Australian Rules Footballers as Historical (Fictional) Characters

I thought I'd bring up out of a commentary conversation a return to the question of who would play Graham (Gabriel) Mallett in a filmed version of Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. I suggested Kevin McKidd. Kate suggested a player for Melbourne or Essendon. As it turns out, we have a reader who knows her Australian rules footballers. (I, on the other hand, don't even know for sure what that is -- rugby? or what Americans call soccer?) Anyway, she proposes three possibilities. Are any of these the man you meant, Kate?

Mark Johnson

(Standing with a possible Jerrott, were we casting the whole movie with sports stars.)






James Hird

Looking suitably pensive in this photo.









And Dustin Fletcher as a battered Gabriel.







I see, from other photos at the linked-to sites, a ball that cannot be a soccer ball, so I conclude we are talking rugby. You learn something every day.

By the way, the links are worth going towards if only to experience true Hogwarts-like moving photos. On each player's profile, when you first log in, is a running short video of the player. Something about the way they work remind me strongly of the effect in the Potter movies, and I found them strangely off-putting, muggle that I am.