Dusty / Dimma relationship

[spook]

Shows what an iron man Jack's been, considering he has 14 operations every off-season.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

I thought Jack Titus might be there, he hardly ever missed and held the consecutive games record for years, maybe never got to 244.

It took him a while to cement a spot. Following his debut he played only 9 of the next 40 senior games.

He then played 82/89 before his record run to the end of his career.

 

[DavidSSS]

It took him a while to cement a spot. Following his debut he played only 9 of the next 40 senior games.

He then played 82/89 before his record run to the end of his career.

Yeah, I had a quick look a bit later, slow start.

DS

 

[BrummieTiger]

The mind boggles at how sick old McHale must've been to miss a grand final...

Rightly or wrongly, McHale is credited with the 1930 GF among his 714 games, same as Sheedy was credited with a game he was absent for with Gary O'Donnell filling in.

Gms	Player	Coach	Club	Coach #	Gms missed
306	Coventry, Gordon	McHale, Jock	Coll	1st	27
282	Hutchison, Bill	Reynolds, *smile*	Ess	1st	26
278	Roughead, Jarryd	Clarkson, Alastair	Haw	1st	69
276	Fletcher, Dustin	Sheedy, Kevin	Ess	1st	75
260	Lewis, Jordan	Clarkson, Alastair	Haw	1st	21
257	Mitchell, Sam	Clarkson, Alastair	Haw	3rd	31
256	Cox, Dean	Worsfold, John	W.C.	2nd	25
255	Hodge, Luke	Clarkson, Alastair	Haw	3rd	50
253	Collier, Harry	McHale, Jock	Coll	1st	33
253	Hird, James	Sheedy, Kevin	Ess	1sr	121
247	Lucas, Scott	Sheedy, Kevin	Ess	1st	31
247	Madden, Simon	Sheedy, Kevin	Ess	4th	36
244*	Martin, Dustin	Hardwick, Damien	Rich	1st	8
243	O'Donnell, Gary	Sheedy, Kevin	Ess	1st	15
240	Scarlett, Matthew	Thompson, Mark	Geel	2nd	22
239	Daniher, Terry	Sheedy, Kevin	Ess	3rd	44
238	Bewick, Darren	Sheedy, Kevin	Ess	1st	68
238	Kyne, Phonse	McHale, Jock	Coll	1st	72
237*	Riewoldt, Jack	Hardwick, Damien	Rich	3rd	15
...
231	Bartlett, Kevin	Hafey, Tom	Rich	3rd	17
226*	Cotchin, Trent	Hardwick, Damien	Rich	3rd	30
218*	Edwards, Shane	Hardwick, Damien	Rich	3rd	34
211	Clay, *smile*	Hafey, Tom	Rich	1st	20
202	Sheedy, Kevin	Hafey, Tom	Rich	1st	27
201	Bourke, Francis W.	Hafey, Tom	Rich	1st	27

Thanks everyone for the very enthusiastic replies, and to L2R2R for this table. It really shows the difficulty of achieving such a feat when you think that with the great careers guys like McHale and Sheedy had, coaching at one club for so long, that there's still omly one p[layer in history to hit the 300 mark under a single coach.

Martin's place on this list is really down to a perfect storm of a future champion joining a weak team at the very moment a new coach arrived who was to go on and become the longest serving coach in the club's history. A confluence of events that is very difficult to replicate. Even if Dusty were drafted in today, I'd say he'd miss more games early on than he did if for no other reason than development/welfare/management concerns. Plus today's team is just so much harder to break into (though no doubt even little Dusty would have been best 22 today).

Martin's resilience is also underlined by the fact that in that same off-season we brought on board Grimes and Astbury, who, in terms of games played sit over 70 and 100 games behind Martin respectively. It's also worth considering that the next realistic cab off the rank for such status is Nick Vlastuin given that, Bachar Houli (2010 PSD) aside, there's nobody left on the list from the 2010 or 2011 Drafts.

Again, I'm totally nerding out. L2R2R's list got me excited!!

 

[BrummieTiger]

You'd have to be a Black Sabbath fan brummie?

Not overly Snake. I'm an Aussie boy born and bred, only moved to Birmingham in 2015 after a dozen or so years living off the grid in Ireland. Never was in to British music growing up, though since moving here I have learned an appreciation for the likes of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. I live just a couple of k's from Edgbaston cricket ground and can assure all and sundry it would sh*t itself if the 'G' ever came wandering down Pershore Rd.