Even though their primary purpose is that of a weapon, when quizzing the average layman about boomerangs, most would recognise these symbols of cultural endurance for their colloquial ability to return to their point of origin.
Apart from playing AFL football, each of the 10 names on this list have at least one thing in common – they all came back to their original clubs after spending time with another.
Although names like David Cloke and Warwick Capper completed their careers back at their first clubs and within the bounds of the AFL era, we have ruled them ineligible due to their peaks arising prior to 1990.
Like Elvis' love letters in the early sixties, these are the 10 best players that were returned to their senders.
7. Chris Tarrant
Collingwood/Fremantle/Collingwood
Another top 10 pick from the 1997 draft and another name whose second act was played out in purple, Chris Tarrant is the seventh player on our list of 10.
Tarrant's initial nine-year stint with Collingwood proved fruitful, with the key forward claiming the club's leading goalkicker title on five occasions, All-Australian honours, the Mark of the Year crown, and second place in the Copeland trophy in 2003.
Although seen by many at Collingwood as paramount to their success, the Bendigo Pioneers product was flogged off to Fremantle in exchange for pick 8 in the 2006 draft and small forward Paul Medhurst.
Although rumours and innuendo were rife as to the reason behind Tarrant's black and white exit, he did manage to play string together some quality performances for the Dockers whilst playing behind the ball.
Fresh off their premiership success of 2010, Collingwood retrieved Tarrant from the ‘Freo finishing school' and continued playing him in defence before his retirement at the end of the 2012 season.
