List of Essendon forwards

Forwards who have played in at least one match for Essendon in a VFL/AFL premiership. This list may be incomplete due to incomplete match player position records (from which these general player positions are generated).

Player List

No. Player Season(s) Match(es) Position(s) Detail(s)
1 Tod Collins 1897-1903 91 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Half-Back Flanker
2 Ted Kinnear 1897-1903 107 Forward / Defender Forward / Back Pocket
3 George Martin 1897-1904 104 Ruckman / Forward
4 Gus Officer 1897-1900 48 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
5 Harold Brown 1897-1898 8 Forward / Defender
6 Arthur Leach 1897 4 Forward Key Forward
7 Charlie Moore 1897-1899 30 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
8 Alec Hall 1898-1900 19 Forward
9 Jimmy Larkin 1898-1903 73 Forward
10 Bill Jackson 1898-1900 27 Forward Key Forward
11 Fred Scott 1899-1901 33 Forward Key Forward
12 Hugh Fitzpatrick 1899-1900 30 Ruckman / Forward Ruckman / Forward Pocket
13 Albert Thurgood 1899-1906 46 Forward Key Forward
14 Les Rainey 1899-1900 5 Forward Forward Pocket
15 Mick Peppard 1900-1903 42 Forward / Defender Forward / Half-Back Flanker
16 Fred Hiskins 1900-1906 50 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
17 Jack Geggie 1902-1904 43 Forward / Defender
18 Vic Hutchins 1902 11 Forward
19 John Holligan 1902-1903 5 Forward Key Forward
20 Hughie Callan 1903-1905 35 Ruckman / Forward
21 Mick Madden 1903-1906 65 Forward Key Forward
22 Dave Smith 1903-1913 142 Forward
23 Arthur Gilligan 1903-1905 29 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
24 George Barker 1903-1909 47 Forward Forward Pocket
25 Arthur Legge 1904-1909 69 Midfielder / Forward Rover / Forward Pocket
26 Athol Tymms 1905 3 Forward / Defender Half-Forward Flanker / Defender
27 Otto Landmann 1907-1910 27 Forward
28 Jim Martin 1907-1913 95 Ruckman / Forward Ruckman / Forward Pocket
29 Bruce Sloss 1907-1908 3 Ruckman / Forward
30 Mike Londerigan 1907-1909 42 Forward
31 Lou Armstrong 1908-1914 107 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
32 Paddy Shea 1908-1918 142 Forward Key Forward
33 Lon Smith 1908 6 Forward Forward Pocket
34 Harry Farnsworth 1908-1909 24 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
35 Harry Prout 1908-1910 29 Forward
36 George McLeod 1910-1913 56 Forward / Defender
37 Artie Freeman 1911 1 Forward
38 Frank Caine 1912-1914 22 Forward
39 Bill Dinsmore 1914-1915 13 Forward
40 Greg Stockdale 1920-1928 106 Forward Key Forward
41 Tommy Jenkins 1921-1925 63 Forward Forward Pocket
42 Charlie Hardy 1921-1925 36 Forward
43 Jack Moriarty 1922 13 Forward Key Forward
44 Rowley Watt 1922-1931 141 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
45 Justin McCarthy 1922-1926 56 Forward
46 Joe Callahan 1922-1924 27 Forward Key Forward
47 George Shorten 1923-1926 52 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
48 Gavin Wanganeen 1991-1996 127 Forward / Defender Forward Pocket / Defender
49 James Hird 1992-2007 253 Forward
50 Mark Mercuri 1992-2004 207 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
51 Che Cockatoo-Collins 1994-1998 85 Forward
52 Matthew Lloyd 1995-2009 270 Forward Key Forward
53 Scott Lucas 1996-2009 270 Forward Key Forward
