Miguel Sanchez
Snide Shooter
They do now, ever since Tredrea gave up the captaincy and booted Danyle Pearce out of the #16.
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They do now, ever since Tredrea gave up the captaincy and booted Danyle Pearce out of the #16.
Some silly takes here.
Players come and go, even the good ones.
The players themselves are probably more worried about who they have a locker next to in the rooms.
The jumper numbers are a nice link to the past but this isn’t the NBA and nobody in a league full of token gestures is ‘retiring’ numbers, outside of perhaps an untimely death, even then it’s unlikely to be ‘forever’.
Players come and go, even the good ones.
The players themselves are probably more worried about who they have a locker next to in the rooms.
The jumper numbers are a nice link to the past but this isn’t the NBA and nobody in a league full of token gestures is ‘retiring’ numbers, outside of perhaps an untimely death, even then it’s unlikely to be ‘forever’.
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1 and 4 will be available next year
Forward Press
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On that note, John McCarthy's #35 has just been unretired, with the blessing of his family.
I'd rather we don't go down the route of the NBA where literally a dozen numbers or more cannot be used.
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- Dec 8, 2012
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Baker shouldn’t be wearing 3 end of story
Making the captain wear number 1 sounds like something an U14s team would do.
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- Sep 8, 2011
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Good to know they learnt from that stupidity
TY24
Cripps and Bloods
Given they've got 0-99 (and 00 as well I'm pretty sure) to use, where as AFL only allows the use of 1-50, I don't see it happening.
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Do our lockers go up to [emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]] at the club?
I’d hope we haven’t retired Turnbull’s locker
I’d hope we haven’t retired Turnbull’s locker
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I wouldn't mind if just one or two numbers were retired. Had the club permanently retired Mainy's #3 in 2007 that would've been a nice gesture but not retiring it wasn't disrespectful or anything.
The Wildcats have been around 5 years more than the Eagles and already have 8 retired jerseys with 7 club legends plus Scott Fenton who tragically died in a car accident in the 80s. They will retire Cotton's 11 and possibly Wagstaff's 24 as the games record holder and 6 x champion. So that would be 10 which is already a lot even for a sport where you have an extended roster of 15.
The Eagles have a current squad of 43. If you retire 5 or 10 numbers for great players (where do you draw the line?) then you are already going to be into the 50s each year. Wouldn't be practical and eventually clubs would be into triple digits.
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Miguel Sanchez
Snide Shooter
They actually did retire it for three years.
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Oh yeah that's right.
Carbine Chaos
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Retiring numbers (even temporarily) is stupid.
But I feel this is an unpopular take (unlike me, I know).
But I feel this is an unpopular take (unlike me, I know).
TY24
Cripps and Bloods
Firmly agree
