1999 AFL draft
Trades
Table:
Player
Original club
Traded to
Traded for

Matthew Clarke

Brisbane Lions

Adelaide Crows

draft picks #6 and #21

Scott Welsh

Kangaroos

Adelaide Crows

draft pick #77

Stefan Carey

Sydney Swans

Brisbane Lions

draft pick #21

Michael Martin

Western Bulldogs

Brisbane Lions

Trent Bartlett and draft pick #32

Michael Mansfield

Geelong

Carlton

draft pick #31

Steven McKee

Richmond

Collingwood

Clinton King and draft pick #3

Andrew Ukovic

Essendon

Collingwood

Jonathon Robran and draft pick #40

Jonathon Robran

Hawthorn

Essendon

draft pick #33 and #48

Trent Bartlett

Western Bulldogs

Brisbane Lions

Michael Martin

Nathan Eagleton

Port Adelaide

Western Bulldogs

Brett Montgomery and draft pick #28

Troy Cook

Sydney Swans

Fremantle

draft pick #34

Brendon Fewster

West Coast Eagles

Fremantle

draft pick #16

Troy Longmuir

Melbourne

Fremantle

draft pick #19

Cameron Mooney

Kangaroos

Geelong

Leigh Colbert and draft pick #53

Lance Picioane

Adelaide Crows

Hawthorn

draft pick #79

Stephen Powell

Western Bulldogs

Melbourne

draft pick #35

David Calthorpe

Brisbane Lions

Kangaroos

draft pick #32

Leigh Colbert

Geelong

Kangaroos

Cameron Mooney and draft picks #15, #17 & #47

Matthew Bishop

Melbourne

Port Adelaide

draft pick #42

Brett Montgomery

Western Bulldogs

Port Adelaide

Nathan Eagleton

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Matthew Clarke ( born 18 September 1973 ) is a former professional Australian rules football player and current coach who is the head coach of Adelaide in the AFL Women 's . Prior to coaching , he played in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , his career spanning four clubs and a total of 258 games between 1993 and 2007 . He was known as one of the most effective tap ruckmen of his era .
The Brisbane Lions Australian Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club who play in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . The club is based in Brisbane , Queensland , Australia . The club was formed in late 1996 from the merger of the Fitzroy Lions and the Brisbane Bears . The Lions are one of the most successful AFL clubs of the 21st century , having appeared in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals from 2001 to 2004 and winning three premierships ( 2001 , 2002 , 2003 ) . The club plays home matches in the AFL at the Gabba and is captained by Dayne Zorko and coached by Chris Fagan . The Lions were a foundation team in the AFL Women 's competition in 2017 and have featured in two grand finals in that time , finishing runners-up on both occasions . The Brisbane Bears were the first south-east Queensland based team formed in the region . They played at their home ground at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast from 1987 to 1992 before relocating to the Gabba in 1993 . The club continues to play its home games at the Gabba .
The Adelaide Football Club , nicknamed the Crows , are a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . The club has both a men 's team , which played its first match in 1991 , and a women 's team , which began in 2017 in the inaugural season of the AFLW . The club is based in Adelaide , South Australia , playing its home matches at Adelaide Oval . The club has its training and administration base at Football Park in West Lakes , where it previously played home matches between 1991 and 2013 . The club song is The Pride of South Australia , to the tune of the US Marines ' Hymn . The Crows were formed in 1990 to be the 'state team ' to represent the South Australia in the AFL . They were originally owned by the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) , before gaining independence . They played their first season in 1991 . The men 's team won both the 1997 and 1998 Grand Finals , and have appeared in 15 finals series in their 28-year history . The club has had a reserves team compete in the South Australian National Football League since 2014 and has fielded a women 's team in the AFL Women 's competition since 2017 . The men 's team is currently coached by Matthew Nicks and captained by Rory Sloane , who was appointed co-captain alongside Taylor Walker prior to the 2019 season . Don Pyke permanently succeeded the late Phil Walsh as head coach in October 2015 before departing the club at the end of 2019 .
