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A number of these have retired throughout the season, or have announced that this will be their last year. These players were around when there was Waverley Park, the MCGs newest stand was the Great Southern Stand, Princes Park was used on a weekly basis, the WACA was still used for football, the goal umpires wore the lab coats, there were only "the men in white" and not "the men in orange/green/yellow", almost every player wore black boots, the kick to handball ratio was around 2:1, Spider Everitts tattoo project was in its early stages, Plugger was still kicking the goals, The Duck was at his peak, there weren't any rotating advertising boards, 12 marks by one player in a match was considered to be outstanding, the Docklands and Homebush were being bulit...yes, that was the late 90s:

1988
Robert Harvey (StK)

1993
Dustin Fletcher (Ess)
Shane Crawford (Haw)
David Neitz (Mel)
Matthew Richardson (Ric)
Peter Everitt (StK/Haw/Syd)
Scott West (W.B)

1994
Nigel Lappin (Bris)
Shane Wakelin (StK/Coll)
Brad Johnson (W.B)

1995
Tyson Edwards (Adel)
Andrew McLeod (Adel)
Scott Burns (Coll)
Anthony Rocca (Syd/Coll)
Matthew Lloyd (Ess)
Peter Bell (Fre/N.M)
Jeff Farmer (Melb/Fre)
Shaun McManus (Fre)
Shannon Grant (Syd/N.M)
Adam Simpson (N.M)
Jeff White (Fre/Mel)
Adem Yze (Mel)
Fraser Gehrig (W.C/StK)
Leo Barry (Syd)
Michael O'Loughlin (Syd)
Jason Akermanis (Bris/W.B)

1996
Daniel Bradshaw (Bris)
Simon Prestigiacomo (Coll)
Scott Lucas (Ess)
Brent Harvey (N.M)
Ben Holland (Ric/Mel)
Joel Bowden (Ric)
Kane Johnson (Ade/Ric)
Steven King (Gee/StK)
Barry Hall (StK/Syd)
David Wirrpanda (W.C)
Scott Welsh (N.M/Ade/W.B)

1997
Simon Goodwin (Adel)
Jason Johnson (Ess)
Mal Michael (Bris/Ess)
Heath Black (Fre)
Darren Milburn (Gee)
Stuart Dew (P.A/Haw)
Jess Sinclair (Fre/N.M)
James McDonald (Mel)
Russell Robertson (Mel)
Peter Burgoyne (P.A)
Brendon Lade (P.A)
Warren Tredrea (P.A)
Michael Wilson (P.A)
Nathan Brown (W.B/Ric)
Michael Gardiner (W.C/StK)
Max Hudghton (StK)
Ben Mathews (Syd)
Michael Braun (W.C)
Nathan Eagleton (P.A/W.B)

1998
Nathan Bassett (Adel)
Kris Massie (Carl/Adel)
Simon Black (Bris)
Travis Johnstone (Melb/Bris)
Beau McDonald (Bris)
Tim Notting (Bris)
Luke Power (Bris)
Jason Saddington (Syd/Carl)
Nick Stevens (P.A/Carl)
Brodie Holland (Fre/Coll)
Shane O'Bree (Bris/Coll)
Dean Solomon (Ess/Fre)
Chris Tarrant (Coll/Fre)
Tom Harley (P.A/Gee)
Brad Ottens (Ric/Gee)
Matthew Scarlett (Gee)
Trent Croad (Haw)
Danny Jacobs (Ess/Haw)
Nathan Thompson (Haw/N.M)
Shannon Watt (N.M)
Greg Tivendale (Ric)
Jared Crouch (Syd)

