1920 – 1929 Bob Corbett 1930 – 1931 Jack Power (No. 31, 1932 – 1934) 1932 EH ‘Ted’ Thomas (No. 3, 1921 – 1928) 1932 – 1933 Alan ‘Ginger’ Ryan 1934 – 1949 Jack Mueller (No. 36, 1950) 1950 – 1956 Stuart Spencer 1957 – 1960 Neil Crompton (No. 5, 1962 – 1966) 1961 – 1962 Michael Joseph Collins 1965 Hugh Bromell 1967 – 1969 Chris Fowler 1970 Rod Payne 1972 – 1974 Michael John Collins (No. 48, 1971) 1975 – 1977 Martin Lyons 1977 – 1979 Barry Norsworthy 1979 – 1982 Cameron Clayton 1983 – 1986 David Williams (No. 15, 1987 – 1988) 1987 – 1999 Todd Viney 2004 - Colin Sylvia Number 13 1912 H ‘Bert’ Francis 1913 Fen McDonald 1914 Stanley J Fairbairn 1919 Lindsay Nichol 1920 – 1924 Bill Shelton (No. 30, 1919; No. 20, 1925) 1931 Gordon Lindsay 1932 Joe Hogan 1933 – 1941 Les Jones 1941 – 1942 George Lenne (No. 20, 1945) 1944 Frank Scanlan (No. 26, 1943; No. 34, 1947 – 1948) 1947 – 1950 Max Spittle 1951 – 1953 Alan Krause 1975 – 1978 Henry Coles (No. 3, 1979 – 1980) 1979 – 1981 Wayne Gordon 1989 Tom Kavanagh 1991 – 1994 Allen Jakovich 1996 - Adem Yze Number 14 1912 Jack Bristow (No. 18, 1913) 1913 Alf George (No. 3, 1912; No. 29, 1915) 1914 Mick Maguire (No. 30, 1912 – 1913) 1915, 1919 – 1921 Alec Gray (No. 22, 1914) 1923 – 1924 Jim Abernethy (No. 4, 1926 – 1932) 1925 – 1932 Ivor Warne-Smith (No. 33, 1919) 1932 Jack Richardson 1933 Ray Usher (No. 34, 1928 – 1932) 1934 – 1937 Maurie Gibb (No. 10, 1937 – 1943) 1938 – 1940 Jack Maher (No. 37, 1944) 1941 – 1945 George Archibald 1945 – 1947 Ron Hall (?, 1944) 1947 Jack Furniss (No. 26, 1936 – 1940) 1948 – 1949 Eric Roscoe 1950 – 1952 Robert Johnston 1955 – 1962 Trevor Johnson 1963 – 1973 Barry Bourke 1974 – 1976 Neil Chamberlain (No. 54, 1973) 1977 Chris Aitken (No. 5, 1967, 1969) 1977 – 1982 Michael Byrne 1983 – 1984 Roger Ellingworth (No. 34, 1981 – 1982) 1985 – 1994 Rodney Grinter 1996 Michael Polley 1997 Leigh Newton 2000 - 2002 Steven Pitt 2006 – 2007 Lynden Dunn Number 15 1912 Tim Lane (No. 25, 1912) 1913 Ted Politz 1914 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 11, 1913; No. 12, 1915) 1915 Ed Buckley 1919 – 1925 George Haines (Heinz) 1927 – 1929 Charlie Barnes (No. 18, also 1928) 1930 – 1931 Harry S Crapper 1932 Tom McMahon 1933 Joe Kinnear (No. 17, 1932; No. 2, 1934; No. 36, 1935; No. 6, 1936 – 1937) 1934 Edwin Pemberton (No. 19, 1930 – 1933) 1935 Audley Gillespie-Jones 1935 – 1942 Ron Baggott 1943 – 1944 Colin Bradley (No. 29, 1942) 1945 Ron Baggott (see also 1935 – 1942) 1946 Jack Quinn 1947 – 1948 Frank O’Connor 1949 Len Toyne 1950 Max Jeffers 1951 Geoff Mason 1951 – 1952 Terry Pierce 1955 – 1959 Athol Webb 1963 – 1964 Ray Groom (No. 31, 1965 – 1968) 1965 – 1976 Stan Alves 1977 Darryl Cumming 1978 – 1980 Phil Seaton 1981 – 1982 Vin Catoggio 1984 – 1986 Mark Withers 1987 – 1988 David Williams (No. 12, 1983 – 1984, 1986) 1990 – 1991 Stephen Tingay (No. 52, 1989; No. 2, 1992 – 1998) 1993 Haydn Robins (No. 46, 1992) 1994 – 1999 Paul Hopgood (No. 30, 1993) 2001 – 2002 Ross Funcke 2003 – 2006 Nick Smith 2007 – Ricky Petterd Number 16 1912 Bill Flintoft 1913 Bill Angwin 1914 Bobby Monk (No. 9, 1912; No. 5, 1913) 1915 Roy L Park 1919 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 28, 1920 also) 1920 Hugh Odgers (No. 26, 1912) 1921 Clarrie L Lethlean 1923 – 1925 CD ‘Derek’ Mollison (No. 11, 1926 – 1928; wore both 11 and 16 in 1925) 1926 – 1932 Robert C Johnson (No. 11, 1933) 1933 – 1938 Eric ‘Tarzan’ Glass 1939 Gerry Daly (No. 27, 1940 – 1941, 1946) 1940 Jack Atkins 1941 Hugh McPherson (No. 25, 1942) 1942 Tom Ferguson (No. 22, 1943) 1943 – 1944 Hugh McPherson (see 1941 above) 1945 – 1952 George Bickford 1954 – 1956 Clyde Laidlaw (No. 35, 1957 – 1962) 1957 – 1961 Robert B Johnson (No. 18, 1954 – 1956) 1962 – 1972 John Townsend 1975 – 1977 Peter Keays (No. 51, 1974) 1979 – 1981 Robert Walters (No. 32, 1977 – 1978) 1982 – 1987 Adrian Battiston 1988 – 1995 Anthony ‘Andy’ Lovell 1996 David Grant 1997 Robert Pyman 1998 – 2007 Travis Johnstone Number 17 1912 Wally Naismith 1913 Hedley Tomkins (No. 11, 1912) 1914 Frank Lugton (No. 32, 1913) 1915 Alex Fraser (No. 40, 1914) 1919 Con Kenney 1920 – 1928 Albert Chadwick 1929 – 1931 William MacDonald 1932 Joe Kinnear (No. 15, 1933; No. 2, 1934; No. 36, 1935; No. 6, 1936 – 1937) 1933 Geoff McInnes (No. 10, 1932) 1934 – 1942 Allan La Fontaine 1943 Denis Cordner (No. 1, 1948 – 1956) 1943 Frank Deayton (No. 27, 1942) 1944 Tom Bush (No. 5, 1942) 1945 Allan La Fontaine (see 1934 – 1942) 1946 – 1947 Frank Kennedy (No. 39, 1944; No. 37, 1945) 1948 Greg Lourey (No. 28, 1950) 1949 Jim Dorgan 1950 – 1956 Geoff McGivern 1958 Graeme Wilkinson 1961 – 1963 Ray Dawson 1964 – 1965 Graeme Watson 1966 Jeff Chapman 1967 John Comben 1968 – 1970 Kelvin Clarke 1971 – 1975 Denis Clark 1976 – 1979 Shane Grambeau 1980 – 1983 Michael Seddon 1986 Frank Rugolo (No. 43, 1983 – 1984; No. 34, 1985) 1987 – 1997 Brett Lovett (No. 50, 1986) 2002 Michael Clark 2005 - Chris Johnson Number 18 1912 Harry ‘Waratah’ Cope (No. 20, 1913) 1913 Jack Bristow (No. 14, 1912) 1913 Jim Mackie 1913 Bill Daly (No. 10, 1914) 1914 Les A. Smith 1915 William McKenzie (No. 6, 1912; No. 4, 1913, 1919; No. 27, 1914) 1919 Stan Huntington 1920 Bob Bodington (No. 28, 1919) 1921 – 1927 ‘Percy’ A Tulloh 1928 Charlie Barnes (No. 15, 1927 – 1929; wore both 15 and 18 in 1928) 1929 Alec Proudfoot 1930 – 1931 William Cutler 1932 – 1935 Don Hooper (No. 1, 1943) 1936 – 1941 Wally Lock 1942 – 1944 David Walsh 1943 Bill Scanlan (No. 38, 1944; No. 19, 1945 – 1948) 1945 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 34, 1940 – 1943; No. 28, 1946 – 1949) 1946 – 1949 Wally Lock (See also 1936 – 1941) 1950 – 1951 Nevin Paynter 1952 Harry Lack 1953 Nevin Paynter (See also 1950 – 1951) 1954 – 1956 Robert B. Johnson (No. 16, 1957 – 1961) 1957 – 1958 Kevin Mithen 1961 – 1965 Brian ‘Doc’ Roet (No. 23, 1968) 1966 – 1969 Neville Stone 1970 Des Campbell (No. 5, 1975 – 1977) 1971 – 1975 John Tilbrook 1976 – 1980 Maurice Wingate 1982 – 1984 Greg Hutchison (No. 52, 1975; No. 43, 1976 – 1981) 1986 – 1993 Steven Stretch 1994 Sean Charles (No. 44, 1992 – 1993; No. 1, 1995 – 1997) 1996 – 1997 Craig Nettelbeck 1999 Matthew Bishop (No. 48, 1998) 2000 - Brad Green Number 19 1912 – 1913 A.M. ‘Joe’ Pearce 1914 William ‘Bill’ Allan (No. 1, 1912, 1919 – 1923; No. 9, 1913, 1915) 1915 Reg Gibb (No. 7, 1919) 1919 – 1920 Jack Huntington (No. 3, 1914; No. 28, 1915) 1921 – 1928 Harry Coy 1929 Claud Carr (No. 22, 1928) 1930 – 1933 Edwin Pemberton (No. 15, 1934) 1934 Ron Wilson 1936 – 1941 Frank Roberts 1942 Robert Shearer 1944 R.G.W. ‘Lloyd’ Bennett 1945 – 1948 