NEWS UP-DATE:Campbell plays up to 50 games and 16…

According to the stats, Campbell plays 50 games in #16.

Campbell’s #16 jumper has been worn by 52 distinct Swans players – more than some other – starting from the presentation of player numbers in 1912.

Also, when the 22-year-old left-footer runs out for his most memorable achievement game against premiers Collingwood on Friday night he will end up being the eighth Swan to play 50 games in #16. Most essentially for the local result of Flag Slopes through the QBE Sydney Swans Foundation, he will continue in the strides of the club’s most memorable mentor after the 1982 move to Sydney, Ricky Quade.

Quade, Swans club champion in 1976 and chief from 1977-79, holds the record for most games in jumper #16 for the Swans at 164. He filled various key jobs with the club after medical affliction constrained him to step down from instructing obligations 13 games into the 1984 season.

Presently 73, Quade actually holds close connects to the club and will be more than happy to see Campbell become the main Sydney-reared player to arrive at 50 games in his cherished #16. Seven other 50-game #16’s have played different key jobs in Swans history.

Darren Chipper, second on the #16 games list, wore #16 in the 2005 thousand last dominate in a 118-match stretch with the Swans from 2005-09 after 48 games at Melbourne (2001-04) and before 71 games and one more banner at Collingwood (2010-13). Gary Rohan, presently at Geelong, played 106 games in the #16 Swans jumper, including the 2014-16 thousand finals.

The main Swan to play 100 games in #16 was the senior individual from one of the incomparable Swans families – Austin Robertson Snr. Brought up in South Melbourne, he played 154 games in red and white from 1927-37 – 105 games in #16 after he spent his initial four years and 49 games in #30. Known for his tremendous spot kicking, he was an individual from the 1935-36 thousand last sides, was South Melbourne’s driving objective kicker in 1929-31 and is fifteenth on the club’s unequaled objective rundown.

He likewise won the 1930 world expert run title and filled in as a corporal in the Australian Armed force in The Second Great War. Robertson’s more established sibling Harold, who played 64 games from 1917-23, held the club record for most objectives in a game at 14 from 1919-34, and child Austin Jnr is an AFL Corridor of Famer, having been a hotshot at Subiaco in the WAFL either side of one season at South Melbourne in 1966.

Partner David Bolton played 95 games in #16 for the Swans from 1986-91 in the wake of moving from Geelong, and half back flanker Kevin Hilet played 56 games in #16 from 1950-54 after nine games in #13. Ron Hartridge, a key forward who was a result of South Melbourne Specialized School, played 50 games with South from 1943-46, after 11 games at St Kilda from 1938-40.

He was the club’s driving objective kicker in 1944-45, yet in ’45 had the odd experience of playing each of the 20 home-and-away games and the semi-last prior to being consigned to the stores seat for the stupendous last misfortune to Carlton.

Different Swans player to wear #16 in a prevalence was Tammy Hynes in 1918. In any case, after 28 games in #16 in 1918-19 he changed to #10 in 1920 and #25 in 1922-24.