Upcoming AFL Milestones – Round 20 | AFL Blog

Upcoming AFL Milestones – Round 20

It’s time to recognise some of the milestones that we will hopefully be seeing this weekend.

Adam Goodes – Goodes will play his 250th game this weekend when he lines up with the Sydney Swans against Geelong. Drafted to the Swans in 1997, he had a reasonably slow start to his career but after the mid-season coaching change he started to find some consistent form. He took that form through into the following year, 2003, and was rewarded by his club when he won the clubs best and fairest award. His success stretched further and was also jointly awarded the Brownlow Medal along with Nathan Buckley and Mark Ricciuto, as well as selection in the All Australian team. Injuries then slowed his career but in 2005 he managed some good form and consequently played in the Swans first premiership side since 1933. He followed this up in 2006 by once again playing some of his best football, once again earning him the coveted Brownlow Medal. When he plays his 250th this weekend he will enter the record books as the second fastest player ever to reach that milestone, behind Wayne Schimmelbusch.

Scott Welsh – Welsh will play his 200th AFL game this weekend when he walks out onto the park against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday night. Drafted to North Melbourne in 2006 at just 17 years of age so he didn’t really play much senior footy until 1998 and managed to play in the 1999 Premiership side. In 2000 he moved back to Adelaide to play with the Adelaide Crows and this is where his career started to blossom. In seasons 2000-2007 Welsh managed to top the Crows leading goal kickers list four times with his best season haul being 58 goals. At the end of the 2007 season he rejected a one year contract from Adelaide and entered the Pre-Season draft where he was picked up by the Western Bulldogs. Ironically his 150th game was also played against Brisbane.

Josh Carr – Carr will also be playing his 200th game this weekend should he make selection to host Carlton on Sunday afternoon. Originally drafted to the Power in 1998 he played 105 games between the 2000 and 2004 seasons. In 2001 he won Port Adelaides “Best Team Man” award and in 2004 was appointed as their Vice Captain along side Warren Tredrea. He has a Premiership under his belt having played in the 2004 Premiership side with the Power. In 2005 he was traded, upon request, to Fremantle so he could play along side his brother, Matthew Carr. He spent four seasons at Fremantle, and was their Vice Captain during the 2007 and 2008 seasons. After his brothers retirement during 2008 Josh requested to be traded back to his original club for personal reasons. Maybe he doesn’t like being Vice Captain and feels the best way out is to leave the club? He has played a further 11 games in season 2009 for the Power and needs just the one more to reach the 200 milestone.

Leigh Brown – Like Scott Welsh and Josh Carr, Leigh Brown will be playing his 200th game this week. Having not done anything overly spectacular during his career, Brown managed to play 21 out of 22 games in each of his first three years with Fremantle after being drafte in 1999. He was named as Fremantles “Best Clubman” in 2001. After the 2002 season he was traded to North Melbourne for pick 13 and over his 8 seasons at the Kangaroos managed to play at least 21 games each year. Brown was then delisted by the Roos after the 2008 season. He was offered a lifeline by Collingwood when they selected him with pick 73 in the national draft and has had a somewhat indifferent year in 2009 playing just 13 games and kicking 8 goals.

Nathan Eagleton – Eagleton will play his 200th game with the Western Bulldogs this weekend. He has also played 56 games with Port Adelaide having started his career with them back in 1997. This makes his total games played to date 255.

Jordan Lewis – Lewis will play his 100th game this weekend as the Hawks attempt to keep their finals hopes alive when they host the Crows this weekend. Drafted in the 2004 National Draft, Lewis was a part of the Hawks 2008 Premiership team along with fellow 2004 draftees Jarryd Roughead and Lance Franklin.

Matthew Maguire – Maguire has had a very injury interupted career after being drafted to the St Kilda Saints in the 2001 National Draft. Debuting in 2002 he played 67 games in his first four seasons and managed 18 in 2006 before a horific leg injury in which both his fibia and tibula were broken. Multiple surgeries followed to correct the issue and although he returned in round 1 the following season (2007) he was then sidelined with stress fractures in his foot. He returned in round 14 but after the 2007 season it was revealed his stress fractures had returned resulting in him missing much of the Saints preseason. He returned again in round 4 2008 and played four games before injuring his left foot which sidelined him for the remainder of the season. Maguire is yet to play in 2009 but with the injuries to the St Kilda backline he might be in with a shot at making the milestone that has eluded him thus far (his 100th game).

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