Bill Scanlan (No. 18, 1943; No. 38, 1944) 1949 – 1952 Colin Love 1952 – 1958 Keith Carroll 1961 – 1964 Robert Carroll 1966 – 1967 Terry Leahy 1969 – 1979 Ray Biffin (No. 40, 1968) 1980 – 1982 Bill Nettlefold 1983 – 1986 Rodney Wright 1986 – 1988 Paul Payne 1989 – 1993 Darren Bennett 1994 – 1997 Paul Prymke 1999 – 2000 Scott Chisholm 2001 Ben Beams (No. 47, 1999 – 2000) 2002 - 2004 Peter Vardy 2006 – 2007 Clint Bartram (No. 3, 2008-) Number 20 1912 Wally Sykes 1913 Harry ‘Waratah’ Cope (No. 18, 1912) 1913 Thornton Hosking 1914 Aubrey MacKenzie 1914 Eric Parsons 1915 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 16, 1919) 1919 Edward Johnston (No. 23, 1915) 1919 Art McWhinney 1920 – 1921 George Walker (No. 28 – 1920 also; see also 1915 above) 1920 Joe O’Carroll 1921 – 1925 Alf Wilson 1925 Bill Shelton (No. 30, 1919; No. 13, 1920 – 1924) 1927 – 1928 Les Meade 1929 – 1937 Harry Long 1937 Jack ‘Cactus’ Coolahan 1938 – 1939, 1941 Frank Williams 1942 Ted Wood 1943 – 1944 H.A. ‘Bob’ Herbert 1945 Harry New (No. 31, 1944) 1945 George Lenne (No. 13, 1941 – 1942) 1946 Norm Wilson (No. 30, 1945) 1947 – 1948 Russell Robinson 1949 – 1950 Alan McGowan (No. 33, 1948) 1951 – 1952 Tom McLean 1957 – 1961 Graeme Pinfold 1964 – 1967 Graeme Jacobs 1969 – 1970 Paul Rowlands 1972 Laurie Queay 1973 Shane McSpeerin (No. 50, 1971 – 1972) 1975 – 1977 Paul Hurst 1977 Brian Cook 1978 – 1982 Graeme Gaunt 1983 – 1987 Russell Richards 1992 – 2000 Matthew Febey 2001 – 2004 Troy Broadbridge 2007 – Colin Garland

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS - INDEX [Numbers 11 to 20] by the Professor Number 11 1912 Hedley Tomkins (No. 17, 1913) 1913 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 15, 1914; No. 12, 1915) 1914 Charlie H. Lilley (No. 6, 1913, 1915; No. 8, 1919 – 1925) 1915, 1919 – 1920 Jack Bacquie (No. 35, 1914) 1921 Jack Lord Snr (No. 26, 1922 – 1923) 1922 – 1924 Dave Elliman (No. 35, 1919) 1925 – 1928 CD ‘Derek’ Mollison (No. 16, 1923 – 1925) wore both 11 and 16 in 1925 1925 – 1926 Carlyle Jones (No. 25, 1929) 1926 Bruce Pie 1929 Art Beaumont 1931 – 1932 Frank Smith 1932 Terry Ogden 1933 Robert C Johnson (No. 16, 1926 – 1932) 1934 – 1936 Sid Meehl 1936 Harden Dean (No. 29, 1938; No. 38, 1943) 1937 Beres Reilly 1938 Sid Meehl (see also 1934 – 1936) 1939 – 1940 Harold C Ball 1941 Warren Lewis (No. 33, 1944) 1942 – 1944 Norm Matthews (?, 1935) 1945 – 1950 Gordon Bowman 1952 – 1953 Jim Wilson 1954 – 1962 Laurie Mithen 1963 – 1969 TG ‘Tony’ Anderson 1970 – 1980 Greg Wells (No. 50, 1969) 1981 Gary Hardeman (No. 33, 1967 – 1977) 1982 – 1987 Steven Icke 1988 – 1998 Jim Stynes (No. 37, 1987) 2001 Troy Simmonds (No. 46, 1999 – 2000) 2002 - 2004 Darren Jolly (No. 41, 2001) 2005 - Paul Johnson Number 12 1912 Malcolm Kennedy 1913 Jim Fitzpatrick (No. 4, 1912) 1914 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 11, 1913; No. 15, 1914) 1919 Allan McLean 1920 – 1929 Bob Corbett 1930 – 1931 Jack Power (No. 31, 1932 – 1934) 1932 EH ‘Ted’ Thomas (No. 3, 1921 – 1928) 1932 – 1933 Alan ‘Ginger’ Ryan 1934 – 1949 Jack Mueller (No. 36, 1950) 1950 – 1956 Stuart Spencer 1957 – 1960 Neil Crompton (No. 5, 1962 – 1966) 1961 – 1962 Michael Joseph Collins 1965 Hugh Bromell 1967 – 1969 Chris Fowler 1970 Rod Payne 1972 – 1974 Michael John Collins (No. 