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I thought it might be an interesting exercise to list some players who moved clubs, not because they couldn't get a game at their orginal club, but for other reasons (to play finals, more money, argument with coach etc etc).

*Andrew Jarman, North Adelaide to Norwood.

*Neville Roberts, West Torrens to Norwood (via Richmond)

*Mark Williams, West Adelaide to Port Adelaide

*Peter Woite, Port Adelaide to Glenelg

*John Paynter, Glenelg to Sturt

*Gary Christie, South Adelaide to Glenelg

*Clayton Lamb, West Adelaide to Glenelg

*Neil Craig, Norwood to Sturt, to North Adelaide

*Eddie Fry, South Adelaide to Sturt

*Paul Weston, Glenelg to West Torrens (player/coach) to Norwood (via Essendon)

*Allan and Wayne Stringer, North Adelaide to Glenelg

*Craig Burton, West Adelaide to North Adelaide

*Brodie Atkinson, North Adelaide to Sturt

*Damian Squire, North Adelaide to Sturt

*Greg Whittlesea, Sturt to Glenelg (via Hawthorn)

*Ray Huppatz, Woodville to Port Adelaide (via Footscray and North Melbourne)

*Ken Eustice, West Adelaide to Centrals (player/coach), to Glenelg


Then theres the coaches who made a name for themself at a club, and subsequently went on to coach another club:

*John Halbert, Sturt player, coach of Glenelg

*Jack Oatey, Norwood player, coach of West Adelaide and Sturt

*Geoff Motley, Port Adelaide player, coach of North Adelaide

*Daryl Hicks, Sturt player, coach of Central District

*Neil Kerley, West Adelaide player, coach and/or player at South Adelaide, Glenelg, West Torrens and Central District

*Russell Ebert, Port Adelaide player, coach of Woodville

*Graham Cornes, Glenelg player, coach of South Adelaide

*Rick Davies, Sturt player, coach (and player) South Adelaide

*Michael Taylor, Norwood player, coach of West Adelaide

*Bob Hammond, North Adelaide player, coach of Norwood

*Greg Anderson, Port Adelaide player, coach of South Adelaide

I'm sure theres quite a few in both categories but they're the ones i could think of.

Ralph Sewar Peckers to us
John Schneeeeeeeeeeeebichler South to us

Grenville Dietrich, North to West Torrens
Craig Burton, West to North

"Dinny" Reedman was probably the most famous, earliest and most influential.

You've also missed Darel Hart off your list, he was so establisehd at Central he had a promotional sew on badge whilst at Central which only had 2 players from each club.

does phil mcguinness qualify?

Mick Nunan, Norwood & Sturt to North

Grenville Dietrich from North to Torrens and then later to the Rosewater Lawn Bowls Club.

Weston went to Essendon before he went to Torrens.
It is Sewer, not Sewar.
Bob Hammond also played a few matches for Norwood.
Noel Pettingill, from Norwood to Sturt.
Peter Anderson, from North to Glenelg to Woodville.
Wayne Slattery, from South to North.
Mark Tylor, from Port to Glenelg.
Mark Conway, from Central to Sturt.
Mark Jeffries, from North to Eagles and back to North.
Sam Phillipou, from Eagles to Port and back to Eagles.
and
Brett O'Hara, from Eagles to North.

Dean Howard West to North
Brett Backwell West to Glenelg

spell_check wrote:Wayne Slattery, from North to South.

Other way around, could also throw Steven Trigg, Max Parker and John Roberts in for North.

Wedgie wrote:

spell_check wrote:Wayne Slattery, from North to South.

Other way around, could also throw Steven Trigg, Max Parker and John Roberts in for North.

Whoops!

Peter Bubner, from Central to Sturt.
Terry von Bertouch, from North to Norwood.
Wayne Phillis, from Glenelg to Norwood.
John Spry, from North to Port.
Matthew Cooper, from Sturt to Eagles.
Daniel Hargraves, from North to Port.

And of course, there's Bob Shearman.

Mark Williams also coached Glenelg.

spell_check wrote:

Wedgie wrote:

spell_check wrote:Wayne Slattery, from North to South.

Other way around, could also throw Steven Trigg, Max Parker and John Roberts in for North.

Whoops!

Peter Bubner, from Central to Sturt.
Terry von Bertouch, from North to Norwood.
Wayne Phillis, from Glenelg to Norwood.
John Spry, from North to Port.
Matthew Cooper, from Sturt to Eagles.
Daniel Hargraves, from North to Port.

Von Bertouch and Spry did play elsewhere in between. VB in the country and Spry went back to the WAFL (IIRC).

Trevor Hill North to West Torrens back to North

Bruce Winter - 174 games for Sturt, then a further 178 for Norwood, then premiership coach for the Eagles.

Frank Stemper - Woodville to Norwood.

Rodney Pope & Greg Nicholson - West Adelaide to Norwood

Yeah i forgot about Schneebichler and Sewer. I didn't include Bubner because i think he was basically finished at Centrals when he went to Sturt. Also similarly Howard, who i think wasn't wanted at West anymore. Ditto Hargraves, Conway and Cooper (weren't wanted at original clubs), and i think Tylor left to go to Glenelg because of limited opportunies at Port.

I did think of Shearman as well, but wasn't sure exactly how established he was at Torrens.

GWW wrote:I did think of Shearman as well, but wasn't sure exactly how established he was at Torrens.

Shearman had played 64 games for Essendon, including the 1957 GF, before coming to West Torrens where he captained the club, as well as South Australia.

How about Ugo Colasante, Stevie Rechner, Stephen Hamilton, Mark Soderstrom or Stephen Kerley?

Wedgie wrote:How about Ugo Colasante, Stevie Rechner, Stephen Hamilton, Mark Soderstrom or Stephen Kerley?

.... or Greg Schlein maybe?

Gees next minute there'll be calls to include James Fantasia and Des O'Dwyer on the list too

Adrian Burton!