The first three games of Round 3 which start on Friday night feature three foundation clubs, one well-established club and two relative ‘newbies’. However, all have statistical achievements to look forward to..
At Carlton, captain Marc Murphy will equal the game tally of the starter of the Silvangi dynasty, Sergio.
Sergio Silvagni, the father of Stephen and grandfather of Jack, was the son of an Italian immigrant who first played for the Blues in 1958 as a 20-year-old.
He formed part of the on-ball team as ruck-rover to John Nicholls with Adrian Gallagher roving. He retired in 1971 after 239 games and later filled in briefly as a caretaker coach for three games.
For Collingwood, Taylor Adams will play his 69th game, bringing his total AFL games total to 100. After 31 games and 12 goals at Greater Western Sydney, Adams moved to Collingwood in 2014 and adopted the number 13 guernsey.
The Port Adelaide/Brisbane game on Saturday will see crowd favourite Robbie Gray equal the playing record of the former crowd favourite at the club, Stuart Dew, the league’s newest coach at the Gold Coast Suns.
For Brisbane, captain Dayne Beams will bring up his 150th AFL game. Like Taylor Adams, he achieved this feat while playing at two clubs. After six years at Collingwood, he moved to the Brisbane Lions in 2015 to join his brother, Claye.
Melbourne are still waiting for the injured Tom McDonald to recover and play the one game required to join the solitary current day player, Nathan Jones, in the club’s top 100 all-time game players.
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Meanwhile, Neville Jetta – the other potential qualifier for this honour – continues his stellar season that he needs to join Jones and hopefully McDonald on the list.
North Melbourne’s Jack Ziebell will join Bill Findlay just outside the Kangaroo’s top 40 game players of all time this weekend. Findlay – like the other of our featured players – started his career with two years at another club (Footscray) before making his mark as a skilful rover at North Melbourne.
He captained North Melbourne from 1941 to 1943 and played 200 consecutive games for North Melbourne and Port Melbourne before leaving the club to coach in the VFA.
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