48, 1971) 1975 – 1977 Martin Lyons 1977 – 1979 Barry Norsworthy 1979 – 1982 Cameron Clayton 1983 – 1986 David Williams (No. 15, 1987 – 1988) 1987 – 1999 Todd Viney 2004 - Colin Sylvia Number 13 1912 H ‘Bert’ Francis 1913 Fen McDonald 1914 Stanley J Fairbairn 1919 Lindsay Nichol 1920 – 1924 Bill Shelton (No. 30, 1919; No. 20, 1925) 1931 Gordon Lindsay 1932 Joe Hogan 1933 – 1941 Les Jones 1941 – 1942 George Lenne (No. 20, 1945) 1944 Frank Scanlan (No. 26, 1943; No. 34, 1947 – 1948) 1947 – 1950 Max Spittle 1951 – 1953 Alan Krause 1975 – 1978 Henry Coles (No. 3, 1979 – 1980) 1979 – 1981 Wayne Gordon 1989 Tom Kavanagh 1991 – 1994 Allen Jakovich 1996 - Adem Yze Number 14 1912 Jack Bristow (No. 18, 1913) 1913 Alf George (No. 3, 1912; No. 29, 1915) 1914 Mick Maguire (No. 30, 1912 – 1913) 1915, 1919 – 1921 Alec Gray (No. 22, 1914) 1923 – 1924 Jim Abernethy (No. 4, 1926 – 1932) 1925 – 1932 Ivor Warne-Smith (No. 33, 1919) 1932 Jack Richardson 1933 Ray Usher (No. 34, 1928 – 1932) 1934 – 1937 Maurie Gibb (No. 10, 1937 – 1943) 1938 – 1940 Jack Maher (No. 37, 1944) 1941 – 1945 George Archibald 1945 – 1947 Ron Hall (?, 1944) 1947 Jack Furniss (No. 26, 1936 – 1940) 1948 – 1949 Eric Roscoe 1950 – 1952 Robert Johnston 1955 – 1962 Trevor Johnson 1963 – 1973 Barry Bourke 1974 – 1976 Neil Chamberlain (No. 54, 1973) 1977 Chris Aitken (No. 5, 1967, 1969) 1977 – 1982 Michael Byrne 1983 – 1984 Roger Ellingworth (No. 34, 1981 – 1982) 1985 – 1994 Rodney Grinter 1996 Michael Polley 1997 Leigh Newton 2000 - 2002 Steven Pitt 2006 – 2007 Lynden Dunn Number 15 1912 Tim Lane (No. 25, 1912) 1913 Ted Politz 1914 William Hendrie (No. 5, 1912; No. 11, 1913; No. 12, 1915) 1915 Ed Buckley 1919 – 1925 George Haines (Heinz) 1927 – 1929 Charlie Barnes (No. 18, also 1928) 1930 – 1931 Harry S Crapper 1932 Tom McMahon 1933 Joe Kinnear (No. 17, 1932; No. 2, 1934; No. 36, 1935; No. 6, 1936 – 1937) 1934 Edwin Pemberton (No. 19, 1930 – 1933) 1935 Audley Gillespie-Jones 1935 – 1942 Ron Baggott 1943 – 1944 Colin Bradley (No. 29, 1942) 1945 Ron Baggott (see also 1935 – 1942) 1946 Jack Quinn 1947 – 1948 Frank O’Connor 1949 Len Toyne 1950 Max Jeffers 1951 Geoff Mason 1951 – 1952 Terry Pierce 1955 – 1959 Athol Webb 1963 – 1964 Ray Groom (No. 31, 1965 – 1968) 1965 – 1976 Stan Alves 1977 Darryl Cumming 1978 – 1980 Phil Seaton 1981 – 1982 Vin Catoggio 1984 – 1986 Mark Withers 1987 – 1988 David Williams (No. 12, 1983 – 1984, 1986) 1990 – 1991 Stephen Tingay (No. 52, 1989; No. 2, 1992 – 1998) 1993 Haydn Robins (No. 46, 1992) 1994 – 1999 Paul Hopgood (No. 30, 1993) 2001 – 2002 Ross Funcke 2003 – 2006 Nick Smith 2007 – Ricky Petterd Number 16 1912 Bill Flintoft 1913 Bill Angwin 1914 Bobby Monk (No. 9, 1912; No. 5, 1913) 1915 Roy L Park 1919 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 20, 1915, 1920 – 1921; No. 28, 1920 also) 1920 Hugh Odgers (No. 26, 1912) 1921 Clarrie L Lethlean 1923 – 1925 CD ‘Derek’ Mollison (No. 11, 1926 – 1928; wore both 11 and 16 in 1925) 1926 – 1932 Robert C Johnson (No. 11, 1933) 1933 – 1938 Eric ‘Tarzan’ Glass 1939 Gerry Daly (No. 27, 1940 – 1941, 1946) 1940 Jack Atkins 1941 Hugh McPherson (No. 25, 1942) 1942 Tom Ferguson (No. 22, 1943) 1943 – 1944 Hugh McPherson (see 1941 above) 1945 – 1952 George Bickford 1954 – 1956 Clyde Laidlaw (No. 35, 1957 – 1962) 