Scott Nathan Welsh ( born 7 December 1978 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He is the nephew of former Glenelg and North Melbourne player Kym Hodgeman , and cousin of former Glenelg and Richmond player Ben Moore . Debuting with North Melbourne in 1996 as a 17-year-old , Welsh was seen as a development player who started to get regular game time in 1998 . Though he was drafted as a half-back flanker , Welsh played with North Melbourne as a forward and was a part of North Melbourne 's premiership side in 1999 before , citing homesickness , returning to Adelaide in 2000 to play for Adelaide Football Club . Welsh played up forward for the Crows and is known for his occasional devastating displays in front of goals , twice scoring eight goals in a match . He was considered one of Adelaide 's premier forwards . In 2005 , Welsh booted 58 goals ; his best season in terms of goals scored . He also notched up his 100th game with Adelaide in 2004 . Though injury problems forced him to miss many games throughout his career ( injuries mainly began from 2002 onwards ) and he had to wait until Round 19 for his first game for the Crows in 2006 . In 2007 he played his 150th AFL game against Brisbane in round 7 . Welsh finished with 49 goals and 20 behinds for the season , topping the Crows goalkicking list for the fourth time . His fourth goal against Hawthorn on 8 September 2007 in the elimination final became his 300th goal in senior AFL football .
The North Melbourne Football Club , nicknamed the Kangaroos or less formally the Roos , the Kangas or North , is an Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the sport 's premier competition . Founded in North Melbourne , Victoria in 1869 , it is based at its traditional home ground , Arden Street Oval , and currently plays its home matches at both the nearby Docklands Stadium and Blundstone Arena in Hobart , Tasmania . The club 's mascot is a grey kangaroo donning the club uniform , and its use dates from the mid-20th century . The club is also unofficially known as The Shinboners , a term which dates back to its 19th-century abattoir-worker origins . The club 's motto is Victoria amat curam , Latin for Victory Demands Dedication . Aside from their representation in the AFL , the Kangaroos also field teams in the following competitions ; AFL Women 's , VFL Women 's and Victorian Football League .
Stefan Carey ( born 25 January 1976 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans and Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . His father George played five games with Fitzroy in 1966 .
The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Established in Melbourne as the South Melbourne Football Club in 1874 , the Swans relocated to Sydney in 1982 , thus making it the first club in the competition to be based outside Victoria . Initially playing in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) , the Swans joined seven other clubs in founding the breakaway Victorian Football League ( now known as the AFL ) in 1896 . It won premierships in 1909 , 1918 and 1933 before experiencing a 72-year premiership drought - the longest in the competition 's history . The club broke the drought in 2005 and won another premiership in 2012 . The club has proven to be one of the most consistent teams in the AFL era , failing to make the finals in only four seasons since 1995 , playing the most number of finals matches and winning the second-most matches overall ( only behind Geelong ) since 2000 and boasting a finals winning record of over 50% in the same time period . The Swans ' headquarters and training facilities are located at the Sydney Cricket Ground , the club 's playing home ground since 1982 .
Michael Martin ( born 25 February 1977 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Martin played originally at Hobart and represented Tasmania at the Teal Cup in 1994 when he won the Hunter Harrison Medal . As a result , he was picked early in the 1994 AFL Draft , with Footscray 's first selection and made his league debut at just 18 years of age . The Tasmanian initially found it difficult to find a place in the midfield but played finals football in 1997 , finishing the year as a participant in the club 's two point preliminary final loss to Adelaide . He played all 24 games in 1998 and again suffered the disappointment of appearing in a losing preliminary final side although he accounted for himself well with 21 disposals . He was traded to the Brisbane Lions in the 1999 AFL Draft , with the Bulldogs receiving Trent Bartlett as well as the pick which secured Daniel Giansiracusa . Martin played 10 of the first 12 games of the 2000 season before being struck by osteitis pubis , an injury which ended his AFL career .
The Western Bulldogs ( formerly the Footscray Football Club [ a ] ) is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the sport 's premier competition . Founded in 1877 in Footscray , an inner-western suburb of Melbourne , the club won nine premierships in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) before gaining entry to the Victorian Football League ( since renamed the AFL ) in 1925 . The club has won two VFL/AFL premierships , in 1954 and 2016 , and was runner up in 1961 . It has also claimed one premiership in the AFL Women 's competition , in 2018 , having been a foundation member of the league the previous year . The Western Bulldogs ' home guernsey features two thick horizontal hoops - one red and one white - on a royal blue background . The club 's headquarters and training facilities are located in Footscray at Whitten Oval , nicknamed The Kennel , its original home ground . The club draws much of its supporter base from Melbourne 's traditionally working class western region , and plays its home matches at Docklands Stadium ( currently known as Marvel Stadium ) in the Docklands area , also in the city 's inner-west . In 1996 , the club changed its name from the Footscray Football Club to the Western Bulldogs. [ why ? ] As well as their participation in AFL and AFLW , the club also fields reserves sides in the Victorian Football League and VFL Women 's .
