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Club | League | Career span | Games | Goals | Avg | Win % | AKI | AHB | AMK | BV |
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Sturt | SANFL | 1972-1983 | 250 | 92 | 0.37 | — | — | — | — | — |
Total | 1972-1983 | 250 | 92 | 0.37 | — | — | — | — | — |
Trevor Sims was a hard working ruckman/defender and loyal clubman for Sturt in precisely 250 league games between 1972 and 1983. In many ways he was a completely atypical Double Blues footballer of the Jack Oatey era, but he more than made up for any stylistic deficiencies with his relentlessly fervent approach.
Named as 19th man when Sturt claimed the first ever Football Park premiership in 1974, Sims, along with several hundred spectators, was on the ground from the start two years later for the Grand Final defeat of Port Adelaide. His last game in a Blues jumper was another Grand Final, that of 1983, but West proved to have Sturt’s measure on that occasion.
Despite not being the type of player to beguile umpires into according him swag loads of Magarey Medal votes, Sims' value to Sturt was unquestioned and considerable. In 1981 he came within a hairs-breadth of adding a club best and fairest award to his portfolio but ultimately had to be content with coming second to another club stalwart in Eddie Fry.
Author - John Devaney