Shane Cable is a former Australian rules football

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er who played with the West Coast Eagles

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 in the Victorian Football League

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 (VFL).

Cable, an Indigenous Australian, is the son of AFL Hall of Famer Barry Cable

Barry Cable

Barry Cable is an Australian former Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian National Football League and Victorian Football League . Cable played as a rover. He won the Sandover Medal three times while playing with the Perth Football Club.-Club career:Cable played 225 games...

. He made just one appearance with West Coast, at the WACA Ground

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 in a win over Footscray where he had seven dispoals. A wingman, he had initially been listed as an emergency but was named in the team after Chris Waterman

Chris Waterman

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 was omitted for being late to a team meeting.

He played for Perth

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 at WAFL level and represented the Indigenous All-Stars in 1994. In both 1993 and 1995 he topped the goal-kicking lists at Perth.