Toast Shannon Hurn - Retiring End Of 2023

[Rowan18]

The thing that I loved the most with Hurn was he kept getting better and better and peaked around his early 30s. That very rarely happens in our club.

Sad to see him go, but retirement is the correct call as his body wouldn't let him play consistent games anymore. A few others should hopefully follow the same example (Shuey, Nic Nat).

 

[UseR2006]

Worsfold, Judd, Hurn.

He fits quite comfortably on that list of premiership captains.

 

[Crimson King]

One of the OG half backs with high hurt factor that needed an opposition player to specifically shut him down. Just an absolute gun.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Picking our all time starting 6 defenders is very very difficult. He's got as much of a shout as any though.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Sad part is, as old as he is, if we were in better shape he’d be perfectly fine to contribute another 12ish games next year to a better version of this side.

Absolutely the right call given where we’re at, but man, we could have nursed him to 350 if we were just not so laughably off the pace right now.

 

[Hap Hapablap]

the last of the 1987 class retiring

Im now older than all the players in the afl. i can call them kids now just like my old man would.

But in all seriousness what a player and what a captain a truly sad day hes calling it but it was eventually going to happen

332 games. unbelievable

 

[Spod]

One of the great careers by an Eagle. Incredibly reliable, tough and humble over a long, long time.

 

[Deepthroat]

Great player. Great call.

 

[Keys]

Remarkably consistent player. I reckon you could count his truly bad games on one hand

It’ll be a long time before the forget those 50+ metre tracer bullets out of defence to a player in space. (As well as those kickins to the right - must’ve been several hundreds of those)

His leadership in the backline will be sorely missed as well as him charging out of D50 to thwart another opposition foray

Club legend

 

[WCErevival]

Now to enter the fighting circuit.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Retiring still a leader and a contributor. If his body was up to it, he could have gone around again. Will leave a huge hole. Hope he goes into coaching, either with us or another club.

 

[KERRPOW]

When asked by the media in front of the entire club what type of captain he wanted to be. He answered, simply, "a premiership one!"

We'll miss you Bunga

And remember when the campaigners laughed, and hurn wasnt lol

 

[THE A5]

an absolute gun and the last of my childhood heroes to retire.

My favourite part of Bunga wasn’t that he was a great player but for that 18 seasons he was also super reliable and one of the last players you’d worry about having a stinker or an off day.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Club great. Will be missed. One of the most reliable players I've ever seen.

Wild to think he played with Drew Banfield

Drew Banfield

Age

50

Ht

184cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.6

4star

K

8.8

3star

HB

6.8

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

2.0

4star

No current season stats available

D

12.0

3star

K

8.8

4star

HB

3.2

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

0.8

3star

, who played in the 1994 Premiership, let alone Cuz, Judd etc

 

[Ghossein]

i'll always remember seeing him in his first year thinking he was josh wooden

I remember fans at Subi calling him Josh Wooden in 2009/2010

 

[Chris_6678]

Hope he can stick around the club has a development coach. He has mentioned he would like to get into coaching at some point.

 

[hudson2006]

Legend. Will not be forgotten.

 

[BeornJ]

Will miss you Bunga. What a champion

 

[Wosh]

Genuine

 

[Farang83150]

Definitely always put the club 1st... absolute legend.

 

[Eastcoasteagle]

Absolute legend! His 2018 was enormous, was absolutely dominating off half back.

Premiership captain, guarantees legend status.

 

[Keys]

Plenty of players were wearing these Bunga beanies -not sure if they’re new or leftover merch from his 300th

If they are new then his retirement wasn’t exactly a surprise within the club

 

[FKASC]

Shannon Hurn is "all done"

Does this mean he's retiring ? Standing down as skipper? Or something else

www.bigfooty.com

 

[Astro7]

What a bloody bewt was big Bunga!

 

[Truckosaurus]

Plenty of players were wearing these Bunga beanies -not sure if they’re new or leftover merch from his 300th

If they are new then his retirement wasn’t exactly a surprise within the club

Probably put the order in years ago and have been waiting to break them out.