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I've been thinking over the last today about this interesting question. It always seems to me interesting to mark when a flag becomes 'old' as when no one currently playing the game played in that flag. Essendon's 2000 flag is getting there, I think only Fletcher, Lloyd and a few others are left and they'll be gone in a few years.
Our team was this:
Hall | Ablett | Ball | Barry | Bevan | C.Bolton | J.Bolton | Buchanan | Crouch | Davis | Dempster | Fosdike | Goodes | Jolly | Kennelly | Kirk | Mathews | O'Keefe | O'Loughlin | Roberts-Thomson | Schneider | Williams
Ball, Mathews, and Williams are all gone, with Davis probably gone as well. Crouch, Fosdike, O'loughlin, Barry, Kennelly and possibly Hall will hang up the boots at the end if 09.
That leaves Ablett, Bevan, C. Bolton, J. Bolton, Buchanan, Dempster, Goodes, Jolly, Kirk, O'Keefe, LRT and Schneider as our remaining Premiership players currently playing AFL.
Personally I think Bevan will be our last survivor of the flag, just outlasting Dempster and Schneider at the Saints.
Interestingly watching the Saints-Swans game last night there was a passage of play that went something like Williams -> Fosdike -> Crouch -> Ball -> Mathews -> O'keefe and it was remarkable to think that basically all but one of those players will be gone by the end of 09. Really makes 05 seem a long time ago!
Our team was this:
Hall | Ablett | Ball | Barry | Bevan | C.Bolton | J.Bolton | Buchanan | Crouch | Davis | Dempster | Fosdike | Goodes | Jolly | Kennelly | Kirk | Mathews | O'Keefe | O'Loughlin | Roberts-Thomson | Schneider | Williams
Ball, Mathews, and Williams are all gone, with Davis probably gone as well. Crouch, Fosdike, O'loughlin, Barry, Kennelly and possibly Hall will hang up the boots at the end if 09.
That leaves Ablett, Bevan, C. Bolton, J. Bolton, Buchanan, Dempster, Goodes, Jolly, Kirk, O'Keefe, LRT and Schneider as our remaining Premiership players currently playing AFL.
Personally I think Bevan will be our last survivor of the flag, just outlasting Dempster and Schneider at the Saints.
Interestingly watching the Saints-Swans game last night there was a passage of play that went something like Williams -> Fosdike -> Crouch -> Ball -> Mathews -> O'keefe and it was remarkable to think that basically all but one of those players will be gone by the end of 09. Really makes 05 seem a long time ago!

