Former CDFC Player to Captain the West Coast Eagles in the AFL

Interesting appointment, he won two flags at Central District in 2004 & 2005. His dad is a former CDFC player who played 135 matches for the doggies, he was drafted to West Coast after the 2005 Premiership and has since played 151 matches for West Coast.

http://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/news/2014-12-08/shannon-the-skipper

Congrats to him, great effort.

How many SANFL players have gone on to captain AFL (or VFL) clubs?

Kernahan, Mcguiness, Bickley & McDermott immediately spring to mind, i would think there would be some more players as well as though, oh just thought of Wanganeen & Tredrea as well

Some more:

Mark Mickan
Mark Williams
Matthew Pavlich
Simon Goodwin
Mark Ricciuto
Tom Harley
Bernie Smith
Luke Darcy
Matthew Rendell
Nathan Bock was acting captain for Gold Coast
Craig Bradley

Todd Viney
Nathan Buckley
Phil Davis
Michael Long
Wayne Carey (ok.....bit of cheating on that one)

Primus
Wanganeen
Tredrea

Scrunch wrote:Primus
Wanganeen
Tredrea

with respect, does Primus count ? seeing he was at Fitzroy before joining Norwood

bayman wrote:

Scrunch wrote:Primus
Wanganeen
Tredrea

with respect, does Primus count ? seeing he was at Fitzroy before joining Norwood

Think he was Fitzroy after Norwood .. Might have been in Geelongs system pre-Norwood, can't remember, but don't think he played any AFL games prior to lobbing at the Parade. Happy to be corrected though.

Scrunch wrote:

bayman wrote:

Scrunch wrote:Primus
Wanganeen
Tredrea

with respect, does Primus count ? seeing he was at Fitzroy before joining Norwood

Think he was Fitzroy after Norwood .. Might have been in Geelongs system pre-Norwood, can't remember, but don't think he played any AFL games prior to lobbing at the Parade. Happy to be corrected though.

if your correct about Fitzroy after Norwood i stand corrected an apologize, i would have sworn it was the other way round, however getting old & memories aren't as good as they once were

I know how you feel Bayman

Fitztroy drafted Primus from Norwood.

edit: his only year at Fitzroy, was their last in 1996 before Power took him for their inaugral season.

Simon Goodwin....?

Malcolm Blight?
Think Michael Taylor was VC at Collingwood for a bit, not sure if he ever captained any games.

Funnily enough, Blight never captained North. He was coach with Schimmlebusch captain.

Norm Clark
Born in Norwoods first premiership season
Won the Stawell Gift in 1899
Played in North Adelaides first 2 Premierships 
Played in Carltons first 3 premierships

Before he left NA to play for CA this was the NA half back line in some games
Claxton-Jones-Clark
Claxton has a baseball comp named after him
Jones played cricket for Australia

Norm Clark captained Carlton

TOM QUINN

Tom Quinn played For Port Adelaide 1928-1930
Played for Geelong 1931-1940
During his Geelong stint he captained the team


RALPH ROGERSON

Ralphs sequence of football clubs was
North Adelaide
East Perth
Fitzroy

He joined Fitzroy in 1964 and captained the team in 1965 until St Kildas first VFL  premiership season

Ralph Rogerson is a cousin to a couple of SANFL footballers who have either played or coached the SANFL club who has won the last 3 SANFL premierships
Graham Molloy 
Trevor Hill