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With a full round of nine games spread over four days, Round 15 is providing plenty of highlights, and although Richmond appear to have the premiership in their keeping, their main challenger, the top four ladder positions and the final eight are a long way from being decided.
The round is shaping as a statistician’s delight, and although the main focus is rightly on Kade Simpson becoming the fifth player to play 300 games for the Blues, a number of other milestones will be achieved.
The AFL all-time top-100 players are represented by seven current-day players, and although number one on this list (Shaun Burgoyne) will be missing, all bar Jordan Lewis (Melbourne) will move up the list. Brendon Goddard (Essendon) will pass Ian Nankervis (Geelong), Jude Bolton (Sydney) and Jason Akermanis (Brisbane Bears, Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs) and hold 31st place outright.
Luke Hodge (Brisbane) will join Marcus Ashcroft (Brisbane) in equal 44th position. Jarrad McVeigh (Sydney) will join Terry Daniher (Essendon), Tony Shaw (Collingwood), James Kelly (Geelong and Essendon) and Roger Merrett (Essendon and Brisbane) in 46th position.
Gary Ablett (Geelong) will join the list of champions that currently sit in 51st position, just outside the top-50 AFL game-players of all time: Jack Dyer (Richmond), Robert Murphy (Western Bulldogs), Stephen Silvangi (Carlton) and Mark Riccuito (Adelaide).
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Kade Simpson joins the list of nine players who ended their careers on exactly 300 games. These players now hold positions 75 to 84 on the all-time list and the ‘bar’ to making the top 100 has been raised to 289 games.
Eddie Betts was due to play his 289th game this week and therefore join the likes of Barry Davis (Essendon and North Melbourne), Barry Hall (St Kilda, Sydney and Western Bulldogs), Stuart Maxfield (Richmond and Sydney) and Michael Voss (Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions) in 98th position on the list. However, injury means he will be missing for some weeks.
Two other players, David Mundy (Fremantle, four games away) and Lance Franklin (Sydney, eight games away) also have the potential to join or replace in the top 100 those currently tied for 98th position.
Lance Franklin bought up his 100th game for the Swans while Reece Conca played his 100th game for Richmond but suffered an injury. Toby Nankervis played his 50th game of AFL football which includes 12 games that he played at the Swans. Swan Heath Grundy moved up the club’s games hierarchy and is now equal seventh with Mark Browning, and at Richmond Jack Riewoldt passed Merv Keane.
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Harry Taylor was welcomed back at Geelong after injury and passed George Todd on the games played list ,while at Western Bulldogs Luke Dahlhaus matched the careers of Allan Hopkins, Jim Gallagher and David Thorpe.
As well as Kade Simpson’s 300th game, the Carlton versus Port Adelaide game saw Carlton’s Darcy Lang play his 50th AFL game (including 44 games at Geelong) and Ed Curnow further consolidate his position in the Blues’ top 100 by equalling Eric Huxtable and Jack Conley.
At Port Adelaide Justin Westoff passed Chad Corner and equalled the games tally of Peter Burgoyne, third on Port Adelaide’s all-time games played list.
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