The Shane Warnes of Football: Overweight players

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You just know it wont end well after the footy stops
 

ThatsjustDappa

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Glenn Archer always struck me as a bit of a chubber. As eptimosied in this lovely true to life sketch from some dude on Southbank promenade....

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It's a cute nickname, but he's not and never has been a porker. He's just a big, big man.

On the subject of fatties, Motlop returned in 2016 looking like he'd eaten a cow. It was actually quite funny.

Hawkins probably based off this pic of him
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Motlop and Clark both also rocked up a little portly
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Erick_the_Greatest

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AFL fattened them right up for 20 years by force feeding them COLA and academy advantages, which the Swans gleefully accepted without the slightest semblance of guilt

Haven’t they thinned out quickly since the AFL removed the feeding tube
 
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Wayne Harmes was a chunky dynamic back pocket when I first started following the game. But about 8 years later the chunkiness seemed to be turning into being overweight. He was past his prime by mid 80's and probably cost himself another 50 to 100 games in a career.
 
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