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Number Player Games 1 Denis Cordner 151 2 Nathan Jones 302 3 Garry Lyon 226 4 Norm Smith 227 5 Christian Petracca 212 6 Frank Davis 162 7 Jack Viney 237 8 Tassie Johnson 202 9 David Neitz 286 10 Angus Brayshaw 167 11 Jim Stynes 251 12 Todd Viney 233 13 Adem Yze 262 14 Barry Bourke 175 15 Stan Alves 226 16 Travis Johnstone 160 17 Brett Lovett 227 18 Brad Green 254 19 Ray Biffin 165 20 Matthew Febey 143 21 Steven Febey 258 22 Bryan Kenneally 171 23 James McDonald 247 24 Russell Robertson 225 25 Tom McDonald 247 26 Greg Parke 119 27 Sean Wight Jared Rivers 150 28 Tony Dullard 108 29 Hassa Mann 178 30 John Beckwith Alex Neal-Bullen 176 31 Ron Barassi 204 32 Cameron Bruce 226 33 Gary Hardeman 210 34 Jeff White 236 35 Steven Smith 180 36 Aaron Davey 178 37 Bernie Massey 99 38 Jeremy Howe 100 39 Neville Jetta 158 40 Mark Jamar 155 41 Peter Rohde 117 42 Peter Walsh 104 43 Guy Rigoni 107 44 Rohan Bail 70 45 Matthew Whelan 150 46 Dean Terlich 35 47 Alan Jarrott 91 48 Jack Fitzpatrick 22 49 James Magner 17 50 Ben Brown 45 51 John Howat 5 52 Stephen Tingay

Wearing? They all wore Lynx body spray? I don't care about prizes. I'm guessing each player played the most games in a particular numbered jumper.

If Fagan announced weeks ago he was retiring it would be ridiculous if yesterday King became the Lions successor and then in a fortnight had a foot in both camps in a Cats v Lions GF. But I just don't think him going to Melbourne's the same. Of course King will take knowledge from his time at Geelong (and GC and Dogs and Saints. I can't vouch for others but I still wanted to do my wbest on the last day of most of my jobs. Surely King still wants his current club and mates there to win this year's flag. Also if Melbourne doesn't quite work out a premiership as an assistant coach at a second club will look better on his cv if he looks at being assistant or senior coach yet again. While it would be nice if King virtually started yesterday as our coach there may well be a lot of great.... "learnings" he still gets in the next fortnight which ends up seeing Melbourne win the 2028 GF by a goal instead of losing it by that amount. Anyway I'm sure Geelong and the AFL have properly thought these scenarios through. ( I'm sure King and Neeld aren't the only assistant coaches that have been in this position.)

Yep, and how some players were 'carried'. If Gus comes back it'd be the Brayshaw Redemption. There's probably a few other puns out there.

I don't know but I feel a little surprised or disappointed. It felt like Buckley was almost over the line and I got the feeling King wasn't people's second prediction. I now have trouble believing the MFC spent much time apparently asking Buckley if he was interested before sacking Goody. Anyway King does tick a lot of boxes. Who knows, by the time we're in May (no pun intended) it could well be he's already looking like a gun. Anyway , all hail the King!

I have it on good authority that all these players listed The Shawshank Redemption as their favourite film in The Record.

Three are just so many factors at play, whether at board level, coach level and so, so many in two hours 22 plus games a year across a coach's tenure at a club . I don't even think any of us have a complete list of every 'repeat' coach this century ( or last forty years or sixty years or whatever) let alone proper analysis past simple calculations. Most first time coaches come in with almost impeccable recent assistant coach records. The aura on second- time coaches has nearly always faded. Just look at our own Goody - despite breaking our drought by even last year quite a few had given up on him and were calling him an ordinary coach. If he applies for senior coach again that team will have fans pooh-poohing him just we have some doing to Buckley. Honestly there's no magic formula -just get someone who hasn't proven that they CAN'T coach and presented well and not worry whether they're an ex-coach, had more than 2 years out of coaching, were a Brownlow medallist or even a ruckman. They're probably the wrong factors

It's so easy to forget that there can be good bad recruitments and bad good recruitments. There are Brownlow medallists picked up so late that every team overlooked him a few times in their draft and players everyone had as the top , or top 5 , pick who ended up nowhere near a top 5 player in the whole league. Maybe our recent selections have been quite poor. But there's a huge difference between our recruiters being clueless or being unlucky.