1957 – 1961 Robert B Johnson (No. 18, 1954 – 1956) 1962 – 1972 John Townsend 1975 – 1977 Peter Keays (No. 51, 1974) 1979 – 1981 Robert Walters (No. 32, 1977 – 1978) 1982 – 1987 Adrian Battiston 1988 – 1995 Anthony ‘Andy’ Lovell 1996 David Grant 1997 Robert Pyman 1998 – 2007 Travis Johnstone Number 17 1912 Wally Naismith 1913 Hedley Tomkins (No. 11, 1912) 1914 Frank Lugton (No. 32, 1913) 1915 Alex Fraser (No. 40, 1914) 1919 Con Kenney 1920 – 1928 Albert Chadwick 1929 – 1931 William MacDonald 1932 Joe Kinnear (No. 15, 1933; No. 2, 1934; No. 36, 1935; No. 6, 1936 – 1937) 1933 Geoff McInnes (No. 10, 1932) 1934 – 1942 Allan La Fontaine 1943 Denis Cordner (No. 1, 1948 – 1956) 1943 Frank Deayton (No. 27, 1942) 1944 Tom Bush (No. 5, 1942) 1945 Allan La Fontaine (see 1934 – 1942) 1946 – 1947 Frank Kennedy (No. 39, 1944; No. 37, 1945) 1948 Greg Lourey (No. 28, 1950) 1949 Jim Dorgan 1950 – 1956 Geoff McGivern 1958 Graeme Wilkinson 1961 – 1963 Ray Dawson 1964 – 1965 Graeme Watson 1966 Jeff Chapman 1967 John Comben 1968 – 1970 Kelvin Clarke 1971 – 1975 Denis Clark 1976 – 1979 Shane Grambeau 1980 – 1983 Michael Seddon 1986 Frank Rugolo (No. 43, 1983 – 1984; No. 34, 1985) 1987 – 1997 Brett Lovett (No. 50, 1986) 2002 Michael Clark 2005 - Chris Johnson Number 18 1912 Harry ‘Waratah’ Cope (No. 20, 1913) 1913 Jack Bristow (No. 14, 1912) 1913 Jim Mackie 1913 Bill Daly (No. 10, 1914) 1914 Les A. Smith 1915 William McKenzie (No. 6, 1912; No. 4, 1913, 1919; No. 27, 1914) 1919 Stan Huntington 1920 Bob Bodington (No. 28, 1919) 1921 – 1927 ‘Percy’ A Tulloh 1928 Charlie Barnes (No. 15, 1927 – 1929; wore both 15 and 18 in 1928) 1929 Alec Proudfoot 1930 – 1931 William Cutler 1932 – 1935 Don Hooper (No. 1, 1943) 1936 – 1941 Wally Lock 1942 – 1944 David Walsh 1943 Bill Scanlan (No. 38, 1944; No. 19, 1945 – 1948) 1945 Adrian ‘Spud’ Dullard (No. 34, 1940 – 1943; No. 28, 1946 – 1949) 1946 – 1949 Wally Lock (See also 1936 – 1941) 1950 – 1951 Nevin Paynter 1952 Harry Lack 1953 Nevin Paynter (See also 1950 – 1951) 1954 – 1956 Robert B. Johnson (No. 16, 1957 – 1961) 1957 – 1958 Kevin Mithen 1961 – 1965 Brian ‘Doc’ Roet (No. 23, 1968) 1966 – 1969 Neville Stone 1970 Des Campbell (No. 5, 1975 – 1977) 1971 – 1975 John Tilbrook 1976 – 1980 Maurice Wingate 1982 – 1984 Greg Hutchison (No. 52, 1975; No. 43, 1976 – 1981) 1986 – 1993 Steven Stretch 1994 Sean Charles (No. 44, 1992 – 1993; No. 1, 1995 – 1997) 1996 – 1997 Craig Nettelbeck 1999 Matthew Bishop (No. 48, 1998) 2000 - Brad Green Number 19 1912 – 1913 A.M. ‘Joe’ Pearce 1914 William ‘Bill’ Allan (No. 1, 1912, 1919 – 1923; No. 9, 1913, 1915) 1915 Reg Gibb (No. 7, 1919) 1919 – 1920 Jack Huntington (No. 3, 1914; No. 28, 1915) 1921 – 1928 Harry Coy 1929 Claud Carr (No. 22, 1928) 1930 – 1933 Edwin Pemberton (No. 15, 1934) 1934 Ron Wilson 1936 – 1941 Frank Roberts 1942 Robert Shearer 1944 R.G.W. ‘Lloyd’ Bennett 1945 – 1948 Bill Scanlan (No. 18, 1943; No. 38, 1944) 1949 – 1952 Colin Love 1952 – 1958 Keith Carroll 1961 – 1964 Robert Carroll 1966 – 1967 Terry Leahy 1969 – 1979 Ray Biffin (No. 40, 1968) 1980 – 1982 Bill Nettlefold 1983 – 1986 Rodney Wright 1986 – 1988 Paul Payne 1989 – 1993 Darren Bennett 1994 – 1997 Paul Prymke 1999 – 2000 Scott Chisholm 2001 Ben Beams (No. 47, 1999 – 2000) 2002 - 2004 Peter Vardy 2006 – 2007 