Round 2 looks good for the Top 100 game players and goal scorers still playing. All were available for selection this week and were picked to play.
They will be joined by Kade Simpson who will play his 288th and therefore join former Geelong star Peter Riccardi in 100th position.
While the most experienced current players (Shaun Burgoyne and Brendan Goddard) will not alter the position they hold on the list, Luke Hodge – now at Brisbane – will jump over the pack of six players on 306 games and join Tim Watson (Essendon) on 307.
Gary Ablett will pass Michael O’Loughlin (Sydney) and Chris Langford (Hawthorn) and join Russell Greene (St Kilda and Hawthorn) and Jimmy Bartel (Geelong).
Jarrod McVeigh (Sydney) will pass Shannon Grant (North Melbourne) and Len Thompson (Collingwood, South Melbourne and Fitzroy) and equal Luke Power (Brisbane) and Don Scott (Hawthorn).
Club by club the highlights are.
Adelaide: Mitch McGovern joins Crow’s Top 100 list.
Brisbane: Leading game player Daniel Rich out injured.
Carlton: Kade Simpson now outright fifth place.
Collingwood: On the day that his son Callum returns to the team, Collingwood premiership captain Gavin ‘Rowdy’ Brown is joined by Scott Pendlebury in ninth place.
Essendon: David Zaharakis equals Bill Brittingham.
Fremantle: Connor Blakely makes Top 100.
Geelong: Joel Selwood joins Paul Chapman at Number 15.
Gold Coast Suns: Sam Day becomes the ninth Sun to chalk up 100 games. (Only four others remain at the club).
Greater Western Sydney: The club has seven 100+ game players (led by Callum Ward) and six remain at the club.
Hawthorn has 10 per cent of the club’s Top 100 game players on the current list.
Melbourne: Nathan Jones is the only Top 100 player still on the list with Tom McDonald yet to play one more game and join him.
North Melbourne: Scott Thompson will pass ‘Twinketoes’ (Laurie Dwyer) this weekend.
Port Adelaide: Justin Westoff will equal Dominic Cassisi at Number 6.
Richmond: Trent Cochins 200th will make him equal with Michael Roach.
St Kilda: Sam Gibson, the club’s most senior player, still can’t get a game!
Sydney: Jarrod McVeigh (currently #4 on the player’s list) sneaks up on #3 Michael O’Loughlin (now one game behind)
West Coast Eagles: Nic Naitanui catches Chad Morrison.
Western Bulldogs: Dale Morris, Liam Picken and now Tom Libratore all out injured. It now leaves only three Top 100 players in the team.
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