Anthony Jones (Australian rules footballer)

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Anthony Jones
Personal information
Full name Anthony Jones
Date of birth (1974-12-19) 19 December 1974 (age 43)
Place of birth Perth
Original team(s) Osborne Park JFC
Height 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Position(s) Centre half-forward, centre half-back
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
1995–2003 Fremantle 082 (3)
1994–95; 1997–98; 2000; 2002–08 Claremont 147 (280)
1999 South Fremantle 001 (0)
Representative team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
1994; 1997; 2005–07 WAFL 5 (6)
1996 Western Australia 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of Round 23, 2008.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Anthony Jones (born 19 December 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer. He was the winner of the 2007 Sandover Medal.

Australian rules football Contact sport invented in Melbourne

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval-shaped ball between goal posts or between behind posts.

The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and benefactor.

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Fremantle career

Jones played only 82 games over nine AFL seasons, missing many games to injuries to his knee, foot, hamstring, rib and shoulder as well as a punctured lung. A stress fracture of the right foot resulted in him being sidelined for the entire 1999 season and in an unusual injury for a footballer, a ruptured tendon in his chest caused him to miss the second half of the 2002 season.

Claremont career

After being delisted by Fremantle at the end of the 2003 season, Jones continued to play for Claremont where he has switched to the forward line with great success. He has finished in the top 4 of the Claremont Best and Fairest award in each year since then and in 2006 was named the captain of the state team that played South Australia.

In 2007, he became the oldest person to ever win the Sandover Medal, narrowly beating Subiaco's Brad Smith. [1]

He has played 126 games for Claremont and skippered the club in 2008. [2]

Claremont Football Club WAFL Australian rules football club

The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football club based in Claremont, Western Australia, that currently plays in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). Its official colours are navy blue and gold. Formed as the Cottesloe Beach Football Club in 1906, the club entering the WAFL in 1925 as the Claremont-Cottesloe Football Club, changing its name to the present in 1935. Claremont have won 12 senior premierships since entering the competition, including most recently the 2011 and 2012 premierships.

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References

  1. ↑ Townsend, John & Reid, Russell (2007). Medallist Jones bobs up when it matters The West Australian, 2007-09-18. p.59
  2. ↑ Bouncedown (2008). 'Official Guide to the 2008 Season', p.28
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