Trent Bartlett ( born 26 November 1976 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears , Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Bartlett captained Tasmania in the Teal Cup and was playing for Deloraine when he was picked up by the Brisbane Bears , with the 45th selection of the 1993 AFL Draft . He was used at centre half back at the Bears and spent some time as a key forward when he switched to the Lions in 1998 , only after sitting out of football in 1997 with an ankle injury . He was traded to the Western Bulldogs in 2000 , for Michael Martin and played 21 games for the season . As a tall forward , he kicked five goals in a win over Carlton that year . In 2016 Bartlett was appointed coach of the Clarence Football Club however resigned from the position in June 2016 .
Michael Mansfield ( born 8 August 1971 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . A left footed half back flanker , Mansfield was recruited from St Joseph 's and debuted for Geelong in 1990 . He played 181 games for the Cats before moving to Carlton in 1999 where he brought up his 200th game of AFL . During his time with Geelong , Mansfield was twice named an All-Australian , in 1994 and 1995 . Mansfield is now a stockbroker in Melbourne .
The Geelong Football Club , nicknamed the Cats , are a professional Australian rules football club based in the city of Geelong , Australia . The club competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the highest level of Australian rules football in Australia . The Cats have been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times , with three in the AFL era ( since 1990 ) . The Cats have also won ten McClelland Trophies . The club was formed in 1859 , making it the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world . Geelong participated in the first football competition in Australia and was a foundation club of both the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) in 1877 and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1897 . The club first established itself in the VFA by winning seven premierships , making it the most successful VFA club leading up to the formation of the VFL in 1897 . The club won a further six premierships by 1963 , before enduring a 44-year waiting period until it won its next premiership - an AFL-record 119-point victory in the 2007 AFL Grand Final . Geelong have since won a further two premierships in 2009 and 2011 . The Cats play most of their home games at Kardinia Park ( known for sponsorship reasons as GMHBA Stadium ) and play the remainder at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . Geelong 's traditional guernsey colours are navy blue and white hoops . The club 's nickname , The Cats , was first used in 1923 after a run of losses prompted a local cartoonist to suggest that the club needed a black cat to bring it good luck .
The Carlton Football Club , nicknamed the Blues , is an Australian rules football club based in Melbourne , Victoria . Founded in 1864 in Carlton , an inner suburb of Melbourne , the club competes in the Australian Football League ( formerly the Victorian Football League ) , and was one of the competition 's eight founding member clubs in 1896 . The club 's headquarters and training facilities are located in Carlton at Princes Park , its traditional home ground , and it currently plays its home matches at either Docklands Stadium ( currently known as Marvel Stadium ) or the Melbourne Cricket Ground . Carlton has historically been one of the AFL 's most successful clubs , having won sixteen senior VFL/AFL premierships , equal with Essendon as the most of any club ; prior to this , it won six senior premierships , including two in the Victorian Football Association . The club has also fielded a team in the AFL Women 's league since its establishment in 2017 .
Steve McKee ( born 20 June 1978 ) is a former Australian rules footballer for both Richmond ( 1998-1999 ) and Collingwood ( 2000-2004 ) in the Australian Football League . An effective ruckman , McKee is best remembered for his four-year stint with Collingwood , where he represented the team in the 2002 AFL Grand Final . After a short two-year stay at Punt Road , Collingwood acquired the services of McKee , along with draft selection seven ( Danny Roach ) in return for Clinton King and draft selection three ( Aaron Fiora ) at the end of season 1999 . McKee 's first season at the club was marred by Legionnaires ' Disease , picked up from one of the spa baths at the club 's headquarters at Victoria Park , though it was not enough to stop him from shutting down Essendon 's key forward Scott Lucas on Anzac Day in the round seven loss . His second season saw gradual improvement , marked