(104th Eagles player)
Giant ruckman Ilija Grgic played 23 games for West Coast after crossing from Footscray.
Footscray career
Grgic played 62 games for Footscray across 4 seasons but was caught in a logjam with Scott Wynd and Luke Darcy for the number 1 ruck position, and was ultimately traded to West Coast at the end of the 1996 season.
West Coast career
Grgic had a successful first season in blue and gold, holding down the ruck and drifting forward to kick 15 goals while missing just one game for the year.
His 1998 season was a polar opposite, struggling with an ongoing back problem and managing just one early-season senior game, spending the rest of the year playing for Peel in the WAFL. At the end of the season he was delisted.
Essendon career
Thrown a lifeline by Essendon in the national draft, Grgic played just 2 senior games for the Bombers before being delisted for a second time.
Stats
| AFL | Gm | G | B | K | M | H | D | T | Cl | WAFL | Gm | G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 130 | 71 | 102 | 232 | 28 | Peel | 0 | |||
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 12 | ||
| Tot | 23 | 15 | 9 | 130 | 71 | 103 | 233 | 29 | |||||
| Avg | 0.7 | 5.7 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 10.1 | 1.3 |
Links
http://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/I/Ilija_Grgic.html