Clint Bartram (No. 3, 2008-) Number 20 1912 Wally Sykes 1913 Harry ‘Waratah’ Cope (No. 18, 1912) 1913 Thornton Hosking 1914 Aubrey MacKenzie 1914 Eric Parsons 1915 George Walker (No. 26, 1914; No. 16, 1919) 1919 Edward Johnston (No. 23, 1915) 1919 Art McWhinney 1920 – 1921 George Walker (No. 28 – 1920 also; see also 1915 above) 1920 Joe O’Carroll 1921 – 1925 Alf Wilson 1925 Bill Shelton (No. 30, 1919; No. 13, 1920 – 1924) 1927 – 1928 Les Meade 1929 – 1937 Harry Long 1937 Jack ‘Cactus’ Coolahan 1938 – 1939, 1941 Frank Williams 1942 Ted Wood 1943 – 1944 H.A. ‘Bob’ Herbert 1945 Harry New (No. 31, 1944) 1945 George Lenne (No. 13, 1941 – 1942) 1946 Norm Wilson (No. 30, 1945) 1947 – 1948 Russell Robinson 1949 – 1950 Alan McGowan (No. 33, 1948) 1951 – 1952 Tom McLean 1957 – 1961 Graeme Pinfold 1964 – 1967 Graeme Jacobs 1969 – 1970 Paul Rowlands 1972 Laurie Queay 1973 Shane McSpeerin (No. 50, 1971 – 1972) 1975 – 1977 Paul Hurst 1977 Brian Cook 1978 – 1982 Graeme Gaunt 1983 – 1987 Russell Richards 1992 – 2000 Matthew Febey 2001 – 2004 Troy Broadbridge 2007 – Colin Garland

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Over the summer months we're giving our readers the opportunity to put together their own stories for Demonland. Here's one from Deeman who admits that not all of his material is original ... SOURCING OUR NEXT RECRUITING GURU by Deeman With the departure of Craig Cameron after 11 years at the job, some Demon fans are despairing at the prospect of an MFC bereft of a true recruiting guru to head up one of the most important aspects of an AFL club's operations. However, I have discovered that just as the MFC went through an exhaustive selection process earlier this year to replace Neale Daniher as the club's head coach, the wheels are in motion in a similar direction as we speak. The process is virtually identical to the one that unearthed Dean Bailey as Melbourne's coaching el supremo a few months ago. It includes simulated interviews between prospective candidates for the job and possible draftees which took place this weekend at the Australian Institute of Sport. Here, exclusively for Demonland is a transcript of a simulated interview between a candidate for the position of head of club recruiting and list management and 17 year old key position sensation from Frankston, George Shmuck who will line up for the Dandenong Stingrays in 2008. Candidate: Hi George, how are you going? George Schmuck: Hey, rack off man. I don't get no regard or esteem here so I don't need to waste my time talking to bozos like you. Who are you anyway, my new parole officer? Candidate: No George, I'm here to discuss your football future. We've watched you playing the game since you were 13 but I'd like you to tell me a little about yourself, your family life, your parents and childhood? George Schmuck: My parents hated me. I could tell that from the start. My mother never breast-fed me; she told me she liked me as a friend. She always thought I was ugly so she fed me with a sling shot. My father wasn't any better. He carried around the picture of the kid that came when he stole obtained the wallet. Both of them hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Candidate: OK... how about you telling me something about the place where you grew