by the attention he received for the tactic employed by coach Mick Malthouse midseason , which saw both McKee and fellow ruckman Josh Fraser begin at the centre bounce , with the decision on who rucked made at the last minute , leaving opposing ruckmen flummoxed . McKee 's career flourished in season 2002 , where his ability to drift a kick behind the play and aid his defenders was crucial in the team 's success , as was his ability to act like a fourth midfielder at the stoppages , his efforts twice negating the influence of Port Adelaide powerhouse Matthew Primus , most crucially in the Qualifying Final defeat of the Power . McKee 's efforts in the Grand Final were brave , as although swamped by Clark Keating , McKee still managed to lay an impressive nine tackles , breaking the rucking stereotype . Season 2003 saw McKee all but umpired out of the game by a new rule interpretation which worked against his style of ruckwork , which was to stand toe-to-toe with his opponent , instead of leaping . This paved the way for Fraser to make the position his own , relegating McKee to the role of the second stringer , missing out on the finals action , though many believe the durable McKee should have received a call up when Anthony Rocca was suspended for the Grand Final . His final year at league level , 2004 , was a quiet one , the Pies dropping out of the finals race early in the piece , and despite impressive efforts against Brisbane and the Western Bulldogs late in the season , found himself delisted at season 's end . Since finishing his playing career McKee has worked as a part-time assistant coach at Carlton . McKee will return to football in 2009 , having signed with the Warragul Football Club .
The Richmond Football Club , nicknamed the Tigers , is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the sport 's premier competition . Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907 , the club competed in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) , winning two premierships . Richmond joined the Victorian Football League ( now known as the AFL ) in 1908 and has since won twelve premierships , most recently in 2019 . Richmond 's headquarters and training facilities are located at its original home ground , the Punt Road Oval , which sits adjacent to the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) , the club 's playing home since 1965 . Richmond traditionally wears a black guernsey with a yellow sash . The club song , We 're From Tigerland , is well known for its yellow and black refrain . The club is coached by Damien Hardwick and its current captain is Trent Cotchin . Five Richmond players have been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as Legends of the sport : Kevin Bartlett , Jack Dyer , Royce Hart , Kevin Sheedy and Ian Stewart .
The Collingwood Football Club , nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies , is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Formed in 1892 in the then-working class Melbourne suburb of Collingwood , the club played in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to found the breakaway Victorian Football League ( now the national AFL ) . Originally based at Victoria Park , Collingwood now plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with its training and administrative headquarters located at Olympic Park Oval and the Holden Centre . Collingwood has played in a record 44 VFL/AFL Grand Finals ( including rematches ) , winning 15 , drawing two and losing 27 ( also a record ) . Regarded as one of Australia 's most popular sports clubs , Collingwood attracts the highest attendance figures and television ratings of any professional team in the nation . The club 's song , Good Old Collingwood Forever , dates back to 1906 , making it the oldest song currently used in the AFL . Its iconic home guernsey consists of black and white stripes , matching the colours of the Australian magpie . Historically the club 's main rivals have been cross-town clubs Carlton , Richmond and Essendon . Since the turn of the millennium , the club developed rivalries with the West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Lions . Collingwood fields a reserves team in the Victorian Football League ( formerly the VFA ) and women 's teams in the AFL Women 's and VFL Women 's competitions . It also owns and operates a netball team in the National Netball League .
Clinton King ( born 24 March 1978 ) is an Australian rules footballer who played for Sydney , Collingwood and Richmond in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Recruited from Eastern Ranges , King played five AFL games in 1996 , the year Sydney made a drought breaking Grand Final appearance . He was traded to Collingwood in 1998 and the following season missed a lot of football after suffering a foot stress fracture . Collingwood off-loaded King after the 1999 season , so they could get a ruckman in Steven McKee to their club . He broke a leg in his first year at Richmond but re-established his place in the team during the 2001 season and was a member of their finals campaign . King appeared in the Preliminary Final loss to Brisbane and performed admirably with 21 disposals . King headed to South Adelaide in 2004 and won a Knuckey Cup in his first year at the club . In 2005 he struggled with regularly being tagged and left the club and headed home to Melbourne at the end of the season . He is currently an assistant coach for Keysborough in the Mornington Peninsula Football League . His father , Derek , was a league footballer at St Kilda , and Liston Trophy winner in the Victorian Football Association .
