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With the recent signing of Ben Schwarze to North Adelaide, upon playing a League match for them, he will be the 15th player to have played for both North and WWT. And this will be only in the space of 19 seasons. These are the other players:

Adam Grocke (North to Eagles)
Mark Jeffries (North to Eagles to North)
Stuart Lamond (North to Eagles)
Brett Mancini (North to Eagles)
Travis Oakley (North to Eagles)
Luke Peel (North to Eagles)
Luke Spehr (North to Eagles)
Damien McCarthy (North to Woodville to Eagles)
Jason King (Eagles to North)
Jake Lynch (Eagles to North)
Brett O'Hara (Eagles to North)
Luke Toia (Eagles to North)
Daniel Wise (Eagles to North)
James McEntee (West to North to Eagles)

Are there any other pairs of clubs that like to trade players? Central and North also come to mind.

Norwood and Sturt have traded a few over the years, not sure if it's anything out of the ordinary though

Port and Glenelg seemed to have a few over the years...Peter Woite, Mark Tylor, Phil McGuinness, Eugene Warrior (in a roundabout way) all come to mind without really thinking.

spell_check wrote:With the recent signing of Ben Schwarze to North Adelaide, upon playing a League match for them, he will be the 15th player to have played for both North and WWT. And this will be only in the space of 19 seasons. These are the other players:

Adam Grocke (North to Eagles)
Mark Jeffries (North to Eagles to North)
Stuart Lamond (North to Eagles)
Brett Mancini (North to Eagles)
Travis Oakley (North to Eagles)
Luke Peel (North to Eagles)
Luke Spehr (North to Eagles)
Damien McCarthy (North to Woodville to Eagles)
Jason King (Eagles to North)
Jake Lynch (Eagles to North)
Brett O'Hara (Eagles to North)
Luke Toia (Eagles to North)
Daniel Wise (Eagles to North)
James McEntee (West to North to Eagles)

Are there any other pairs of clubs that like to trade players? Central and North also come to mind.

Yes Spelly, I was only toalking to a mate about it the other day, there has been a few in recent years in particular...

Off the top of my head, here goes...

Rick Macgowan (North to Centrals back to North)
Scott Stevens (Centrals to North)
Kym Vivian (Centrals to North)*
Ben Walton (Centrals to North)
Matthew Kreig (Centrals to North)
Justin Casserly (Centrals to North)
Shane Tongerie (North to Centrals)
Darel Hart (Centrals to North)
Sam Walton (Centrals to North)*
Owen Sharpe (North to Centrals)*
Ryan Porter (North to Centrals)*
Shaun Gatto (Centrals to Sturt to North)
Daniel Wakelin (Centrals to North)
Greg McAdam (North to Centrals)
Josh Coulter (Centrals to North)

* I think these guys may have only played reserves at either club

That's all I can think of at the moment, but i'm sure there will be some I have forgot

Don't forget there were a few from NA to WT
Kym Dillon NA to WT
Trevor Hill NA to WT to NA
There must have been others as well.

CK wrote:Port and Glenelg seemed to have a few over the years...Peter Woite, Mark Tylor, Phil McGuinness, Eugene Warrior (in a roundabout way) all come to mind without really thinking.

marcus burdett, troy butcher (the other way) & dare i say simon tregenza (the other way)

mark tylor cost glenelg $8,000 to get & when he went back to port it cost port $8,000

Mike Doszna (Woodville) for Bob Ford (North)

How about Scott Leal, or did he not play league at the Eagles?

Mickyj wrote:Don't forget there were a few from NA to WT
Kym Dillon NA to WT
Trevor Hill NA to WT to NA
There must have been others as well.

Mark Downie NA to WT
Rob Diorio NA to WT
Mike Diorio NA to WT
Grenville Dietrich NA to WT
Steven Sims WT to NA
Steven Barrett WT to NA
John Roberts W to WT to NA

FlyingHigh wrote:How about Scott Leal, or did he not play league at the Eagles?

That was Brett Leal. Scott only played for North.

I also reckon you could add a list of players leaving North to go to Sturt.

The 2 biggest traditional rivals Port and Norwood, would probably have the least swaps.

I can't think of many at all, apart from Smallridge, and maybe Kym Curtis i think??, although obviously there would be quite a few over the years no doubt.

GWW wrote:The 2 biggest traditional rivals Port and Norwood, would probably have the least swaps.

I can't think of many at all, apart from Smallridge, and maybe Kym Curtis i think??, although obviously there would be quite a few over the years no doubt.

How about Bob McLean. The mother of all Norwood/Port swaps.

yeah forgot about him LL.

Fos Williams from West to Port then back to West afterwards I think.

Leaping Lindner wrote:

GWW wrote:The 2 biggest traditional rivals Port and Norwood, would probably have the least swaps.

I can't think of many at all, apart from Smallridge, and maybe Kym Curtis i think??, although obviously there would be quite a few over the years no doubt.

How about Bob McLean. The mother of all Norwood/Port swaps.

Bob Kingston and Sticks Dolan also both went Norwood to Port.

FattyLumpkin wrote:Mike Doszna (Woodville) for Bob Ford (North)

Quality swap there.

Barrie Barbary - North to Woodville via the country.
Ray Buckley (father of Nathan) - North reject to Woodville.
Max Parker - Woodville to North.
Roger Clift - Woodville to North.

Going back to Spelly's original question though, which pair of clubs would have had the most trades since 1991 (with the condition that the player played League for both clubs)?

I am fairly sure that Glenelg+any club wouldn't be higher than either the North/Eagles or the North/Centrals list.

From memory South would probably be the most with Glenelg since 1991 (Koster, A Parker, Burdett, M Clarke, Draper, Hams, Handby, Harwood, Mannion, Aulich + probably one or two more). Also had a few swaps with them just before 1991.

Glenelg-Centrals don't have many...

This would be a good thing to start a complete record of Spelly - it wouldn't be that hard to get the full list since 1991 (and near to complete lists before them - since 1980 they were all documented in the Football Times yearbooks, so that wouldn't take too long to compile).

It would also be interesting to know what eras have had the most active trading.

Leaping Lindner wrote:

GWW wrote:The 2 biggest traditional rivals Port and Norwood, would probably have the least swaps.

I can't think of many at all, apart from Smallridge, and maybe Kym Curtis i think??, although obviously there would be quite a few over the years no doubt.

How about Bob McLean. The mother of all Norwood/Port swaps.

Ive always meant to ask how this came about? Big Bob was obviously a legendary player, how does Norwood, the biggest powerhouse at the time, let him go? (Cue AH?)

Since 1907 (assuming my players list is correct), the record is Norwood/South. These 44 players played with both clubs at some stage:

David Bland
Olaf Bode
Lindsay Bugg
Frank Burrowes
Jarrod Cotton
Charles Daly
David Dickinson
Robert Dugan
John Durbridge
Simon Fosdike
Frederick Gardiner
Michael Guerin
Robert Haines
Kevin Hardiman
Walter J. Hearne
Walter T. Hearne
Nick Jackman
Sidney James
Andrew Jarvis
Jack Kay
Stephen Keam
Aaron Keating
Essington Lewis
Leonard Long
Dennis McAvaney
Damien Mellow
Kevin O'Neill
Ron Reimann
Dean Renfrey
Lester Ross
Richard Rowett
James Sampson
Mitchell Sandery
Phil Saunders
Wayne Schmaal
Clarence G. Sisson
Nathan Smart
Jack Sorrell
Matthew Thomas
Jonathon Tumes
George Whitford
Albert Williams
Ben Wilson
Don Woodcock