up? George Schmuck: When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. We always lived in downtrodden neighbourhoods. Our first house had to be renovated before it could be condemned. It was so bad they pulled it down to build a slum. Then another time we couldn't afford a Christmas tree – we lived in one. It was a really tough area. Once, I put my hand in some cement in the footpath and I felt another hand. I remember the time I was kidnapped they sent a piece of my finger to my father, he said he wanted more proof that it was me. Candidate: That sounds very difficult...how about pets and life outside the home? George Schmuck: I had a great dog. It was a bullpit terrier, his favourite bone was my arm. When I played in the sandpit, the cat kept covering me up. I had plenty of pimples as a kid, one day I fell asleep in a library and when I woke up a blind man was reading my face. Candidate: Right, well let's move on. Should we draft you to Melbourne most of our young players cop a lot of criticism. Often it's just argumentative stuff and the ranting of tragic individuals. Have you heard of Demonland? George Schmuck: Yeah. I've been there a few times. Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about. Candidate: So you do know it. There have been high profile scandals in football recently and we want to be sure you have no untoward drug or sexual history. You know, so that you're suitable for club promotions and the like. George Schmuck: If you read my profile on the AFL site you would know that I've modelled every aspect of my football on Benny Cousins. What sort of drugs do you want me to...? Candidate: Err, no just tell me about the other thing. George Schmuck: Sex? I saved a girl from being attacked last night by controlling myself. But I’m not that big on sex. In fact, if it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all. I got a job last year as a poster boy - for birth control. Candidate: I think we’re finished. George Schmuck: No problem. I've already spoken to the Eagles and they told me they're going to select me before your pick comes up anyway. Apparently, I fit their profile to a tee. Anyway, I hope you get run over by a f...ing car.

Over the summer months we're giving our readers the opportunity to put together their own stories for Demonland. Here's one from Deeman who admits that not all of his material is original ... SOURCING OUR NEXT RECRUITING GURU by Deeman With the departure of Craig Cameron after 11 years at the job, some Demon fans are despairing at the prospect of an MFC bereft of a true recruiting guru to head up one of the most important aspects of an AFL club's operations. However, I have discovered that just as the MFC went through an exhaustive selection process earlier this year to replace Neale Daniher as the club's head coach, the wheels are in motion in a similar direction as we speak. The process is virtually identical to the one that unearthed Dean Bailey as Melbourne's coaching el supremo a few months ago. It includes simulated interviews between prospective candidates for the job and possible draftees which took place this weekend at the Australian Institute of Sport. Here, exclusively for Demonland is a transcript of a simulated interview between a candidate for