1999
Brett Burton (Adel)
Ken McGregor (Adel)
Brendan Fevola (Carl)
Heath Scotland (Coll/Carl)
Tarkyn Lockyer (Coll)
Mark McVeigh (Ess)
Adam Ramanauskas (Ess)
Matthew Carr (StK/Fre)
Antoni Grover (Fre)
Des Headland (Bris/Fre)
Mark Johnson (Ess/Fre)
Cameron Mooney (N.M/Gee)
David Wojcinski (Gee)
Brady Rawlings (N.M)
Chad Cornes (P.A)
Troy Simmonds (Mel/Fre/Ric)
Steven Baker (StK)
Lenny Hayes (StK)
Jude Bolton (Syd)
Nick Davis (Coll/Syd)
Nic Fosdike (Syd)
Adam Goodes (Syd)
Brett Kirk (Syd)
Andrew Embley (W.C)
Chad Fletcher (W.C)
Tyson Stenglein (Ade/W.C)

A fair number of those players have already retired; so is there any bets as to who will be the last player playing in the AFL?

I reckon the safest bet on the last one of those to retire would be Chad Cornes.

I feel that when this group retires we will see the end of an era.

Glenn Archer commented on how massively the game had changed in his time mainly around the professionalism required from players. The 90s seemed to be see the end of the semi-professional player who trained a few times a week in between a normal job. The 90s had 1 or maybe 2 assistant coaches, no player leadership groups + all the other changes Spelly noted.

Wayne Carey on the Enough Rope said it was the traditional after each game for the team to go out and get smashed and he, as captain, was expected to be the ring-leader. Nowadays a lot of clubs have drinking bans throughout the season.

So, depending on your views on the modern day full-time footballer, it's possible to label the 90s generation as the last of the "traditional" or "old-guard" players.

Due to his position he plays a fair chance that Fev will go until he's at least 32/33 maybe 34 depending on form/fitness...

Yep, stopping to sulk every 10 minutes will preserve his body longer.

SJABC wrote:Due to his position he plays a fair chance that Fev will go until he's at least 32/33 maybe 34 depending on form/fitness...

there is another factor with Fev that could have an impact on when his career finishes

rod_rooster wrote:

SJABC wrote:Due to his position he plays a fair chance that Fev will go until he's at least 32/33 maybe 34 depending on form/fitness...

there is another factor with Fev that could have an impact on when his career finishes

So true

And smac...GEFUGGED....

smac wrote:Yep, stopping to sulk every 10 minutes will preserve his body longer.

I dont know about that,the way he drops his shoulders it must be having some impact on his upper body...

At least he has shoulders unlike the current Port forward line heh heh.

regards,

REB

Rik E Boy wrote:At least he has shoulders unlike the current Port forward line heh heh.

regards,

REB

LOL...I call him the triangle!

Dutchy wrote:

Rik E Boy wrote:At least he has shoulders unlike the current Port forward line heh heh.

regards,

REB

LOL...I call him the triangle!

I reckon there's three of em. So the Power are radioactive???

regards,

REB

Lets stay on topic boys...



*deflects attention away from Port's forwards*

This thread is on topic. They were born in the 90's nyuck nyuck....

regards,

REB

PS - Boo Mods!*



















*tony modra

Rik E Boy wrote:

Dutchy wrote:

Rik E Boy wrote:At least he has shoulders unlike the current Port forward line heh heh.

regards,

REB

LOL...I call him the triangle!

I reckon there's three of em. So the Power are radioactive???

regards,

REB

Dunno but cant accuse them of choking....

I reckon it will be between Scarlett, B Harvey, Stevens or Goodes.

While the career span is two years less, I made a list in 2000 of players who had played in the 80s. This is to show how the number of players to have played then shrunk as this decade went on:

2000: 46 players
2001: 26
2002: 18 - Paul Salmon and Tony Lockett returned to the list in this year
2003: 7 (Wayne Carey, Marcus Ashcroft, Alastair Lynch, Michael Martyn, Anthony Stevens, Nathan Burke and Robert Harvey were these 7 players)
2004: 4 (Carey, Lynch, Martyn and Harvey)
2005-08: 1

So, eight years later, the last of these players has retired - Brent Harvey

Byron Pickett would be proud of that bump Spelly!

regards,

REB