Shinboner number: 621
Guernsey numbers: 9, 44
Born: September 9, 1943
North Melbourne games: 115 (1970, 1974-77)
Goals: 133

Barry Cable was a football giant condensed into a 168cm, 70kg package. 

One of the best rovers the game has seen, his sublime skills and heightened game sense made him mightier than the biggest, toughest opposition enforcer.

He could fire off rocket-like handballs, and as one of the last great proponents of the drop kick, was almost as damaging by foot.

In a 383-game career (268 WAFL games and 115 VFL games), Cable was an elite player on both sides of the continent. A Nyoongar man, he led Perth to the 1966-68 WAFL flags with three consecutive best on ground performances, before North Melbourne president Ron Joseph convinced him to move east in 1970.

Cable's impact on North Melbourne was immediate, landing him the club best and fairest in his first year. He returned home to Western Australia after that initial season to win his third Sandover Medal, before Ron Barassi lured him back to Arden Street.

North's 1977 premiership ruck Peter Keenan called Cable the "on-field general" of the Kangaroos' 1975 and '77 flag teams. AFL Hall of Fame Legend Kevin Bartlett said no player had been more instrumental to North's 1970s success.

Cable returned to North to replace Malcolm Blight as coach with six games to go in the 1981 season, after Blight had found the role of playing coach too much. Cable led the Roos into finals in 1982 and 1983 before stepping down at the end of 1984 with 40 wins from 76 games, a winning rate of 52.6 per cent.