The number on your back.

[Twodogs]

Re: The number on your back.

First jumper had no number and then I had 31 for the great KT, but never really worried about numbers on jumpers after that.
Along the same line in was always a scurry to get your favourite players number when you played footy as a junior.
I was pretty lucky because not many Doggies supporters so I got 31 in junior footy and from memory number 7 playing for school.
Playing as an old senior up this way I wore Kretta's number 46 but that had more to do with the jumper sizes than the player.
Both my Pups started with 7 for Westy, then the oldest had 16 on his Doggies jumper and now it The Bonts.
The youngest went to 6 for Johnno and now has no number.

The lad with no number.

I always tried to get 16 when I played. Birthday. Can't remember having it on a bulldog jumper but I can remember every 16 since Denis Blair. If the game has started already when I get there then the first thing I have to do is find #16.

[Mantis]

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I started with 10, then 33 and finished with 15.

I haven't worn a footy jumper since a certain day in '97.. The next time I'll wear one is on GF day.

[Twodogs]

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BTW speaking of numbers this hasn't had a link for a while. A list of every Footscray/WB player number since 1925:

http://www.fnwb.com.au/footscray-players/footscray-numbers-1925-2009/

It stopped being maintained a few years ago but it's still an excellent resource.

[Bulldog4life]

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I have thought for a while I had 26 as a kid but after some investigation it was 28 for Johnny Clegg then Charlie Evans. I don't know why I thought I wore 26....I was born on the 26th but that couldn't be the reason....surely..

[1eyedog]

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I started with 10, then 33 and finished with 15.

I haven't worn a footy jumper since a certain day in '97.. The next time I'll wear one is on GF day.

The Bald Eagle?

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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No. 31 from the ages of 7-11

No 31? Anthony Darcy or Robert Semmens?

[1eyedog]

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No 31? Anthony Darcy or Robert Semmens?

Peter Street

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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Peter Street

That would be Constable Street to you lad

[Daughter of the West]

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Peter Street

My sister's jumper is signed by one Constable Street! She's got 22, for Wally Donald and arguably a young Bob Murphy.

I've never got around to putting a number on mine.

[Ozza]

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Had a #7 for Dougie Hawkins in the late 80s/early 90s.

Got my son a jumper for his 4th birthday and he wanted '4' because he was 4....I thought that was a pretty safe choice!

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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Started off with #3 for EJ as an infant.

First of the Brandella 70's/80/s style had #35 for Wheels.

Next one was #7 for Dougie.

My next jumper was the white Robodog model. Opted for Westy's #7 with that one. Mind you I was way too old to be wearing footy jumpers at this time.

Before we switched back to the current day hoops I found a V neck woollen version on e-bay. Snagged it for $50 and supposedly is signed by Peter Box. I picked this up only weeks before Charlie Sutton passed away so in honour of the great man, I had a number 6 put on it. One of the old style foam ones too. I went to one of those clothes alteration places at the local shopping centre and asked the staff there if they could sew on a Number 6, she said no because they only had a number 4 and, wait for it, a number 9.

'...way too old to be wearing footy jumpers at this time.'

Sacrilegious! Never too old too wear a footy jumper.

[HOSE B ROMERO]

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My sister's jumper is signed by one Constable Street! She's got 22, for Wally Donald and arguably a young Bob Murphy.

I've never got around to putting a number on mine.

22 for Wally Donald.. is this an old jumper or a more recent one?

[Daughter of the West]

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22 for Wally Donald.. is this an old jumper or a more recent one?

Recent-ish, it's probably about ten years old. It's one of those knitted type ones, rather than the newfangled wick-the-sweat-away-count-your-heart rate-read-your-star-sign type ones.