Debut: Round 3, 1987 v Sydney
Games: 201
Honours:
- Premiership player 1992, 1994
- Rookie of the Year 1987
- Club Champion runner-up 1989, 1992, 1996
- Top 10 in Club Champion Award seven times
- VFL Team of the Year 1987
- All-Australian 1991, 1996
- WA Captain 1991 (Australian champions)
- Selected in West Coast Eagles Team of the Decade and Team 20
- Inducted into the WA Football Hall of Fame 2005
The career of champion wingman Chris Mainwaring was motoring along nicely until he backed into a pack of on-coming players in the round two clash with Geelong at Kardinia Park in 1997.
That split-second decision, which was instinctively fearless in true trademark Mainwaring fashion, changed his football life forever.
To that stage Mainwaring was in a neck and neck struggle with Guy McKenna in the race to be the first West Coast player to achieve 200 games, but the impact of that collision and a subsequent knee reconstruction saw Mainwaring play just eight more games.
A tireless wingman, Mainwaring had to that point finished in the club’s top 10 in the Club Champion Award seven times and was three times runner-up.
A dual premiership player, for many the defining moment of the 1992 triumph was Mainwaring ecstatically jumping off the interchange bench to celebrate the final siren.
