ANSWER MAN

Which indigenous player has had the most disposals in a game for each club?

ALEX SOMERS, ALBANY, WA

LE: The record is held by Port Adelaide’s Peter Burgoyne, who had 45 in round 22, 2008. Burgoyne recorded 30-plus disposals in 16 games across his career. Burgoyne’s brother Shaun holds the record for Hawthorn with 37. Amazingly, two-time Norm Smith medallist Andrew McLeod had 30-plus disposals on 27 occasions for Adelaide, the most times by an indigenous player. Graham ‘Polly’ Farmer was the first indigenous player to record 40-plus disposals in a game, back in round nine, 1966. He remains Geelong’s record-holder with 43 disposals. Current players Jy Simpkin, Tim Kelly, Michael Walters and Zac Williams have set club records in more recent times. Player stats were officially recorded for the first time at the start of the 1965 season.

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MOST DISPOSALS BY INDIGENOUS PLAYERS CAN YOU ASSIST?

u Former Collingwood small forward Jarryd Blair played 157 matches and kicked 121 goals for the Magpies. Blair played in a premiership in 2010. His grandfather John O’Mahony played 112 matches for the Hawks between 1951-60.

If you know of other examples of recent AFL players who have ancestors with a different surname who also played League football, please contact col.hutchinson@afl.com.au.

ROUND 10, 2022

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