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AFL Top 100: No movement at the top for the Crows

Eddie Betts during a team training session at the Adelaide Oval in 2017. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy)
Roar Guru
23rd March, 2018
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As a much younger club (having so far – prior to last night’s game – used only 215 players in the 27 years the club has been in the AFL), Adelaide has 17 current players inside the Top 100 game players of all time.

Despite this, the top seven current players (including the two not playing: ‘Tex’ Walker and Brodie Smith) would not have advanced their position last night.

In fact we have to scale down to Luke Brown before we find any player who makes an impression on the Top 100 ‘ladder’.

Brown would have equalled Matthew Liptak and Ian Perrie in last night’s game and therefore moved into Adelaide’s Top 40.

Matthew Liptak – who holds a medical degree from Adelaide University – played for the Crows between 1991 and 1999, winning the club’s Best and Fairest in 1996 and representing South Australia in State of Origin footy in the same year.

He was an excellent midfielder, and his goal kicking skills see him well placed in Adelaide’s Top 100 goal scorers as well.

Ian Perrie was born in the then Rhodesia, was recruited to the Crows from East Perth as pick 49 in the 1997 draft and he debuted in Round 13, 1998 against Collingwood at the MCG. In 2000, he was nominated as a Rising Star and throughout his career kicked 129 goals, again enough to see him listed in the club’s Top 100 goal kickers.

His career lasted from 1998 to 2007 and he received a total of 13 Brownlow votes during that time.

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Rory Laird also moved up the list, passing Mark Stevens to claim outright 50th place among the game players at the club. Stevens was traded to Adelaide from North Melbourne (for Jason McCarthy) and played in a premiership in his first year at the Crows.

Others to advance include AFL Top 50 goal kicker Eddie Betts (sandwiched between Jack Riewoldt and Jarryd Roughead) and Matt Crouch, Kyle Hartigan and Rory Atkins.

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