Sam Butler retires

[King Brown]

Much respect to a fine footballer.

Save a freak occurrence this year, next year will be the first year West Coast don't have one of their own premiership players on the list since 1992.

A record of 25 years continuous service from premiership players is pretty good, but what is the longest a side has gone with at least one of their own premiership players on the list? Stats gurus?

I imagine it would be an era from Collingwood, followed by Carlton, Hawthorn or Essendon.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Can someone please check up on Here2tellyouwhy immediately. No need for a description, just look for the guy in the fetal position.

 

[ManOfClay]

He'd really dropped off the face of the earth but was a handy player. Congrats

 

[Belnakor]

I imagine it would be an era from Collingwood, followed by Carlton, Hawthorn or Essendon.

Fletcher alone did 21 years for Essendon

 

[RUNVS]

The last of the 2005 Grand Final.

Sort of like the last person on his WW2 warship dying of old age.

 

[Scotland]

Joined us from SA in the 2003 draft along with Beau Waters.

Between them they played 286 out of a possible 326 games. Not together or anything, in total.

Butler has missed 160 games, Waters 206 - though to be fair he's technically been retired for two years so really only missed about 150 odd while a listed player.

Butler was a pretty reliable player when he was in, and was rewarded with 3 Brownlow votes in Rd 2015 (his 12th season) to take his career total to 4. Didn't panic when he had the ball and coming from a soccer background was good on both feet.

 

[Lensen]

Fletcher alone did 21 years for Essendon

and he played with harvey and Thompson so you have back to at least 1984 there too. so they'd be the longest in the modern era I'd thought

 

[Scotland]

and he played with harvey and Thompson so you have back to at least 1984 there too. so they'd be the longest in the modern era I'd thought

Crawford played in 08 and with Dunstall in the 90s. Wouldn't that extend back to the 70s?

 

[boncer34]

Crawford played in 08 and with Dunstall in the 90s. Wouldn't that extend back to the 70s?

Yeah but Crawf wasn't a premiership player until 08.

 

[Scotland]

Yeah but Crawf wasn't a premiership player until 08.

OK gotcha.

Looking at it we did well to keep Banners around until 2006 then Butler around until 2017.

 

[Always Ballin]

Serviceable player. Decent size, no real outstanding qualities, not very explosive. Typical depth guy, but a quality one at that.

 

[boncer34]

OK gotcha.

Looking at it we did well to keep Banners around until 2006 then Butler around until 2017.

Yeah we go 1984 to 2015.

 

[YippeeYiYeo]

Feels like he has been retired for 3 years.

 

[OhhhhhCyril]

Here2tellyouwhy you ok bud??

 

[Donakebab]

Should start this off with a farewell to Sam Butler, the kind of foot soldier that all Premierships need. Well done on a solid career.

and he played with harvey and Thompson so you have back to at least 1984 there too. so they'd be the longest in the modern era I'd thought

Essendon's longest stretch is 38 years from 1897 to 1935. Start with Jim Anderson who played in the 1897 (he actually played in the 1892 VFA team before the VFL was formed), on to Billy Griffth who covers from 1901 to 1912, Fred Baring covered the gap between 1910 to 1924, with Charlie May being the last player from the 1923 Premiership retiring in 1935.

Then there is a gap until the 1942 Premiership side, where there are numerous links from there through the strong years in the 40's-60's up until 1974, when Geoff Pryor from the 1965 Premiership team retired, ending the run of 32 years.

Geoff Pryor played with Simon Madden in 1974, who would be part of the next chain that started in 1984 and continued until Dustin Fletcher retired in 2015 covering 31 years.

 

[astro1212]

Joined us from SA in the 2003 draft along with Beau Waters

I try not to judge people on appearances, but they looked like a couple of arrogant campaigners when they were young

Thank god they both turned out fine gentlemen coming from an era where we had some true arrogant campaigners in our team.

 

[The Swert]

So who's left from former premiership teams?

Pre 2004 None
2004 Burgoyne
2005 None
2006 None
2007 Ablett, Selwood, Mackie
2008 Franklin, Roughead, Lewis, Birchall, Rioli

 

[Flandersss]

Can someone please check up on Here2tellyouwhy immediately. No need for a description, just look for the guy in the fetal position.

He's with me.

It's okay Here2tellyouwhy!

 

[Scotland]

I wonder if Brent Harvey reads BigFooty. He'd probably find playing 10 or 12 years after winning a flag cute.

 

[gordo2016]

Stan had a long career but his bus driving was not great at times. Blakey will be happy ("I'll get you Butler").
Oh, it is Sam Butler.

 

[barrackers]

longest a side has gone with at least one of their own premiership players on the list? Stats gurus?

I imagine it would be an era from Collingwood, followed by Carlton, Hawthorn or Essendon.

Collingwood below, there's been 4 periods in our history when we haven't had a premiership magpie on our list (1892-1896, 1951-1953, 1968-1990, 2001-2010).

Flag|Last still playing|Season last played
\
\1896 (VFA)|Monohan
Pannam Snr|1907
\1902-03|Rowell|1915
\1910|Lee
Hughes|1922
\1917|Saunders|1926
\1919|Wilson|1928
\1927-30|H. Collier|1940
\1935-36 *|Kyne
Pannam
Kyne|1944
1945
1950
\
\1953|M. Twomey|1961
\1958|K. Rose|1967
\
\1990|Brown
Crosisca|2000
\
\2010|5 still active

* Pannam didn't play in 1943, Kyne didn't play in 1945

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Can someone please check up on Here2tellyouwhy immediately. No need for a description, just look for the guy in the fetal position.

Here2tellyouwhy you ok bud??

He's with me.

It's okay Here2tellyouwhy!

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Who?

lol...user name says it all. Move along flog.

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]

Sam Butler thread...

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/sam-butler-calls-time-cheersbutts.1175019/

 

[Here2tellyouwhy]