Who are the other 26?

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Here's one we can all contribute to: This weekend Fraser Gehrig will play his 100th game for St Kilda, after chalking up about 110 with the Eagles. The G-Train/Flying Mullett will become the 27th player in AFL history to notch the ton with each of two teams.

Who were the others? Here's a few obvious ones to kick us off:

1. David Cloke
2. Barry Round
3. Bernie Quinlan
4. Alistair Lynch
5. Roger Merrett
6. Gavin Wanganeen
7. Paul Salmon

A few I've already looked up who maybe surprisingly just missed out:
Brent Crosswell (only 96 games for Carlton)
Plugger (98 for Sydney including The Comeback)
Stewie Maxfield (80-odd for Richmond)
Aaron Hamill (77 for Carlton)

Throw in a few names, I'll check in the Encyclopaedia of League Footballers. Together we might come up with all of them.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 08:41 (twenty years ago)

I thought Salmon only played 99 for the Hawks Fred? Now that you've named the obvious ones, you've just killed off your own thread!

How about Ian Stewart, Roy (?) Cazaly, Ronald Dale?

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Greg Williams, Gerard Healey, Tony McGuinnes, Ross Glendenning, Gavin Wanganeen, Brian Wood, Peter Bell a few guesses off the top of me head.

― chrisso (chrisso), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:07 (twenty years ago)

Wood definitely not, he only played three seasons at Essendon. Likewise Glendinning (gone by 1990 finals). I looked up Stewart, he only played about 60 with Richmond, Barassi played exactly 50 for Carlton and came out of retirement in mid-69 to play the last of them, against Melbourne, which for some reason the Long Room took as an insult. Cazaly played 99 games each for South and St Kilda.

Well done Chrisso, Greg Williams yes (which surprised me), Peter Bell yes, Healy and McGuinness I'll have to look up. Healy played nearly every game in his first three years in Sydney (86-88, about 70) but I doubt if he scraped together another 30 before Collingwood famously drafted him (with pick 120-something in the 91 or 92 pre-season draft).

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Fraser Gehrig?

― chrisso (chrisso), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Has Paul Williams racked up his hundred yet? What about the Wakelin boys?

― Bennö (Bennö), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Daniel Chick?

― chrisso (chrisso), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

8. Greg Williams
9. Peter Bell
10. Tony McGuinness - 109 Foots, 113 Adel, thanks Chrisso
11. Paul Williams (94 with Swans to end 2004), well done Benno

Shane Wakelin only played 94 with St Kilda. Darryl had 87 with Port at end 2004, so if he played 13 last season he's in. Healy only played 81 with Sydney. Chick's only had three full seasons at Eagles.

12. John Blakey
13. Russell Greene
14. Earl Spalding, first real smokey so far, I stumbled across him looking for Stewart. 109 as a Demon, 102 as a Blue.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

My mate Alastair Lynch? What about Martin Pike? Darryl White must have played 100 with the Bears and then 100 with the Lions? :0 Am I grasping at straws?

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

EARL SPALDING LIKES MONTY PYTHON!!! ('tis true!)

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

(Can we get "...in VFL/AFL History" in bold? I'm feeling rather revolutionary in regards to football history recently.)

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Darryl Wakelin has played 112 games for Port (every game last season incl 2 finals, 1 game this season).

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Does Matthew Clarke count? Played his 100th Crows game in the prelim last year, and played 130+ games for BB/BL. Darren Jarman played 109 for the Hawks and 121 for the Crows.

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

Also:
Stephen Paxman (102 Fitzroy, 138 Port)
Robert Scott (132 Geelong, 113 North)
Dean Rice (116 St Kilda, 118 Carlton)
Tony Daniher (115 Sydney, 118 Essendon)
Ian Hampshire (113 Geelong, 111 Footscray)
Tim Pekin (107 Fitzroy, 112 St Kilda)
Leigh Colbert (105 Geelong, 104 North)
Gary Dempsey (207 Footscray, 122 North)

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Nice work, ojitarian!

Pretty clever of me to suggest Fraser Gehrig when you consider he was the player who initited this didcussion.:-S Lol.

I need a beer.

― chrisso (chrisso), Thursday, 6 April 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Gehrig was a good call. :-) I think Daniel Chick will play his 100th West Coast game late next season, if he stays fit.

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Thursday, 6 April 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

15. Darryl Wakelin
16. Matthew Clarke
17. Darren Jarman
18. Steve Paxman
19. Robert Scott
20. Dean Rice
21. Anthony Daniher
22. Ian Hampshire
23. Tim Pekin
24. Leigh Colbert
25. Gary Dempsey

By my reckoning we have one to go. No, I have no idea who it might be, but if Bluey Hampshire's entry in 'The Encyclopaedia of League Footballers' doesn't mention that he was the first to do it you can almost gaurantee he wasn't.

(Great work ojit!)

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Has anybody looked up Martin Pike? He was at Fitzroy in 1996 and played in the Bears 2001 premiership team. Which leaves only four years to play his 100 with the Roos.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

A looooong shot, but, Geoff Raines? Also Barry(?)Mitchell who played for Sydney and Carlton.

― chrisso (chrisso), Thursday, 6 April 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Pike only played 81 games for the Roos. Mitchell only 38 games for the Blues. Raines played 59 games for Brisbane and 47 for Collingwood.

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)

By the way, Sav Rocca may become #28 if he gets enough games this season.

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Can't believe I missed him before - Paul Hudson played 134 with the Hawks and 108 with the Dogs.

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Well done again ojit. I watched that Foxtel thing on his dad (the real footballer) last night and even then didn't give Paulsy a thought.

Chrisso will be most put out that you didn't mention Raines's 15 games for Essendon in 1986, where he was almost as noticable as his uncle Claude was in 'The Invisible Man'.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Thursday, 6 April 2006 04:30 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I have no facts to base this on, only 'life experience' but I think you'll find Barry Round was first to play 100 at two clubs and Bluey was second (Round left Footscay & Bluey 'replaced' him to join Dempsey). Round thus beat Bluey to 100 at Sth Melb because Bluey didn't assume the No.1 ruck role at Footscray until Dempsey went to North Melb, perhaps making Dempsey 3rd or Quinlin at Fitzroy?

Check around season '81 as Bluey retired in mid '82

Cheers.

― James Hampshire, Monday, 1 May 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

PS - I say this because it was a bit of trivia I used to ask 'back in the 80s' ie Who are the only two players to play 100 games for two clubs, back in the days of 'one club for life loyalty' it was a fairly unique situation. Of course, these days.........

― James Hampshire, Monday, 1 May 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

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