Even though their primary purpose is that of a weapon, when quizzing the average layman about boomerangs, most would recognise these symbols of cultural endurance for their colloquial ability to return to their point of origin.

Apart from playing AFL football, each of the 10 names on this list have at least one thing in common โ€“ they all came back to their original clubs after spending time with another.

Although names like David Cloke and Warwick Capper completed their careers back at their first clubs and within the bounds of the AFL era, we have ruled them ineligible due to their peaks arising prior to 1990.

Like Elvis' love letters in the early sixties, these are the 10 best players that were returned to their senders.

4.
Peter Bell

Fremantle/North Melbourne/Fremantle

I am sure you are starting to sense the trend here โ€“ almost all of the names on this catalogue have donned a Dockers guernsey at one stage or another.

However, unlike the trio of prior names to wear purple, Peter Bell retired as a great of the Fremantle Football Club.

Although the South Korean born small man was a part of the Dockers' inaugural list in 1995, he was sent packing after just two games.

Having gauged his potential, North Melbourne took a punt on Bell with the 15th pick of the 1996 pre-season draft - a gamble that would pay immediate dividends.

Across five seasons at Arden Street, Bell collected a pair of premiership medals, an All-Australian selection in 1999 and the Kangaroos best and fairest in 2000 โ€“ his final season in blue and white stripes.

With his potential proven at North Melbourne, Fremantle were forced to pay an inflated price to obtain the services of a man they had previously delisted.

Despite their team's deficient business acumen, Dockers fans were left beaming instantly, as the South Fremantle product won the Doig medal in three of his first four seasons back in the west.

Bell also captained the Purple Haze to their first finals victory in 2006, and won his second All-Australian nod in 2003, before retiring to the dual honours of Fremantle life membership and a place in the game's Hall of Fame.