Numbers Game

[Rob-bloods]

Originally posted by Rob-bloods
What about Jim Edmund, low number 1986 and Graham Cordy?

Apologies they're in

[Nico]

Originally posted by tez
1982 - Francis Jackson # 31. Had a bushy black beard. Very honest, never say die
half back flanker

Very ordinary footballer is a kind description of a talentless player riddled with mistakes.

[Foreign Legion]

Originally posted by Ert
This is exactly the problem I've come across

Also - someone mentioned #27 for Richard Ambrose - if so what number did Sanford "Matty" Wheeler wear that year? (1993)

I've sorted out the Scott Direen one - thanks guys

I've got some of the easier numbers sorted right back to the early 80's
Number 7 is the easiest - thanks to Carroll and Seymour - I've got it filled all the way back to 1981
#15 and #23 right back to 1978
#16 back to 1983
#10 - I'm just missing 1983 to take it all the way back to 1980
#13 and #30 I've got every year back to '80
#3 and #4 I've gotten back to 1986
#18 I just need to sort out the Matthew Lloyd/Craig Nettlebeck clash of 1990/91 to go all the way back to 1979
#26 I'm missing 1993 but have every other year back to 1979
#29 and #31 go back to 1987

I have gaps all over the place in the other numbers

Hi Ert,

some I think I remember are:
16 was Ricky Quade
10 was Brian Woodman - mid to late 70's
29 was that David Mcleish? in the 70's
31 was Francis Jackson

Any other numbers you are still after?

[Benevolent Ert]

As many as you can...... keep 'em all coming

Great work guys

I posted an entire list of the ones I have so far a couple of pages back - as I said, I'm mainly concentrating on the Sydney years for starters, but South Melbourne numbers are much appreciated as I'm working my way back 10 years at a time

At the moment my focus is the 10 years 1983-93

[Benevolent Ert]

BUMP

Now that May is over I have a little time on my hands

Keep em coming!

[Doctor J.]

Originally posted by Ert
BUMP

Now that May is over I have a little time on my hands

Keep em coming!

Been working on a few.
Will post them in a day or so.

[Benevolent Ert]

bout time I bumped this again

[Triple B]

Gee, you should have got a shietload of numbers from the 80's marathon on the weekend.

[Doctor J.]

Originally posted by Ert
bout time I bumped this again

Ok here goes. Can't be bothered reading all posts so some of these you may already have.

1. John Ironmonger, Paul Roos, Len Thompson, John Murphy,(ex-fitzroy) Greg Stafford, Neville Fields, Ray Ball???(father of Luke) Greg Stafford

2. Vic Aanensen, Greg Williams Wayne Schwass.

3 Mick Stilo, Gerrard Healy, Dale Lewis

4 Keith Baskin, Tony Lockett, Merv Neagle, Dean McRae

5 John Rantal,l Ian Roberts, Craig O'Brien

6 Andrew Dunkley, Silvio Foschini, Shannon Grant, Brett Scott.

7. Gary Brice, Dennis Carrol Kevin Goss, Brad Seymour

8. John Scarlett,(father of Matthew) John Murphy (70's) Barry Beecroft, Tony Haenan (father of Toby, Australian swimmer),Greg Smith, Michael Wright, Daryn Creswell, Simon Minton-Connell

9. David Ackerley, Gerrard Neesham (dockers coach), Wayne Henwood

10 John Roberts, Bob Pratt, Wayne Walsh, David Bolton, Brian Woodman, Peter Filandia, Barry Mitchell.

11. Peter Bedford, Mark Browning, Stuart Maxfield, Darren Kappler

12 Norm Goss, Kevin Dyson

13. Graham Dempster (father of Sean) Rod Carter, Greg Miller.(the bloke who pinched Carey from us)

14 Bob Skilton, David Young, Tony Franklin, Stephen Allender, Paul Kelly.

15 Bernie Evans, Stephan Carey??? Greg Stafford (Early)

16. Ricky Quade

17. Russell Cook, Russell Hodges, Jason Mooney, Tadgh Kennelly, Craig Potter.

18. Paul Harrison, Wayne Carroll, Robert Dean.

19. Anthony Daniher, Terry O'neill, Jim Prentice, Graeme Jacobs, Michael O'Loughlin. Terry Daniher???? (not sure on this one)

