Fair point: Shine on Leigh Brown, a true Knight of the Eker round table
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Fair point: Shine on Leigh Brown, a true Knight of the Eker round table
LOL @ this thread. I think i've always breezed past it, confusing it for an "Aker" thread :) Will have to spend some time researching.
One that springs to mind (apologies if already mentioned but haven't seen him) but Stuart Wigney has to be in Dale kickett territory. 4 clubs (Foots 47, Syd 1, Adel 10, Rich 14). A massive 25 games with 3 clubs post his Dogs career for grand total of 72. All across 8 years.
Expecting some heavy Eker movement in the coming weeks with delistings and rookie drafting.
Do we have the highest proportion of ekers of any team in the league now? Just off the top of my head I count Moles, DFA, DJ, Vesz, Hoops, Mulligan, Barlow, and Reid (for now).
Probably unfair on Hoops and Vesz, but hanging around in the AFL for so long without playing many games is eker territory. Markovic was definitely eker-material (if getting dropped from a list, then playing VFL, then getting picked up again as 'depth' isn't eker-ish I don't know what is), but he's probably improved too much this year. Hill is a disappointment rather than an eker, and Stack is still rising.
Hang on, if Hooper is an Eker then so is Howard and Tutt. They've all been on the list 2 years, are the same age, and Hooper has played the most games of them.
I think he's nowhere near being an AFL player, but to call him an eker is beyond premature.
Exactly, which is why Howard and Tutt aren't ekers (because we see potential in them). If a player, however, is clearly already not going to get much better and is still not that good, but gets a contract for 'depth' or whatever, that's eker territory right there.
Joel Macdonald from Melbourne/Brisbane eker material?
What about Guerra? Surely a more successful gap-filler hasn't had more success in the last 10 years?