Players Numbers.

[*PAFC*13]

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Pearce the new No. 16
10:01:45 AM Tue 20 December, 2005
Port Adelaide Football Club
Lightning quick teenager Danyle Pearce will see thousands of kids with his number on their back in 2006 after taking on the Port Adelaide No. 16 guernsey made famous by Warren Tredrea.

Tredrea will move to the traditional captain’s number, No. 1 in 2006, leaving the No. 16 guernsey available for the first time since the Power entered the AFL.

Many players had joked this off-season about taking Tredrea’s No. 16 so that “half the crowd at AAMI Stadium will have my number on their back” but it was Pearce who went through with it.

He moves from the rookie-list guernsey No. 41, which he wore in seven matches in 2005.


There was one other guernsey switch. Steven Salopek, who had worn No. 31 in his first three seasons at the club, will take on Brett Montgomery’s No. 3 guernsey.

Of the new players, Daniel Motlop has taken the No. 15 guernsey formerly worn by Byron Pickett and Michael Wilson, while 17-year-old Jon Giles becomes only the second player to wear No. 38 for the Power. That was the guernsey Roger James made his own.

The full list of guernsey numbers for the 2006 season is as follows (new ones for you to learn this summer are in bold):

1 - TREDREA Warren
2 - WAKELIN Darryl
3 - SALOPEK Steven
4 - WANGANEEN Gavin
5 - LADE Brendon
6 - THOMSON Adam
7 - BURGOYNE Peter
8 - BURGOYNE Shaun
9 - EZARD James
10 - FRANCOU Josh
11 - WILLITS Ryan
12 - SHATTOCK Aaron
13 - ECKERMANN Ben
14 - WARE Elijah
15 - MOTLOP Daniel
16 - PEARCE Danyle
17 - DEW Stuart
18 - CORNES Kane
19 - BISHOP Matthew
20 - BROGAN Dean
21 - WILSON Michael
22 - MAHONEY Josh
23 - SYMES Brad
24 - WHITE Damon
25 - CASSISI Domenic
26 - LOWER Nick
27 - CARLILE Alipate
28 - THURSTANS Toby
29 - KINGSLEY Adam
30 - CHAPLIN Troy
31 - MINSON Hugh
32 - THOMAS Matt
33 - EBERT Brett
34 - LONIE Nathan
35 - CORNES Chad
36 - PETTIGREW Michael
37 - DELUCA Fabian
38 - GILES Jonathan
39 - SURJAN Jacob
42 - WALSH Peter
Rookie list
40 - RISCHBIETH Tom
41 - BENTLEY Greg
43 - LOOBY Tim
44 - LOGAN Tom

[portentous]

Hope Sala has a change of luck with his new number.

[Toots Hibbert]

Thanks *PAFC*13.

[PortProudWA]

So from 15 I go to 16 :).........though 15 & 16 will both be great in the coming years........But Pearcy's the one. what a number to get, and what shoes to fill........sure he will take it all in his stride and will not let the great one down:cool:

[Porthos]

Bit odd for Lonie to go for a number so late.

[crazy_big_al]

Bit odd for Lonie to go for a number so late.


he may not have had a choice or he wants to be the next Guerra :D

[Toots Hibbert]

Hopefully Nick Lower can rehabilitate the number 26.

[Groove]

Pearce is a cheeky bugger, hope he does well.

[eddie_vrv6]

Big ny=umber to fill for Pearce, hopefully he does it proud for the next <place Pearce's career length here> years!

[comradekane_02]

Hopefully Nick Lower can rehabilitate the number 26.

Number 26 should have been retired for a few years, but for the opposite reason that 16 should have.

[Macca19]

Go Pearcey!!

[Arsene Wenger]

P Burgoyne wore 26 a few seasons back - its been infested now..

BTW what number was peel - id stear well clear of that

[Ford Fairlane]

BTW what number was peel - id stear well clear of that

Too late for Nathan Lonie ... :p

[*PAFC*13]

P Burgoyne wore 26 a few seasons back - its been infested now..

BTW what number was peel - id stear well clear of that

34, and lets not forget Peel got drafted to North aswell did Lonie. :eek: :eek:

[crazy_big_al]

Too late for Nathan Lonie ... :p


He will have choco's Gold Pass. We did trade for him

[Capital Power]

Geez thats a good looking list with the great man himself at the top. Thanks *PAFC*13. I cant believe its STILL more than three months till the opener. Blimey has this off season dragged on or what.

My son and I were privileged to see Pearce's first game, and first goal. I told him he'll dine on that for months when Danyle turns in his 300th in 10 years or so. Number 16, eh? Them's big boots to fill, I sincerely hope it doesn't go to his head.

[Porthos]

My son and I were privileged to see Pearce's first game, and first goal. I told him he'll dine on that for months when Danyle turns in his 300th in 10 years or so. I thought that with Scott Bassett's first game too, but he didn't get off the bench! :D

[thepowerwithin_30]

Well i have decided to buy a new guernsey, i had the number 1 on my back this year, but since Matty has retired, im changing numbers. In season 2006, im going for 32!

[PortProudWA]

Well i have decided to buy a new guernsey, i had the number 1 on my back this year, but since Matty has retired, im changing numbers. In season 2006, im going for 32!

Me to. I have worn Number 15 on my back, ever since Choppy arrived and took it on at Port. Got it signed by him over here when he played his 150th, and wore it Grand Final Day......was a proud day that day, knowing I was walking around Punt Road with the Norm Smith Medal winner on my back :D !! But it now hangs in the cupboard as a memory of what was - he is gone, so hence so does that gursney.

I move onwards and upwards now - from 15 to 16!! I love Pearcy, and I see something dam special in him, and if Tredders thinks he is good enough to wear the all mighty Number 16 makes it even better!! Hope to get him to sign it on his 50th, 100th, 150th, 200th and on!! :cool:

I cant bloody wait for season 2006 to start.......just reading everything about what is going on down at the club, and it just seems so much more settle, so much more prepared ALL READY than we ever looked in 2005. Issues resolved before Xmas that were still hanging over our heads before Round 1 this year, new training ideas, new players, young players......yep, it looks to be a Powerful 2006!!!

[*PAFC*13]

Pearcy is a funny little bugger, just the way he chases and always is smiling. He makes me happy to watch.