If Taylor "Tex" Walker can help deliver a premiership for the Adelaide Football Club in 2025, it would not be the first time he has stood up when it is needed most.

Walker plays his 300th AFL game on Thursday night in a qualifying final blockbuster against Collingwood at the Adelaide Oval.

But in 2007, Walker lit up a grand final, on a slightly more humble stage, in his home town of Broken Hill.

Sporting a proto-version of the mullet he would make famous in the AFL, the then 17-year-old Walker kicked seven goals to take North Broken Hill to the AFL Broken Hill premiership.

His long-time friend Jayden Kelly said that despite his impressive junior career, it was still a surprise to see a "skinny boy from Broken Hill" make it in the big time.

"I thought he'd go quite well and play a lot

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