Marcus Adams tomorrow will become the 321^st player of the Brisbane Football Club and the 1456^th member of the combined Brisbane/Fitzroy family.

An end of financial year baby, born on 30 June 1993, he will be the first player with a 30 June birthday ever to play for the merged club, and only the second ‘Adams’ after Bill Adams, who played 51 games with Fitzroy from 1924-26.

He will go to the top of the all-time alphabetical Brisbane player list and will slot into sixth spot on the combined alphabetic player list behind Frank Abbott (31 games – 1906-07, 1912), Paddy Abbott (40 – 1914-18), Paul Abbott (26 – 1992-93), Fitzroy team of the century half forward Owen Abrahams (132 – 1954-62) and Bill Adams.

He hails from West Perth Football Club, home of current teammate Nick Robertson, recently retired 100-gamer Rowan Bewick, former Brisbane Bears pair John Gastev and Mike Richardson, and eight former Fitzroy players – Bruce Bridges, Jeff Bruce, Jack Cashman, John Duckworth, Ray Niven, Laurie Richards, Bob Robinson and Paul Shanahan.

He was originally selected by the Western Bulldogs at #35 in a 2015 National Draft in which Brisbane had five picks - Josh Schache (2), Eric Hipwood (14) and Ben Keays (24) before him and Rhys Mathieson (39) and Sam Skinner (47) after him.

He shared his debut in Round 1 2016 with Bulldog Josh Dunkley on the same weekend Schache debuted for Brisbane and Josh Walker, Tom Bell and Ryan Bastinac played their first game in Lions colors.

He posted a career-high possession count of 24 in his second game against St.Kilda, polled his only two Brownlow Medal votes in his third game when he had 23 possessions and two 15 marks against Hawthorn, kicked a career-best two goals in his 17^th game against Richmond in 2017 when playing a defensive role up forward on Alex Rance, and on a year-by-year basis played 11-10-6 games for the Dogs for total of 27 games.

He will be the fourth ‘Marcus’ to play for Brisbane after Marcus Ashcroft (318 games), Marcus Picken (25 games) and Marcus Allan (5 games). Only one ‘Marcus’ was among 1157 Fitzroy players – Marcus Seacamp. He played 51 games for Fitzroy from 1992-94 before 89 games for Melbourne from 1995-2000.

He will be the seventh player to wear jumper #24 for Brisbane after Jamie Duursma (1 game), Roger Merrett (164 games),  Marcus Picken (25), Llane Spaanderman (3), Joel Patfull (182) and Liam Dawson (18).

Record-holder for most games in jumper #24 for Fitzroy was Vic Chanter, who played 108 games from 1046-52. He was the first fullback to win the Fitzroy best & fairest in 1951 and famously held Essendon great John Coleman goalless in Round 10 1952 in a season in which he finished with 103 goals. He was the only player ever to hold Coleman goalless.

Also famous for wearing #24 for Fitzroy was Gordon McCracken, a 96-game ruckman from 1922-27 and was a member of the 1922 premiership side and 1923 losing grand final side, and Bob Beecroft, who kicked 291 goals wearing #24 from 1976-80. He topped the club goal-kicking four times and twice kicked 10 goals in a match.

The first player to wear #24 for Fitzroy was 1904-05-13 premiership Bill Walker, who played 133 games without a number from 1897-1911 and 36 games in #24 from 1912-14. He was club champion in 1909 and premiership captain in 1913. And the last player to wear #24 for Fitzroy was Trent Cummings, who played 27 games with the club from 1994-96 before two games with West Coast in 1997.