54 Paul Barnard 1996-2003 140 Forward
55 Blake Caracella 1997-2002 126 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
56 Mark Bolton 1998-2007 124 Forward / Defender
57 Dean Rioli 1999-2006 100 Forward
58 Aaron Henneman 2000-2005 58 Forward / Defender
59 Damian Cupido 2003-2005 40 Forward Forward Pocket
60 Jason Winderlich 2003-2015 129 Midfielder / Forward
61 Kepler Bradley 2004-2007 49 Forward / Defender
62 Justin Murphy 2004-2005 40 Midfielder / Forward Midfielder / Half-Forward Flanker
63 Jason Laycock 2004-2008 58 Ruckman / Forward
64 Angus Monfries 2005-2012 150 Forward
65 Andrew Lovett 2005-2009 88 Forward
66 Courtney Johns 2005-2008 21 Forward
67 Scott Camporeale 2006-2007 19 Midfielder / Forward Midfielder / Half-Forward Flanker
68 Sam Lonergan 2006-2012 79 Forward
69 Alwyn Davey 2007-2013 100 Forward Forward Pocket
70 Leroy Jetta 2007-2014 93 Forward
71 Tom Hislop 2007-2008 7 Forward
72 Scott Gumbleton 2007-2013 35 Forward Key Forward
73 Kyle Reimers 2007-2012 60 Forward
74 Jay Neagle 2007-2010 28 Forward Key Forward
75 Darcy Daniher 2008-2009 6 Forward / Defender
76 Michael Hurley 2009-2022 194 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
77 Hayden Skipworth 2009 11 Forward
78 David Zaharakis 2009-2021 226 Midfielder / Forward
79 Mark Williams 2010 4 Forward Forward Pocket
80 Travis Colyer 2010-2018 87 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
81 Jake Melksham 2010-2015 114 Midfielder / Forward
82 Stewart Crameri 2010-2013 57 Forward
83 Cory Dell'Olio 2012-2014 16 Forward
84 Jackson Merrett 2012-2018 56 Forward
85 Nick Kommer 2013-2016 22 Forward
86 Will Hams 2013-2016 13 Forward
87 Joe Daniher 2013-2020 108 Forward Key Forward
88 Patrick Ambrose 2014-2021 88 Forward / Defender
89 Paul Chapman 2014-2015 29 Forward
90 Orazio Fantasia 2014-2020 80 Forward
91 Kyle Langford 2015-2022 107 Midfielder / Forward
92 Shaun McKernan 2015-2020 53 Forward Key Forward
93 Shaun Edwards 2015-2016 12 Forward / Defender Forward / Back Pocket
94 Jayden Laverde 2015-2022 91 Forward / Defender
95 Mitch Brown 2016-2019 55 Forward Key Forward
96 Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti 2016-2021 126 Forward Forward Pocket
97 Mathew Stokes 2016 11 Forward
98 Sam Grimley 2016 4 Forward Key Forward
99 James Polkinghorne 2016 7 Forward
100 Jake Long 2016-2018 5 Forward
101 Josh Green 2017-2018 24 Forward
102 James Stewart 2017-2022 60 Forward
103 Josh Begley 2017-2020 17 Forward
104 Devon Smith 2018-2022 73 Forward
105 Jake Stringer 2018-2022 83 Forward Key Forward
106 Matt Guelfi 2018-2022 83 Forward
107 Dylan Clarke 2018-2021 24 Midfielder / Forward
108 Zac Clarke 2019 9 Forward
109 Brayden Ham 2019-2022 45 Midfielder / Forward Wingman / Forward
110 Will Snelling 2019-2022 49 Forward
111 Jacob Townsend 2020 12 Forward
112 Irving Mosquito 2020 4 Forward
113 Harry Jones 2021-2022 26 Forward Key Forward
114 Peter Wright 2021-2022 43 Forward Key Forward
115 Archie Perkins 2021-2022 39 Forward Half-Forward Flanker
116 Alec Waterman 2021-2022 22 Forward
117 Kaine Baldwin 2022 4 Forward Key Forward
118 Nic Martin 2022 21 Midfielder / Forward Wingman / Forward
119 Tex Wanganeen 2022 5 Forward
120 Ben Hobbs 2022 17 Forward
121 Jye Menzie 2022 2 Forward