Former Subiaco, Footscray and Geelong star Peter Featherby was purely and simply a ball magnet throughout his career.  His stats for Geelong in a 1981 clash with Melbourne are part of the Cats folklore, with 43 kicks, 12 marks, and 8 handpasses. In 1987, his seventeenth and final season of league football, he was still averaging 23.7 possessions a game with Subiaco.  He was a player before his time, a prolific ball winner who was a tireless runner.  He was named in the centre in Subiaco’s official Team Of The Century  in 2008.  When you consider that Dean Kemp was placed on a wing in that side, it illustrates the standing of Featherby at Subiaco.Yet he was almost lost to the Lions early in his career.After joining Subiaco in 1970 from Wembley Amateurs, who have been a goldmine for Subiaco over the years, Featherby had  an injury setback, which saw him in the reserves for much of the season. He applied for a clearance to Claremont the following year but that was promptly refused.He made the centre position at Subiaco his own  from the 1971 season. In 1973 he was the Simpson Medallist in the state game against South Australia, and topped that with the memorable premiership flag that same year.  After a dominant  1974, it was not surprising that he’d attract interest from the East, and so it was that he lined up with Footscray the following season.  He played with the Doggies for two years, but there seemed to be  some ideologies among the coaching staff there that affected the style of Featherby’s game, and he was glad to be back in Perth in the Maroon for the 1977 season.He took up where he’d left off, and won two Fairest and Best awards in the next two years.After playing ten games for Subiaco in 1979, Featherby was lured to Geelong. It soon became apparent that he was going to do it his way this time in the big league. He played 93 games for the Cats before returning home four years later. During that time he won Geelong’s Fairest and Best in 1981 and wore the big V the previous year.Featherby’s ability did not wane with time. He continued to dominate for Subiaco, and in the 1986 premiership success was the only remaining member of the team of 73.  In 1988, injury allowed him to make only two appearances, so, after  a total of 332 games of league football, Peter Featherby made the difficult decision to call it quits.Peter Featherby was among the alltime greats as a centreman, whose appetite for running and ability to be where the ball was were unsurpassed.