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Peel announced Brady Grey signed with them

KCEF wrote:

Peel announced Brady Grey signed with them. 

That's old news now. We did a player swap. We got James Ewing in exchange.

DD wrote:

KCEF wrote:

Peel announced Brady Grey signed with them. 

That's old news now. We did a player swap. We got James Ewing in exchange.



 

Surely it wasn’t a straight swap???

Would have thought a fee was involved.

The recruitment of Charlie Thompson prompted me to think when we last had a Charlie on our list. 
I could not think of one since the late Charlie Skehan 1953 to 1963. He stood 5ft 11in, played 187 games including the 1955 Grand Final. Oldtimers would well remember him.
Represented WA 11 times and played as a Ruck/Rover ( nowdays a midfield role) or Defender. He had a penchant to run the ball no matter how close the opposition was. He would just grab the ball and run & bounce. He got away with it most of the time but when he didn't supporters would curse.
When he played as a defender he was one of the formidable half-back line of Charlie Skehan, Neville Beard and Roy Harper. They were all policemen and were called the Copper Brigade.
Anyone think of another Charlie at Perth since 1963?

The only one I can think of that came close Smokey was the former SF great rover Noel "Charlie" Carter who played Reserves for Perth in the late 1980s.

Beasley Hutton wrote:

The only one I can think of that came close Smokey was the former SF great rover Noel "Charlie" Carter who played Reserves for Perth in the late 1980s.

Very close BH but I do not recall him nick-named "Charlie". He was a great player at SF. I think Mal Brown brought him to Perth??
Charlie Carter... the grocer he. he.

Sydney Stack at training tonight although unlikely we'll see him again after Wednesday

Not sure he will get picked up.
Good luck to him.

I hope that we have put him back on our list just in case. We don't need someone else to snaffle him from under.
Good luck to him if he gets another chance at AFL. He is good enough if he really wants it.