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Since the late 1990's , three AFL players who have each played over one hundred games have identical names ( middle given names excluded ) . Can you name them ? Any other examples of shared names in the VFL/AFL ?

Yes , Don had two stints with us '53-59 & '64-68 with West Perth '60-62 and Sale '63 .

I would have walked had we merged . The thought of a shared history with the likes of Lethal and Dermie ........yuk ! I am sitting in a study with a framed NO MERGER sign overhead .

Hoped the intermittently amazing Les Bamblett qualified but i missed by one game ! Mark Bradly was spruiked as our next top ruck prospect but with knee issues only managed four games .

" You won't be a Full Forward while your "arze" points to the ground ."

" Don't you EVER do that again "

" I promise i will be staying , Jimmy "

I seem to remember that Tony was probably the last amateur in the VFL . As a schoolboy/uni rower i think he had ambitions to compete in the then very amateur Commonwealth Games and at least initially wished to keep that option open .

" Healy off........Ellingworth on " -------an irate R.D.B.

My memory of Bailey is very different . He was a solidly built plugger who only excelled on wet grounds . He was often promoted from the Reserves if conditions suited .

The Ox before his initial knee rupture gets my vote . His spring was breathtaking and who could forget his nine goals at the SCG .

Could Max have simply played "a bit sore" and subsequently had a quieter game than usual ? Tipping a ten mark game friday night .

My favourite player as a kid . I remember stomping both feet on the floorboards of the Grey-Smith Stand after each Bluey goal . Bit disappointed with the minimal reporting in the morning papers . The old HUN would have had a full page spread.

I was fifteen years old in '64 and now i'm seventy ! Nonetheless, i thoroughly enjoyed the Jimmy Stynes era . We had champion teams in the '88 & 2000 G.F's but fell four or five players shy of our respective legendary opponents . ........and then there was Jacka ...............!

Tanking ??? No, basic skill errors a real problem . We deserved to lose but i can still visualise Petracca butchering a couple of gettable ones early and of course Fritsch landing only one from five attempts . .

If twin boys , I suggest Tyson & Domenic .

How about a teary-eyed embrace (and photo) with no.12 at Gosch's during the week ?

When it came to the crunch , after irritating all parties he finally agreed to plead guilty .

Swooper Northey could have been much more successful if his teams by necessity were not topped up with so many cast-off journeymen . His players really put-in for him , his 90-76 Win/Loss record remarkable under the circumstances .

" Some of us have tipped an awful lot of money into the club over the years.............................................".

I would love to think he will remain loyal to his club and mates but squillions in the bank with lifetime security , a penthouse overlooking a fabulous Perth beach versus the regular commute along Punt Rd to Gosch's seems a no-brainer .

Google it or somebody may post the link . Incidentally , i'm a bit pizzed-off I couldn't edit the obvious typo in the title with the "edit" function .

"The Age" online this afternoon reports that out-of-contract Melksham wants to depart Essendoom and the Dees are interested . Any intel on this ?

We all know our embarrassing record against the Shinboners over the last decade but the boot used to be on the other foot . When they knocked us off on the G in 1969 , it was their first win there since 1952 !

When Hoges comes out of contract i'm terrified a dodgy Carlton supporting millionaire will have arranged an undercover offer impossible to refuse .