Andrew Ukovic ( born 23 November 1978 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and Collingwood in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Ukovic was from West Coburg , but drafted from the Northern Knights of the TAC Cup . He played with the Essendon reserves for a year and then broke into the seniors , at the age of 18 , in the 1997 AFL season . In round 16 , 1999 , Ukovic would claim three Brownlow votes for his performance against Essendon 's premiership rivals Carlton but two rounds later injured his knee and missed the finals series . Essendon traded him to Collingwood at the end of the season , in a three club deal from which they gained Jonathon Robran as well as the draft pick which secured ruckman David Hille . By appearing in the 2000 Anzac Day clash , Ukovic became the first footballer to play in the fixture for both Collingwood and Essendon . The following season he played only five games and was delisted .
The Essendon Football Club , nicknamed the Bombers , is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , the sport 's premier competition . Thought to have formed in 1872 , the club played its first recorded game on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton Second 20 , winning 1 goal to nil . The club played a senior club in the Victorian Football Association in 1878 , one year after the VFA formed . It is historically associated with Essendon , a suburb in the north-west of Melbourne , Victoria . Since 2013 , the club has been headquartered at The Hangar , Melbourne Airport , and plays its home games at either Docklands Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground ; throughout most of its history the club 's home ground and headquarters was Windy Hill , Essendon , where it played from 1922 until 1991 . While it stopped playing games at the ground thereafter , Windy Hill remained its training and administration base until the end of 2013 . Dyson Heppell is the current team captain . A founding member club of both the Victorian Football Association , in 1877 , and the Victorian Football League ( renamed the AFL in 1990 ) , in 1896 , Essendon is one of Australia 's best-known football clubs . Essendon has won 16 VFL/AFL premierships , which , along with Carlton , is the most of any club in the competition . The club won four consecutive VFA premierships between 1891 and 1894 , a feat matched only by Collingwood between 1927 and 1930 .
Jonathon Robran ( born 21 October 1972 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and Essendon in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Robran was mostly a key position defender during his league career but could also play as a ruckman . He is the son of South Australian football great Barrie Robran and the younger brother of Adelaide player Matthew Robran . Although he was selected in the 1992 AFL Draft , with Hawthorn 's first pick and 11th overall , Robran did n't play an AFL games until 1995 . He suffered from shoulder problems in 1996 but did n't miss a single games in the 1997 AFL season and continued to be a regular fixture in the team over the next two years . Promising young key defenders , Trent Croad and Jonathan Hay , were making it difficult for Robran to claim a spot down back and in 1999 he was traded to Essendon . In a trade involving three clubs , Essendon gave Andrew Ukovic to Collingwood but received both Robran and draft selection 40 , used on David Hille . Hawthorn acquired two draft picks from Collingwood , which would be used on Tim Clarke and Chance Bateman . With Essendon winning their first 20 games of the 2000 AFL season , on the way to their 16th premiership , Robran could only manage four appearances during the year . He played once early in the year and was then stuck in the seconds until being called into the team to replace an injured Dustin Fletcher at full-back for the final three home and away matches . Delisted at the end of the 2001 season , Robran returned to his original club , Norwood , where he would play until 2004 .
