here's what i got, players with >1000 mins aged under 17 on match day

1557 mins John Markovski
1530 Danny Moulis
1318 Paul Agostino
1260 Mark Babic
1121 Wayne Srhoj
1080 Ben Kantarovski
1039 Jacob Italiano

This is up there! AU's Apostolos Stamatelopoulos coming on for Nathan Konstandopoulos in 2017 remains an equal record www.ultimatealeague.com/match/?match..., along with namesakes Theo Stamatelopoulos coming on for George Konstandopoulos for West Adelaide in 1983 www.ozfootball.net/ark/NSL/1983...

Most appearances in NSL/ALM before turning 17:
26 John Markovski 1986-87
21 Nick Carle 1997-98
21 Nestory Irankunda 2022-23
19 Mohamed Toure 2020-21
17 Danny Moulis 1977
16 Paul Agostino 1991-92
16 Jacob Italiano 2017-18

woah, jeesh .... yeah 5 reds for a team in an ALW season [so far] is way way more than 2nd-most, which is just 2 (several times)

In the A-League era, just three other players made more ALM appearances before turning 17 - Irankunda (21 appearances), M Toure (19) and Italiano (16). None of these three made Asian league appearances like Eames has. Eames could get 4 more appearances (incl 2 ALM) as a 16 yr old