Umm only Bedford has improved. As for our imports we took in high draft picks (Billings, Schache) hoping they could still realise their potential plus players like McAdam we hoped would plug a gap. Surely none were paid with top ten draft picks or anything. But anyway the hindsight comments were right.

I am reminded of Yes, Minister where a bigwig public servant only needed to know stuff he needs to know. The catch was he needed to firstly know everything to know whether something was something he needed to know. The only way we'll know whether we're getting a really good coach is AFTER they've coached for years. Honestly it's the same catch-22 that Beveridge and Clarkson need more years to show whether more years is the right decision for these clubs. As long as our bootstudder doesn't become our new coach we've got our decision right ( FOR NOW)

Come on, while long-term teams like Essendon and Collingwood have advantages that mean they'll do slightly better it's too simplistic to assume that in a patch of ten years that Collingwood must be lot better than North. On top of that in a three-year period it's not that hard to have more unusual occurrences. While over many decades Essendon might be better at not choosing a horrible morale-destroying staff member than, say, the Dogs or GC that doesn't mean some incompetent [censored] isn't the current reason Essendon players want out.

Yes, and Revolution 9 was one of the Beatles worst songs and may have been a start to them going their separate ways, 14 Years was a song on GnR's Use Your Illusion, 27 is the age a lot of musicians have famously died, Aussie bands 28 Day had hits such as Rip it Up and What's The Deal?, 38 Special had a song Second Chance released coincidentally in 1988 when we came second and finally Sum 41 had song In Too Deep. Ethan, you may be overthinking this! 😉

The Daily Planet? I thought they closed that place down! 😂

He's worked with the Richmond and WC coaches, yes? Maybe he could a slot with one of them.

So that's the day that everyone gets their picks nicked?

I honestly haven't checked. Have the AFL stated which draft picks Tasmania will get?

Carlton would have been so excited getting a coach who won two flags. But in five year Pagan couldn't even get Carlton above 11th and mostly they averaged 4 or so wins a year. Later they get Malthouse - a premier coach with TWO clubs - and I'm sure again the club we're excited. Two years were a disaster and in his other they played finals only because Essendon were banned/relegated from the finals. It's not quite a raffle but a new coach can never guarantee success ( and of course Neeld may have been atrocious doing senior coach stuff and / or the players or infrastructure may have made success like trying to grow roses in concrete.)

GWS made finals in year 5 and probably should have beaten the Dogs in the prelim. Why can't Tassie even just scrape into the finals over twice as long?

Gee, I sure hope we make an announcement soon. All this speculation and theorising is getting on my nerves. I was excited when we got Roos. But other times I've been like "so he's the new coach? Okay. Let's see how he goes in six month's time. Now, what's on TV?" We can do nothing anyway. But I'm hoping our board is competent enough to make the best choice. (whether that's an above average coach who almost won a GF and may now be a brilliant coach or an assistant coach who may now be a brilliant coach.)

You'd really wanna own one of our old geldings? 😂

I'm pretty sure if next year you watch some of a 1960s GF and then part of a live game you'll have no trouble seeing it's the same sport.

I just mean that players can use their hands legally to punch or tap along the ball. I'm assuming if a players punches the ball forward near the boundary they can get away with it if not very obviously deliberate. It looks like a player deliberately tapping, punching or glancing the ball towards a teammate won't be penalised. You're not Victorian? The Harmes tap-on has become the stuff of legend. The best part was the resultant goal had Collingwood lose by just a few points and lose yet another GF! https://youtu.be/xyxSIh6h_zk?si=eP6sep0bCIVNjWjS

Sharp is safe? I was hoping someone good enough to be emergency in a winning grand final team would do well. But in his senior games wasn't he always down near the bottom of the teams stats?

So not from spoils? How about tap on's similar to Harmes' famous GF one, but along the boundary?

Question: Is AFL perfect? Maybe somewhere in the 80s / 90s it was. But these days it is too stop-start. It's interesting to see SANFL viewers endorse it. I'm guessing this will make games flow a bit better, get rid of the howler "insufficient intent" decisions and lessen the importance of excelling at winning stoppages. Anyway if thats the biggest rule change for next year I doubt many will end up disappointed.