20. Graeme Teasdale, Ian Thompson, John Sudholz

21. John Pitura, Tony Morwood, Michael Byrne

22. Peter Carter, Peter McCracken, Craig Holden

23. Colin Hounsell, Matthew Nicks

24. John Blair, Derek Kickett, Alan Richardson (father of Matthew), Steve Taubert.

25 Barry Round, Haydn McAuliffe

26. Steve Hoffman, Simon Feast.

27. Reg Gleeson, Wade Chapman, Max James (father of Heath)

29. David McLeish

30. Fred Way Shane Zantuck, David Rhys-Jones

31. Stuart Bennett, Francis Jackson.

32. Robert Doyle (father of Stephen)

33. Greg Lambert

34. Stewart Gull, Paul Hawke, Max Kruse, Troy Luff, Paul Morwood.

35 Peter Morrison, Shane Mckew, David Murphy,

36 Alf Beus

39. Warrick Capper, Adam Heuskes

43. Mark Browning (early)

47. Leon Higgins

[swansrule100]

Originally posted by Rob-bloods
Bit harsh, IMO an excellent goer, incidentally Hafey mentions him amongst his favourites at the Swans in front of some much more vaunted players!

Stevie wright was a champion and went so hard at the ball!!

wheres number 44..richard osborne

[NMWBloods]

Great stuff Dr J - it's like a trip down memory lane. I just watched on Fox Footy some 1978 stuff, and it was great to see our old sloggers out there again, where if we managed to win 10 games in a season it was a great achievement!!

[Benevolent Ert]

Magnificent list Doctor - filled in plenty of gaps - but some names have caused me some confusion

Originally posted by Doctor J.

1. Len Thompson, John Murphy,(ex-fitzroy) Neville Fields

Len Thompson 1979
John Murphy (ex-Fitzroy) 1978-79
Neville Fields 1978-81

Did we have three #1's in 1979?

8. John Scarlett,(father of Matthew) John Murphy (70's) Barry Beecroft, Tony Haenan (father of Toby, Australian swimmer),Greg Smith, Michael Wright,

Plenty of overlap here

Greg Smith 1980-84
Michael Wright 1978-80
John Scarlett 1977-78
Barry Beecroft 1973-77
John Murphy (non Fitzroy) 1970-73
Tony Haenan 1966-71

As a general rule of thumb I'm assuming the older player wore the number during the first year or two of the newer players career - though this may not always be the case - if anyone has alternate numbers for any of these guys would be a big help! Another problem with this era is that mid-season trades were common - so I am going to come across instances of 2 players wearing a number in the same year

9. David Ackerley, Gerrard Neesham

Neesham 1982
Ackerly 1976-85

10. David Bolton

I thought he was #16?

13. Graham Dempster (father of Sean), Greg Miller.

Greg Miller 1972-76
Graham Dempster 1972-79

5 years of overlap here!

20. Graeme Teasdale, Ian Thompson

Teasdale 1975-81
Thomson 1973-76

21. Tony Morwood, Michael Byrne

I already have Byrne as #14 for the 2 years he played (1987-88) and surely Tony Morwood would've been wearing 21 in those years

If we can sort out the overlaps in those numbers, we'll have a HUGE chunk of the 70's done thanks to the Doctor

still hunting for numbers from the 1980-93 period (I know most of you have probably blocked large chunks of it from your memory - especially the early 90's)

[*Paul*]

Hi Ert, you might know of my site - AFL Tables? http://stats.rleague.com/afl/afl_index.html

I've just added 1993 stats, which, at the next update (Monday), will include the 93 guernsey numbers. Hopefully they're right, but you never can tell with newspapers.

One strange thing - Aldo Dipetta (2 games)- the Herald Sun claimed his number was 0. And so did the The Age.
Could this really be the case?

[Benevolent Ert]

thanks Paul - your site has been a godsend - one of the main reasons I got 1994-2004 finished so quickly!!!

I doubt Aldo DiPetta wore 0 tho - cant remember what he did wear

[portboy]

jumper numbers
jumper numbers Craig Davis wore number jumper numer 60 and John Herriot wore number 21