What better way to celebrate Aaron Sandilands’ final home game than to go through some of the incredible numbers he’s put up in his career.

Freo take on Essendon on Saturday night at Optus Stadium for Sandilands’ farewell home game.

211

An obvious one – Sandilands’ height in centimetres. He is the equal tallest player ever to play in the AFL.

119

At 119kg, Sandi is the heaviest player ever to play in the AFL.

38

The height difference in cm between Sandilands and his best mate at the club, Hayden Ballantyne.

36

At 36-years-old, Sandilands is the oldest player ever to play for Fremantle.

2

Sandi is at least two years older than any other player to represent Fremantle. When he runs out on Saturday night, he will be 36 years and 254 days old. The second oldest player to represent Freo is Matthew Pavlich, who played his final game at 34 years and 241 days.

270

Sandi has 270 games to his name to date, this is the third most for Fremantle behind Matthew Pavlich (353) and David Mundy (314).

8466

This is the big one, Sandi’s total number of hitouts. This is an AFL record and 921 more than any other player.

31.4

Sandi’s average hitouts per game.

52.3

His average hitouts per game against the Gold Coast Suns, the most Sandilands averages against any club.

2278

Sandilands’ career hitouts to advantage to date.

998

In 2015, Sandi fell two hitouts shy of recording 1000 hitouts in a season.

1,475,872

According to Champion Data, this is the number of seconds Sandilands has spent on the ground from the start of his career in round 1, 2003 against Carlton. This equates to 410 hours running around in the Freo jumper, or 17.1 days.

174

Dividing one by the other, we have Sandi recording one hitout for every 174 seconds he spends on the field.

11

The fans love Sandi, so it’s no surprise that he’s featured on 11 covers of Docker Magazine or the club’s Year Book. This one from March 2008 might be our favourite, when Fremantle had a community camp to South Africa and played a pre-season game against Carlton.

10.8

It would be hard for anyone to come up with a more dangerous combination than Aaron Sandilands tapping the ball to Nat Fyfe. In 2015, Fyfe’s Brownlow winning year, Fyfe led the AFL for first possessions – averaging 10.8 per game. It wasn’t just Fyfe benefiting from Sandi’s work, with David Mundy averaging 8.4 first possessions in 2015.

116

Don’t you hate it when you’re on a flight and the person in front of you pushes their seat back? Now imagine that feeling, but instead you’re 211cm tall. Sandi has endured 116 interstate trips in his career while managing to stay at peak fitness (fortunately, most of his recent trips have been in business class).

650,000

Would you fly to the moon and back for Freo? Sandi almost has. In his career, he’s flown approximately 650,000km. For context, a return trip to the moon is around 768,000km.

15

Before Aaron Sandilands, Freo had played 0 finals. In his time at Freo, Sandilands played in 15 finals.

334

Sandilands loves a contested mark, he’s taken 334 in his career

2218

There's nothing better than seeing Sandi take a big mark then giving off the handball. He’s handballed 2218 times in his career, compared to his 1197 kicks.

975

Sandilands recorded the most fan votes in the club’s 25 since 95 team.

105

He was the 105th player to represent Freo.

113

The number of players who have made their debut since Sandilands did in round one, 2003.

18

Sandi’s boot size.

1322

The number of score involvements from Sandi’s career

851

Normally Sandilands helps others get the clearance, but he’s won 851 of his own in his career.

4

The number of All Australian jackets Sandilands has earnt, including three in a row between 2008 and 2010

Sandilands, Ballantyne and Fyfe at the 2014 All Australian function



2

Sandilands’ Doig Medals, coming in 2009 and 2015

5

Sandilands has showed that you don’t need to be on the field to make a contribution to the club. Even though he played only five games in 2016, he was awarded Best Clubman that year.

145

Sandilands has played more games at Subiaco Oval than any other ground. From his 145 games at Subi, Fremantle won 95.

98

Sandilands’ career goal total – he only needs two more on Saturday night to get to 100!