the position of head of club recruiting and list management and 17 year old key position sensation from Frankston, George Shmuck who will line up for the Dandenong Stingrays in 2008. Candidate: Hi George, how are you going? George Schmuck: Hey, rack off man. I don't get no regard or esteem here so I don't need to waste my time talking to bozos like you. Who are you anyway, my new parole officer? Candidate: No George, I'm here to discuss your football future. We've watched you playing the game since you were 13 but I'd like you to tell me a little about yourself, your family life, your parents and childhood? George Schmuck: My parents hated me. I could tell that from the start. My mother never breast-fed me; she told me she liked me as a friend. She always thought I was ugly so she fed me with a sling shot. My father wasn't any better. He carried around the picture of the kid that came when he stole obtained the wallet. Both of them hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Candidate: OK... how about you telling me something about the place where you grew up? George Schmuck: When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. We always lived in downtrodden neighbourhoods. Our first house had to be renovated before it could be condemned. It was so bad they pulled it down to build a slum. Then another time we couldn't afford a Christmas tree – we lived in one. It was a really tough area. Once, I put my hand in some cement in the footpath and I felt another hand. I remember the time I was kidnapped they sent a piece of my finger to my father, he said he wanted more proof that it was me. Candidate: That sounds very difficult...how about pets and life outside the home? George Schmuck: I had a great dog. It was a bullpit terrier, his favourite bone was my arm. When I played in the sandpit, the cat kept covering me up. I had plenty of pimples as a kid, one day I fell asleep in a library and when I woke up a blind man was reading my face. Candidate: Right, well let's move on. Should we draft you to Melbourne most of our young players cop a lot of criticism. Often it's just argumentative stuff and the ranting of tragic individuals. Have you heard of Demonland? George Schmuck: Yeah. I've been there a few times. Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about. Candidate: So you do know it. There have been high profile scandals in football recently and we want to be sure you have no untoward drug or sexual history. You know, so that you're suitable for club promotions and the like. George Schmuck: If you read my profile on the AFL site you would know that I've modelled every aspect of my football on Benny Cousins. What sort of drugs do you want me to...? Candidate: Err, no just tell me about the other thing. George Schmuck: Sex? I saved a girl from being attacked last night by controlling myself. But I’m not that big on sex. In fact, if it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all. I got a job last year as a poster boy - for birth control. Candidate: I think we’re finished. George Schmuck: No problem. I've already spoken to the Eagles and they told me they're going to select me before your pick comes up anyway. Apparently, I fit their profile to a tee. Anyway, I hope you get run over by a f...ing car.