Woodville West Torrens premiership captain Peter Schwarz will have divided loyalties at Prospect Oval

EAGLES flag-winning skipper Peter Schwarz has two sons in action on opposite sides at Prospect Oval on Saturday

PERFECT DAY ... Eagles captain Peter Schwarz celebrates with Andrew Taylor as he holds the Thomas Seymour Hill trophy after winning the 1993 SANFL grand final.

WOODVILLE-West Torrens premiership captain Peter Schwarz will be at Prospect Oval on Saturday cheering for his two sons.

He won’t be barracking for a team or club, but for his sons wearing different coloured jumpers. Although he has been saved the usual anguish when North Adelaide and South Adelaide do battle, Nic has been named in the reserves for the Panthers so won’t front against his sibling Tom.

“It is easier for us when they are playing at the same ground, but it is not much fun watching,” Peter said. “While we love watching our kids play, it is quite difficult when they are on different teams.

All you hope is they don’t hurt each other.

“The difficulty is you end up barracking for the kids and hope they do well, as opposed to the teams unfortunately.”

Another son James plays for Flinders Park while daughter Hannah has a busy netball career with Matrics. It means Peter and his wife Katia need a roster system to keep check on what games they will watch.

Eagles captain Peter Schwarz holds the Thomas Seymour Hill trophy aloft in 1993.

Schwarz, who played 268 games for Woodville and Woodville-West Torrens after the amalgamation and led the Eagles to the 1993 premiership, has worked as chief executive for the South Australian branch of Pharmacy Guild Of Australia for the past 10 months since leaving a similar role with the Eagles. “It was part of the restructure I proposed to the club board which did not include me,” Peter said.

“In a way, I did myself out of a job.”

Peter ended his career after the Eagles lost to Port Adelaide in the 1994 grand final when he believed the club had a superior side to that which triumphed the previous year.

In 1982, Peter was a member of the Woodville Peckers under-18 side and the following year he made his league debut when the club became the Warriors and legend Malcolm Blight had taken the reins as coach.

“The first few years in league was dismal in terms of success,” Peter said. “There were some interesting times.

“Then there was 1986. Half way through the season we had had just one win and were bottom. We won 10 of our next 11 games and made the finals and got all the way to the preliminary.

“That was a special time for all those involved.”