The Hawthorn Football Club , nicknamed the Hawks , is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . The club , founded in 1902 , is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL and has won thirteen VFL/AFL premierships . It is the only club to have won premierships in each decade of the 1960s , 1970s , 1980s , 1990s , 2000s and 2010s . The team play in brown and gold vertically striped guernsey . The club 's Latin motto is spectemur agendo , the English translation being Let us be judged by our acts . The Hawks ' origins are in the inner-eastern Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and also at Glenferrie Oval , the club 's former administrative and training base and social club . Matches , however , have not been played there since 1973 . In 2006 , Hawthorn 's training and administration facilities were relocated to Waverly Park which is located 27.8 km from the CBD and in the middle of the club 's major supporter base in Melbourne 's outer-eastern region . The mascot of the club is a hawk . Since 2007 Hawthorn have played four games a year at their second ground of York Park in Launceston , Tasmania , with the remaining games played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground , the club 's current playing home ground . Hawthorn 's current Victorian Football League ( VFL ) affiliate team is the Box Hill Hawks Football Club .
Nathan Eagleton ( born 10 November 1978 ) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Eagleton played junior level football for West Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) . He was recruited as a zone selection by Port Adelaide for its inaugural AFL season in 1997 . He played his first game for Port Adelaide in 1997 against Brisbane in round 5 , 1997 . In a match in 1999 , he collapsed on field , and was diagnosed and treated for Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome . Eagleton was traded to the Western Bulldogs in 2000 , in exchange for Brett Montgomery and a second round draft pick . He got off to a slow start but was a key player for the Bulldogs in 2004 and 2005 . Known as The Bald Eagle for his clean-shaven head and surname , in 2005 Eagleton was an important player for the Western Bulldogs with his skill and run proving vital to the team 's late-season charge . He kicked a career best 28 goals in 2005 . He is recognised as having a long and raking left foot kick , regularly kicking goals from outside the 50m line . Eagleton retired from the AFL at the end of the 2010 season . He was the final player from Port Adelaide 's inaugural season to still be playing in the AFL , following Warren Tredrea , s retirement due to injury earlier that year .
Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton , Port Adelaide , South Australia . The club 's senior team plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) , where they are nicknamed the Power , whilst its reserves team competes in the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) , where they are nicknamed the Magpies . Port Adelaide is the oldest professional sporting club in South Australia and the fifth-oldest club in the AFL . Since the club 's founding on 12 May 1870 , the club has won 36 South Australian league premierships , including six in a row . The club also won the Champions of Australia competition on a record four occasions . After successfully winning an AFL licence in 1994 the club began competing in the Australian Football League in 1997 as the only pre-existing non-Victorian club - and has subsequently added the 2004 AFL premiership to its achievements .
Brett Montgomery ( born 1 June 1973 ) is a retired Australian rules football player and current assistant coach with the Port Adelaide Football Club . He attended box hill secondary college formally box hill technical school playing in their senior foot ball and cricket teams , he studied P.E
Troy Cook ( born 12 August 1976 ) is an Australian rules footballer . Cook played for the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League as well as the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League .
The Fremantle Football Club , nicknamed the Dockers , is a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . It was founded in 1994 in honour of the rich footballing history associated with the Western Australian port city of Fremantle , and entered the AFL the following year , making it the second team from the state after the West Coast Eagles to be admitted to the competition . Originally based at Fremantle Oval , the club 's training facilities and administrative headquarters are now located nearby at Cockburn ARC in Cockburn Central . The club 's guernsey is purple and white . High-profile players since the club 's inception include six time All-Australian Matthew Pavlich , dual Brownlow Medal winner Nat Fyfe , and the league 's former all-time tallest player Aaron Sandilands . Currently captained by Fyfe , the club is coached by Justin Longmuir , who replaced Ross Lyon at the end of the 2019 home-and-away season . Fremantle is one of only three active AFL clubs ( the others being Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney ) that has not won a premiership , however it did win the minor premiership in 2015 , and reached the 2013 AFL Grand Final which it lost to Hawthorn . Fremantle has had a team in the AFL Women 's league since its inception in 2017 . They are coached by Trent Cooper and captained by Kara Antonio .
