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As you're all well aware, Essendon have a swag of former Bombers fans so I thought that, by guernsey number arrangement, we'd have a clear document on who went for what team prior to being drafted.

BTW, as they've not been traded yet, I'll include Buckets and Melksham while excluding Fletch, Licka, Chap, Dalgleish and Aylett.

01 Michael Hibberd: Carlton
02 Tom Bellchambers:
03
04 Jobe Watson: Essendon
05 Brent Stanton:
06 Joe Daniher: Essendon
07 Zac Merrett: Footscray.
08
09 Brendon Goddard: Carlton
10 Nick O'Brien:
11 David Zaharakis: Essendon
12 Mark Baguley:
13 Adam Cooney: Carlton
14 Jason Ashby:
15 Courtenay Dempsey:
16 Tayte Pears:
17 Jake Melksham: North Melbourne
18 Michael Hurley: St Kilda
19 Shaun Edwards:
20 Jackson Merrett:
21 Dyson Heppell: Essendon
22 Jake Carlisle: Footscray
23 David Myers: Richmond
24 Alex Browne:
25 Ariel Steinberg: Essendon
26 Cale Hooker:
27 Jonathan Giles:
28 Elliott Kavanagh: Essendon
29 Patrick Ambrose:
30 Kyle Langford: Footscray
31
32 Travis Colyer:
33 Jayden Laverde: Essendon
34 Jake Long:
35 Martin Gleeson: Carlton
36
37
38 Nick Kommer:
39 Heath Hocking: Essendon
40 Ben Howlett: West Coast
41 Will Hams:
42 James Gwilt:
43
44 Shaun McKernan: North Melbourne
45 Conor McKenna: Tyrone GAA
46 Orazio Fantasia: Adelaide

Over to you guys for help.
 
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Pretty sure Stanton was black and red from birth - he didn't live far from WINDY HILL.
You sure about that?

I always thought he was from that Viewbank/Lower Plenty/Eltham general direction.
 

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You sure about that?

I always thought he was from that Viewbank/Lower Plenty/Eltham general direction.


Correct.



Ambrose supported Hawthorn.
 
Weren't the Merrett brothers Essendon fans, much to the disgust of their Collingwood premiership playing grandfather?


Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Thorold either their great-uncle or their grandfather's cousin?
 
Hurley was a Saints fan. Gleeson was Carlton. Carlisle was Footscray.


Had a feeling Gleese was Carlton due to his uncle.
 
Hibberd was Carlton (named his dog Kouta IIRC)
Long was Essendon for obvious reasons
Langford was Essendon I think
 

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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Thorold either their great-uncle or their grandfather's cousin?
There ya go, google agrees with you. He is their great uncle. I had it in mind that he was their grandfather. Still pretty sure the boys were Essendon.
 
Hooker was a Fremantle supporter, I believe.

(Re the earlier discussion, I was once told Stanton had been a Carlton fan when he was a kid ... some random sitting next to me at a game said that quite a few years ago now, but I'm still not sure to this day how accurate it is.)
 

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