Brendon Fewster ( born 4 January 1974 ) is an Australian rules footballer . He played for both the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL and West Perth in the WAFL , mainly as a full forward . He was drafted from West Perth to the Eagles with the 3rd selection in the 1995 AFL Draft after Clive Waterhouse and Matthew Primus . During four seasons at West Coast he struggled to maintain a place in the side , playing only 33 games , with no more than 14 in a season . At the end of the 1999 season , he was traded to Fremantle in return for the 16th selection in the 1999 AFL Draft , which the Eagles used to draft David Haynes . After a career high 20 games in 2000 , Fewster again struggled to maintain his position in the AFL and was delisted by Fremantle at the end of the 2002 season . Fewster continued to play for West Perth in the WAFL until the end of the 2005 season , when he retired having played over 100 games for the Falcons , including three premierships in 1995 , 1999 and 2003 . In 2004 he was named at full forward of West Perth 's Team of the Decade .
The West Coast Eagles Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth , Western Australia , and plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . The West Coast Eagles was founded in 1986 as an expansion team . It entered the AFL , then known as the Victorian Football League , in 1987 along with Queensland 's Brisbane Bears . It reached the finals series for the first time in 1988 , and won its first premiership in 1992 , having been defeated in the grand final the previous year . It was the first non-Victorian team to compete in and win a grand final . The Eagles have since won three more premierships , in 1994 , 2006 and 2018 . The club is currently coached by Adam Simpson . The Eagles have won the second most premierships ( four , second to Hawthorn ) in the AFL era ( 1990 onwards ) and are one of the most strongly supported and profitable clubs in the league . As well as competing in the AFL , West Coast also field teams in the AFL Women 's ( AFLW ) and West Australian Football League ( WAFL ) .
Troy John Longmuir ( born 27 May 1979 ) is an Australian rules footballer formerly in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . He is the older brother of former Fremantle player Justin Longmuir . He was recruited as the number 22 draft pick in the 1997 AFL Draft from West Perth . He made his AFL debut for the Melbourne Football Club in Round 9 , 1998 against Essendon . Longmuir played a total of 17 games for Melbourne in 1998 and 1999 , before being traded to Fremantle at the end of the 1999 season , in exchange for the club 's second-round draft pick ( # 19 overall ) . There he made his debut for the club against Geelong in Round 1 , 2000 . He was a consistent player during the 2000-2002 seasons , however he dropped out of form in the following two years . Altogether , Longmuir played 55 games for Fremantle between 2000 and 2004 . During this time , he was also a part of West Perth 's 2003 WAFL premiership team , where he played when not selected for Fremantle . Following the 2004 AFL season , Longmuir was traded by Fremantle to Carlton , in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick ( # 67 overall ) . He made his debut at Carlton in Round 4 , 2005 against Port Adelaide . He divided his time between Carlton and its VFL-affiliate , the Northern Bullants , throughout 2005 .
The Melbourne Football Club , nicknamed the Demons , is a professional Australian rules football club , playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . It is named after and based in the city of Melbourne , Victoria , and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) . Melbourne is the world 's oldest professional club of any football code . The club 's origins can be traced to an 1858 letter in which Tom Wills , captain of the Victoria cricket team , calls for the formation of a foot-ball club with its own code of laws . An informal Melbourne team played that winter and was officially formed in May 1859 when Wills and three other members codified The Rules of the Melbourne Football Club - the basis of Australian rules football . The club was a dominant force in the early years of Australian rules football competition , and was also a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) in 1877 and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1896 , which later became the national Australian Football League . Melbourne has won 12 VFL/AFL premierships , the latest in 1964 . Melbourne was a foundation team of the AFL Women 's league , entering the competition in the inaugural year 2017 . The club celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2008 by naming 150 Heroes as well as creating a birthday logo which appeared on its official guernsey . The football club has been a sporting section of the Melbourne Cricket Club ( MCC ) since 2009 , having previously been associated with the MCC between 1889 and 1980 .
Cameron Mooney ( born 26 September 1979 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne and Geelong Football Clubs in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . A forward , 1.95 metres ( 6 ft 5 in ) tall and weighing 99 kilograms ( 218 lb ) , Mooney is renowned for his passion , as well as his poor tribunal history where he holds the record for the most suspensions in a single season by a VFL/AFL player . Mooney was selected in the 2007 All-Australian Team , and was part of Geelong 's AFL premiership-winning team in the same year . He also represented the Dream Team state team in the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match in 2008 , as well as being the leading goalkicker for Geelong in 2007 .
Leigh Colbert ( born 7 June 1975 ) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club and the Kangaroos in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) .
Lance Picioane ( born 7 June 1980 ) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Adelaide , Hawthorn and the Kangaroos during his time in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Picioane attended Essendon Grammar and was captain of the Vic Metro Under 16s and Under 17s the played in the victorious Vic Metro at the 1997 AFL Under 18 Championships . Picioane started his career in 1998 with Adelaide but found it difficult to find a regular spot with a side that had won a premiership the previous season . He failed to play a senior game for Adelaide in 1999 and at the end of the season he was traded to Hawthorn for pick 79 in the upcoming draft . Playing mostly in the midfield , Picioane managed 58 games in his five years at Hawthorn before being delisted at the end of the 2004 season . Early in the 2004 season , Piciaone was with Danny Jacobs when Jacobs was caught drink driving . After initially lying about Picioane 's involvement , both players were fined $ 5000 and suspended from playing for a week . He then joined North Melbourne for the 2005 season . Lance suffered a range of mental health issues , including depression and anxiety , during his football playing days and this led him down a path of substance abuse . In 2012 , he sought professional assistance , and , after going cold turkey from substances , he walked from Sydney to Melbourne ( with his mother in a support vehicle ) to raise awareness of mental illness . In 2013 he founded an organisation 'Love Me Love You ' which aims to improve and empower the lives of young people with mental health and substance abuse issues . He is currently playing with Kerang in the Central Murray Football League .
Stephen Powell ( born 7 September 1976 ) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . A journeyperson in the AFL , Powell made his debut with the Western Bulldogs as a 20-year-old in 1997 . He quickly became known as a player whose hardness and aggression at the ball was invaluable , continuing this role as the Bulldogs reached preliminary finals in 1997 and 1998 . Surprisingly , at the end of 1999 he was traded went to the Melbourne Football Club much to the dismay of Bulldogs fans , where he immediately became a major contributor in helping them reach a Grand Final in 2000 . Despite a bad loss , he was a shining light on the day and the Demons . Powell polled strongly in their Best and Fairest at the end of the year . Unfortunately , he missed all of 2001 with a nearly career ending groin injury . 2002 saw him return to play , and he returned to fine form . At the end of the season , protracted contract negotiations saw him nominate to leave the club through the pre-season draft , this time to the St Kilda Football Club . His experience at the Saints was invaluable to their young and developing list , and he was an often underrated player in a midfield that included stars such as Lenny Hayes , Robert Harvey and Nick Dal Santo Such was his contribution that season , he finished third in the Trevor Barker Award . Powell to play in St Kilda 's 2004 Wizard Home Loans Cup winning side . In 2005 , however , Powell 's career hit a hurdle .
David Calthorpe ( born 17 August 1973 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon , the Brisbane Lions and the Kangaroos in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Calthorpe was an on-baller and in his first ever State of Origin game for Victoria won the E. J. Whitten Medal . For the Bombers he played 92 games from his debut in 1992 , winning a premiership medal in his second season . He was picked up by Brisbane at pick one in the 1999 Pre-Season Draft but only played 9 games for the club before moving to the Kangaroos in 2000 for what turned out to be his final season of football . He is best remembered for a superb solo play late in the third quarter of the 1993 AFL Grand Final where he collected the ball from the centre bounce and within 10 seconds had goaled from 55 metres out , effectively killing the game as a contest .
Matthew Bishop ( born 11 July 1975 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Bishop started out with the Melbourne Demons after being elevated from their rookie list in 1998 . He spent two seasons with them before moving to Port Adelaide in 2000 , where he made a name for himself as one of the most solid defenders at the club . He played in Port Adelaide 's 2004 premiership team .